Re: Pre-season 2012-13 Thread

by RealGunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:44 pm

Aneke is so good

by TalkingReckless Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:48 pm

Eman wrote:Arsenal, y u no score? We have completely bossed this 2nd half

i think city are letting us attack them

by halamadrid2 Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:49 pm

offft Oxlade bullet of a shot

by halamadrid2 Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:50 pm

ball doesnt roll anymore lmfao

by TalkingReckless Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:52 pm

halamadrid2 wrote:ball doesnt roll anymore lmfao

yeah biggest recorded raining in beijing in the last 40 years... friends sent me pics of cars underwater in areas i used to hang out in

by halamadrid2 Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:53 pm

by RealGunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:54 pm

Positive display in the 2nd half.

by Lagged Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:54 pm

Lets just blame it onthe rain.

by SamuelJayC Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:54 pm

FT: #mcfc 2-0 #afc Yaya & Zabaleta with the goals. Defensively weak from both sides, but great football on show & a good work-out.

by halamadrid2 Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:55 pm

Legend wrote:yeah biggest recorded raining in beijing in the last 40 years... friends sent me pics of cars underwater in areas i used to hang out in

yh watched that in the news as well, their houses arent made for heavy water no??

hope everyone are ok after it stops tho

by Raptorgunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:55 pm

How can anyone score in this rain? Very Happy

by Eman Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:56 pm

Nothing to be ashamed about; we were easily the better team, particularly in the second half. First half I think we suffered from having no actual strikers, and obviously some stupid errors. Several of our youngsters have impressed me for sure!

by Jay29 Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:00 pm

This game was very "same old same old" from Arsenal's perspective.

Our defending from the first whistle was horrid. City's wing-backs and Yaya Toure were making late runs forward and none of our midfielders tracked them, and a lot of the time one pass forward cut out our whole midfield and found these late runners in our third with space and time to run at our back-line or even in behind our back-line.

The high-line really did not work, mostly because there was no pressure on the ball from us. Both full backs were often caught too high up or too narrow trying to apply pressure where the midfielders weren't.

Both of City's goals came from attacks down the left, both times because Jenkinson was too high or too narrow and Walcott didn't track back andd Gibbs was caught up too high as well.

It's tempting to say it's just pre-season, that we're still adapting to new defensive strategies and whatnot but these are problems that have been prevalent for years now. To see them come up again in pre-season is worrying.

Offensively it's more of the same. Good passing, decent movement, but little penetration. Today we actually had seven or eight really good attempts from distance, which was pleasing, but not many clear-cut opportunities on goal. Second half was better on that front because City dropped deeper to practice seeing a game out.

Overall, it's not time to panic but there are only two pre-season games left and it looks like we have a lot of issues to sort out.

by Raptorgunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:04 pm

Its good to lose in preseason it will only make us stronger.

by Raptorgunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:09 pm

Vemaelen.

http://instagram.com/p/NlkVa0Qk5U/

by mani88 Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:10 pm

Wenger should do something for the defence. Increased midfield cover, more full back discipline may be.

Aneke and Afobe are very good.

by urbaNRoots Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:10 pm

Miquel looked great when he came on, Oxlade-Chamberlain aswell. Don't get the Aneke hype, Afobe was played out of position, Chamakh being Chamakh (hardworking but unproductive), Eisfeld and Coquelin did fine.

by Raptorgunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:11 pm

mani88 wrote:Wenger should do something for the defence. Increased midfield cover, more full back discipline may be.

Aneke and Afobe are very good.

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by Jay29 Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:19 pm

Signing M'Vila isn't going to magically solve our lack of midfield cover. It's clearly a fault with the system, not the personnel.

by Raptorgunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:32 pm

GoonerJay29 wrote:Signing M'Vila isn't going to magically solve our lack of midfield cover. It's clearly a fault with the system, not the personnel.

by aleumdance Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:13 pm

how bad did we play?

by Raptorgunner Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:17 pm

aleumdance wrote:how bad did we play?

We didn't.

by MJ Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:00 pm

Mertesacker, Sagna and Poldi before the trip to Nigeria. From his official Facebook page.

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by FennecFox7 Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:03 pm

MJ you beat me to it Evil or Very Mad

by aleumdance Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:43 pm

guys just watched the citeh game

we played good

by RealGunner Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:53 pm

specially in the 2nd half

But you have to keep in mind that City were playing their 4th Friendly and Arsenal their 2nd.

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