West Ham vs Arsenal (16/17)

Alexisssssssssssssssssssssss

No more words for this guy.

What a player

Needed this result ffs.

Sanchez man. No words.

Oxlade was superb too (despite shit final ball)

Alexis

Honestly, when Oxlade makes those runs with full of power and pace, it really makes you think that there is massive potential in him. And he has that shot on him too.

But he is so inconsistent.

Hope he makes the most of these chances

Alexis

We wanted us to put West Ham away in the second half and we did. They gave us the space to counter and for once we punished them. Feels good to actually destroy a poor team.

We were a lot less chaotic than we were against Southampton. Xhaka held his position around the halfway line, while Coquelin pushed up into advanced positions and did a really good job winning the ball when we pressed high. He won the ball back to start the move for the first goal.

Chamberlain stuck to his flank and didn't go inside looking for the ball. His end product was poor in the first half but he had a top second half. He moved intelligently and was always a threat carrying the ball up the pitch. His goal capped off a much improved display.

Walcott kept to his flank as well but struggled to get into the game, especially as we were attacking West Ham's right. His pass completion was 47% with 9/19 passes, which is poor.

And Alexis... run out of words to describe him. World class performance.

Defensively we were comfortable. West Ham offered nothing to test our backline.

RealGunner wrote:Honestly, when Oxlade makes those runs with full of power and pace, it really makes you think that there is massive potential in him. And he has that shot on him too.

But he is so inconsistent.

Hope he makes the most of these chances

He was great, let's be honest even Alexis does some dumb things at times but then his end product is outstanding. If Oxlade-Chamberlain can provide moments like the ones in this game, he will be a massive player. Whether he can actually do it consistently remains to be seen but he has improved on that front, albeit slowly.

An improvement to the previous performances. West ham were awful but we did what we had to do. We could have scored more but our end product was poor especially the first half with Ox the main culprit. I like this Coquelin and Xhaka partnership, Xhaka pulls the string from deep while Coquelin presses high up the pitch. It has potential, we will have to see how they do against better oppositions.

Alexis with a world class performance, he has been fantastic so far this season. The club needs to hurry up and sort of his and Ozil's contracts. We have built our entire attacks around Ozil and Sanchez, it's working so far but the others need to start contributing a bit more. Impressed with how solid we looked defensively in comparison to previous games. Gabriel did well at right back. I'd keep him in there until Bellerin comes back.

Chamberlain has 6 goals and 5 assists in all comps, which makes this his best season with us

Helps that he hasn't picked up an injury yet.

Yea agreed on Gabriel. Doing surprisingly well at RB. Bit of Ivanovic about him in that role. Also helps our set piece defending with added height lol

Oh we are 2nd now

Hopefully Wilshere can beat Liverpool tomorrow.

No. I hope Liverpool win. We can't be the only ones chasing Chelsea. Would rather have Liverpool also right up there to keep the pressure on the top.

Sri wrote:No. I hope Liverpool win. We can't be the only ones chasing Chelsea. Would rather have Liverpool also right up there to keep the pressure on the top.

If they win, there will be a team only a point behind Chelsea.
We are 3 behinds. Don't want Chelsea getting that confidence in addition to their stellar results recently.
Then again, it is only early Dec