Watford Vs Arsenal

Difficult match. Watford are one of the better sides below the top 6. Post international too.

Koscielny and KOLASINAC are a doubt. Ozil is back in training and Welbeck is available thankfully.


--------------------Cech--------------------------
----Holding-------Mertesacker/Kos------Monreal
------------Xhaka-----Ramsey--------------------
Bellerin------------------------------------Kolasinac
----------Ozil-------------------Welbeck/Iwobi
---------------------Lacazette--------------------


Can see a defeat here but hopefully we pull through

If Koscielny and Kolasinac both don't play who do we have left?

I'm psyched for this match, I haven't been able to watch Arsenal for a few weeks. I don't even care about form or the campaign right this moment, I just want to see the team play. Would love to see a big Lacazette performance today.

Arsenal: Cech, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal, Bellerin, Elneny, Xhaka, Kolasinac, Iwobi, Welbeck, Lacazette

Koscielny is finished. That Achilles issue has gone for 2 years now. Guy can't play fully fit anymore.

This loss is all on Wenger, I hope he takes responsibility instead of blaming players or the referee.

Sorry you had to watch that chum

watching arsenal is just like watching Liverpool

Wenger's subs are hysterical. Lacazette has to score in 60 minutes or he gets subbed. Giroud comes on and kills all our counter attacks. We're struggling to get anything going but he only makes two out of three subs.

Watford score off a dive and a bunch of deflections.

I was enjoying international break actually
When is the next one FFS

Yea same sina lol

Not sure I am going to sacrifice my nap time for an away match anymore.

LOOK AT XHAKA. pic.twitter.com/nGOXYb9lQh

— David (@DerKopite) October 14, 2017

Look at the number of Watford players in our box compared to our own players watching at the edge of the area lol

What is this?

Got home after a 36 hrs shift. Stayed up to watch this.... It is so easy to beat us and every manager knows it.

mani88 wrote:Got home after a 36 hrs shift. Stayed up to watch this.... It is so easy to beat us and every manager knows it.

man what do you do for a living. people in auschwitz didnt even work a 36hour shift

Unique wrote:

mani88 wrote:Got home after a 36 hrs shift. Stayed up to watch this.... It is so easy to beat us and every manager knows it.

man what do you do for a living. people in auschwitz didnt even work a 36hour shift

Doing fellowship in plastic surgery in my native country but trust me arsenal matches are the most exhausting and depressing part of my life.

mani88 wrote:

Unique wrote:

mani88 wrote:Got home after a 36 hrs shift. Stayed up to watch this.... It is so easy to beat us and every manager knows it.

man what do you do for a living. people in auschwitz didnt even work a 36hour shift

Doing fellowship in plastic surgery in my native country but trust me arsenal matches are the most exhausting and depressing part of my life.

"There's a reason Arsenal lost and it wasn't because of one penalty..."

Troy Deeney says Arsenal players "lack cojones" #PLTonight pic.twitter.com/4yEbq9Yyxv

— BT Sport Football (@btsportfootball) October 14, 2017

Lol

It's funny because when we lost to sheffield wednesday a year or two back, their manager said the exact thing

RealGunner wrote:

"There's a reason Arsenal lost and it wasn't because of one penalty..."

Troy Deeney says Arsenal players "lack cojones" #PLTonight pic.twitter.com/4yEbq9Yyxv

— BT Sport Football (@btsportfootball) October 14, 2017

Lol

It's funny because when we lost to sheffield wednesday a year or two back, their manager said the exact thing

he said the same shit when Watford beat Liverpool in klopps first season then we beat them 5-0 and he never said shit.

Tbh guy is a massive bellend. Says that every time they beat us (happens a lot sadly). But he has a point. Whenever a team actually decides to attack us and be aggressive, we fold. Can't control a game at all anymore.

Mainly due to the team full of mediocre players.

Arsenal's next 8 PL fixtures:
Everton A
Swansea H
Man City A
Tottenham H
Burnley A
Huddersfield H
Man Utd H
Southampton A

out of top 4 race by December?

RealGunner wrote:Tbh guy is a massive bellend. Says that every time they beat us (happens a lot sadly). But he has a point. Whenever a team actually decides to attack us and be aggressive, we fold. Can't control a game at all anymore.

Mainly due to the team full of mediocre players.

Most of the time a lot of people completely miss the point, he's not wrong but it completely ignores the fact that this Arsenal team has a severe lack of quality.

That always happens though, everytime you struggle it's center back this or leadership that. It's never oh they lack people who can create opportunities.

Garbage second half, garbage result, really just pointless.

Sina wrote:out of top 4 race by December?

December 2012?

They act like it was an amazing turnaround but in truth we should have been out of sight before they even won the penalty. Neither team were good on the day, but Ozil missing the 1v1 to make it 2-0 and the Richarilson dive happened within seconds of each other.

Granted, it's the reaction after the goal that gets people. A lot of the cliches come out because, actually, they happened to be accurate that time. We didn't work harder after conceding, we didn't fight to regain control of the match and, overall, the team didn't pull together the way it needed when it came under pressure.

More worrying for me though was the distinct lack of quality and intelligence during that period. Guys like Elneny and Xhaka needed to get on the ball but didn't, and the team couldn't counter attack at all, sometimes because of Giroud, but other times because of constantly making the wrong pass.