Arsenal face tough game against Schalke in Champions League
Arsene Wenger has a lot to do in the next few days to get Arsenal ready for the visit of the German Bundesliga side Schalke on Wednesday in the third round of the champions league. After yesterday’s horror show against Norwich, a game that was looking like it would seal top spot in the group now looks fraught with danger.
Wenger has a number of problems with injuries to deal with, but the main problem is making sure that Arsenal do not repeat the lacklustre and ineffective performance that they put in yesterday. I am still amazed at how bad Arsenal were yesterday. Everybody has an off day sometimes, but it seemed to be the whole team.
After the good win and spirited comeback against West Ham, it was like watching a completely different team. Teams can learn more from a defeat than from a string of victories, and that is what the Gunners must do because Schalke are a good team in form.
Having lost just once all season, to the German league leaders Bayern Munich, Schalke are confident and playing well. They won a fiercely contested local derby against Borussia Dortmund yesterday, and Dortmund ouplayed Manchester City at the Etihad in the last round.
Wenger now has no Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Diaby or Gibbs as well as the long term absentees, so he does not have too many options left in his team selection. We cannot dwell on yesterday’s game but we must make sure it never happens again.
Hope Wenger won’t play Santos, he is completly useless
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i think we became more predictable, now against shalke we must start coquelin – arteta – carzola, and arshavin or gnabry + giroud and podolski.
Gervinho need a rest and ramsey should be a super sub.
then we can expect to win this, but with gervinho and ramsey from start, expect a lose or draw. we need rossisky, gibbs and diaby back.
wilshere must not be rushed
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we need walcott, i rate walcott more than Gervinho+ arshavin combined, he is a better player, who have a good pace and if you watch him play this season he is deferent than walcott of last season. he can dribble, cross and score as well as pass. arshavin don’t have the pace of walcott or the never give up attitude. gervinho has the pace not the passing and creativity. walcott must be given his chance at front, then we can sign him and play him on the wings and some times at the front.
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that norwich game was shocking hugely let down by the players lets hope they put things right against schalke
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oke friends, its enough, we all are very very angery….
actually we all were expecting too tooo toooooooo mucccccchhhhhhhhhhhh from our new TEAM….. we all waited for this moment for 2 week n whn it came…. a HUGE HUGE HUGE dissappointment by our team
We never ever had saw such a team display, it was Terrible…. i have no words to tell how we are feeling n from what kind of tension we all are suffering from….
Its really terrible, never ever thought abt it…..
oke guyssssssssssss, my dear goooooooooonerssssssss……
WE need to LEARN from past, Football is about today n tommorrow, Yesterday was History…
Forget abt it, we cant bring tht game back…. 30 games to go man, MAY BE WE NEED IT, from this we can learn very big big lessons…..
come on, last year All 1st seven games were like this, n this time we got only 1……
I think INTERNATIONAL BREAK has some how effected our mentality, Cazorla n other main players were tired n tht thng transfer into whole team n every 1 was looking tired…….
come on gooners, SUPPORT THM!
at the moment thy need it…
thy were nt like this, its just 1 game….. WE MUST SUPPORT THM…… come on every 1!
let it b past…. Wish thm best of Luck for future, We cant bring past into future….
Our PAST MISTAKES ARE TO GUIDE US, NOT TO DEFINE US!
I DO BELIEVE TEAM VL NT LET US DOWN AGAIN N THY KNW HOW FANS ARE FEELING
I BELIEVE THY WILL CHEER UP US AGAIN
BEST OF LUCK TO THM FOR SCHALKE 04 …..
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Were shit end of. Never will beat schalke the form theyre in
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ARSENAL PLAYED WELL ITS JUST THAT IN LIFE U MUST HAVE A BAD DAY AND THAT DAY WAS YESTERDAY GUNNERS FOR LIFE.EVEN IN DEATH I WILL CONTINUE TO LOVE ARSENAL.
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I’m not going to bag anyone but if we don’t lift our game and play to our ability, we will be beaten. We will not win a trophy this season if we play like we did on the weekend. The weekends performance was a disgrace and I really hope Arsene can pull us out of this slump. Yes I’m talking about the whole start of the year, it’s not good enough.
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Title will be very hard to win from here. We should be looking at the cup compertitions to win a trophy or to. We have an excellent chance in the league cup.
On our day we can beat anyone. We just need to stop these inconsitant performances.
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Huntelaar needs to be closed down the whole game.
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Our players looked tired I dont know whats wrong but we have a few days to improve
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to be honest Wenger must try to change formations during the game. if you saw westbrom game vs city. city fought til the end but they also changed formation. last night arsene could have changed the formation at halv time and play 4-4-2 then if we cant find the back of the net. we can play 3-2-5 and use podolski, giroud, ox, arshavin, carzola at top and arteta and santos at midfield and back three per, vermaelen and jenkinson. the back 3 could stay stationary to avoid counter attack and the 2 midfield to win balls and feed the front 5 then we could have see at list a goal or two rather than we change the formation to 3-5-2 at 85 min. we could have changed it 3-2-5 at 60 min.
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Start playing Coquelin again, when we play a solid defensive midfielder, Cazorla can start to attack more. Look at him on the Spanish squad, the job of cleaning up is left to Busquets and Alonso, so he has more time and space to focus on his real job. Not saying he should not defend, but when he has more time up front, he plays much better.
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shalke just beat dortmund if we play like that we will get hammered on wednesday, we played like we didnt care which was the worst thing, how can wenger start the season with one striker its pathetic chamack dosnt make our bench and afobe on loan, when united went 1 nil down yesterday they had rooney,rvp, welbeck and hernandez when city went 1 nil down they had aguero, dzeko and tevez that says it all. I said in the summer if we dont replace rvp with a World class forward we will be out of title race by christmas!
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Already loving this Gnabry lad only one who truly cared yesterday. Gnabry > Sterling call him up Hodgson.
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Schlake will be a very tough game, if we manage to pull off a win it won’t really make up for Norwich defeat at all but would be nice.
Its so clear how much we missed Theo yesterday, his pace, energy and much improved finishing has been so underrated this season its disgraceful. To think that he’s probably going to be allowed to leave with hardly any fight from Arsenal or the supporters is a joke.
Theo and one more TOP CLASS attacking player in January before its too late (if its not already)
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Why are you wasting ur tym? wenger wont check here for ur comment nor does he have the time. Ramsey z d cause of our problem. Wenger knows and he wl stl start him. I dnt undstnd atal. Who knws maybe Ramsey is his brother..cmplte asshole
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@Xyz
Gnarby is German
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Vermalaen is a poor choice from Wenger as captain i say.
He has now presence and isn’t vocal whatsoever as a proper captain should be.
He makes stupid, undisciplined mistakes all the time.
Our team lack leaders like Wilshere who could have kicked some energy and fight into our boys on days like yesterday.
If we can’t even get morale and determination up for easy games like Norwich we don’t deserve top four let alone the title.
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Wenger / ð board will surely hoax us 2 r usual “israel land”..”3rd position” oh! It took ð israelite 40yrs though,7yrs & still counting.. Along with some shit players..
My top 3 personal countdown 2 shit players, makin ð 1st team
1.. Theo walcott over fed BA̶̲̥̅BƔ☀̤̣̈̇ wit zero brainz
2.. Ramsey ǻ workerholic ! 2 manual Ñøt automatic
3.. Diaby ǻ superman wit ǻ pocket full of LEAD.
Oh!yeah no doubt, gunaz 4 life
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Play gervino left.Ramsey as sub.play giroud .Podolski sub.start Francis and ox.
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Schalke have huntelaar, farfan, afaellay, holtby. Who do we have? Cazorla? He looks drained and worn out. So we have no more options. Injuries again are guna plague our season looks like wingers this season. Bring in navas
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arsene wenger must leave and take with him his stupid passing game,we are fed up watching these players passing around like they were attempting a world record in passing,even a half decent coach with more direct play could get more out of the current squad.Arsene will spoil Podolski and Carzola–even they are not shooting anymore,they are just looking to pass and to avoid the responsibility,however,I am glad that Giroud will never change his game,but that might make him another Chamakh in the making.He is a striker who is not world class and will not beat defenders and score wonder goals all the time but if he is fed early and decent balls he can definitely score,which I don’t see happening as long as we keep passing the ball without any purpose.We need arsene wenger to leave for the sake of the club he should resign and he can stay around in any other position at the club but we need a manager who can tell these kids that just passing the ball won’t win you games.When we are down the manager should have substitutes who can impact the game in some way at least but wenger always follows the same pattern,he always picks the same substitutes,he even almost always makes his subs in the same order that is ridiculously predictable.Believe me if we get rid of this man and get someone like Moyes,we will be unbeatable.
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Tank you artillary
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True gooners dont slate the players or the club, we take the ruff with the smooth, yesterday at Norwich was a bit of ruff, we learn from it and move on, We’re the Arsenal and onwards we march, NO Retreat, NO Surrender!!!
Born a Gooner!!
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bench ramsey + gevinho and bring on eisfeld, gnarby for wednesday’s game.. give the team some new playing style.. and please don’t use santos as defense
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ramsey was terrible yesterday in diabys old role we need someone with physical presence : someone like tiote or mvila even wishere could be better
a new right winger as gervinho is AWFUL he cannot croos, pass,dribble and is sooo inconsistenet: someone like jesus navas or ben arfa would be great
a new striker as i do not feel giroud is good enough to lead our line for the following years…. also we do need a pacy striker t compete with him: someone like jovetic,shrulle,soldado or rodrigo
also a backup playmaker as we are looking like a 1 man team again with cazorla being the only creative force: someone like isco,kroos or gotze(when we have enough money)
squad 2013/14
jovetic/giroud
podolski/chambo Cazorla/isco Cazorla/Navas
Arteta/wilshere Mvila/diaby
Gibbs/Santos Verm/kosc Merte/miquel Jenkin/sagna
wojech
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mannone
jenkinson djourou mert verm
arteta gnarby
cazorla
eisfeld podol
giroud
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@arshavin i totally agree on this one coz if you look @the impact that steve bould has brought to the team its a positive impact but if we had pat rice we wouldn’t be having any progress defensively but now we have hope not because the players have changed but the coaching, if we bring in a coach like Pep guardiola he will improve our philosophy of playing attractive football and instill a winning mentality because he’s has proven himself then Wenger can become our chairman or CEO and with this bold step Arsenal will definitely become a force to reckon with without necessarily buying new players!!!!
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Did u guys see what man city did yesterday? We might call them money grabbers, but those players are born winners, fighters and they have heart! They played with heart yesterday. They fought for their club. Why can’t our players do the same
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Some of you fans live in a dream world !!!!!!!!! We will not win a thing again this year !! FACT !!!!!! WENGER must go !!!!!!! remember this come the end of the season when you all will agree with me, Most of you need to take your heads out of Wenger’s ASS
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Santos-he has lost the spark looks to be aimless on the pitch.Giroud-apart from being french i dont understand why we play that guy. He is a failure in the premier league. Ramsey is a confused chap on the pitch.
We will lose if these guys play.
Does wenger ever have plan B. For me doesnt and that why we are losing matches we shouldnt be losing.
Its too bad guys
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norwich had the worst goal difference and not won a game until yesterday.. there are some serious questions to be asked.. aw must be having sleepless nights now..
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To say I was “Disappointed” with yesterday’s performance would be an severe understatement. We were lack lustre showing no desire to win that game, against a side who had not won all season. Mata showed us what a quality striker can do and why oh why did we not “splash the cash” for a player of that ilk. I’m not saying that Geroud will not come good but his type of football needs to be adapted into the style that we play, whereas a player in the mould of Mata would have fitted right in. It looks already like we will not be competing for the Premier League and once again 4th is our best hope. I have already started to think about another season without a trophy and the jeers of some of my friends about the bareness of our trophy room (less for the ladies, who once again have done so well), is ringing in my ears. We are a great club, everyone knows that but great is not enough for me. After 8 years I do want to win something, it’s not enough to be one of the wealthiest clubs, every Gooner wants to be successful. Let us not become another “History” club like Liverpool who go round saying “do you remember when we were fab”
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Why we lost:
1-We underestimated norwich city.
2-The international break got the pace and mentality out of us.
3-Gerinho and Ramsy shouldn’t have played at start.
4-Cazorla was tired and yesterday i suggested to replace him by Arshavin at start.
5-We should have changed our plan and must have played longer balls rather flat.
6-We dispertely need a world class keeper like hart or van dar sar.
7-we didn’t have the mentality to win that game.
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arsenal’s game is made for strikers who run behind opposition defence not hold the ball and link up .
giroud might be good but this is not french ligue chamakh was a top scorer der too but these type of players dont suite arsenal way of play.wenger needs to get soldado/dzeko/higuain/benzema/adrian lopez/torres/for dat matter any stiker technically solid and who runs behind defence’s
the match was lost by ramsay if v c he is not able to get past one player…he is turning out to be a denilson he is not able to enforce himself on the game causing cazorla to end up alone on either side of pitch…podolskiand cazorla tried hard to play but not enough support from centre of park (ramsay) to change direction of game…
gnabry is next big thing!
hopefully v will against schalke
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ajajhahahhah
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Out of courtesy and respect we call them `fringe players`. Putting courtesy and respect aside for a moment they SHIT.
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