Arsenal fans should stop over-reacting – Let’s look at the positives for a change!
The art of overreaction! by KJ
This Arsenal team started off fantastically after a draw at the Britannia. Games were won at Anfield against Liverpool as well as demolition of newly promoted Southampton at the Emirates. However, they weren’t really a test of what this side could do. Fortunately, we found out soon enough with the tie against Man City at the Etihad. Arsenal passed with flying colours personally. They outplayed the Champions in their own backyard and were able to get a well-deserved draw.
Now because of a loss against a very strong Chelsea side, the fans seem to think that all of that positivity is undone. It’s not. I admit, I overreacted (like any fan) at yesterday’s result as I want this team to accept nothing less than a win. We simply weren’t good enough defensively. However, there are still a lot of positives to look at regarding the club as a whole.
The team was gelling really nicely and people just can’t appreciate how good a result is against both Liverpool and Manchester City away. They are vital in any title run. I’d be surprised if Chelsea could manage one point from those fixtures, let alone four.
We also have to look at the table and see what the possibilities are. We are only 3 points behind both of the “real” title contenders, the Manchester clubs. What’s even better, we’ve had a more difficult run in than both. It’s worrying that we are 7 points behind Chelsea, but we can pull it back. There are still 32 games to be played. And, we still have 3 class players to come back.
I know yesterday’s result was completely against the run of play and how everything was going. However, there is definitely time and the space to make the difference this season. To be champions, you need to learn how to comeback immediately after a defeat.
Get behind the team as a whole and they can do it.
COYG!
You can have the best midfield but what about strikers to put it in the back of the net, I dont think Giroud is a rubbish intact he’s gonna cone good I’m sure of that but not yet he is going to need time which top teams if Arsenal want to be one don’t have. It was inevitable that Diaby was going to get injured for a player with his injury record Y he is still on a wage I do not know he should be on a pay as you play deal its a disgrace. Positives this season, cazorla, arteta, Jenkinson, mertasacker all have been brilliant. Podolski been ok, gervinho may score but he’s a no no remember he was bought for 11-12mill, he just does not have a football brain how many times was he offside yday????
West ham away that will be the real Test, long balls and physical.
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People are blaming Koscielny, well it happens somtimes, don’t let us forget that he got got us a point against Man City.
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Start chamakh as a goalkeeper he is tall ,and can head the ball away when needed lolz.
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i am criticizing from the beginning, we r so close 2 the formula but sometimes i got pissed off, doesn’t anyone notice that mannone is horrible in crosses .. & the only time he get out, he was punished by lescott, doesn’t anyone observed amount of fouls done by arteta pointing that he is not that defensively minded nor physically ready 4 this, doesn’t any one watched wenger trying 2 push ramsey all the way 2 our throats .. any where in the pitch …. what could ramsey do in his best day , walcott couldn’t do in his worst day “@ wing” … doesn’t any one get the idea that we brought a 6 ft 10 french beast …. and still couldn’t give him a single cross on his head ….
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Ridiculous really. Support the team through thick and thin, not only when it’s easy to do so.
Never give up Arsenal <3
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sorry, i 4got … chelsea is garbage di matteo is doing nothing , he just has some few good players & much luck
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that’s right….we should stop over reacting…one guy here even called gervinho and wenger bastard and i think admin should take action and ban them from this website…that’s so wrong
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It will happen again if you play both of them together. our technical crew should have learnt from end of last season when per got injured our defence started leaking goals. Per brings out the best in both Kos and Verm so should be paired with either of them. Yes he is slow but it is not a disadvantage because he makes up for it with positional sense and the ability to read games. Kos and Verm are too similar, they are not the best when it comes to calmness they get too easily frustrated thereby committing a lot of fouls. my thinking is that we will lose more matches if we continue to pair both of them in future.
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We will continue to support this team but Wenger owes us a duty to stop experimenting and interupting a good team with the introducton of Ramsey.
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I wasn’t angry at the team. I was angry at Wenger.
Ramsey RW when you have Gervinho, Walcott, Chamberlain etc.
Gervinho ST when you have Giroud and Podolski
Podolski LW when he could have played ST instead of Gervinho
Mertesacker comes off when he is inform
Giroud doesn’t get a start when he just got his first goal
It doesn’t make sense. What the f*ck goes through Wenger’s mind when picking the team.
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True,there might have been an over reaction but it was only as a consequence of unrealistic ambitions! A win at anfield,and a point from etihad and we all thought our problems were over!!
Arsenal still has several issues to sort out before we can begin thinking about the title, take for example an obstinate manager such as wenger..einstern once said only a fool would do something over and over again the same way and expect a different result…#diaby!!who didn’t see this coming really??after all the years he has spent in the sick bay and u go off to sell song,buy no replacement because you have diaby????or because jack is coming back from injury..like ramsey came back 4m an injury?and guess what..it already back fired against chelsea…midfield got outmuscled and we lost..and when you are playing in a league which is as tight as EPL,which is won on goal difference…3pts could make all the difference..so no,its not just 1 bloody game..we shall lose games but let’s not lose games because of just 1 person’s stubborness.
Wenger is without a doubt a good manager..but till he changes with the modern day era football..that’s all he will be..a good manager!!Not a GREAT one.truth hurts
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@gunner39
Agree with a lot of your comments. Only one I don’t agree with is The Arteta one. He often will give a soft foul to hold up play. (watch out for it now I have told you). This is actually a fantastic way to bring our defenders back into position when we aren’t ready. He doesn’t often give away a foul when we are in formation. He is a very underrated player. Can play well offensively, holding, or defensively. At 29 he is mature and very capable. He has got to be the purchase of last season.
Also, remember Mannone is our THIRD keeper. So let’s not be too harsh.
I too am totally frustrated in how we do not play to Girouds strength – both as a player, and his physic. He is the type of player that can bully his way into the box against teams like chel$h!t, yet we don’t utilize him in this way. We play him like we would have Van Judasie, or currently the way we are trying to use Gervihno. That does not really yield the result we are after with him. Currently, I feel it’s like he’s that player on a team that the team itself doesn’t realize he’s good. Like they don’t quite trust him with the ball up front … On his own, so they don’t even think to pass to him. That, or Gervihno (and Walcott sense Girouds current lack of confidence, and are trying to establish some sort of alpha male thing against him). In any case, just don’t think he is really considered up front … Yet.
Don’t get me started on Ramsey. Theres way more hype around him, than substance. He’s just not up to standard. Occasionally shows a little bit of something, but not enough to warrant a quality player. (For me hes the kind of EPL player who would be a top player in a middle/lower table club, but just isn’t consistent enough to warrant a starting spot on our team). Harsh, but honest. Hope he improves – he really needs to.
Positives about our team … We aren’t as good as we thought. We need to work harder, think and play smarter if we want to win something. Right now, we are nowhere in becoming a force … Yet.
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Giroud has had his fair share of chances but couldn’t finish when we needed them most. He will come good later though, but for now we don’t have a striker. Just have to depend on our midfield and wingers for goals.
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We got beat fair and square… Get over it! That’s football! Mannone had a poor game, Cech had a great one… Torres got lucky with his finish, Giroud wasn’t. Despite all our ‘financial’ short comings we have a side that is able to compete – players just need to perform and do their jobs well. Likewise fans need to do the same and stop this constant doom and gloom approach to supporting.
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No matter what people say about yesterday, it was not our day. How many balls did Cech keep out that he normally let’s in. What ever we tried did not work. This goes for the players and the manager.
That was our only loss. Let’s support the team and get over this one.
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Arsenal is like a farmer who has a big farm, sell off his best products with so much money in the Bank yet decides to stay hungry and malnourished.
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@ KickuPtheArsene
i love the fact that we have arteta, he is a pure genius footballer, but defensively, u need athelitic & quick guy …. it would be faaaaar better if we have him & cazorla in front of coquilin …. but generally, i like ur comment
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I see it from both views – I’m happy cos we are on the rise again and lookin a hell of a lot better than I believed we would after selling rvp . However – let’s not pretend that 9 points from 6 matches is league winning standard . Thers a lot of work to do and getting a quality keeper in the pitch and getting Giroud in the goal getting form is vital to finally get some silverware . Once again we are talkin bout scoreing goals – yet the people who stated the fact that wenger should have got an experienced epl striker got slated on here . Every week we won we had to listen to smartarses ranting on about how we were so wrong – and they were so right . With gerrvinho scoreing a good percentage of our goals (yet getting slated for missing so many more ) I think (unfortunately) we’ve been proved to have a valid point .
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Don’t forget that giroud is getting better and better
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Don’t forget we have frimmmy and coquelin along with Jack who can replace Diaby . I won’t mention ramsey because cdm doesn’t suit him AT ALL . However , he did have 2 wonderful games when he played the wing against Southamton & Machester City . If you think he did not have a great game against those two teams , idk what’s wrong with your head .
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I think Arteta should play for Spain in the next call, he is playing better Than xabi Alonso , and in arsenal Arteta has shown that he is a genius playing as a deep midfielder
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Giroud will be a beast ! Have to give the guy time to adjust .
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no over reaction when i say chelski out played us. i watched the hold match at the emirates. they looked stronger and more confident.. stop using walcott when he’s not in it.. stop using ramsey in the starting 11 when this guy is statistically jinxed.. use le coq and eisfeld for goodness sake.. give giroud more playing time.. he’s a clever forward and will come good soon
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I agree that we should play to Giroud’s strengths… when he came on yesterday, our direct attacking threat increased. He had a deflected header saved as well as that failed attempt to round the keeper. I couldn’t remember Gervinho putting himself in such good goal-scoring positions except for the goal, which was a little lucky in my opinion as it could have gone over the bar.
Also noticed that Cazorla tends to like shooting from outside the box. I’m not sure how prolific a goal-scorer he is but most of his shots tend to go over (same for Ramsey). This can be frustrating especially when Giroud is in a better place to make a run in. Walcott has also on a few occasions gone for glory himself rather than pass to Giroud.
Whether all this is a lack of confidence in Giroud or not, I’d like to see our midfielders try to play him in more because this guy knows how to get himself into really good goal-scoring positions.
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@pierrot coz he finds &makes good runs doesn’t mean he can finish it….our problem was replacing our best defender becoz if the back is settled then the mid fielders and attackers would have done better
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LOOK COMPLETLEY OFF TOPIC
TRANSFERS arsenal should make:
STRIKER – BA
DEFENSIVE MID – M’VILLA
CENTRE BACK – MAPOU YANGA-MBIWA
Transfers will add height, physicalitity and quality.
Sell- squallaci/Djouroue
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Arteta, Wilshere and Cazorla… Now that’s a midfield trio that i can’t wait to see play together!
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Third place would make us happy. If not, champions league qualification would make us happy. If not, watching streaming porn would us very happy.
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You know what, chelsk looked powerless against us. Other than those two free kicks the league leaders had very little against us. We created more chances, shots at goal, more possession than they. Even my wanxer Kensington friends admitted we looked more dangerous & were unfortunate to concede. THESE are the positives I took away from Saturday
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Guys,
One bad game and u started bashing LK, OG, OX, walcott, Ramsey n all …transfer talks begun which is ridiculous at this time it was just a bad luck from defense point of you … few chances at front bt unfortunately didn’t get materialized … Have trust in the team and this time they do wonders … give them support even during losses, i know its hard but provide them backing… even MU also lost but no such reaction there…
Fellow dear gooners if i am right/wrong there … pls let me know by like/dislike… COYG
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WE WERE UNLUCKY,KONCILNY MADE UNFORTUNATE ERROS BUT THATS LIFE IT HAPPENS DONT FORGET HE HAS DONE ALOT OV GUD ASWELL…
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podolski’s best position is on the left not centre forward,he played ramsey because he had a good game against city from the right and he keeps possession better than say a walcott,but i think AOC is our best player on the right
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am starting worrying about Geroud. Does he have the real touch finish of the goal?he should av scored in empty net!!!!!! And i think its just wrong to play Gervinho in his place
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Take a look at our games in October and the results i expect:
Olympiakos HOME Champions League… WIN
West Ham Away Premier League… WIN
Norwich Away Premier League… WIN
Schalke HOME Champions League… WIN
QPR HOME Premier League… WIN
Reading Away League Cup… WIN
And then we go to Old Trafford!
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just one game. we beat chelsea last year and they ended up winning the champions league. i’m not worried
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We were unlucky to lose, let’s be honest. Chelsea came to defend and frustrate – a tactic that got them a point at the Emirates last season, and they would have happily taken a point before the game as we were on fire up until saturday. They had a lot of ‘possession’ – although I hardly think it counts because it was just Ivanovic/Terry/Cech passing it between each other before lumping it aimlessly forwards.
It might look like they had a lot of chances if you watch the highlights reel from Match of the Day, but thats because for the majority of the game they were leading. When the match was level, no one could deny we looked the far more dangerous, threatening team.
However, it is worrying we let in two soft goals, and the reaction from some Arsenal players to Chelsea’s containment football after they took the lead was not good enough – Ramsey amongst others seemingly couldn’t handle the pressure and kept giving the ball away. Even the solid Arteta and Cazorla started misplacing passes.
That said, in the end we were unlucky. Diaby’s forced substitution early in the game unbalanced our team – I think I would rather have seen Coquelin than Chamberlain as Hazard, Torres and Oscar had some pretty easy runs at our defence, and also, Cech was outstanding in goal, denying Podolski and expertly narrowing the angle when Giroud was put through. Alas, a first team goalkeeper for the Arsenal was not a luxury we were allowed and no doubt a match fit Sczeney would have perhaps dealt with one of the goals.
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arsenal Need a striker …………………that is all
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Giroud Giroud!
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Arsenal need to replace RvP and Song
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wenger is dissapointing us again n again over his team selection matters…..
Giroud pure CF bt WF Gerv is playing as ST….
on RW Ramsey is playing while OX, Walcott are available…
Dnt knw what hapeened to Podolski, Gibbs Cazorla N Podolski were making good Progress at Left side n nw thy are nt playing as well as thy played before together…. wenger Tactics r Costing us heavily….
Giroud= great in air, bt small number of crosses played to it… He presence is dangerous as his movement is supreme n thn in Box his hieght is effective…
Bt what Wenger doin, playin a piece of sh*t as ST who loses ball every time n score 1 by chance…
Team need tht spirit again n HAVE TO UTILIZE GIROUD!
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Calm down guys…it’s just one game…i for once was not angry at that defeat…of course i was (⌣́_⌣̀) bcos we dint get any points buh i was ok…vermaelen might be captain but metersacker is the LEADER of the team…
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TOTALLY AGREED!!
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bravo Arsenal
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The facts are like this we have not any game when Ramsey starts. I personally think he is a liability to the team he offers nothing in terms of attack & defense. look at his game he moves well, his passing, tackling, marking plus tracking down ability questionable. He is becoming another Cygan. We love him but he doesnt cut the grades to Gunners grade. If only AOC had started with Giroud or Walcott. Think Wenger should start giving players on form games.I personally expect Yennaris, Arshvin, Miguel,Coquelin in the bench.Sometimes TRUTH HURTS but our youngster are more hungry than the 1st team
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Jst 1 bad game shows hw bad hw fans are! Wen we were winning they where all right about selling RVP and now we loose they miss rvp. 4geting rvp played all 90min. And still didn’t score in some game. And giroud is only playing 20mins he can’t do any tin jst frm d little he is trying to utilize frm a tired team mate! Y can’t dis fans tink wit deir head. If you watch all the game OLI G has started for arsenal, its always been a win for us. Either he score or makes an assist or have a way of attracting deffenders to himself and making other areas expose fo us to score. If he want to keep on winning, we have to let him strt our game and let gerviho! Go and trian more on hw to score frm distance! As at nw! He is more like a winger to me! Cus all those shut he throwed away shud b a cross to OLI G to nud in to goals. Still tink we re gonna go far dix season! Wit this current squard. Even to win the epl. Cus chelsea didn’t play any tin! Dey jst have d usual luck dey had against barca. And dat luck wud soon end b4 the nxt 5 games.
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Whatever arsenal win or lost, we must support all the arsenal players if we love the club. I think we will see the great time when finished this season
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To all the guys saying Chelsea where lucky. Sorry but you are wrong.
The was some good performances but I saw old arsenal. Toothless I’m afraid.
Its only 1 game but here is something to think about if you want to win the league.
1: You have to win against smaller teams at home (ie: Sunderland)
2: You have to win games against smaller teams away (ie:Stoke)
3: Draws against big teams away are ok.
4: Need to win the big home games.
Lets face it guys, both Man City and Liverpool are not playing the best football.
We did look very good against Chelsea but the attack is not looking so good at the moment. Sure 6 against Southamton and Coverty looks good but the are not great teams.
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