closed Chelsea 3-2 Arsenal

[!Hazard! 3,394]

There's a reason why it took Pep a full year to figure out City's defence. It's difficult to organize defence when playing attacking football. Losing possession is like blasphemy in this system and it always costs us big time, that first goal being a very good example.

 

[bluephoenix 1,125]

The worrying thing is that always hoping that manager will move sort the flaws... hopefully this time it happens and isn't like a one off season thing...

[Laylabelle 9,292]

Hopefully we can sort this 2nd half.. Losing after being 2-0 up and to them be shit.. They should be about 5-2 up and probably end up being way we're going 

Urgh.. Let's not! 

[calculatingInfinity 1,443]

Barkley is a trash dog. Please take off.

Alonso... Well... No real alternatives on the bench. But do something.

 

 

 

[Johnnyeye 7,403]

major upgrades needed in defense thats for sure, but as usual the board is too stupid to see that

[communicate 2,703]

Please stop bashing our fb, they are being overloaded 2 or 3 vs 1

[Henrique 9,133]

Jorginho is putting a horror show there.

Sarri soon will find out PL is a different animal compared to Série A.

I mean, when Arsenal got the ball the team is playing with 10 men. Jorginho is bad at positioning and he is not marking pra covering anything. Kante must play as DM. 

[Vesper 27,282]

Willian and Pedro have completely forgotten all defensive responsibility. It should be 5 -2 goonas if they hadn't left their shooting boots in the dressing room. Shockingly poor from Alonso and Luiz too.

[Johnnyeye 7,403]

Just now, Laylabelle said:

Hopefully we can sort this 2nd half.. Losing after being 2-0 up and to them be shit.. They should be about 5-2 up and probably end up being way we're going 

Urgh.. Let's not! 

AVB 11/12 season, deja vu? leading 2-0 and then losing 5-3, i fucking hope not

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, !Hazard! said:

There's a reason why it took Pep a full year to figure out City's defence. It's difficult to organize defence when playing attacking football. Losing possession is like blasphemy in this system and it always costs us big time, that first goal being a very good example.

We attacked like Guardiola's City in the first 20-30 minutes and then defended like Klopp's Liverpool in the remaining minutes of the half.

[Thor 2,117]

1 minute ago, communicate said:

Please stop bashing our fb, they are being overloaded 2 or 3 vs 1

They need to do better to at least stop an easy ball along the ground. 

[Starman60 1,343]

Just now, Johnnyeye said:

AVB 11/12 season, deja vu? leading 2-0 and then losing 5-3, i fucking hope not

Should be that scoreline already

[Vytis33 1,041]

The first 20 minutes was a joy to watch and a sign of things to come I hope.  We're two games in to a new system results will be questionable for a while.  But those 20 minutes looked light years better than our first match and against a much tougher opponent.

 

 

[robsblubot 3,205]

1 minute ago, Henrique said:

Jorginho is putting a horror show there.

Sarri soon will find out PL is a different animal compared to Série A.

I mean, when Arsenal got the ball the team is playing with 10 men. Jorginho is bad at positioning and he is not marking pra covering anything. Kante must play as DM. 

He is, but then it’s his first tough game in a new league and new system. Pl frenetic pace needs getting used to. Others have’t figured out the system yet.

so not entirely surprising. 

Just happy for morata return to football.

[Tautvix 1,321]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

Playing an attacking system, full backs getting exposed and conceding stupid goals from cutbacks. Have we re-hired RDM? 

Or AVB.. Or Scolari..

[communicate 2,703]

Just now, Thor said:

They need to do better to at least stop an easy ball along the ground. 

They cant. They are being overloaded without help. Forfet the cutback. It is obvious what happen, arsenal overload our wing and we look confused on how to cover the extra man. Make it harder for arsenal to have clear cut bacm then protect the cutback

[Johnnyeye 7,403]

what infuriates me more is we are gifting Arsenal a way to win this game, a game we should be controlling much better after leading 2-0, fuck...

[Pizy 17,860]

We really have to hope half time settles the players' heads. They looked shell shocked. How we can go from bossing it (while admittedly still conceding chances) to looking like scared dogs is mad. Like getting kicked in the teeth.

It was as if we expected Arse to surrender.