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Not that big a deal where I would go so far to call him Judas (he was never that important!) but would have been better for him to keep his mouth shut. No way will he be coming back anyway now that we've moved on to Mata.

I would have like to think that if he had been appointed earlier i.e. before/during the summer break, he would have gotten rid of those players. Anyway we did bring in Mata & Meireles who are improvements on what we had Agree to an extent, but he was at fault for 3 of their goals. He is decent at times but just disastrous yesterday. He just shouldn't be played in the big games. Name me a RB that is available who will do a better job than him defensively...?

Right back we do need to improve but who is out there that can do the job defensively??? There are plenty who have pace and can bomb on but we need someone who is defensively solid and it's hard to find them. Most important thing imo is to get rid of Drogba, Kalou and Malouda. Especially the latter 2 who just simply do not deserve to play for the club. Replace them with hungrier players. Alex is just a waste of space atm he is not being played at all. Dunno if somethings gone wrong or if AVB just does not fancy him. JT doesn't have much time left. Luiz needs to work on himself A LOT. Iva is good but not "fantastic". Bosingwa is good against shite teams and just disastrous against better ones Sturridge isn't working at RW. He hasn't had a single decent game this season in terms of his overall team play. He scored a good goal against Sunderland, shite performance. Good goals against Bolton, okay performance and disappeared in the 2nd half. Poor against Utd, today. He will learn when it comes to judgment and playing the right pass. At least he isn't just a headless chicken and knows where to run, when to run. I certainly hope he'll learn. So we need a proper winger.

lol he was always slow! Thought he did ok. As I said the team defensively was just awful overall. I don't know why but somethings not right there. There's no concentration but this can be worked on.

You know what - I'm feeling better now. It was a bad match, let's put it behind us. I trust that AVB will rectify this. He has definitely learnt that his philosophy of "scoring one more goal than the opponent" does not work all the time. Defensively we need to become more rigid. He will work on it. Some of you lot are acting as if we've just been relegated. It's only October for christs sake!! CAREFREE, WHEREVER WE MAY BE :blue scalf: :blue scalf: Yeh I was agreeing with what you said! Feel a little bad for JT. He did well in the first half and was overall ok, I thought. Defensively we were poor as a unit and a couple of individual errors - like Bosingwa for their fifth and Malouda for their fourth - but overall as a team we were really shite defensively. The papers are gonna shit on him tomorrow for that slip!

Can't see how Terry would have done anything to stop RVP anyway! RVP already had the run on him and JT is slow as hell! Just a stupid, stupid mistake from Malouda that ultimately cost us the game.

One of these defeats is good once in a while - gets rid of the wankers that are glory hunters

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Agree to an extent but even in the first half Arsenal carved out opportunity after opportunity!! Gervinho miss, RVP miss, Ramsey had a good chance I think We were unlucky too because Sturridge should have provided a couple of goals on a plate but poor judgement by him. But we should not be that open against such pacey teams

Well said matey! and honestly, I wasn't expecting us to win the title this season. It's a fucking work in progress.

I'm just sick of these attacks on AVB and I'm sure there will be more so I'm just going to avoid the forums for a couple of days

Yup. Like I said in my previous post, it's just the defense that worries me tbh. We have improved our attack a great deal (although TOrres didn't do anything today) but Mata, Meireles, Sturridge provide what we lacked last season. Whatever AVB feels we lack in that area (Modric or Hazard etc) we'll try to sign in January. High line does not work. Time to get bnack to the drawing boards!!! Sturridge will learn. He's had what? 6 + 2 months of first team action. Before that what was he doing? Oh it was reserve team football which is shite compared to the rela deal. He is young and he WILL learn.

Once we sort out our defense, we'll be ok I feel! Meireles shouild have come on instead of Malouda. Raul did well after coming on, tried to make some quick passes and through balls. Lamps was clearly not doing it during the 2nd half. Really unlucky that Anelka couldn't have been a sub. Lukaku is still rusty but atleast he put himself about and I respect that

lol - agreed! Better to get it sorted now than to have this nonsense continue on for the whole season.

Bosingwa for their fifth!!!!! What the fuck was that?!?!?!?!?! Just disgraceful. There we were, trying desperately to get an equalizer and he just strolls around the pitch He should not have allowed RVP that much of space. Should have gotten closer immediately when the ball entered their half.

Iva should have played at RB instead of Bosingwa. He just disappeared during the second half.

Our defense has finally got found out today. The signs have been there all season, but the teams that we've played haven't been good enough to take advantage. Man Utd did and now Arsenal have as well. AVB has to sort this out. The "score one goal more than them" attitude only goes so far. Malouda was just a fucking joke. People will blame JT for their fourth - can't wait to see the papers tomorrow!! - but it was Malouda's fault. Even if JT had not slipped, RVP would have beaten him by sheer pace alone

Our defense has finally got found out today. The signs have been there all season, but the teams that we've played haven't been good enough to take advantage. Man Utd did and now Arsenal have as well. AVB has to sort this out. The "score one goal more than them" attitude only goes so far.

Would be interesting if we started with Bran and brought Bosingwa on in the 2nd half to run at tired legs (if needed) but unlikely

He did not mean it to say that Terry should be immediately exonerated but that he should be given more respect - which is true.

Cech Oh & re: this - I was quite disappointed that Malouda was the captain on Wednesday. I thought Bran would have been the choice after Petr.

And that post was edited after the real author came and replied to this thread. Swoopz originally commented to tortilla's post by saying that he was the author. The "edited post" line doesn't appear anymore but I hope I wasn't imagining things. Hopefully tortilla can confirm??

Don't see why AVB is being annoying? Can understand if you feel that way about what Jose used to do but AVB has to defend the players, for fucks sake. I like a manager that fights for his team. This is exactly what the scum that is the media want to do - make everyone hate AVB and the club. Can't believe our own fans are turning against him too.

+1 Seriously man, that's pathetic. Not only did you make countless analysis posts without linking back to the original site, but you actually had the cheek to claim that you were the author when asked directly. WOW. Just saw your edited reply. STAY CLASSY. :no: