Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Roaster · 11-03-2009 08:47PM

Terrible stuff from us so far. Bendtner's our best player so far (so that says something). RVP has hardly touched it. Denilson having a shocker and Gallas is having one of those games. Both himself and Toure at fault for the goal (leaving it to each other to clear).

The only positive is we can't play as bad as that in the 2nd half...can we?

Roddy23 · 11-03-2009 09:02PM

Playing a bit better this half. Eboue is the most frustrating player to watch, we had a great chance there, but Eboue put too much on the cross to Bendtner. Hopefully Walcott and Eduardo can get us out of this one.

Green Hornet · 11-03-2009 09:04PM

I agree with you about Eboue. He's frustrating in that his final decisions/passes are poor. Overall though he's actually playing well?

Wreck · 11-03-2009 09:07PM

Time to bring on the subs imo.

Roddy23 · 11-03-2009 09:08PM

He's getting on the ball and getting into good positions, but thats where it ends.

Diaby is playing well, but is on a yellow card, and would want to be careful. Nasri has been very quiet, and Denilson has had a few misplaced passes.

We need the two subs on asap.

GuanYin · 11-03-2009 09:08PM

ESPN360 stream all CL games live in US

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 11-03-2009 09:16PM

THEEEEEEEOOOOOOO! Finally he's on. Think we might have the beating of them now as they tire

Roddy23 · 11-03-2009 09:21PM

Thank fcuk it was Baptista with that chance.

shano_88 · 11-03-2009 09:21PM

Baptista. phew!

Mickeroo · 11-03-2009 09:25PM

They need eduardo,he's the best finsher we've got imo.

Wreck · 11-03-2009 09:27PM

Eduardo on - come on ffs.

Roddy23 · 11-03-2009 09:27PM

Speak of the Devil. He's on for Bendtner.Thought Bendtner played well.

Headshot · 11-03-2009 10:32PM

well done arsenal

Frisbee · 11-03-2009 10:33PM

Massively lucky.

Performances need to improve tenfold

shano_88 · 11-03-2009 10:34PM

phew! can you believe it really? After eduardos miss i really wasnt feeling confident........

Wreck · 11-03-2009 10:41PM

Well we're through and I guess that's what counts, played really poorly though. Some class peno's from both sides in the shoot-out.

DenMan · 11-03-2009 10:42PM

Spent the evening refreshing the BBC website for updates as the streams were awful. Got a stream with two minutes remaing of ET and then penalties. Delighted in the end with the result. We're through. Phew!!! Well done lads, Roma made it very difficult. Was worried when Theo quickly turned and shot his pen. Did well.

shano_88 · 11-03-2009 10:43PM

Wreck wrote: »

Well we're through and I guess that's what counts, played really poorly though. Some class peno's from both sides in the shoot-out.

More like the goalkeepers were shocking at making any attempt at saving the penaltys.........

Beau x1 · 11-03-2009 10:46PM

**** sake lads, that was scary.

11-03-2009 10:46PM

congrats folks, pool fan here.

Both keepers were poor in the shootout I thought, plenty of pens down the middle.

Hopefully Man u and Chelsea draw each other and leave us easier teams!

wandatowell · 11-03-2009 10:53PM

****in horse sh1te performance tonight, AWFUL from every player. I wouldnt feel any worse now if we had lost the game tonight. Got through be the skin of our teeth. NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Roddy23 · 11-03-2009 10:57PM

AWFUL from every player

Don't think so Buddy. Diaby and Clichy played very well. And were still driving at Roma late into extra time. van Persie and Nasri were very quiet though.

So Blackburn on Saturday, and with Villa playing on Sunday, could see us leap up to fourth. Was a crap performance as a team tonight, but we're still there, and will be in the draw for the next round, where hopefully Sicknote, Fabregas, and Adebayor will be available.

FearDark · 11-03-2009 10:58PM

Im still shaking, what a horrible night I had searching for live streams only for them to break in vital places, missed the whole of second half of ET and just as riise stepped up to take his penalty it went down again, came back soon after and the Arsenal players were juming around celebrating!

From what I managed to see we were a total car crash, at least we're through and I hope we dont get the pool, barca or man u because we will be ripped apart if we play like that, I know we're meant to have Cesc and maybe Sickynote by then but still...

Once again Ill state that Van is not good enough, wastes far too many chances imo, he cant keep the ball down, he scores plenty of points. Thought Diaby was good tonight though, im not all doom and gloom

Frisbee · 11-03-2009 11:31PM

Scumbags

OPENROAD · 11-03-2009 11:33PM

Frisbee wrote: »

Scumbags

saw that, shocking stuff,hope the Gooners out there get home safe.

tony1kenobi · 11-03-2009 11:34PM

Any thoughts on why, from the moment Walcott came onto the pitch, we sent the ball left to Nasri almost every time we got it?

I know he had 2 lads marking him but the couple of times he got the ball you could see Roma sh1t themselves. May as well have not put him on if we're not going to use him.

Poor performance but if we can win playing badly as they say......

ctrl-alt-delete · 11-03-2009 11:36PM

Roddy23 wrote: »

So Blackburn on Saturday, and with Villa playing on Sunday, could see us leap up to fourth.

Blackburn will not be an easy game at all, especially if Arsenal play tonight, The extra time wont have done them any favours either.

Blackburn had a great night in London tonight beating Fulham 2-1, they are performing well under Big Sam, and have only lost twice in the league since he took over, both against top 4 teams.

RichTea · 11-03-2009 11:37PM

Congratulations Arsenal fans. Pretty devastated to be honest. Thought on the night because of the effort put in and the chances wasted (including Vucinic's hideous penalty, has anyone seen worse?) that we deserved to go through. Totti was magnificent considering he was playing through the pain barrier.
Best of luck in the next round, but I fear you won't be playing any final in Rome. UEFA are likely to be taking a look at changing the venue after the events of the night around Rome. A pity that.

Kirnsy · 12-03-2009 12:25AM

RichTea wrote: »

Congratulations Arsenal fans. Pretty devastated to be honest. Thought on the night because of the effort put in and the chances wasted (including Vucinic's hideous penalty, has anyone seen worse?) that we deserved to go through. Totti was magnificent considering he was playing through the pain barrier.
Best of luck in the next round, but I fear you won't be playing any final in Rome. UEFA are likely to be taking a look at changing the venue after the events of the night around Rome. A pity that.

not unless they decide on the Emirates being the new venue :cool:

Pepe LeFrits · 12-03-2009 12:26AM

Strange sensation, feeling like crying, puking and jumping for joy at the same time. Still, I'd take it over the alternative.

OPENROAD wrote: »

saw that, shocking stuff,hope the Gooners out there get home safe.

Hardly surprising though, is it?

Roma should be banned from the CL for a couple of years, tbh.

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