1 minute ago, Ernie_blue said:

Kante twice the player of Baka

Twice? Think you’re doing Kante an injustice there.

Just now, Lexar said:

What a tackle from kante. Fabregas should do better. Drinkwater needs to come on, bakayoko is treading water out there. 

Treading water? If he was swimming he’d have drowned 40 minutes ago.

 

i really hope he comes good because right now we look proper stupid.

Bring on DD and pedro and its over.

Excellent game. You can see our team’s weakness with good chances to Morata, Baka and Fab, one of whom could even go close. 

 

Ozil and their lwb have been good for larse. 

Don’t see the first half being as bad as it reads on the forum. We’ve had as many clear chances as them and certainly the easier chances. We’re away to Arsenal so it’s never going to be easy. 

Confident we’ll get a winner second half.

Should be win, just very wasteful. 

Sorry but Alonso is so weak, plus does Bakayoko know where he is?

Alonso, Morata and Bakayoko poor. Courtois, Hazard and Kante quality.

I think Baka has done well save his chance which was the most difficult of the three and he at least hit the target. 

 

L’Arse may well tire later. 

Would like to see either Pedro or Willy on.

and go more attacking.

 

Look at that half from Baka and every fan knows DD would have been better, most fans called him to start. Will we see Baka for the second half?

1 minute ago, goose said:

Don’t see the first half being as bad as it reads on the forum. We’ve had as many clear chances as them and certainly the easier chances. We’re away to Arsenal so it’s never going to be easy. 

Confident we’ll get a winner second half.

Chicken Littles :P

10 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Bakayoko i agree with, but not Fabregas. Fabregas has played some very good passes.

I feel you but he is on a yellow and i meant it for tacticAL REASONS. A midfield 2 of Kante and Drinkwater and a front 3 of willian hazard and Morata, better we take the initiative rather than react when they score first

I don't think Fabregas was expecting the ball from Hazard at the end there.

Weird old game. We've been poor enough and have given chances to Arsenal but at the same time should have at least 1 goal ourselves.

Bakayoko needs to come off. Kante can't do the work of 2 men. Bakayoko will (hopefully) come good in the future, but for now Drinkwater should be starting, and has to come on sooner rather than later.

DD on i think will switch this around, we will dominate them then

Second game running Moses is mostly beaten by his man, not to the extent I'd hook him though.

Baka has made some attacking runs but not really great in winning the ball in midfield.

When we have the chance to counter the only players busting to get forward are Morata & Hazard, the rest just seem to trot up when they feel like it. Also we started closing high up the pitch and we had the better of them which seems to have tailed off. 

1 minute ago, ozboy said:

I think Baka has done well save his chance which was the most difficult of the three and he at least hit the target. 

 

L’Arse may well tire later. 

Good one 

It's games like these that highlight the importance of top class wing backs.

Some terrible misses that half.

Bakayoko gives us absolutely nothing. Terrible attacking and he puts no pressure on players when defending (he's not even good as a barrier as he positions himself in the middle of nowhere, not blocking runs or the ball). When Fabregas delivered an amazing ball and he got nowhere near it...

We should bring on Willian for Moses if nothing changes, he will get the beating of maitland Nile’s 

The only striker that may be available this window is Moussa Dembele. We should just go for him. Morata can give a 5 year old high blood pressure.

3 minutes ago, ozboy said:

I think Baka has done well save his chance which was the most difficult of the three and he at least hit the target. 

 

L’Arse may well tire later. 

He's been really poor. Positionally, Bakayoko is all over the place, he's also not tracking Arsenal players well. He's spinning around in circles a lot because he doesn't know where the ball is or where should be, you can see Kante covering for him over and over again.

Edited January 3, 20188 yr by Scott Harris

Not looking good: Arsenal is dominating and we are wasting our chanches. 

What formation are arsenal playing? 

Drinkwater on for bakayoko 

push cesc further up to