4 minutes ago, just said:

Yes. We threw it away. Literally. But soooooooooo many positives to take from that.

A full strength Arsenal side, and we were miles better than them with half a team.

Yeah it's a hard one to digest. Had I been offered that result beforehand I'd probably have been delighted to accept it. On the other hand it feels like we've pissed two points away (and the opportunity for a huge statement result and the associated momentum) which is absolutely gutting, particularly after the first hour.

Disappointing result, but it's great to see us becoming a functional team again. We were better than them all over the pitch except in goal, which is a worry because that will cost you points.

Really good performance. For the large part we made Arsenal look ordinary.

Their keeper had a couple of shockers, only for our keeper to try and out-do him. The changes worked for them whereas we didn't look the same when Sterling, Myudryk and MOTM Palmer went off. Jackson offered absolutely nothing. 

Feels like a loss as we looked so comfortable up to Sanchez blunder. Silva was immense and didn't put a foot wrong and him and Colwill look a very solid pairing. Palmer is a revolution. Such technique and great vision and he has transformed us and looks undropable. We are getting better with each game and just a few tweaks and we should be up there challenging.

Jackson and Madueke were terrible 

Madueke was sooooo Shyte... He offered absolutely nothing and was a liability.  

2 minutes ago, Liam said:

I hope not Dan. I think the players should take a lot of confidence from the general performance. Sanchez mistake was a momentum changer. A minute before that we had just played a lovely passge of football. 

We look well coached and have some fine players.

Not sure how we mitigate Sanchez’s brain fart distribution though. Seems to do something every other week. It was criminal and utterly unacceptable. So unfair to the other starting 10 players who all put nothing lower than an 8/10 performance.  
 

Sad thing is even at 2-0 I was thinking to myself, “how will we f**k this up?”

1 minute ago, Nick05 said:

Wanted so badly for us to beat this lot especially being 2-0 up. This is so infuriating but boehly has bought a bunch of second rate and mentally fragile players who collapse at the first hint of players. Just miss the times we used to outclass le arse comfortably. We're just not that good anymore.

I think that's a bit harsh TBH.  A howler from Sanchez turned this game upside down.  Arsenal didn't deserve a 2nd goal but we should have wrapped this game up long before that.  I think Potch has to take some of the blame here, especially with the subs, other than that his game plan was good but you could see it all got a bit ragged when Arsenal turned up the heat going for the 2nd goal.. there are young players not experienced the EPL, this will be a solid lessoned learned.

5 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

Wanted so badly for us to beat this lot especially being 2-0 up. This is so infuriating but boehly has bought a bunch of second rate and mentally fragile players who collapse at the first hint of players. Just miss the times we used to outclass le arse comfortably. We're just not that good anymore.

What utter rubbish. 

9 minutes ago, Zola_25Fan said:

Sanchez is f**king sh*te

He's not that good...

7 minutes ago, Zola_25Fan said:

Sanchez is f**king sh*te

It's been an age since we had a solid GK. Kepa, Mendy( except the CL run) and now this tosser, it just keeps getting worse. Why can't Boehly's stats team find the next Cech for us.

I can't believe I'm the only one who isnt murdering Sanchez. 

Gallagher needs to be alive to that pass. He's on his heels and rice steals the space.

I'm blaming Sanchez but Jackson should have taken his chance and scored (again)...

In his defense he'd only been on a minute but I have to admit I thought the chance of him scoring for us after that were zero

Poch same mistakes as Potter taking of all our  attacking players with over 15min left to hang on to a one goal lead  it never ends well  the outcome will always be  the same  we are not good enough to hold on 

3 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Really good performance. For the large part we made Arsenal look ordinary.

Their keeper had a couple of shockers, only for our keeper to try and out-do him. The changes worked for them whereas we didn't look the same when Sterling, Myudryk and MOTM Palmer went off. Jackson offered absolutely nothing. 

Feels like a loss as we looked so comfortable up to Sanchez blunder. Silva was immense and didn't put a foot wrong and him and Colwill look a very solid pairing. Palmer is a revolution. Such technique and great vision and he has transformed us and looks undropable. We are getting better with each game and just a few tweaks and we should be up there challenging.

Need some of those injured players to return..

7 minutes ago, Carloseyebrow said:

Gusto isn’t the Mae West is he ?

I still have doubts. Looks a great squad player but not sure he is first choice material yet. Switched off big time for Trossard's goal. 

Also has a tendency to over play and try cute moves. Trying to play around Rice out wide in the first half was a case in point. Rice just eased him off the ball and setup an attack. Gusto needs to recognise this is the EPL not Ligue 1.

2 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I can't believe I'm the only one who isnt murdering Sanchez. 

Gallagher needs to be alive to that pass. He's on his heels and rice steals the space.

Why should Gallagher expect the pass when he's surrounded by 3 players and facing his own goal ? Sanchez could've kicked it anywhere. He has to take full blame for this.

3 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I can't believe I'm the only one who isnt murdering Sanchez. 

Gallagher needs to be alive to that pass. He's on his heels and rice steals the space.

Nope, the speed of that pass was simply too weak to blame Conor 

4 minutes ago, Nibs said:

What utter rubbish. 

Thanks for your insight Mr. Noobs.

1 minute ago, bisright1 said:

I can't believe I'm the only one who isnt murdering Sanchez. 

Gallagher needs to be alive to that pass. He's on his heels and rice steals the space.

Images don't tell you the whole story. The pass wasn't even aimed at Gallagher, it was for Enzo, but he smashed it so hard that it went straight passed Enzo and became a hospital pass for Gallagher. It's 100% on Sanchez.

3 minutes ago, Blue72 said:

Poch same mistakes as Potter taking of all our  attacking players with over 15min left to hang on to a one goal lead  it never ends well  the outcome will always be  the same  we are not good enough to hold on 

When all of your attacker are running on fume, leaving them on is worse

Gallagher, Palmer and Cucurella should be really, really proud about their performance. They noticeably gave absolutely everything out there.

Still gutted about this. Fecking sell Sanchez in January.

 

Even Rednapp saying we were by far the better team tonight.

The uncomfortable question is what do we do with him exactly? Keep playing him in the hopes he removes this from his game? Every other week he’s doing this sh*t.  Not ideal to have a keeper like that if the ambition is to challenge for the league. 

Just now, Sconnie Blue said:

The uncomfortable question is what do we do with him exactly? Keep playing him in the hopes he removes this from his game? Every other week he’s doing this sh*t.  Not ideal to have a keeper like that if the ambition is to challenge for the league. 

De Zerbi dropped him for a really poor goalkeeper in Jason Steele because of what he's done in every single game for us so far. Literally just gives the opposition the ball in really, really dangerous areas.

He's not going to change. Whoever decided we should pay 25 million for him is out of his damn mind.

Beforehand a draw against a better side woild have been seen as a good result.

Being 2-0 up with 20 to play a gifting it back to them, bottling it like we should have Hotspur in our name, makes it like a victory for Arsenal and loss for us.

Very disappointing and a huge blow to us starting this hard run.