Just now, andy said:

I don't think so .... I think he can get there, but like I say just an opinion 

How? Doesn't read the game well, doesn't score goals, doesn't pass anywhere near as well, positionally all over the place. I would love nothing more for it to be true, but there are zero similarities. He's not even been good in this game. He's the attacking midfielder but keeps running back to the edge of our box, giving it away and leaving the likes of Jackson isolated. This has been one of my biggest criticisms of Gallagher all season, he doesn't read the game well at all. He just runs all over the place. It's disrupting any kind of balance.

2 minutes ago, Cfc91 said:

Way better last 20 of that half. We can still snatch a draw here. 

Hmm, if Madueke pulls of a rare belter or Conor pulls off an ever rarer belter. Cause we are not scoring otherwise.

Hopefully Alfie and Cucurella can keep their composure and avoid a second yellow.

Would like to see Carney and Casadei get some serious minutes but that is very unlikely.

My roll of the dice here would be take a chance on Washington. Take off Mudryk and put Jackson on the left flank.

I’d move Mudryk to middle and replace Gallagher/Caicedo with Chukwumeka.

Our line up is far too negative, without Palmer we can’t get away with it. Just go for it now.

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

How? Doesn't read the game well, doesn't score goals, doesn't pass anywhere near as well, positionally all over the place. I would love nothing more for it to be true, but there are zero similarities. He's not even been good in this game. He's the attacking midfielder but keeps running back to the edge of our box, giving it away and leaving the likes of Jackson isolated. This has been one of my biggest criticisms of Gallagher all season, he doesn't read the game well at all. He just runs all over the place. It's disrupting any kind of balance.

Why even entertain such a comment?

How on gods green earth did Jackson head the ball against his own hand lmfao 

that’s got to be a new low 

Cucerella is getting the run around, he is trying to get sent off . He either needs help , or gets subbed.

Gilchrist is getting no help on the other side either, f**king kid getting exposed against the league leaders no one prepared to get back  and help the lad..

Organisation is non existent , look how Arsenal race back when we attack.

But.......only a goal down and we've had a couple of chances.

Not as bad as I thought score wise after that early goal. Poch's half time talk will stir them into action. £5 on Chelsea 3-1

4 minutes ago, WeatherMan said:

Looking at some of the posts here anyone would think we were 5 nil down

Started badly but think we’ve look decent in spells.  Standard shedend overreactions.  We’re never going to dominate away at Arsenal. 

Frustrated with the chances we have had to be honest.

 

 

4 minutes ago, Zero said:

The bar is low, but at least we are getting better and growing into the game. With the right substitutions and some more compusure I think we can get something from this.

You are forgetting about the motivational half time talk. 

Oooh replay of Jacko's tackle on Tomiaso looks nasty. That's a red

no idea how jackson didnt get sent off

6 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

He's afraid to spoil that vomit inducing haircut.

Thats our player, whos done alot of good for us this season. Grow the fk up and stop abusing him.

Mudryk has footballing intelligence of someone who's never played at a professional level, it's incredible that after so much time in training he has so little understanding of what his role is, no chemistry with his teammates and no positional awareness whatsoever. 

Badiashile has been diabolical. 

I wonder how bad Sterling and Silva/Chalobah must be in training for those two to start over them.

1 minute ago, Stas1 said:

You are forgetting about the motivational half time talk. 

Poch at half time.

12 minutes ago, Carloseyebrow said:

Another bottler, he was looking for a yellow earlier.

True   so obvious he was looking to get carded, f**king disgraceful antics

1 minute ago, BewareoftheDrog said:

Oooh replay of Jacko's tackle on Tomiaso looks nasty. That's a red

Wonder if the refs see this stuff at half time. If so Jackson will need yanking soon cos they'll be itching to send him off now.

Just seen again that ball that Madueke put right across the box. How was that not finished? Any other team and that is scored 99 times out of a 100.

Poch has thrown away this game with that line up.

Can you believe we've had 58% possession in that half, but as usual thier keeper hasn't had one save to make.

This season is dead, possession with no punch, rinse and repeat until May.

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Sterling on for Mudryk, surely.

Echo what a few people have said here - nowhere near as bad as I thought the half was going to be after our terrible first ten minutes. Have grown into the game and are getting into their faces. Probably more likely that we'll get a red card than an equaliser but all the same...

6 minutes ago, Andy2461 said:

How on gods green earth did Jackson head the ball against his own hand lmfao 

that’s got to be a new low 

The first step was that he covered his eyes with his own hand and winced as the ball came toward him.

2 minutes ago, DarkMata said:

Started badly but think we’ve look decent in spells.  Standard shedend overreactions.  We’re never going to dominate away at Arsenal. 

The first 25 minutes were abysmal. Arsenal should have had a 3-0 lead and Jackson should have been sent off. There has been zero cohesion to our play, the players are constantly arguing amongst themselves and players like Cucurella, Mudryk and Badiashile look scared and panicky. 

Poch be smart and take off Gilchrist otherwise he will get sent off.

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