Up the Arse! Goons Thread

[glenferry23]

What an incredible opportunity for Arsenal to capitalise on 3 consecutive draws for City and go out and win tomorrow morning. A potential 8 point lead sounds wonderful to me at this point of the season.

 

[Crow-eater]

Villa drew with Palace too.

Tomorrow morning just got a whole lot bigger.

 

[tigs2010]

City could have used that Semenyo late winner.

 

[TY24]

Tomorrow has become a proverbial 6 pointer.

 

[Kipz]

Dont care what it looks like, just get the ****ing win tomorrow. Get out to 8 before City bring in Semenyo and Guehi.

Hopefully United with Ole have something for them as well at OT

 

[glenferry23]

It’s a lovely feeling to have so much noise around other clubs with everything from dropped points, red cards, managers sacked, managers angling to be sacked etc etc. Arsenal meanwhile are in a much more stable place right now.

12 months ago it was a bit of a circus around Arsenal with all that shit about red cards, needing a new forward in January because of the injuries etc, Saka and Odegaard out for 4 months, Gabriel and Havertz out for 6 months with hamstring surgeries, and then even Martinelli did his hammy after the January window closed. All the wrong headlines at the wrong times.

It’s nice now to be out of that spotlight however the focus has to be on taking advantage tomorrow morning. Gotta strike whilst we can. The margin was 2 points a week ago. Tomorrow morning it could be 8. We’ve been on the other end of “one bad week” of results where it can cost you a league title or not. Now it’s time with the shoe on the other foot to capitalise.

Huge game tomorrow. Pumped.

 

[Shoei]

It feels...different. It feels....like for the first time in a long time Arsenal are not only putting in the effort, but getting the luck that is often needed to be Champions over a season.

I still think it's complete nonsense to talk about a title winning points lead in the middle of January. IF Arsenal beat Liverpool and get out to an 8 point lead, it's still only 3 wins difference. The Premier League is so so so competitive that there are no guaranteed results. Each game has to be played like a cup final.

Look at the media bobble heads and opposing fans talking shit at the beginning of the month; Man City with 6 games won in a row, Arsenal with a last-minute away loss to Villa leading to a 2 point gap between the two clubs:

"Here comes Pep's unstoppable machine"
"Man City on their typical league winning run"
"Arsenal bottle job in full swing"

......Man City have now drawn 3 games in a row, Arsenal have won their last 3. The gap between the two clubs could be 8 points in the space of just 4 games. But who says it won't swing back the other way? Arsenal were on a great run in the 23/24 season, then in the space of just 5 games, suffered 3 losses and 1 draw, effectively blowing any hope of the title.

After tonight, there will still be 51 points to play for this season. People declaring champions or writing teams title off in the middle of January are complete idiots.

Are Arsenal in a good position? Yes. Could that change in a heartbeat? Yes.

Don't swallow the hype that being Champions is a foregone conclusion no matter what the result is tonight.

 

[Kipz]

It feels...different. It feels....like for the first time in a long time Arsenal are not only putting in the effort, but getting the luck that is often needed to be Champions over a season.

Not only that, our signings that have added depth is a massive difference to previous seasons where we've had players like Holding, Mari, Viera etc come in as cover for injuries. Looking at our bench now is mad compared to what it had been for a long time. It was one or two decent options on the bench and then average players.

You look at some of the City benches in the past and there would be 5 or 6 players that would easily start for any other team that also cost a lot of money, which is what we have now.

 

[bok_party]

It feels...different. It feels....like for the first time in a long time Arsenal are not only putting in the effort, but getting the luck that is often needed to be Champions over a season.

I still think it's complete nonsense to talk about a title winning points lead in the middle of January. IF Arsenal beat Liverpool and get out to an 8 point lead, it's still only 3 wins difference. The Premier League is so so so competitive that there are no guaranteed results. Each game has to be played like a cup final.

Look at the media bobble heads and opposing fans talking shit at the beginning of the month; Man City with 6 games won in a row, Arsenal with a last-minute away loss to Villa leading to a 2 point gap between the two clubs:

"Here comes Pep's unstoppable machine"
"Man City on their typical league winning run"
"Arsenal bottle job in full swing"

......Man City have now drawn 3 games in a row, Arsenal have won their last 3. The gap between the two clubs could be 8 points in the space of just 4 games. But who says it won't swing back the other way? Arsenal were on a great run in the 23/24 season, then in the space of just 5 games, suffered 3 losses and 1 draw, effectively blowing any hope of the title.

After tonight, there will still be 51 points to play for this season. People declaring champions or writing teams title off in the middle of January are complete idiots.

Are Arsenal in a good position? Yes. Could that change in a heartbeat? Yes.

Don't swallow the hype that being Champions is a foregone conclusion no matter what the result is tonight.

Absolutely. I think all of us here are being reserved but understand how important it has been to get through this Xmas period and potentially be 8 points ahead. We can technically afford to lose to City as long as we win the rest.

City have their own issues with injuries and defensive woes and have looked shaky again like they did early on.

And we are still in all the competitions. Easy for fatigue and injuries to pile up.

 

[bok_party]

Not only that, our signings that have added depth is a massive difference to previous seasons where we've had players like Holding, Mari, Viera etc come in as cover for injuries. Looking at our bench now is mad compared to what it had been for a long time. It was one or two decent options on the bench and then average players.

You look at some of the City benches in the past and there would be 5 or 6 players that would easily start for any other team that also cost a lot of money, which is what we have now.

Arteta has learnt to rotate alot more and put trust in his depth. That goes a LONG way.

 

[Cruyff14]

It's still Jan, but being having a potential 8 point lead is something I'd definitely take.

 

[glenferry23]

That bench again. Handy.

Supposedly very wet and windy conditions in London tonight.

 

[glenferry23]

A clear foul yes. However not sure that’s a yellow for Trossard.

Heavy rain at the moment. Ball is holding up as a result.

 

[glenferry23]

More of Saka v Kerkez please.

 

[glenferry23]

Fortunate there. Out of nowhere.

 

[glenferry23]

Lots of nice crosses and cutbacks but no one on the end of them.

 

[glenferry23]

Yep a good time for this double sub. Needed freshening up. Martinelli has a good record against Liverpool.

 

[Cruyff14]

MLS has been very poor.

 

[glenferry23]

How many cutbacks is that now, with no one on the end?

Eze and Madeueke have a genuine chance here to stretch the final ten minutes of the game.

 

[glenferry23]

Liverpool the more likely this half really. It’s been fairly average from Arsenal in at attacking sense.

 

[glenferry23]

That’s better. Successive shots on target for this first time this half. But not enough time left now.

 

[Kipz]

That was woeful

 

[tigs2010]

Sounds like a stinker of a game but weve gone from 2 points to 6 points clear over the Christmas/NY period. Cant complain.

 

[glenferry23]

Lots of questions going to be asked about that second half performance.

 

[onthehill24]

That was woeful

Who liver fools
That's how we havd to play against city