I must admit that I am very surprised at the Arsenal starting line-up for the Premier League clash with Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. It smacks of extreme caution to me, when I expected the Frenchman to try to build on the midweek win and take advantage of the low confidence that the Black Cats must surely have after shipping eight goals at the home of the Saints last week.
But the boss has still not given Lukas Podolski a start and has gone for the under performing Oxlade-Chamberlain instead. He has also kept Mathieu Flamini in the starting XI while playing our club captain Mikel Arteta alongside him. The strangest decision, for me, is that Wenger has stuck with the Spanish left back Nacho Monreal in the centre of defence and kept the better defender that is Calum Chambers at right back.
Witho no Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Ozil, Joel Campbell or Podolski on the pitch, our line up seems to be a bit negative and I think we will struggle to break down a side that Gus Poyet will have been drilling on their defensive duties all week.
There is some good news in the name of Theo Walcott being on the list of subs, along with Rambo and the rest.
Szczesny
Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs
Arteta, Flamini, Cazorla
Alexis, Welbeck, Chamberlain
subs: Martinez, Bellerin, Ramsey, Rosicky, Campbell, Podolski, Walcott
Obviously I hope that I am proved wrong and Wenger has got it bang on, but I am a bit worried that our sluggish start to the season will continue.
7 and two assists for sanchez the only player that represent our club
83rd minute equaliser written all over it. But will we get our 90th minute winner?
equaliser against a sunderland team this poor.
no chance- they are embarassing.
This is poor…80 mins of complete shit..non arsenal like football.
Apart from Sanchez no one seems to be interested! Its painful
when did we become a shite footballing team?… wenger is a failure on so many fronts it is unbelievable
Alexis Sanchez for our player manager!
Wow got fans said we are showing good on this match.
Watching the match with my father.He does not know anything about the EPL and has a very little knowledge of football in general.
He was with me watching the West Ham match. He sat through the whole match , even asking some questions about clubs and football in general. He wouls go “Oooooo” at every missed opportunity. He really enjoyed that game.
So he decided to sit through the Arsenal match too. But he just said to me” Can we watch some news?”. I think this sums up everything.
Hahaaaaaaa
looool
chamberlain cant beat his man even if his life depends on it
OX is so bad it hurts to watch him..
Please Walcott start our next match.
chamberlin has 6 months to prove he is a top epl player…not convincing when givn a run of games
Arsenal defending one goal lead now. A lucky one goal lead. LOL. Forget scoring from open play.
Did Sunderland park the bus?
No.
Arsenal playing too casually.
We really need to put the game to bed with a goal or two more.
What a casual cross by ox, these show why our offensive look shi*.
Can someone call Wenger and remind him that he can use a substitute now?
His phone alarm won’t go off until the 85th minute….
why is merteshaker playing at this level…he is a bench player at best…the guy has the worst distribution of any centre back i know in the epl
Why are Ox and Flamini still on the pitch? Ohh sorry I forgot its not 75 min yet. #WengerHandbook.
I just thinking what is the time, is it 75 mins already?
Get Poldi and Cambell in you old fart
be nice to see theo now
At this moment, Welbeck/Chamberlain can go off for Walcott/Campbell.
1-0 agaisnt a shat team fk me we are shat watch them score its coming
Without ozil, Welback look so shi*.
we really are a mediocre squad at best, i just dont see this team beating any top 3 clubs…
We can’t score when they park the bus. We can’t score when we counter attack. What should we do, we wait for them to give us a free goal.
For fu#k’s sake I am literally laughing at the standard of the our play.Waiting for 75 min to xome to see some Subs.
Absolutely no creativity….. They just pass for the sake of passing the ball.. smh
we dont deserve top 4 not even top 10 the way we play fk what happened to arsenal
Gibbs injured, hehe time to put Podolski in the defense? Or Bould? OR Wenger himself?
Damn. Gibbs gone again.
Hahahahaha.. Gibbs injured now.. Hahahhaha…. It just keeps getting better.
great now gibbs out for 3 months hahahahahah fk off wenger
Are we parking the bus now.
Gibbs Injury?! Omg!
Just imagine how stupid some of the arsenal fans must feel knowing that they have to pay the highest ticket pricez in europ to watch this bs.
Sunderland pressing. we might get a chance on the break
Waiting for the 85th minute equalizer.. You know it’s coming..
Shitty and uninspiring performance
Cazorla is not a winger, Wenger!!
Bellerin looks raw and unready for the bpl ._.
OT:dortmund season keeps on getting worse
But they will hump as anyways.
Lol dont remind
get cazorla off he is hopeless…
Ohhh painful and drab. Embarrasing. Wenger please leave us. Please.
TAKE OFF THAT JOGGING TURTLE OX OFF NOW.
More injuries…… God help us now
Is diaby fit or even alive??
Sanchez is in the mood again.
welbeck is winning nothing
Is that a ox or sissy man that being run over.
My GOD wtf Chamberlain?? You lose it you track it. Wtf was that? Awfully lazy.
Ox can do a sh*t¡¡¡¡¡¡
Whenever Sanchez scores we always draw… Hope it changes today, he deserves a win when he scores..
Monreal crosses better than Gibbs.
Yes we showing championship form, we win it ugly.
Christ! Schez what are you doing! We were lucky.
make a facking substitution wenger¡¡¡¡
fuc***** arteta … a joker..get someone decent in the middle
Am I watching a soccer match or comedy show. What a pass by arteta.
It’s worrying as to how bad we still are atm.
Sanchez is our best player by far. The rest of the team need to take a look at how hard he works each game
Welbeck is terrible. Sorry.. Giroud better than him..
Welbeck too easily pushed off the ball. and what a shit pass from Ox
Monreal is playing good ATM.
Our counter attack with 3 players:
Sanchez – does everything right – check.
Welbeck – makes the wrong pass – check.
Cazorla – makes the wrong decision to shoot from tight angle – check.
Make a change arsene for Christ sake
Im very frustated..players are soo tired
Campbell or podi are never in wenger book, unless all his favourite injured.
n Rosicky..
2 on 2 and we still can’t score…
What is THE OX still doing on the pitch?
My nails are gone. Again!
Same as. We’ve made such hard work on this game. Dread to think what the back 4 will look like on our next game if we get another injury
we were bad against anderlecht and we are bad again today. All the other times we have played bad and scraped through games we have then been humiliated by stronger oposition. I honestly fear for the the current AFC.
We can’t even counter so don’t use park the bus as excuses.
What is wrong with cazorla?
CB Chambers is better than RB Chambers.
When we needed to defend the lead deaparately Wenger takes off Arteta and puts Ramsey in. #mastertactician
I have a feeling that wenger makes subs just for the sake of subs
and thumb me down all you want
Cazorla has the poorest shot accuracy, the guy gets in good scoring positions but always off target or weak shots.. smh
Ozil get better soon.
Wasted all really great chances! Ah my team is frustrating to watch…
fking ox and santi are shat man wtf happened to thes cnnts wtf man
They are just tired.. we have good bench, but wenger ll not utilize it.
Our biggest problem – We can’t shoot!
we are so poor especially when we are on the break, it’s f*cking unbelievable!!!
couple of bottom half teams slugging it out!!!!
shit. another 4 mins
hahahaha, pathetic wenger¡¡¡ 89 min of sh*t¡¡¡
Making a very poor Sunderland team look decent..
Wenger would be like” my tactical gamble paid off” LLOL
Booooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiinnng game.
Can’t wait for the El Classico.
JESUS CHRIST!!!!!! AWEFUL Santi today
wtf is wrong with Santi’s boots
There was an id*it around that was saying that CAZORLA is better 10 THAN OZIL. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Fickle fans
TG
Only Sanchez and Welbeck have their heads on their shoulders
What did I said, wait for them to give us a free goal.
Manone is a shocker,,,
SANCHEZ IS GOD.
ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT PLACE. Only guy pressing from start to finish.
He has f**king stamina..
All sanchez. Thank you so much. Drive ,determination, passion
LOl at Mannone and people on this site thought he was the bomb.
He was Sunderland’s player of the year last year so get over yourself
Did you watch the Southampton game? The guy is a bag of nerves. I guess with Wes Brown in front of you who wouldn’t be lol
I feel really bad for mannone.
u buy quality players u get results…what is so difficult for the stingy french twat to understand
i can tell sanchez player of the season already the rest is shat shame on wenger
Thank god. Finally over. We are the champion cos we win ugly.
Cazorla should have had a hat trick… He needs to work on his accuracy, that’s his biggest weakness.
he used to score?
Why need a team full of Sanchez’s! He is carrying us….. oh and Cazorla, my nan could have scored those chances!!!
pool draw, city loose, sanchez’s team move up the table