With an international break on the horizon, Arsenal somehow find themselves in a great position to go into a two week break in a good position, just a point behind Man City and well above the likes of Liverpool, Man United and Tottenham. And we also need a win to put some poor results and performances behind us and set ourselves up for the rest of the season.
Arsene Wenger has the usual number of injury problems in the squad, with no Arteta, Koscielny, Debuchy, Giroud or Ozil available. So Arsene Wenger has decided to keep, as far as possible, the side that started against Anderlecht and got the Gunners three goals to the good on Tuesday.
The Frenchman clearly feels that letting in three late goals was an aberration and does not expect it to happen again, so the only change he has made is a forced one due to the knock picked up by Mikel Arteta, with Mathieu Flamini coming in for the captain.
Szczesny
Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs
Chamberlain, Ramsey, Flamini, Cazorla
Alexis, Welbeck
subs: Martinez, Bellerin, Rosicky, Wilshere, Podolski, Walcott, Sanogo
There is plenty of attacking talent on the bench but not a lot in the way of shoring things up, so I expect the Gunners to start very solid and make sure we do not concede and that we dominate the ball and wear Swansea down. Of course we will be looking to score but with a makeshift back four and a poor defensive record this season, keeping a clean sheet is perhaps the key to winning this game.
To be fair, great free kick.
Flamini does not even know where the ball is and our keeper does nothing all day but the first shot goes in.
Never been a wenger out person because I believe the problem is the penny owner who took a loan to buy arsenal and has not put a penny .they are actually taking money out. It is time for wenger to call them out publicly .
How else do you explain ox , wilshere , giroud , flamini ,schecny as starters.
We sold the wrong pole.
The person who “thumbed down”..show urself and say exactly why? coward!!
There’s nothing more I can say becuz my men are in the house. We are everywhere, members of SAWS (Special Anti-Wenger Squad) and together we say:
F*CK you Wenger!!!
Welbeck would make a better DM than flamini.
Either wenger/ board clears out the mediocre and ageing players or they are about to get a revolt.
Signing Sanchez was the biggest mistakes of their lives because that guy makes everybody else look absolutely mediocre( apart from Gibbs and welbeck who put in a decent shift all the time) .
On another note , wenger substitution are always late . I remember him always bringing Kanu on in the 85 minute to chase a lost cause. How in the heck is someone going to change something that late . 19 times out of 20, it is not going to happen .
And sonogo,
Not exactly lukaku.
Even our youth team keep getting trashed.
So I told the guy next to me: “Just watch, Arsene won’t make any changes until 70 or 75 minutes”. Not that I am a soothsayer, just that I know the idiot called Wenger.
The Miz (Garry Monk) won by making the right substitutions.
Wenger has turn Arsenal to an average club like Newcastle and the rest the only thing big about Arsenal is the Name…Wenger must leave b4 Arsenal can bounce back to a top club…where are the AKB that think wenger will bring back glory… hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I mourn for Arsenal till wenger leave our beloved club
Bring the changers Wenger, come on
Makes subs Wenger you f*cking old cretin
Too late the French arse**** fu*** up again mourinho is spot on he is an expert in failure just no clue abt how to win games
Which loser thumbed me down this site is full of jokers
Theo time, surely…
Class free kick!
Damn 🙁
cmon boys, need another
Can see us losing this
Seen
GET A SUB ON FFS
The fck?
Smfh
COYG 🙂
how to lose in 2″
The nightmare begin.
No title for us this season, Wenger out. I’m done.
Hahahahaha I’m going to go to bed and cry, it not funny anymore
well sh*t!
I just want wenger to quit tomorrow …. 8 million who are u kidding it’s really pathetic
That’s right spurs fans thumbing me down
Would you quit on 8 mil a year and you don’t have to get results ?
And that’s why you put Chambers at CB and Bellerin at right back.
well thats what subs are capable of
we suck
what the f##k is it going to take to bring in a manager who knows what he is doing.
The only way that’ll happen is if the entire board dies, because as long as they’re even near this club it’ll be this way. Morbid thought yes, but I believe it to be the truth.
Damn x 2 🙁 🙁
That’s how subs help you Wenger
I feel so sorry for Sanchez.
why? i hear this all the time, he would be sitting on the pine in barca, he will lead a great team to glory, he went from normal player at barca to a star and leader at arsenal, he is fine…
really think so?
he can shineif we lose, he can shine if his goals lead us to silverware,
or do you think he wants to shine “a la SUArez” in Pool?
Chambers has not stopped a single cross.
I repeat not a SINGLE cross from his flank.This is silly.
Let’s just laugh.
Chamber was in his pocket all night.
we were out managed again,
Now than he sub.
Swansea make two subs, all change the score line.
He sees Chambers having problems all game but does nothing and as a result we losing.
Wenger’s obvious tactical mistake: to put Chambers against Montero.
Montero isn’t a great player, but he’s got pace. Same goes with Bellerin who’s lightning fast. So what does Wenger do? He puts Chambers of course because he probably didn’t even to bother look at who Swansea might play.
Yep. I said that before the game too, not to mention Chambers being better suited to play against Bony than Monreal, considering he’s much bigger and stronger.
DONT BLAME CHAMBERS
Montero was on the team sheet why not play Bellerin our quickest RB
and we ALL saw chambers was struggling but wenger still left it and now we are 2-1 down he makes subs F WENGER
And his fans
I cannot argue with that. Anyone of us would have subbed Chambers or put him CB and played a quicker full back down the right. Chambers has been skinned alive tonight.
Injury after injury, which means players like Monreal at centre back, never buys in positions we need, simply not good enough, we lack so much it’s unreal. Wenger has lost his marbles.
The sad thing is that we only need about 3 players – decent centre half or two, DM, but we prob won’t get them
Montero has been beating Chambers since the first minute. This goal has been coming! Yet Wenger did not react for 78 minutes. He is to blame. He has to go!!
without koncielny it is clear as day that mert is crap.
monreal is not even good enough for 3rd division
and yet our manager renews their contracts???!!!
Need to dig deep
Surely everybody could see Chambers was struggling with Montero…? Bellerin has pace hasn’t he??
And Monreal never got off the ground!
I don’t blame the players.
It’s horrendous team selection.
It’s like last year when Monreal struggled with Everton, but Wenger leaves it and we get hammered.
too late subs, when sanchez scored a sub was mandatory, but no, lets wait when we are down 2-1….
Why ddoesn’t Wenger walk his dog?
He keeps losing the lead
looool
More points lost due to Wengers tactical inept.
Really 5 points in one week, how many would that be in a season.
Theo time !
have we scored on a corner this season?
Bring on Poldolski for Welbeck or Santi
Gibbs, chambers and our inability to do anything from a set piece are what cost us the game today…
Sanchez must think how many times do i have to try and keep arsenal in the game and they just blow it!
Oh please could someone in the press conference ask Wenger did he bother to study the possible lineup for Swansea.
Congrats Swansea, now do us a favour and beat other clubs near us aswell
at what point does it just become funny. because i just laughed when Wenger only made the sub after we went down. its so typical and predictable.
Me too. By make a sub of extra striker at 89 mins make me laugh louder.
12 points behind Chelsea, 8 points behind Southampton, yes, Southampton.
it says it all when you cant beat a team with flappyhandsky in goal
what is it with Arsenal fans wanting to insult EVERY single one of our former players, even when they did a decent job, and helped end our freaking trophy drought??
After game players and Wenger will just talk, oh how we need to defend as team.
Too much at Arsenal , just do your fing job.
And we bring on no goals sonogo
Wtf why sonogoals arsen has lost it
WHATS UP WAIT A MINUTE MR POSTMANNNN
Yay. It’s yaya sanogo. He’ll save us.
Sanogo hat trick !
LOL Sanogo oh lawdy lawdd. Our savior
Striker for RB, hahaha.
And it Sanogoal.
Expecting Sanogo to do some magic in less than a minute.
His do you react to such idiocy?
Another poor performance, illogical team selection, season already over!
The last time I actually hated a manager was Don Howe, but at least with Don he had the sense to admit he was bringing the team down and leave. Wenger is a delusional tw*t who is too stubborn to admit that his failures are bringing the club down and that we don’t deserve to endure what he is responsible for. Call it an overreaction but I wouldn’t be sad in the slightest if something bad happened to Wenger so long as we got someone in who plays the role with the times as opposed to being stuck in the past.
he is SPECIALIST IN FAILURE
I hate Wenger too. I really phisically hate him! I can’t stand watching this old buffoon sitting there like a mummy in this Puma sarcophagus of his.
Another quality performance.
F*ck off Wenger. As Paul Merson said, he has clueless tactics, the players are not fighters, they are scared.
#FACK AW #FACK AW #FACK AW #brainless fart
Why can’t we play like we do when we know we going to lose game?
Really we would destroy most teams
Come one you trust in wenger fans
State your case !!!!
I BLAME WENGER, PURELY BECAUSE HE IS A CNUT AND DIDNT SIGN SUITABLE PLAYERS IN WINDOW. WENGER OUT!!!
That’s it for me … Will reengage when wenger has left this once great club
Anyone have a family member in SAS that will take Wenger out?
Well words fail me,let’s see how the AKB’s defend this result !
Will be another long two weeks before we see our gunners fk up again.
AKB’S can leave with Wenger. really are there even any AKB’S left
Well lets guess who Wenger will blame this time
1. The Refs?
2. Pitch?
3. Tiredness?
4. Anderlecht?
5. Players?
6. Weather?
I hope top 4 ends like this
Same sh*t different team! Swansea make 2 substitutions and score twice before Arsene does anything with 10 minutes left. Sanogo on with 89 minutes on the clock? Tactical genius!
Damage limitation until we can open the cheque book which we know Arsene will not do other than for some second-rate player who probably isn’t even a defender!
Does arsene even watch other teams and try to assemble a tactical approach. Seems like we play every every game as though it’s against the same team. No imagination, no creativity and no idea how to protect a lead.
Sanchez might be scoring but I’m sure he’s thinking I need to be in a team that wins! Kinda like wishing we didn’t have a manager relying on ancient history of success.
No doubt AKB/BABA think the traveling fans that are soaking wet should be thankful and privileged to have watched a team that aims for 4th spot.
This French buffoon has made us a toothless mid-table team. There will be no top 4 spot this season. Not a chance! I sincerely love this club, but I have to be realistic. And then Wenger will be sacked. No Champions League money – no mercy from that greedy board. You’ll see…
i see it happenin, sadly, exactly as u describe
I see AKB/BABA are finally at a lost for words. Shame I was looking forward to a fairy story to send me to sleep.
Forever COYG but let’s get real!
About what we deserve particulalrly wenger!
Glad I haven’t wasted time watching arsenal the past few months. Useless. Won’t be bothering till the dictator has gone.
Clueless defensively
Some simple proof today that wenger is blind, stupid or stubborn. I said days agao we must play belerin due to routledege and dyer havingpace Once I saw the reateam sheet and montero it was even more important as he’s lightning quick. So here’s two oppurtunities wengers missed to make the right simple selection. He then allows chambers to get skinned all game does not bring on belerin, does not instruxt Ramsey or others to offer cover. Now he’s nsuceeded in danagibg a young new players confidence, specialist in failure indeed, wenger out and not upstairs bit too another club!
Cant ever remeber such a low point being an araenal fan, it’s not losing games but the manner of the performances, the poorly completed transfer activity, the naivety surrounding injuries, the poor team selections, poor in game tactics, and wengers continual arrogance and inability to listen to anyone or admit he’s wrong. So sad for our players who struggle on 🙁