Comments on: Sunderland 1-0 Arsenal – 21/11/09 – (Premier League)

By: zaparodje

zaparodje — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:40:53 +0000

fucking hell what’s wrong with you ruthiee? Useless fucking prat.fuck off and stick yer spuds shirts on you cunt

By: timao

timao — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:34:10 +0000

it’s not so bad – sunderland at home are no pushovers for anyone, and the other top teams have all lost against lower placed opposition. of chelsea’s remaining 8 games this year, 5 are away from home, inlcuding us, man city, and west ham, then they have a home derby against fulham – let’s see where they are in january before we get caried away with gloom

By: mack

mack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:04 +0000

Fuck off Ruthiee

By: Ruthiee

Ruthiee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:52:57 +0000

USELESS GUNNERS

From the start of the match believe me i saw arsenal loosing to sunderland. This is the only team that arsenal has not scored any goals. I was very happy to see their heads bowed down in disbelive that sunderland were the winners. Yeap beaten by sunderland and who said that sunderland can not beat arsenal. They will be beaten again and again… That game really made my day

By: tom

tom — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:17:57 +0000

everybody will be up for it against the cheating french c**ts for a while and lets face it they have a history of hiding when the going gets a bit hot,

By: the truth

the truth — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:00:18 +0000

depressingly familiar story.already falling behind chelsea who have a manager who prioritises winning above playing a brand of football that flatters to deceive.no nothing mugs and broadsheet press lap his shit up.wonnothing without pat and thierry . was so fortunate to have 2 best prem players at same time,without them would have been exposed years ago.open your eyes and dont take this shit anymore.

By: Old Fat Gunner

Old Fat Gunner — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:59 +0000

Playing against teams like Sunderland in the EPL and away is what defines the Champion at the end of the season. These are the absolute Must Win matches and Arsenal’s trophy drought can be traced more to losing or drawing matches like this than results against Man U, Chelski or Liverpool head on. The fact that we conceded on a set piece is functional deficiency recidivism at level befitting a pub team.

As for the match itself, AW must realize that no one below the 6th spot in the table is going to come out and try and play with us for 90 minutes. 10 behind the ball, take the man as often as possible, work your socks off to close down space on the flanks and play on the counter. There will not be “space behind” to get into very often so his lamenting the fact that his team did not “get behind” the defense enough is maybe a line he’s comfortable spilling for the TV cameras.

So we must understand that while getting behind defenses is always desirable, and certainly a “best” way to get good chances, we have to take a page from other teams that face this dilemma on a weekly basis and push defenses as deep as they will drop and then start bombing the ball at goal from outside the box – on target to make the keeper work as well as to leave bits and pieces to be turned in.

As defenses react to that propensity to threaten from distance and push defenders onto our shooting players in the central channel, more space will be available to exploit to slip the ball into to “get behind” much of the defense as well as on the flanks.