Matchday Thread - Bayern v Arsenal - 4 November 2015
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0-0 is a positive result. That means the game starts with positive scoreline for us. Defend like our lives depends on it. We might even catch them frustrated and error prone around 75th minuteish if it's still 0-0. Cech; Debuchy-Gabrien-Per-Koscielny-Monreal; Coquelin-Santi-Ozil; Alexis-Giroud.
Teams like Barca, Real, PSG and Bayern are in very uncompetitive leagues. They can horde the top talent and cruse through their leagues focusing on the ECL. Their fixtures are even made easier by their leagues to help them in Europe.
The EPL is rightly focused on making itself the best and most competitive league. I am not saying it is, but that is its focus. All the other leagues actually just prop up their 1 or 2 top clubs and help them challenge in Europe.
Honestly I don't care about the ECL anymore. This is not based on this result.
Wenger seems to agree this season and has clearly focused more on the EPL.
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Sorry, but I think we're in for an annihilation today. 5-0 or 6-0 wouldn't surprise me. We have this false sense of superiority after winning the first game, but I doubt Bayern will underestimate us twice in a short time period. They're at home, they're destroying the Bundesliga, they have Robben back, and they want to put things right.
Obviously it's football so anything can happen, but it's going to be 90 very long minutes.
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Hence the 5 at the back.
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If Wenger ever starts with five at the back I will legally change my name to LOVETHESPURSANDTHOUGHTNINELEVENWASAGOODTHING.
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David Ospina
Tomáš Rosický
Danny Welbeck
Jack Wilshere
Mikel Arteta
Aaron Ramsey
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Theo Walcott
Héctor Bellerín
Ramsey, Theo, Jack, Ox, Rosicky and Wellbeck are all type of players that can hurt bayern and we miss them. Lets not forget Bellerin this year hero.
Alexis look out of form, Joel is hot/cold, and Debuchy havent give us much hope last few games(fine he never had run of games to recover any form)If we get point out of this it will be magnificent.
We need that point if we are to stay in CL, the only hope is that santi/coq/ozil work magnificent, but with Bayern pressing that has slim chances.
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Get on the break when you can, Joel
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Defend defend defend, counter with pace, make most out of set pieces.
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What pace ?
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Wait..what... KOS is injured? FFS!!!!!
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Not injured, just rested as a precaution. He's on the bench.
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The pace we scored that equalizer with but the ref didn't give.
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Can Per Mertesacker fuck off from the club already? He's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to fucking slow for games like this.
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This game is yet another example of why I dislike Pep Guardiola. His teams have this aura of entitlement and smugness about them that I can't put my finger on exactly how it manifests itself. It's how the players carry themselves, it's all the overacting pantomime from Guardiola on the sidelines about every single decision...it's a whole list of small things that combine into something evil.
It's stuff like the whole ticket pricing smugness...yeah but you didn't pay for your stadium, did you Bayern? You're not paying off a 50-year loan. The government paid for the stadium, and the construction company was awarded the contract because of bribery on a political level. Of course you can charge €13 per adult or whatever it is.
And it's things like how they celebrate, as if they were entitled to scoring all along, it was just a matter of time.
Zzzzzz.
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My biggest problem here is that Bayern are clearly much better in general. We know this. Wenger knows this. The players know this. Everyone on the planet knows this. So why on earth are we playing as if they aren't? I will never in my life understand Wenger's "they'll have to worry about us" mentality. Why are we using the same shape and gameplan against Bayern as we do against Swansea? It's not Bayern that have to worry about us, WE have to adapt to their game in order to win.
Complete reluctance to adapt to opposition. All day on Twitter people were speculating about Flamini maybe starting on the right wing instead of Campbell, in order to improve defensively down that flank. And these are normal people with zero experience as football managers. But no, we start Campbell...and what happens? Completely annihilated down that flank all day long as Campbell struggled with defensive duties.
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People actually care about this result and it baffles me. Thought we weren't even too bad and that Özil & Giroud were great.
Dead rubber imo, just have to hope we batter both Olympiacos & Zagreb whilst Bayern do the same. Or we go into the Europa League and treat it like a fancy Carling Cup
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So bayern can ensure arsenal is kept out of the round of 16 by giving up points against olympiakos
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Ozil was brilliant. Conceded cheap goals. Game was over when Ozil's perfectly fine goal was disallowed by the Italian Mussolini loving, ass licking referee.
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IX what kind of tactic you want? It was same player behavior like vs Sheffield. Per even had arrogance to say it in front of camera, that they played without courage.
What kind of team lose will to fight and courage after 10 min. I have seen shit teams have will to fight and win vs huge teams.Olympiakos managed to give Bayern great fight and don't collapse until 90 min. Bayern had x10 more desire and will to fight for every ball.
We went deep yet we gave them so much space to move so much time on the ball its joke. Players were afraid to step up and fight for a Champion League. If this kind of games don't motivate them, then what will ?????
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One that adapts to the opposition. It's simply unrealistic to play the same tactic against Bayern as against Swansea and expect the same outcome.
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Didn't they adapt their tactics to the opposition 15 days ago? why the change....
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Don't think tactics could've saved us tonight. Bayern's movement was too good, I was having trouble tracking them visually let alone the players on the pitch.
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