Arsenal vs. Liverpool: open thread
by Ted Harwood on Apr 17, 2011 10:16 AM EDT
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Arsenal. Liverpool. Must. Win.
Arsenal: (4-2-3-1): Szczesny; Eboue, Koscielny, Djourou, Clichy; Diaby, Wilshere; Walcott, Fabregas, Nasri; van Persie.
No Song.
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Lehmann, Song, Squillaci, Arshavin, Gibbs, Chamakh, Bendtner
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Liverpool
Reina; Flanagan Carragher Skrtel Aurelio; Kuyt Spearing Lucas Meireles; Carroll, Suarez.
Meireles often comes into the middle to offer a third midfielder, and his crossing was good for Carroll last week
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Szcz? No more Almunia?!
Smiling
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second
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
ooohh...diaby
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skrtel and szczezny
ftw.
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lot's of mistakes here at the start
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are anyone else's comments not auto-refreshing?
it’s doing it to me again. the page never fully loads. frustrating. if i miss comments, please forgive me.
mine's been slow too
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
That was the long shot we talked about, Ted
good take from Theo
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very dangerous
make one of these count!
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Ah, crossbar
cmon keep on em
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between slippping and running into each other
this is frustrating
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Aurelio's a foul away form a card
keep on em. Theo can edge him out
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Some new commenters here today!
Welcome aboard the good ship Short Fuse!
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wow,cesc!
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Gotta go to Theo
He was already troubling Aurelio, and now Robinson
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LOL no red card for RVP?
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liverpool not committing much to attack
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Ah
good 1-2 with RVP and Fab.
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baaaaaaahhhhhhh
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way wide
don’t throw ’em away
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There's the hairpiece
Cranky Stan Kroenke
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he's rich enough to care less
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Yellow for Flanagan now
gotta attack the outside backs. Vulnerable
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There's Theo on Robinson again
Well done, Theo
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must have read your post
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Should be a yellow for Skrtel
Did he even get the ball?
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and it is
Liverpool’s back line is going to be open. Cmon, boys
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Barely. He got the ball with the bear tip of his toe after Eboue touched it the same way. Definitely got the player.
looked like eboue 1st, then he got some ball
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Wow
Now that’s a delivery to forget. Focus, Robin
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Diaby's had a good run recently
Not a ton of negatives in his play
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OOH
RVP almost kept that in. Damn
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Theo's going to be exhausted at halftime
He’s the obvious point of attack from the midfield
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it'll take more than 3 defenders to stop theo?
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AAAH
Fab, bring that in
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more good play from diaby
’bout time
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he's been filling in pretty well for Song
by Ted Harwood on Apr 17, 2011 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
He sure has
I was worried that we’d see more of the clunking, lanky and uncoordinated Diaby than we have. Good on him.
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Suarez looks really poor today
His feeds have been really, really bad
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Fuckin dive
Get up Suarez
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;glyutfdthxfcgnv,bihoju;lk,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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translation:
WTF? should have gone in!
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
AHAHAHAHAHA
Damn Eboue. almost
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Nasri
why…that feed has no room. Put it on
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LP gotta feel like they've dodged a lot of bullets
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions
agreed
Gotta keep it up. How much more does Theo have in the tank? He tossed a handful of crosses in and earned a half dozen corners. We just got to put one in. But yes, good half.
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he should have plenty
we’re only playing once a week now
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Meireles is very narrow
And so our attacks are going down the right a lot. Thus, Lucas is helping Robinson, leaving space in the middle
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Play has passed him by
Will Dalglish move him out wide for the second half, do you think?
by Ted Harwood on Apr 17, 2011 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Dunno
I mean, he probably should, but he may end up drifting inside anyway.
It’s why Liverpool want wingers
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by Aidan Gibson on Apr 17, 2011 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Informal poll
PES or FIFA?
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neither
I’d never see my family
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
FTR, Stoke are beating Bolton 3-0 in the cup
We play Bolton in a week.
Stoke in the final. Christ.
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it's a prelude to 2012
when the world ends
by Ted Harwood on Apr 17, 2011 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Stoke
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by Aidan Gibson on Apr 17, 2011 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions
newcastle karma
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
lucky we have a Dr. on the thread here now to help sort this stuff out!
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions
it's an internet thread
expertise can mean whatever you want it to mean!
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
haha
good enough then
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Is that allowed the most I've ever seen is 6
Chuck Norris doesn't need a bat.
he just roundhouse kicks the ball out of the park.
by bearcatcardfan on Apr 17, 2011 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
depends if we're winning or losing, I'm sure
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions
or not
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awful
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redundant
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions
last sub for Liverpool
Who’s coming off for Arsenal – Nasri?
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OH
What a pass from Fab
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Bendtner and Arshavin
Here we go
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i like these changes
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions
gotta be a card there
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yup
yellow for Shelvey
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oh Diaby
he’s really getting sloppy
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this half sucks
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lots of facepalm
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CMON
LETS GO. Show some drive. Song on for Diaby
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song for diaby
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he just roundhouse kicks the ball out of the park.
by bearcatcardfan on Apr 17, 2011 12:41 PM EDT reply actions
you wouldn't know it, though.
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions
ass
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bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
so close
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o my f-ing god!
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stan is having 2nd thoughts
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of course they got bodies in the way
that’s what happens when u play 9 defenders
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If Song hadn't cut his fro
might have gotten more on that. Fire the team barber.
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That should be a yellow for reina
Chuck Norris doesn't need a bat.
he just roundhouse kicks the ball out of the park.
by bearcatcardfan on Apr 17, 2011 12:52 PM EDT reply actions
rvp was knocked over
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OK Wenger - call in your season saving phantom penalty already!
by Learn2Leaf on Apr 17, 2011 12:54 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
rec'd
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
u are man of the match!
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by Match Day 5 on Apr 17, 2011 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
why are we always trying to steal a win at home?
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y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PENALTY
Chuck Norris doesn't need a bat.
he just roundhouse kicks the ball out of the park.
by bearcatcardfan on Apr 17, 2011 12:57 PM EDT reply actions
wowwowowowwowooowooo
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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he just roundhouse kicks the ball out of the park.
by bearcatcardfan on Apr 17, 2011 12:58 PM EDT reply actions
Once again, late drama with the Reds :)
This time, Pepe didn’t need to help us.
i can't take this
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too close
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shit call
totally drew that
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dalgleish told AW to piss off
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and then he told him to fuck off
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by 3k on Apr 17, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Eboue is after a fine talking to the ref.
Here’s an idea – don’t go and bungle into a player to invite the penalty
probably not, but harsh to blame him
that game should have been over, and lucas didn’t half make the most of it
we deserved more goals
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ManU gets extra time towin games
we get extra time to not win
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can't believe he want's to win like that,though
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Because RvP celebrated for 30 seconds
Liverpool attacked, and got a free kick. Free kick was taken, and from that the pen happened
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by Aidan Gibson on Apr 17, 2011 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions
poor concentration/discipline
only thing we’ve been consistent at all year
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I think it was excessive extra time
free kick should’ve been the end; he took it at 100. Two minutes for RvP celebrating? Really?
Lots of debate over where free kick was
and some shoving to sort out
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by Aidan Gibson on Apr 17, 2011 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
As we're playing right now, I doubt we keep 2nd
Chelsea only 2 pts behind now
That game summed up our season
1. Have trouble scoring
2. Do score
3. Cock it up.
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For all the clamor about our defense
We have had one reliable finisher this year in RvP. One, and he’s missed half the games.
THAT'S RIGHT, Kenny Wheaton you did. You cut back into GREATNESS.
by HoodRiverDuck on Apr 17, 2011 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Zonal Marking:
“utterly ludicrous”
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90' + 12'
I mean that sums up how fucking ridiculous that result is.
THAT'S RIGHT, Kenny Wheaton you did. You cut back into GREATNESS.
on the replay it's clear that lucas ran into eboue's path and obstructed him
that was not eboue’s fault at all.
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Look at the end of the day
We could’ve cleared it and we didn’t. And that’s why we blew it.
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Yeah
As I said above, this game is a microcosm of our season.
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by Aidan Gibson on Apr 17, 2011 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
In a very weird way I'd almost rather Arsenal be actually bad at this point
I mean, on the face of it, Arsenal fans have nothing to complain about – second place, CL more or less assured for next season – but this season feels like a massive, massive failure and if they were suddenly to drop to sixth or seventh place I’d just kinda shrug my shoulders and say “yep, that’s about right”.
Dropping that far would be problematic, because we'd lose Champions League money
But we’ve definitely thrown the league away, I feel.
17 points dropped at home. 17.
Dropping 2 or 3 is okay. Even 5.
But with those 17 points, we’d be 11 clear of United.
So Wenger and some blogs may call being second, getting to the final of the Carling Cup the first time we take it seriously (is that really progress? We beat Newcastle reserves, Spurs Reserves, Wigan and Ipswich) a success, but I’m not sure.
Is this team better than last year’s? Yes, I think so. Is it better than the one of 2007-08? I’m not sure.
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