UEL Round of 32 1st Leg: Benfica vs Arsenal | Thursday 18th February |20:00 | BT Sport

[Trilly]

@Jury

@Sweet'n'Soulful

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

TBF its one bad cross out of 30 almost perfect crosses and it still wasnt as unbelievable as Aubas miss which I was already celebrating the goal harder than Henrys miss in the CL final.

I'm just not pinning any hope on Tierney being fit enough to help us for at keSt two weeks. True that Auba's misses were awful

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Hard to judge the game as ive had the best part of a bottle of Shiraz (The Hedonist, 2018) but it seems while not being great we missed a fair few good chances but tailed off sharply in the last quarter when the subs came on.

 

[Riou]

Remember when we won 2-0 at the San Siro like it was nothing? That was Wenger at his worst btw.

What?

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Beast.

Very good still had that one mustafi moment when come rushing but Leno save. Still learning he'll be very good cb.

 

[Sweet'n'Soulful]

Beast.

He was ****ing excellent. Played that pass to Auba that would have been made more off on another day

 

[Mo Britain]

Nope playing at Athens as our home ground

Piraeus actually. Where we were booted out last year... if you want to read anything into that....

 

[Preacher]

Does he get a loot crate after this game?

He got 5 points to spend on improving players attribute stats.

Bad news that he has spend them all on Willian's stamina bar.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Piraeus actually. Where we were booted out last year... if you want to read anything into that....

Uefa just hate us would rather Budapest

 

[Camron]

Once we got to 1-1 the mood seemed like we were happy to come back with that result, the tempo seemed to gradually slow and it was like we were playing for the draw and anything else was a bonus.

Taking a point and away goal back home to Greece

 

[Makingtrax]

City next up.

 

[GLITCH]

If its esr or Ødegaard at number 10 then its esr all day long. Ødegaard doesnt add anything aside from he is a decent passer.

I agree. Ødegaard is playing like he's just here for minutes and fitness. ESR doesn't always make stuff happen, but he always seems more likely to than Ødegaard from what I'm seeing. Needs to do a lot more.

 

[Sweet'n'Soulful]

Im told @Jury is never coming back to this dump anyway. Wouldn't lower that name now. The option is there but this place sucks vagrant ass right now. Things have to improve.

 

[Mitch]

Nothing on Bellerin?

Good pass for the PEA sitter. Slows Saka doen, Sloppy with passing in the second half. Mand times qhis hen Ode was free and instead he chose the wrong option and not to pass to him.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

What?

???

I'm talking about in 2018 btw, not the 2008 CL one.

 

[OSBK]

Ødegaard made the goal and created a few other good chances...?

Cedric made the goal. Ødegaard played a nice ball. Aside from that he did a few fancy things but he wasnt driving us forward.

Esr when he played at 10 was a driving force going back and forward. Its a no brainer for me that right now we need a esr much more than we need a Ødegaard.

 

[dashsnow17]

The front four is nice and Pepe and Martinelli as subs are nice but 1)some of them look a bit tired and 2) there's just not quite enough senior quality there, we need to be patient with ESR, Foden was blooded in for like 18-24 months, can't just expect ESR to start every game and produce.

 

[GLITCH]

Taking a point and away goal back home to Greece

Thankfully, we're not going there to play that team that shall not be mentioned.

 

[Mo Britain]

City next up.

Got a feeling something big is going to happen this weekend (as the oracle at Delphi might have said).

 

[mpower2540]

Terrible game and terrible result.

If its esr or Ødegaard at number 10 then its esr all day long. Ødegaard doesnt add anything aside from he is a decent passer.

Areta said recently auba was back and on fire in training, he had a ok game against leeds and tonight he may aswell not have bothered turning up. Fatigue is a poor excuse, this is about motivation and commitment and its not there.

Huge week for us, we play city a team that could very well batter us without breaking sweat. Massive return leg after and it vould be season over.

I really hope this teams evolution isn’t putting a load of number 10’s/passers on the pitch together and hoping to “one two” our way past teams. The balance of the team looked off tonight and we were taking far too long to get the ball forward against a crap team