EPL | Arsenal (H) v Stoke City (A) | 10th December 2016

[grim_tales1]

Alexis is such a special player. He's been involved in 26 goals in his last 26 games. That's pretty amazing.

Give him anything he wants, maybe name a stand after his dogs

 

[Jury]

I hope someone highlights that blatant stamp by Adam on Alexis. Retrospective action should be taken. He has tons of history when it comes to being a **** like this. If MOTD highlight it, he'll be banned.

 

[OSBK]

Great performance today.

Thought gab looked much better and maybe a run a rb has given him confidence to go on a good run.

Great to see bellerin back, also good to see monreal back on form.

Thought theo was good today, some great link up play with Özil and sanchez.

 

[Rimaal]

I just realised our boxing day match is against Pulis. I hope our players don't show up drunk like last year.

 

[Rimaal]

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

I hope someone highlights that blatant stamp by Adam on Alexis. Retrospective action should be taken. He has tons of history when it comes to being a **** like this. If MOTD highlight it, he'll be banned.

He could've got the ball before iwobi if he didn't decided to stamp on Alexis stupid ugly c**t

 

[Santi's Left Foot]

Sick of all these fans begging it. We're Arsenal FC not Sunderland.

 

[David_Smith]

Playing into the hands of the media. We fans need not get in on it.
They will sign when they want, there's nothing we can do about it.

 

[grim_tales1]

He could've got the ball before iwobi if he didn't decided to stamp on Alexis stupid ugly c**t

Proof that it was premeditated, he's a c*nt but if it was included in the ref's report I dont think the FA can do anything can they?

 

[Red Okktober]

Germans love their Xmas break.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Once again this games illustrates that we're a different animal this season, we concede a harsh penalty and respond just before half time with an excellent team goal. We were constantly pressing Stoke and really giving everything to get the win today and Özil/Iwobi were clinical when we needed them to be too.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Proof that it was premeditated, he's a c*nt but if it was included in the ref's report I dont think the FA can do anything can they?

Yes but also they need to relegate mason after this shocking display

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

@Tir Na Nog. Our pressing was much better and more structured today. Maybe it was easier with the way Stoke played but Alexis certainly wasn't waving his team mates towards him today. No banter pressing to be seen

 

[SomGooner]

I hope someone highlights that blatant stamp by Adam on Alexis. Retrospective action should be taken. He has tons of history when it comes to being a **** like this. If MOTD highlight it, he'll be banned.

Watch them c*nts completely ignore it. I hate the two bald ogres in Shearer and Murphy.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

BBC won't show it because Charlie Adam work there too.

 

[RUS arsenal]

Excellent performance. Shame we didn't get a clean sheet. But hey ho, one day Cech will save a penalty... one day.

He is saving up all his luck for the CL final penalty shootout

 

[carlito'sway]

We are running a healthy 2.5 goals/game after 15 games (36 goals total). If we can keep this average, we will get around 96 goals at the end of the season and that should also be enough to win a title, assuming we keep our average a 1 goal against a game as well (36 goals against at the end of the season).
The last team to have similar numbers, Man City in 11/12 & 13/14, won the title every time.

 

[Linson]

Linson lowdown:

- Having Bellerin back cannot be underestimated
- Gabriel finally looked ok
- Walcott looked like a professional footballer for once
- Coquelin looked more like the complete product
- Iwobi and AOC were both good
- Özil's goal was pant-wettingly good
- I'm still not convinced it was a penalty

Overall very impressed.

 

[RUS arsenal]

Great to see us showing some mettle time and time again this season. We really do look like a different Arsenal this season....here's to hoping!

Xhaka.....again, whether it was a penalty or not he didn't need to give the ref a decision to make. The ball was gone, it was a dumb move leaving the elbow out there. Another time it could've been a red as well which is why I consider him a liability at this point. If he wants to become an elite player, he needs to cut it out. You can be physical and aggressive while being smart at the same time.

In general Granit leaves me scratching my head a lot. A lot of times his positioning is on point as is his tackling/takeaways/interceptions but there are always several big mistakes in him every game where he gets it horribly wrong. He switched off for that Allen chance for example (their best chance of the game). It is really frustrating to see him be brilliant defensively one moment and then make Sunday league level mistakes the next.

Also, it is really unfortunate that we'll likely not have Mustafi for Man City game, sigh....

 

[Sir Bump]

4-2-4 formation?

Love these graphs. And I love seeing how well Xhaka really works.
Compare how different it looks without Xhaka or Cazorla.

Almost a lopsided 334