That was fcuking harsh on Arsenal - poor lino decisions, poor penalty decisions, knackered players..

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

some poor finishing by Giroud, some poor (tired affected) defending against a team that spunked £90M on 3 players and could rest 6 players against Bayern.

Arsenal did alright. Would be interesting to see how the game would have panned out if Arsenal had a more rested team out there.

So I'm not too disheartened. 9 days rest before we play Chelski.
So still a lot to play for.

[Blupunter]

If you had scored with every chance you had and stopped us scoring you'd have won about 8-0.

You woz robbed, guvnr and no mistake.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

If Palace can score against :chav: we can do them at home. Provided we don't just sit back and invite them to attack us.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

But we also did not help ourselves with the poor defending and poor finishing....and maybe that was because the players were knackered....

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

in time..

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

Both sides had moments of good play and moments of bad play. We had more bad moments than they did.

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

:hehe:

[Blupunter]

You certainly didn't get the rub of the green. If anything was offside it was Walcott's second (and I'm not saying it necessarily was)! Bendtner's was a good goal and Milner definitely dived for the penaltly.

Having said all of that, ffs, we are awesome going forward. Losing by three at th'etihad is par. Twice as good as spuds.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Knackered players and rub of the green went against us. Why the hell Ferdinandininino turned up against us and no other team this season is a bloody mystery also

[Blupunter]

m'Lady.

I might add though, that 8-0 would have flattered you a little.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Blupunter]

A draw would have been a good result for your team, I suppose. I mean, bearing in mind all those chances that we didn't miss and the ones you did.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

Not seen the game. Refuse to get BT.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Blupunter]

You played quite well for a few minutes when it was 3-1 in the game I watched but 2-1 at half time was a lot better than it might have been.

Fernandinho's been excellent all season. He didn't save anything for you (except a couple of goals).

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

We were through twice and pulled back. City were better in the first half overall but it could have been 2-2 with a decent linesman.
In the second half at 3-1 Giroud missed 2 sitters and missed the cross over to Walcott when he kicked it off.
It became 3-2 and we were pushing to equalise.4-2 came and still we had most of the game.
Last 10-25 minutes we died so every City attack with fresher legs outnumbered the defence. We still had a perfectly goal ruled out.

I am not overly worried by a game which could have gone either way, City were slightly better but completely rested.

The score was hugely flattering

[Peter]

City caused chaos from first minute to last and it was only in spells in the second half, once two goals down, that we exerted any control on the game. Within minutes of scoring it was back to 4-2.

We were well beaten by a better side. You can moan all you like about the refereeing decisions hut it didnt score the first five goals for them.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

The second half we were better until the last 10-15 minutes. City deserved to win,they were better than us, but not 6-3 better.