Eboue starts for Gunners at Tottenham

Why cant we move sagna to cb and eboue to rb is beyond my understanding

A lot of firepower on the bench. Hopefully it will not be needed.

Truly headline worthy team news I think.

Oh Lord Eboue, he dived for our sins.

eboue with all 6 assists

Is there anyone more CRAP on the pitch than Diaby??? How much longer can we afford to keep someone who makes it his personal business to give the ball away and be in the worst position possible consistently???

Come on you gunners…

God, changes needed! :S

Take of denilson he will get a red soon :S And is doing poor, and bring on walcott.. make team like this

almunia
sanga-camp-silve-clichy
eboue-diaby-nasri
walcott-bendt-rosick

then after 60-70 mins ,… rvp on for rosicky

i agree diaby has been poor for the most games lately and it’s clear we desperately need sum better players come summer…. sol played very well so far and we shouldnt really be losing, we had all the ball but cnt produce a clear chance.

i think we’re playing really well..this game reminded me of the 2nd half of the manu bayern game at old trafford….only difference is these bunch of utter cowards aren’t down to 10..what a disgrace!! i think we can still win this!!

Win this. U lot are fucking jokers. All over. We are shit. Wake up.

RVP is coming on, hope he and Theo will change the game (but with Silvestre at the back we will concede a few more though)

Sagna shit. Sell him

A poor performance but imminently predictable.too many passengers in that side without any real leaders.A side containing Almunia-Sylvestre-Denilson-Diaby and Bentner isn’t going to threaten much against well drilled opposition.if Man City carry on winning we won’t even finish 3rd.Perhaps,then,the Board and The manager might be ablew to see beyond their Pockets!

Wow, Bale and Rose. Who and who? The spuddies will be happy, but they still won’t be getting 4th. We however have biggger issues. Too many players not playing well, stop giving pay rises for winning nothing.

Well well well…… Anyone think we have a great team now?

Ending tonight on a plus point. Campbell needs to be given a year contract. End of. And if wenger doesn’t. He is a fucking joke and should be sacked. He was our best player by a mile.

Well Bendtner is great. Almunia, Nasri, Diaby, Silvestre, Sagna, Walcott, Eboue, Rosicky (unless he still isn’t fit) all have to ask themselves what the hell they are doing.

The thing is that Spurs are still crap, so what does that say about us? With so much time to rest and prepare it’s stupid to get beaten by a team full of Spurs second rate players.

@Angry fan: You still insisting on it, are you ? Do you realize we have like 4 or 5 key players out injured ? No Song, no Cesc, no Arshavin, no Gallas and now no Vermaelen. With those five players in the team we would have kicked their ass.

We lacked invention and penetration in the match today. Nasri and Rosicky playing too wide while Denilson and Diaby were too deep. RVP show a glimpse of his skills but still not enough to save us. Theo had some pace but was clearly frustrated. Their Gk were fantastic in the final minutes and their first goal was pure luck + a little bit of skill because Almunia was pushing up and Sagna blocked his way back. The biggest disappointment of today was Diaby, he was supposed to be our creative midfielder yet he did nothing but dallied on the ball and keep losing it over and over, it was just frustrating to watch.

I think we have no chance of winning the title now. All we should try to do is to go for the 2nd place and seat on Man Ure face. In summer I think we desperately should try bringing in a new defender and maybe a good striker to share the fire with RVP and Bendtner, Eduardo just can’t cut it anymore.

lol players will go im sure

@ken. Injuries is no excuse. All teams have players out at any one time. It’s a squad game and ours is no where near good enough. Some of those players should be ashamed to pull that great arsenal shirt on. It makes me sick that I see some of those losers bottle it. Time an time again. Just admit it. We ain’t good enough. The excuse of being a young team don’t wash anymore. Change is needed. From top to bottom.
On another point I think wenger needs a new assistant. Keown or bergcamp someone of that stature.

@arsenal4ever:…I hope you go

@arc kings. Go look in the mirror and say arsenal are a team full of winners and champions…. Without laughing and crying at the same time. We are shit. End of. Don’t kid urself. Don’t do a wenger and believe in something that will never happen.

Clichy was our only player that tried tonight! i f**ckin hate Diaby, he’s useless, he dwells on the ball, dont know wat to do, then delays delays delays, everyone is picked up wen he finally decides to pass. not got a clue wat Denilson does in this team?? Nasri and Rosicky was shocking tonight. Now we got Silvestre and Campbell to last the season?? Wenger knew the squad was too thin but he did f**k all as usual, he has to sort this team out now in the summer coz if not, we’ll never challenge chelsea and man utd. does he not know how much it hurts us to see us not doing anything??

Love Arsenal but that was a very heartless and pathetic performance.Only Sol Campbell played with any heart and Van Persie showed his class when he came on.

It was a good game, we had more than enough possession but couldn’t brake them down enough, when Van Persie came on it was an instant lift and we made a lot more chances. The first goal was such a fluke, he tried smashing and curling it on the outside of his foot, but he got it wrong. I think Almunia got a good punch and top marks for it, but he slipped when he landed and struggled to get up and then Sagna was in the way when he tried getting back to the line, also I’m not to sure why who ever was on the line came off it when the ball was going straight to a Tottenham player who was going to hit the ball straight back into the box. Also, as soon as they scored they’re second goal, all they did then was time waste, I’ve never seen such a petulant performance by a team of professional football players, and the fans were pathetic as well, spurs fans need to grow up, every time Campbell touched the ball they would boo him, i know its a derby match, but, come on… when ever the ball went out for a throw for Arsenal, they would throw the ball further back into the crowd, when ever the ball went out for a throw for Tottenham, the players would have the ball in they’re hand and throw it away to swap it. It was absolutely terrible, we should have had a corner, and last time I remember, added time is just a minimum amount to be added on, they’re was well over a minute wasted during stoppage time, it was such a childish attitude to such a high stake game! I’m not just trying to make excuses but, over the course of the game there was a lot of time wasted, that wasn’t made up for which could have been crucial.

A power shift requires more than one victory over the course of 10 years!
Meanwhile,can someone explain why the Manager managed to wait until time had virtually run out on our season before bringing on the only player we had left in our squad capable of getting the two goals back against a resolute Spurs defence.

@Joel: Unless you havent had access to the internet, TV, Radio and Media for the past 6 months, you should know that Van Persie has been injured since mid November,or have you just suddenly decided to take an interest in football?

To Michael-Thanks for the history lesson- but I was referring to the fact that he looked capable of playing for more than the last 20 minutes-You might have noticed that he came on to the pitch in the latter half of the game tonight and managed to get Gomes hopping around during that time!

It was a disapointing performance and it’s ended our season but one positive we can take from the game is that Van Persie looks sharp. He was quality when he came on!

But onto the bigger picture;

Throughout the season we’ve been torn apart by United, Chelsea, Man City and Barca which were all embarrasing times for us and we can all say “We need to strengthen”, but I think we need a change internally. The 4-5-1 system that we’re using is ineffective and slow. We pass the ball across the 18-yard box far too much and any team with a bit of sense will be able to deal with that all day. At the start of the season, we played a more direct 4-3-3, which work wonders. The wide players used the flanks well, Van Persie was excelling in the “Lone-Striker” role and our midfield were PRESSING THE BALL. We dont do that anymore! We walk back, we take a stroll and hope the defence can deal with it and it’s insulting. We don’t look like we want the ball back and thats a shame.

Anyways, I think we’ll probably be taken over in the summer, hopefully Lady Nina will sell her shares to Kroenke and he can inject some capital into the club. Although it’s boring for me to hear people complaining about strengthening the squad it does need doing and in key areas aswell. We need a new Goalie in my opinion and Joe Hart exudes confidence and looks like a top shot stopper. We’ll need at least one Centre-Back, possibly Subotic or Hangeland or even Carragher who I think is out of contract, plus he’s said that he would leave Liverpool. Campbell deserves another year I think, Gallas should get two but this injury could be the last of him. We need a midfielder aswell and I would love to see Yaya Toure at the Emirates. If not, maybe Melo or even Flamini. I think we need another wide player and a foward. Chamakh will come in and I like the look of James Milner who can play on the right or in the middle.

Keep the faith?

@Ken: You say the transfer kitty is always abundant but that is only if you believe what Hillwood says. We hear that Wenger will have all the resources he needs, then the next week we’ll hear that we don’t have the resources to buy players. It’s a fucking merry go round and it needs sorting.

@Jack : dont listen to them, study what you can see with your own eyes. united, chelsea, liverpool got money to spend even with lots of debts on them but arsenal are well and truly not so heavy on debts. we are one of the richest club in the world according to the reputable Forbes. at the very least, a mighty name such as arsenal sure could conjure up money from the banks to strengthen the team. the main problem here is that wenger is in control of everything at the club. its a good thing if he is a great leader but he is not. dont forget that he has a degree if im not mistaken in business, so its natural that while he is a football team manager, he will always use his skill in the business world to run the club.

yes, its a good thing to save money and make profit but at times in football, you need those 2 or 3 special players with superb mentality and star status to up the team efforts around them and spark that magic moment in a game. they dont have to be 30M above in price. im sure theres some very good players around the 15M-20M mark that will improve the team significantly and more importantly, have the balls to keep fighting for a win all the time.

example, arshavin. when he came here, he saved arsenals second half of last season. he was a star, he had the mentality, the guts to take shots and do things when the team counted on him. do you think bendtner can score 4 goals in an away game? but now the team is pumped out, no new faces, same old strategy that even the little russian looked like he has given up. the others are just passengers since they are wengers lil kids and must obey their daddy all the time.

we need new faces, with bigger balls and stronger heads with great team spirit and communication, always fighting for the team till the end, every single game, week in week out.

you lot need to man up ffs, if you look at last night we had no cesc, arshavin, gallas, song, veramelen and rvp for a majority of the match. that is 6 players who would be straight in the starting line up. i’d like to see man u and chelsea manage that, the fact is we got beat by a wondergoal, a defensive lapse and some great saves from their keeper. what is the use going sell him sell him, get rid of wenger when you can see they have put every ounce of effort in to get us in the title race, we were expected to finish outside the top 4 instead we are going to finish 3rd, maybe 2nd so stop your moaning and get behind the team you twats.

No. It’s not spot on Harrison. The team has 22 players and Wenger is responsible for the replacements when we have to deal with injuries. He brought Silvestre, and that cost us the season

@Me (damn you for calling yourself like that,make me look like i’m replying to myself): Our 5 injuries occur only after the winter window so how in the world should Wenger know that ? And don’t tell me Wenger should buy just for the sake of having a super big squad because that is just ridiculous.