“We dominated the game,” claims Wenger
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has claimed that his side dominated play despite suffering a defeat at Chelsea on Sunday, but admitted his players have to be more clinical in front of goal.
Goals from Didier Drogba and Alex saw the Blues beat Arsenal 2-0 to open up a four point lead over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League.
Marouane Chamakh, Laurent Koscielny and Andrey Arshavin all wasted good chances for the visitors, leaving Wenger to bemoan his side’s profligacy in front of goal.
“The game should have been over almost before it started. We missed too many chances. We have to be more clinical.”
“We dominated this game quite surprisingly in my opinion. It was surprisingly easy. But we go home with zero points.”
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Dominated..my @#%
why cant that a*sehole ever admit we’re not good enough!!!!!!!!!!!!
win is all that matters.it does not matter that u play superb and still lose.
He’s right. Other than that their world class moments (drogba, alex, cech save on aa) were the difference and ours weren’t.
What an arrogant man? Same old excuses and vague reasons for losing the game. Dominated the f@*? all.
Entirely correct Wenger, our finishing wasn’t good enough and that was it, both of their goals coming from setpieces too. Disappointing we didn’t win, but good game by most of ’em, well done.
Same old rubbish. Wenger we ain’t good enough. You are wrong. 50millilon would be the difference between us losing or winning today. Simple. I’ve had enough of ur excuses.
He’s right we played better but weren’t clinical enough
THIS ARSENAL TEAM ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN THE LEAGUE AND CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.
ONE THING THAT FRUSTRATES ME ALWAYS IS WHEN WE NEED OUR PLAYERS THE MOST THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO DISAPPEAR8(theo,cesc,v,persie,verm,)every season the same story
we dominate but can’t win ,what is the point then of dominating ,if you cant finish the game off.
IT IS ABOUT TIME ,WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT V.PERSIE ALWAYS INJUREd.
Does any body stop him from taiking any more.I hate this men.such a big mouse.
yes wenger, we dominated with our tippy tappy football but we did not score and they did with a fluke from yet another defensive mistake and a great free kick given away because of yet another mistake from one of those clowns you bought. did you see that muppet laughing after the game with drogba. the sad thing is that chelsea are not that good anymore and we still can’t beat them.
Weren’t clinical enough means not good enough which this current crop are. maybe finishing out of the top four will spark a change for Arsenal. I really want may to come sooner than later
pass pass pass pass pass….fail!!
Wenger is not deluded, he knows we simply werent good enough, regardless of missed chances, which chelsea had too. It is just a comment from a man who is hurting so bad he’s doing his upmost to try and find positives.
he would be stupid to come out and say chelsea showed once again they have more cutting edge, he knows it, we all know it.
YES, we are second best to the big teams, but would rather that than be a villa, everton or a spurs fan.
Totally agree. Yet the narrative (mainly because people can’t interpret what’s in front of them) will be all about being “bullied” and “Drogba’d” – which is rubbish.
Today we at least matched them in every department except goals. Unfortunately, goals is the measure we use to determine the outcome of a game.
Nevertheless, a lucky goal and an unstoppable one was the difference. Nothing else. We stood up to them brilliantly. No one got bullied. No way was it the ‘same old story’. And anyone who thinks otherwise is living in the past.
yeah yeah same old story,getting a little boring how we had all of the ball but lost…does it really matter….we lost…think Manure n the Arse really might struggle for a top4 place this season….the gap is closing&we are incapable of beating the top sides even with most of the ball,7 points the gap already, are we really going to get that back….
Dominated doesn’t mean a thing if we lose.I prefer one nil arsenal type of play rather than to face this kind of results,dominated yet lose.
Same old shit! I wouldn’t mind if we’d been out muscled by the bigger team, we are so predictable we made it easy for them pass pass pass lose possession on edge of the area & break on us they contain us ! Utd & Chelsea do this us every time….! So frustrating!!!!! Wenger needs to be better tactically & spend some of this bloody £56mil on a Goal Keeper Defensive Midfielder & a Centre Half! Maybe even go back to wingers again…
typical mug fans, showing how plastic they are as usual. you make me ashamed to support arsenal sometimes.
can you imagine chelsea EVER playing as well as that without:
captain
first choice striker
first choice goalkeeper
first choice centre back
(arguably) first choice right winger
(arguably) second choice striker
can you?
no.
take cech, terry, drogba, kalou and lampard out of chelsea’s side and lets see how well they’d do. if today doesn’t show how strong arsenal’s squad is to you morons then nothing will.
the truth is…..you can analyse the game for as long as you want. arsenal played well but weren’t clinical enough. why? because are most clinical and key players weren’t on the pitch.
the thing that wenger HAS to sort out is all these fucking injuries. it’s getting beyond a joke. every season we have at least 6 players out the whole fucking time.
apparently there was a stat that went something along the lines of: last season arsenal had 11 members of their starting match day squad of 18 out injured for A THIRD OF THE SEASON. so basically on average they missed 13 premier league games, yet we STILL finished third.
sort the fucking injuries out and we can get somewhere.
Blah, blah, blah.
ewan, earl, shaam, angry… did you watch the same game?
Off course we dominated, we could have played exactly as we did and hadnt it been for lack of better finishing we could have won that game 4-2.. easily.
Chelsea could not get the ball at times and we just kept attacking in waves, this is the Champions we were playing against and current league leaders and we dominated them more than we dominated Blackburn or Sunderland, if you can’t see that then you are clearly blinded by some weird reason, either media or negativity found on most Arsenal blogs.
The line between success and failure was very very small today, when you consider we had our best defender, midfielder and striker out you begin to realise that we might have lost, but this was a really really good performance by the rest of the team.
Yes, Chelsea are more efficient, that is very clear, but saying we are not good enough and that we need to spend £50m to beat them is just the most stupid statements a so called fan could make.
This is a team that lacked strength, experience, height and success compared to Chelsea, yet it was us that made the best chances, Drogba’s goal wasnt a chance, was just exceptional finishing that came from a bad referring decision just before it, Alex’s goal was by a mistake made by one of our best players today, Nasri, Kos had no choice but to give the free kick away and the freekick was as good as it gets…. Drogba and Alex can try to score like that 100 times again and probably fail to hit the target 99% of the time.
You guys are honestly that stupid that you can’t see 2 metres in front of your noses? this team will become better and better, to play against Chelsea like we did and loose is gutting but won’t always be like this and no we don’t need to spend at all, maybe on a GK fair enough but we will prevail and if you don’t believe that then please don’t bother spreading your crap online because even though everyone has a right to their opinion your opinions are just bloody ridiculous and not helpful.
Most Arsenal fans in blogs and most Arsenal bloggers = A Million times worse than our team, you don’t deserve a team like a ours because you can’t appreciate the bigger picture of what’s happening in your own damn club.
Marouane Chamakh is not good enough to lead arsenal forward, we need a complete striker that is good both on air and can use his two feets very well, Arsenal shows a strong courage in todays match but it unfortunate that i can only see just one man upfront for arsenal. arsavin have a good game today with Abou diabi. We need a good striker in Jan transfer window. If not for sluggishness and greed, The so called Crazy wenger ought to have signed Osaze odewingie, the guy that now play for westbrom, The same happen for drogba case, He have the chance to sign drogba then before the guy signed for olympic masseles.
Wenger should be sack should he fail to sign a a complete fast striker that is good both on AIR AND BOTH FEETS respectively
Same old shiit! Never seemed to me as though we were goiing to win. Dominated?? What a joke! If we lost by 6-0 , wenger would be talking about playig them off the park. Shame about his analytical skills!
how can you say chamakh isn’t good enough you complete mug
Dominated my ASS I wnt 2 win dats all, deserved or nt
What has dominating game has to do with wining games and trophies? Supporters are interested in seeing their team win games and not dominating them. I hope Arsene wont start making those his stupid excuses when he comes short of our expectation.
Chamakh is shite and that’s a fact. The difference between Arsenal and Chelsea is the quality of the players, as simple as that. Chamakh needs 3,4 one-on-one chances to score whereas Drogba scores out of nothing. Needles to take about Koscielny and Squilacci. 14 million thrown away on two average defenders when we could have bougth Jagielka and have a world-class player coming in for a change. We are a laugh right now with this defense.
arsenal fans are the most spoilt I have EVER seen, maybe you’d all prefer us to lose to blackpool 2-1 at home
Glad to see not everyone here is a spud.
Support your team, don’t dis it – on a different day we would have won
Mr Wenger, dominating a game will not earn any point…neither pretty football, unless we score!
Pass, pass, Pass,Pass…….So what next? Second best!! Its either Wenger disciplines his children or he gets the hell out of Arsenal before he is toppled or sacked!
Its not that the lads were outplayed, to me I think it was a lack of discipline to some extent. We cant keep on saying the same story of being clinical. Its high time the our boys get wakeup lashes from the manager
The amount of fake fans n tw@ts that just want To bitch bout anything n everything on here makes me sick.. Wanna moan? Well fackk off to White hart lane!!! Despite the negatives there were alot of positives to take from today’s game
is anyone surprised?
not enough power, ruthlessness and defensive strength as far as i am concerned.
no penetration in front of goal…although we do have some quality technically brilliant players….but untill we get that “strong spine” we are never going to be like the invincibles or even close to that team
So u expect us as fan 2 b hapi that we are loosing 2 chalsea year in year out. Than I think u hve forgoten wt football is all about. Next time we should make a deal with Chalsea that we dominate and they can have all the goals they want.
the problem was not the team, but the manager. Once it became obvious (just after drogba’s goal) that a second striker was needed, wegner should have introduced vela, playing along chamakh, and taking out arshavin. A 4 4 w formation, with Nasri on the right and rosizcky on the left would had been risky, but it would give chamakh the opportunity to handle one CB and not two. Vela is faster than terry and Alex.
The problem was that wegner is too much in love with his own scheme, and cannot bring himself to the idea that arshavin is not delivering the goods anymore.
The facts are clear
1.We DID dominate for short periods
2.We continue to be without the spine of the team, namely Van Persie, Fabregas and Vermaelen
3.Until we have these 3 men back for long periods, we will not win games against the better-class sides.
It is not about players missing.It is all about tactical discipline.The player who had shown most tactical awareness on the pitch was simply an 18 year young boy-Jack wilshere.It is pity that Wilshere was sitting back to cover ineffective Alex song.
Song was simply awful on this game.He lost ball 4 the first chelsea goal.Second goal was simply lack of concentration from nasri.Dont blame it on the koscielny(dont remember his exact name).Decision to substitute wilshere was a poor one.Nasri deserved to be substituted in the game.
Another point we have never won against a top 3 club with our 4-3-3 system.
This formation is suited 4 a team containing Walcott,Fabregas and Van persie.Do not use it when they were injured.Go back to 4-4-2 with wings are covering fullbacks and song sitting back.Chamakh,Bendtner,Van persie all are good second strikers.
Otherwise we have to think about a future without Bendtner and Vela.
I have to say we missed walcott in this game.Otherwise you cant see Ashley cole roaming around our box.
We lack physical presence and the pace to play against these teams.Playing playmakers on the wings is not a good decision.
Wenger is not wrong, we had more general possesion, more territorial posession, better pass completion they were just clinical taking their chances. We had plenty of chances to kill them off but didnt take them, thats an individual thing. If we had scored our chances you guys would be singing a different tune and all on Wengers nuts for great signings and bringing Wilshire through. Yes we have some week links in the team but we dont spend 50 million a year to win one trophy that only makes you 4 million…yes we are football team first and a business second, but i have faith in this team and so should you doubters
Mr. Wenger…..we need to start winning. Your record over the last 5 years is simply not good enough. The fans are getting restless Mr. Wenger.
@vince, you are a big fool, cant you see that Marouane Chamakh is not the kind of striker we need as of now, we need a faster striker, some that can use both feets to score and also good in the air, Well i dont blame fool like you posting comment on this page. We either like it or not, Arsene Wenger cant give us trophy with this crop of players he have presently. We need a very good sharp man to partner Arsavin and SAMIR nasri. We need striker with prospect for the game. Our midfield is not that bad but our front and defend are the problem we are currently experiencing. Until all this lapses is solved, we will continue to suffer more defeat in our next coming matches.
blah blah blah… we dominate we fail to win, we awful against wes brom we fail to win get a life wenger we just not good enough….
@SUN:
it’s always “we need this or that” with you mug fans.if we’d played vela and lost the same way, you’d just be saying “we need a target man who holds the ball up…blah blah blah”. fuck off and play or evo you plastic cunts. our squad is more than good enough when everyone’s fit, no doubt about it. but THE number 1 problem with arsenal is that our match day squad of 18 is never completely fit. until the injury jinx is rectified we won’t win the league.
chamakh works very hard for the team and is the perfect away day striker if he’s got the players to back him up. he’s never going to be prolific in terms of goals. but to say he’s not good enough shows that you know nothing about football. i can guarantee you that terry didn’t enjoy playing against him one bit.
@goonerbegood: i understand your frustration, losing sucks! but take a step back, breathe, think, block out the media, think some more, look at the bigger picture…….did i mention thinking???
VP was out we need a new striker! cesc was out to, should we have sold him to barcelona? wouldnt have been injured for us then! stupid wenger! im sorry guys, like the rolling stones said ‘you cant always get what you want’ MAN THE FUCK UP! FOR YOU CLUB AND FELLOW GOONERS! AND BE A FUCKING FAN!!!!!!!!
i understand your frustration, losing sucks! but take a step back, breathe, think, block out the media, think some more, look at the bigger picture…….did i mention thinking???
VP was out we need a new striker! cesc was out to, should we have sold him to barcelona? wouldnt have been injured for us then! stupid wenger! im sorry guys, like the rolling stones said ‘you cant always get what you want’ MAN THE F#^K UP! FOR YOU CLUB, YOUR FELLOW GOONERS, AND BE A F*#%ING FAN!!!!!!!!