Football Season 2012/2013

[Northern Goblin]

Vidic is out till Xmas hes been injury plagued so bad

Smalling and Jones should be due back soon. We'll need Vidic back for the second half of the season though, coming up to crunch time.

[Larath]

I've had two weeks where I completely forgot to play.

Knocked me down a good 30-40+ points.

good, means I'll beat you sooner!

[mirodin]

Just bank on what happens in most recent Arsenal/United encounters. Robin Van Persie will score

And miss a penalty. Both teams played 120 mins in the LC, with mixed or reserve squads, Arsenal have the best defense in the league, United the best offense. Gonna be a fun game as usual, just hoping for a better outcome.

[Northern Goblin]

Christ, just seen the lineups. United are completely fresh bar Rafael from the LC game, and Valencia is lining up against Andre Santos.

Arsenal might have a great defensive record (rephrase, Mertesacker has a great defensive record) but Santos has been awful this season. I'm making a huge gamble on my score predictions, but I think United might well tear them apart here.

[mirodin]

Christ, just seen the lineups. United are completely fresh bar Rafael from the LC game, and Valencia is lining up against Andre Santos.

Arsenal might have a great defensive record (rephrase, Mertesacker has a great defensive record) but Santos has been awful this season. I'm making a huge gamble on my score predictions, but I think United might well tear them apart here.

Santos is a huge letdown, and the weakest link in the defense, i expect him to get a lot of help from Podolski and Arteta. Same goes for Arsenal in the lineups, only Giroud played in the LC as a sub, so they are fresh as well. Arsenal midfield is superior to Uniteds so they might go for possession play. All in all as long as the refs don't destroy this derby like they did last weekend it should be a great match.

[Northern Goblin]

Yeah, this is gonna be a LONG day.

[laffling]

O what a start

[mirodin]

Goal.com making jokes on Andre Santos, can't blame em he is piss pour, probably Man u's MoM after it all ends .

[Northern Goblin]

And miss a penalty.

Mind picking my lottery numbers?

[mirodin]

WoW compare that handball with the one the Utd defender(don't remember his name) did against Chelsea in the LC. Guess the ref is slowly taking matters into his own hands.

[laffling]

This game has been terrible so far so many good pass chances but they have all been bad

[Nerph-]

That wasn't a penalty tbh. Even as a United fan I felt it was justice that Rooney missed it.

[Northern Goblin]

WoW compare that handball with the one the Utd defender(don't remember his name) did against Chelsea in the LC. Guess the ref is slowly taking matters into his own hands.

Michael Keane. Which was as much a shout as Luiz handballing Valencia's shot on the Saturday.



This was much further back from the kick than either of those incidents.

[ggabboud]

Its a sad day when an Arsenal fan like me wishes for walcott to be introduced. The team looks pathetic at the moment, cant put 5 passes together, defense shaky, and Giroud pretty much showed his hand (has to get onto his left foot no matter where he is on the field). I gave up on any hope that Arsenal can win this, just hope they tie it now.

[mirodin]

Wasn't that far out, but i guess different refereeing standards. Which is the only gripe i have with the refereeing system, there is no clear cut decision. Anyway second half, hoping its better the the first. Lol no matter how bad Santos is, our captain is making the biggest mistakes today.

[Northern Goblin]

To be honest, even further out, I don't think it was intended handball today. He raised his hands to protect his face, his arm hit nothing his body wouldn't have done had he not gone to defend himself.

I agree the rules need a better clarification, it's like a player placing his hands infront of his crotch to protect his nuts.

---------- Post added 2012-11-03 at 01:52 PM ----------

Also why is Santos still on the pitch?

[mirodin]

Also why is Santos still on the pitch?

So he can do that, waste a good chance by crossing the ball to the Etihad.

[Northern Goblin]

by crossing the ball to the Etihad.

Genius, I just spat my coke out laughing at that.


Credit to the referee, by the book this should be 10 men aside, but he kept both Wilshere and Cleverley on.

[Larath]

Santos isn't a very good backup, he can be decent if he gets to play all the time but gibbs is just better and if santos doesn't play games alot he's not gonna make anyone happy, also united missing penalty, who would have thought that.

I really wanted to win this game but kinda expected to lose >_>

[mirodin]

GG 10 man, gonna go do something else, hoping for a RVP hat trick so Arsene maybe realises you don't replace the best striker in the world with some guy from France.