The Official Arsenal - 14 x Cup Winners Thread (Vol 5)

The Official Arsenal - 14 x Cup Winners Thread (Vol 5)

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TikTak

1,587 posts

21 months

Tuesday 9th April
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It all gets too complicated eh?

Also backroom politics might start to get involved in the coming weeks. United most definitely don't want City or Liverpool winning the league.

Also the top 2 countries for UEFA co-efficient get an extra Champions League place, so 5th for PL. It might benefit Villa to put their all into EL rather than the league to maybe get a trophy but also bump the England co-efficient, which also makes Spurs season suddenly dry up as they'll be safe.

S600BSB

5,142 posts

108 months

Tuesday 9th April
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TikTak said:
It all gets too complicated eh?

Also backroom politics might start to get involved in the coming weeks. United most definitely don't want City or Liverpool winning the league.

Also the top 2 countries for UEFA co-efficient get an extra Champions League place, so 5th for PL. It might benefit Villa to put their all into EL rather than the league to maybe get a trophy but also bump the England co-efficient, which also makes Spurs season suddenly dry up as they'll be safe.
Nothing like a football conspiracy theory!

TikTak

1,587 posts

21 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Hunting for light in the darkness of oil money. hehe

CharliesTTS

273 posts

41 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior, Odegaard, Jorginho, Rice, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.

Subs: Ramsdale, Partey, Gabriel Jesus, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Tomiyasu, Trossard, Vieira, Nelson, Elneny, Hein, Zinchenko.

Surprised kiwior is starting as thought it would be Toni against sane

Cupramax

10,487 posts

254 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Not been this excited about a game for a long time… buzzing.

Speed Badger

2,751 posts

119 months

Tuesday 9th April
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This is the biggest game in Europe for us for quite some years, I might have to put the old Arsenal shirt on! Shame from a general football fan point of view the Man City v Madrid game is on at the same time.

Speed Badger

2,751 posts

119 months

Tuesday 9th April
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We've got a chance here of putting this to bed at our gaff if we continue attacking like this.

Cheib

23,348 posts

177 months

Tuesday 9th April
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We’re in a game now…fk sake

If you watch Saka’s goal again watch Eric Dier…he stood still and went in to the position to block the ball instead of actually trying to tackle Sake…let Saka take another step and was blocking the keeper’s view when Saka shot. Basically froze.

Cupramax

10,487 posts

254 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Sané is causing Kiwior all sorts of problems. We’re way too gung-ho at the moment.

extraT

1,776 posts

152 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Raya the wanderer… is he really an upgrade on Ramsdale? Both times bring so far away from the goal line caused us problems.

Puzzles

1,913 posts

113 months

Tuesday 9th April
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frustrating

Radec

3,915 posts

49 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Too open and the defence is playing too high trying to force a goal, we'll get caught out again if we keep at it.
We just need to be patient how we have been in the league and let it come naturally.

The inexperience in the CL is showing as it has done against Porto.

RichB

51,822 posts

286 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Has Saka hurt himself kicking the goalie?

Speed Badger

2,751 posts

119 months

Tuesday 9th April
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What??! How has VAR not looked at that?? That's a penalty all day long, it would have been easier to score than try and dive for a pen.

Radec

3,915 posts

49 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Wasn't a pen, Saka tried to instigate a pen.i don't know why he needed to do that, he should have just rounded the keeper and scored.

G-wiz

2,281 posts

28 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Speed Badger said:
What??! How has VAR not looked at that?? That's a penalty all day long, it would have been easier to score than try and dive for a pen.
You watch football much?

SWoll

18,671 posts

260 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Radec said:
Wasn't a pen, Saka tried to instigate a pen.i don't know why he needed to do that, he should have just rounded the keeper and scored.
This. As an LFC fan I'm totally behind you winning tonight as want to see you go through to the the semi finals and have more games to play, but that's never a penalty in a million years.

Even AFTV thinks it's a dive having seen the replay FFS. Not sure why Saka is getting so wound up about it TBH as he know's exactly what he did.

RichB said:
Has Saka hurt himself kicking the goalie?
Apparently yes.

mr pg

1,958 posts

207 months

Tuesday 9th April
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You could even argue it's a foul on the keeper it was such a deliberate kick by Saka!

SWoll

18,671 posts

260 months

Tuesday 9th April
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mr pg said:
You could even argue it's a foul on the keeper it was such a deliberate kick by Saka!
yes

TikTak

1,587 posts

21 months

Wednesday 10th April
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Definitely seen those given and lets face it, if that's Kane on any Raya up the other end, it's clever play and it'll be a penalty.

We had one of those games (like we had a string of in December), conceding 2 off 2 attempts and probably had the better of the game otherwise. Raya again wasn't good enough.

Ref wasn't really good enough although the right result probably sorted itself in the end.