Trotters take aim at The Gunners - Match Thread

[Prufrock]

As for the game. I had a feeling I refused to articulate that we'd do them. Just felt we were going to get that reaction. Was a very brave selection from OC, the two dossers out and the rest told to prove it was a one off. Taylor had arguably his best game in a white shirt, and was roughly a billion times better than Petrov.

I thought Knight was shite, and Lee didn't have his best game, but the rest were excellent. I don't understand the Davo stick. Remember why he is taking penalties, coz the set of spineless shites looked around at each other agaisnt Wigan and no-one fancied it. Kev stepped up and stuck it in, and has done ever since. I've never felt confident he'd score 'em, and hopefully today is the end of it, but he has scored some big 'uns. Can't say he played well (mainly coz Arsenal wankathon recepient Koscielney was utter gash. They rate him down there!)but he covered MILES, harried and was generally a nuisance. Not as good as others, but not ever close to 'bad' Fook me. I thought Cahill, Steinsson, Taylor and Sturridge were excellent, and I thought Muamba was unreal. MOTM by a mile for me. Booked after seven mins, outnumbered in central midfield alongside a bloke who put the effort in but just isn't a central midfielder, against three excellent players, and was so discipled, so strong. Brilliant.

I also think OC is either a tactical genius, or the jammiest bastard ever. Before the game, I thought Song, Fabregas and our Jack against Moo and Elmo was the biggest mismatch since last Sunday, but somehow it worked. Brilliant. I also hope Cohen never plays for us again. I really like the guy, but he isn't good enough long term. That, today, is what I want to remember him for. Brilliant. Nearly cried.

As an aside, how bad was Chamakh's do on Robbo? Looked shocking live, and like Chamakh knew it too, not seen a replay though. Wenger's paddies are ace.

[Verbal]

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[Verbal]

I thought Muamba was unreal. MOTM by a mile for me. Booked after seven mins, outnumbered in central midfield alongside a bloke who put the effort in but just isn't a central midfielder, against three excellent players, and was so discipled, so strong. Brilliant.

[Prufrock]

Brilliant.

Also, that Cahill block from Nasri looked, albeit from t'other end, like that of a £20million defender.

[Prufrock]

I meant that.

Ahem.

Reminded me though, that piss funny bit in the programme where they do an A-Z of things to do with a player. Was Fab today, if you have the programme read it, fooking genius.

Another aside. All credit to Jacky too. Played very well, odd paddy aside, but showed Mr Wenger how to take losing. Love that kid.

[Verbal]

Brilliant.

Also, that Cahill block from Nasri looked, albeit from t'other end, like that of a £20million defender.

It was a tightish angle, but Cahill did everything he could to prevent it. Excellent today, he was.

[Prufrock]

Oh, and the penalty, are we ignoring that it was a massive dive? Djorou fouled him outside the box, he then beat him and fell over. Not good.

[Dujon]

I recorded the game. I'd made up my mind not to watch it if we copped another drubbing. With a bit of luck I'll sit down this afternoon (it's a public holiday here) with a smile on my face and enjoy myself for a change.

Wenger made me laugh when someone asked him if his players had been affected since Arsenal's loss in the League Cup and he answered 'maybe'. No mention was made of our debacle of just last week. Football managers are a funny breed.

[irie Cee Bee]

Finally the monkey off our back. We beat a top 4 side before the season ended. Weaker teams had done it so why not us! The wait is now over.

Great performance. Still hurting from the Stoke debacle, but this shows what we are capable of. Lots of players worth mentioning but Cahill followed by Jussi were top of the charts today for me.

[Lofthouse Lower]

[Lofthouse Lower]

Oh, and the penalty, are we ignoring that it was a massive dive? Djorou fouled him outside the box, he then beat him and fell over. Not good.

He's a Chelsea player, what do you expect?

[Lofthouse Lower]

Oh and I was impressed with how the captain responded to his penalty miss - he was superb in the second half.

[General Mannerheim]

dosen't sit right with me how pleased everyone is that we 'crushed' Arsenals title hopes. why would we wanna do that!?

[keveh]

dosen't sit right with me how pleased everyone is that we 'crushed' Arsenals title hopes. why would we wanna do that!?

I couldn't care less who won the title, all I wanted to see was a response from the players, and I got that.

Well happy!

[General Mannerheim]

dosen't sit right with me how pleased everyone is that we 'crushed' Arsenals title hopes. why would we wanna do that!?

I couldn't care less who won the title, all I wanted to see was a response from the players, and I got that.

Well happy!

dont get me wrong, i loved beating arsenal yesterday, it was a performance and a result we all wanted, needed after last sunday. just dont like to take the shine off it by admitting we did utd any favours.

anyway, we didnt crush their title hopes, they did that themselves. 9 points behind utd going into the game yesterday, they were already out of the race. if they had been neck & neck i might have been a bit less pleased with the win!

[malcd1]

Oh, and the penalty, are we ignoring that it was a massive dive? Djorou fouled him outside the box, he then beat him and fell over. Not good.

I'm not saying it wasn't dive but Djorou twice clipped Sturridge's heal before he went down (You can only see it looking at the players back). Djorou knew he wasn't going to get the ball but still tried to put him off by the merest of touches. Unfortunately footballers only need the slightest of touches to fall on the floor and this was one of those examples.

No excuses for young Daniel and I am glad we didn't need this goal to win the game.

[thebish]

dosen't sit right with me how pleased everyone is that we 'crushed' Arsenals title hopes. why would we wanna do that!?

after last week - the idea of a headline suggesting we could crush anything feels good...

and it is better than "woeful Bolton give Arsenal a title platform" isn't it?

[thebish]

what I liked about yesterday's performance was the bodies-on-the-line-attitude. we were really under the cosh for some time - and players - pretty much every one - threw their bodies into blocks to deny Arsnenal space to shoot on the edge of the box. It isn't pretty - but it's summat to be proud of and certainly gets my blood pumping!

when jussi finger tipped that save and it bounced out to Fabregas - both knight and cahill simply ran at fabregas to block the gap - fantastic!

also - Jussie - MOTD didn't show it - but one awesome fingertip save to deny VanPersie...

[BWFC_Insane]

what I liked about yesterday's performance was the bodies-on-the-line-attitude. we were really under the cosh for some time - and players - pretty much every one - threw their bodies into blocks to deny Arsnenal space to shoot on the edge of the box. It isn't pretty - but it's summat to be proud of and certainly gets my blood pumping!

when jussi finger tipped that save and it bounced out to Fabregas - both knight and cahill simply ran at fabregas to block the gap - fantastic!

also - Jussie - MOTD didn't show it - but one awesome fingertip save to deny VanPersie...

That is very true Bish. But our weakness is we don't have that attitude/determination every week! Take that into Fulham and Blackburn games and we're more than capable of results.

[TKIZ!]

dosen't sit right with me how pleased everyone is that we 'crushed' Arsenals title hopes. why would we wanna do that!?

after last week - the idea of a headline suggesting we could crush anything feels good...

and it is better than "woeful Bolton give Arsenal a title platform" isn't it?

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