I thought Wilshere was average today. Lot's of misplaced passes and running into cul-de-sacs. No ideas and no execution.

Captain wrote:

Was very flat in the second half, clearly not fit for 90mins yet. Maybe not even an hour in centre-mid.

His passing technique is weird. Seems to lack balance and under-hits them too often.

Tony Montana wrote:

I thought Wilshere was average today. Lot's of misplaced passes and running into cul-de-sacs. No ideas and no execution.

He's the English Diaby.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Tony Montana wrote:

October mate.

Oh wow, we've played 3 CL games and 1 more CC game. How can we possibly beat them? So much tiredness.

Didn't imply its a big ask to bet them. Our energy levels are definitely down.

Even stevie wonder can see that

More a response to Volante.

Our energy levels shouldn't be down.

Jack lacks balance, ok......

Doc wrote:

Jack lacks balance, ok......

Not what I said but ok.

Will Liverpool play their 3-5-2 do we think?

Tony Montana wrote:
@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Didn't imply its a big ask to bet them. Our energy levels are definitely down.

Even stevie wonder can see that

More a response to Volante.

Our energy levels shouldn't be down.

It doesn't matter if it's October or March, if you play the same players every week, particularly the likes of Ramsey and Giroud, then it builds up.

Timothy wrote:

Will Liverpool play their 3-5-2 do we think?

I think they will yes.

Wilshere's definitely on the up.
Just keep him away from that left wing and play him where he can have a real effect on the game.

For me Özil's dip is a concern.
Wenger said that he was ill prior to the Dortmund game and he's been peripheral since.
He's a game changer, we can't afford for him to be physically below par.

Tony Montana wrote:

More a response to Volante.

Our energy levels shouldn't be down.

"Tired already? Let's see how tired Liverpool are. There's no reason why our players are and not Liverpool players."

Having played 6 more matches is certainly a reason why our players might be more tired.

Tony Montana wrote:

I thought Wilshere was average today. Lot's of misplaced passes and running into cul-de-sacs. No ideas and no execution.

Not really his job to execute from central midfield. The little we created initially came from his movement between the lines, though Bendtner or Jenkinson usually screwed up the attacks (how come Jenkinson's crosses always get stuck on the first defender?). He did look tired in the second half and arguably shouldn't have started at all, or should have been subbed off early at the very least. He made the same runs that Ramsey is regularly praised for before that.

This will be game 17 for us and game 12 for them. That's a massive difference.

They'll have Coutinho back?
All of my family support Liverpool and they're so confident about this.
It's getting on my nerves now.

Captain wrote:

This will be game 17 for us and game 12 for them. That's a massive difference.

Forgot they had to play in the 2nd round 😆

Don't expect fatigue to play much of a part on Saturday. It's Dortmund away and then the Utd game where I think it might start catching up with us.

y va marquer wrote:

They'll have Coutinho back?
All of my family support Liverpool and they're so confident about this.
It's getting on my nerves now.

Coutinho will likely be on the bench.

Hmmm Liverpool didn't look any great shakes against newcastle recently.

I think we'll step it up this weekend

Old man gerrard man get overrun

This has become actually bigger than it was.

If we have anything about us we will go on and win this game.

Part of being a champion is your bounce back ability.

Cazorla needs to funking step up in this game for once and Ozil needs more aggression. I want to see him fired up.

Every time you do some motivational type post before a match we seem to lose. Do us a favor mate.