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West Ham vs Arsenal | Sunday, 2pm

Qwiss

Antonio is a huge problem

Gazza M

that handball is way more egregious than I first thought. fuck sake, how is such rank incompetence/corruption happening every week

Burnwinter

Gazza M It's comedy.

Ricky1985

Gazza M

Is there another angle that's making you feel so strongly? I see it hitting Rice's stomach in the angle that has been shown.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Unacceptable.

Cannon

I am still calm. Have seen too many wenger teams being nervous wrecks. I don't get that feeling from this team.

Rohit

West Ham played away in Europe on Thursday night. Honestly should be overrunning them in the 2nd half. It's all mental now.

Clrnc

Rohit They played all reserves. Rested almost everyone

mohan

MistaT he used his hand to control the ball path. doesn't matter if it hits his stomach..

Mirth

mohan yeah absolutely. Gabriel made enough contact to give away a pen but Rice clearly uses his hands to control the ball even if it bounced into his stomach too

awooga83

Great start but losing control of games now regularly which doesn't bode well for a title run in when we pretty much need to get results through to the end.

Need to be proactive in the second half and reassert ourselves.. We should have enough but I'm worried about the mentality whether we are starting to get rattled and fear having more of an impact

Claudius

We are fine. Saka is low energy again give us Trossard at some point. Rest is fine.

Don Pacifico

Claudius he's being triple-marked by WHU. Don't think that's fair. When we've focussed play down our left, it's really thrown them off, which opens up gaps for us to exploit.

GooneriC

We should have been out of sight , you have to legislate for bent referees nowadays. Need to kill the game dead next half.

Qwiss

Conceding the goal doesn't bother me, it happens, poor decision, etc What bothers me is that for the second week in a row conceding even though we are still ahead causes us to start panicking. All of a sudden we aren't composed on the ball, we can't pass out, we make panicky clearances straight back to them and we start giving away fouls. If this is the pressure getting to them then we are going to struggle. They need to figure it out quick.

If we don't come out in the second half the way we started the game I hope Arteta is much more pro-active with his subs than last week.

Pepe LeFrits

Qwiss If we don't come out in the second half the way we started the game I hope Arteta is much more pro-active with his subs than last week.

Agreed. Tross and George on quickly if we start the second half the way we finished the first.

Don Pacifico

MistaT Yeah, not sure I'd classify it as a handball, let alone an intentional one.

Defensively we look chaotic (maybe because we have two reserves in our back four, which disrupts our organisation...?) but so controlled in attack. It's maddening!

On a side-note, the way Tierney has slotted in today shows why he should have had more minutes over the last month or so whilst Zinchenko has had a dip in form.

Clrnc

Quite annoyed by this half. Started so well, the Hammer fans around me was full of praise saying they are chasing shadows.

Then we started making mistakes, all our own making and then we had so little control of the game. Their attacks looked even more dangerous than any point Liverpool did in the first half.

Hopefully we step up another gear.

Rice is annoying as fuck. Kept provoking our fans after the penalty and went to fire up his own fans for more atmosphere

Qwiss

Clrnc Rice is annoying as fuck. Kept provoking our fans after the penalty and went to fire up his own fans for more atmosphere

They can keep him. Cheating cunt.

HomeSteak

Put Trossard on, and we will put a few more past them

Tam

Is this handball that’s being mentioned Rice’s from Partey’s mistake? From the angle on the Arsenalist link above I’m not seeing a handball at all. His arm is moving in a downward motion and his torso is moving forward, and the ball clearly bounces forward from wherever it makes contact. If it was the arm/hand, then it would have moved down.

Maybe there’s another angle that shows it better that I haven’t seen, but it’s definitely not a handball on that link

Pepe LeFrits

Tam Maybe there’s another angle that shows it better that I haven’t seen, but it’s definitely not a handball on that link

Yeah, on 2nd viewing I think you're right.

Now we miss from a handball. Ironic

Ricky1985

Claudius

And that 6 role is not the place for a high risk player. Arteta has done a phenomenal job of helping Partey to become more efficient in his passing, but he still has too many giveaways and his passing accuracy is not where it should be to be considered perfect for the role.

Rodri may be less flashy and less dynamic, but he is more reliable and has better awareness. We should try to find a clone of him in the summer.

Claudius

Ricky1985 I’m fine with the risk taking. It’s a large part of how we are able to break teams down. It’s why I miss Saliba as well. He and Partey play the same way. It takes defenders out of the game.

Meatwad

when last was saka good for arsenal? needs to bring it in the 2nd half.

Qwiss

Meatwad About 40 minutes ago.

Mirth

Qwiss in fairness the positions he got to towards the end of the half is exactly what we’d need if he takes Xhaka’s role

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