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🏆 Porto vs Arsenal, Estadio do Dragão Wednesday 21 February, 20:00 GMT

tazmania

Also where were the subs

DiabyKungFu

tazmania Also where were the subs

If anything, we needed to sub one of the wingers but all 3 of our good wingers were starting.

RocktheCasbah

tazmania absofuckinlutely!

Bizarre that Arteta made one sub when the same team played at the weekend. Porto were on top in the last 20 but up until that point, they'd defended well and made sure they fell over anytime an Arsenal player was in their vicinity - or we had a corner.

Getting a bit sick of Iberian worldies though...

Qwiss

tazmania typical conservativism under pressure from Arteta.

Gunner89

DiabyKungFu

On balance - few chances but the only one that threatened was Porto and they had 2 unbelievable chances with the effort on the bar and the rebound

We didn't have a shot on target

DiabyKungFu

Gunner89 On balance - few chances but the only one that threatened was Porto

I completely disagree that they "threatened".

goon

Pepe LeFrits

Not necessarily. They’re going to have it in the back of their minds that if we concede 1st we will need to score 2. I think unless we score earlyish it will be a cagey match.

daredevil

lorddulaarsenal

Missed his level raising CL performance. All of our attackers shat the bed today.

awooga83

RocktheCasbah this seems to be a continuing problem. It seemed like he'd adjusted but then seems to revert to bad habits again and you wonder if he really has taken that lesson on board.

Qwiss

goon think a lot of players who've never been in a CL knockout before were a bit nervy.

Segway

Qwiss Even Jorgi was oddly jittery when he came on. He was supposed to come in and calm the midfield but he gave 3 simple passes away in his short time on the pitch.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Martinelli was woeful.

Qwiss

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert Saliba, Rice, White, Trossard, Havertz all bad. Actually was anyone good?

daredevil

Qwiss

That's a good approach playing away from home in Europe. Going on the offensive is what we usually saw under Wenger and that hardly yielded better results. Our best ever European campaign came when when we kept it tight in midfield and played conservatively. The key was Henry of course and injecting pace in the attack at the right moments. We missed Jesus today who has been our best goal threat in this year's campaign. Having a guy in goal who diminishes our defensive strength also doesn't help.

Qwiss

Segway he was missing all his passes, so weird. I thought he'd calm us down and take control.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Qwiss all shit really.

daredevil

We aren't going turn it around if they use the same tactic as today. Completely congested the middle, doubled up our wide and fell down in droves at every corner.

Qwiss

daredevil they'll use every dirty trick in the book to kill the game.

Clrnc

goon they didn't give us a single space whole match. Went man for man and was more physical and faster than us

Not going to be easy at all. They setup very similar to Sporting last year.

goon

Clrnc

I reckon that’s the story of us in Europe. We can’t cope with the lack of space and attention from a very determined opposition.

I said to a colleague pre game that in some ways these knock out games where we are favourites can be tricky because the opposition give absolutely everything.

It forces us into safety mode when we should be trying to exploit the space left behind.

awooga83

Clrnc yeah slight worry for as well as we've done and they were great results we've played really poor defensive teams. I still worry that we struggle against more determined defensive opposition

Qwiss

daredevil

That's a good approach playing away from home in Europe.

Not really.

QuincyAbeyie

daredevil That's a good approach playing away from home in Europe.

I don't quite get all this. It was a good approach by us, Porto didn't deserve the win at home with their tactics, yet if Porto use the same tactics again you still don't think we'll be able to win?

QuincyAbeyie

DiabyKungFu the double chance alone was 0,99 xG.

Qwiss

goon we also don't have our set piece get out of jail mode ve because the refs act like we're playing netball.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

goon first and last paragraphs contradictory?

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