VillaChris

Today wouldn't even make our top 10 worst performances of the season. Try West Brom at home, Stoke at home, Spurs away, Everton away, Arsenal home, Sunderland away, Norwich away.....and Wycombe away. O.k that's only 8 but you get the picture. I thought pre match today would pan out a bit like Man. City at home...we'd sit back (as all out attack works in Leicester's favour) limit them to few clear cut chances and today it panned out like that. The trouble is it's not November anymore and plucky draws aren't enough, we need wins. I feel Remi has now got a decent approach of regularly picking up in this league by how he's setting us up but we really need another 8 points on the board if it ultimately to be successful and for us to stay up.

Some Arsenal views here: http://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/mathieu-debuchy-out.28727/page-8

Haha I dislike him far more than Sherwood...if ever there was someone we appointed who just turned up and did the bare minimum to get his pay cheque it was him.

Has Jordan Rhodes actually scored yet in his tenure?

Not Mr "Marvellous".....

8 wins would keep us up no problem. The trouble is there's not 20 odd games anymore, just 16 so a 50% win ratio for rest of the season is bordering on delusion given what we've seen so far. I think at our maximum we could win six more games (West Brom, Norwich, Stoke as we always seem to win up there recently, Bournemouth, Swansea and Southampton) and draw a couple but that would only get us 20-21 points so we'd still fall short in that situation.

No future here, up to him the next move.

I'd keep him until the summer. The unit we have now of him-Okore-Cissoko and Bacuna/Debuchy is the best we have at the club so I wouldn't want to break it up now we have a bit of momentum. He's been poor but shown improvement in recent weeks, finally like the player he has been in the premier league and I don't want to see Clark again. Get shot when we go down.

Looks like he's played himself out of contention again with his non-performance at Sunderland.

Lescott-Okore is looking like a decent combo now (I'd keep Lescott until the summer and then get shot of him when we go down) and with Debuchy and Cissokho at full back these are experienced international standard players (Cissokho rarely gets beaten one on one for example which you can't say for many other LBs we've had since Bouma). Defensively we're looking o.k now so that gives us a base to win games if we're only conceding one goal a game but we desperately need a fresh face upfront.

His set pieces are normally bang on the money (well compared to Westwood's floated &^^^$) so off night in that regard. Bit one paced but very technically good, no idea if he'd be a good fit for the championship or not.

We didn't play the one we have at the club anyway.

Not a week in week out starter for me. Yeah he has his nice dribbling moments but when teams put 2 men on him as Leicester did he has no answer and loses the ball. Don't think next week is his sort of game at all, might be worth playing Ayew in number 10 position next week.

It can't be a co-incidence that our defensive stats are always much better with him in the team. As I've said before he's a big player for us to keep next season, reasonably quick so strikers in that league won't scare him and despite not being the biggest he's decent in the air. A must keep and he's one of them along with Amavi I'm confident of keeping.

Veretout had a real off night in that respect, his set pieces are usually bang on the money as it was for the Palace goal (if it was him taking the corner instead of Gil).

I saw him on it but was too far back in the pub to hear what he was on about other than the penalty which he thought was harsh. No doubt that will get ignored by people with agendas, yes I know he deserved to get sacked in the end but IMO the man dosen't deserve more derision than Paul Lambert as we had more highs in his time here and at least his reign didn't go on and on and on as it seemed to do for eternity with Lambert here.,

How the chuff dif Chelsea get EIGHT minutes added on, indeed Terry scored right at the end of that...97.53 which must be one of the latest goals ever scored in the premier league. Reading the reports seems Costa was injured for a bit but even in that situation it's usually 6 minutes added on.

That's got 1 nil to West Brom written all over it to me, Pulis will sit them deep, we won't have a clue how to break them down and they'll nick it from a set piece. Still in derby games you never know. If we could win that and then beat Norwich we'd be back in this big time.

Our goal should never have stood in a million years, not sure you can get more rub of the green than a handball goal.

Their recruitment of managers is pretty poor aswell, same for that Khan bloke at Fulham.

Bit like when Lambert was here, they'll get away with it as there are even worse teams down there...Bolton are all but gone, Charlton never enough and then you have Mk Franchise, Bristol City, Rotherham etc. It does make me chuckle when people are predicting we'll go down again next season....we would have to make a far worse mess of things than even this season to even come close to that. If people think there are awful teams down the bottom of the premier league, they ain't seen nothing yet in the championship.

It's odd how he never got a chance here considering how much youth played for us between 2010-12. Bannan, Hogg, Chris Herd they all got chances, not Johnson. Surprise as he was always rated from the youth team watchers on here.

No chance this lot will win the league, it's Arsenal's for the taking.

Good form and performances are happening 3 weeks too late, we need this point accumulation over xmas considering who we were playing then. Too much to do I'm afraid.

Really, I wouldn't say losing to Leicester would kill things given how good they are unless we blow another 2 goal lead of course... Losing or not beating Norwich in a few weeks would I'd say.