***Champions v Arsenal Official Match Thread***

[gmercer1]

MOTD passed over the utterly blatant penalty on KDB in favour of a re-run of Jesus being 20 yds away from their only first half pass into our penalty area.
Anybody see Pep give Oliver a swerve at the end of match handshakes?

Re Pep swerving a match official hand shake: good on him. The referee was really really poor tonight

Pep will get a 12 match touchline ban!

[nottsblue]

SWP just tweeted Ian Wright... Hi dad, just checking in, are you ok?

Quality from SWP. Wright on MOTD looked utterly bereft and dejected. Kept saying we as well.

Though I reckon the only tough fixture Arsenal have left is Newcastle away. I can see them winning the others

[CTID Hants]

SWP just tweeted Ian Wright... Hi dad, just checking in, are you ok?

Quality from SWP. Wright on MOTD looked utterly bereft and dejected. Kept saying we as well.

Though I reckon the only tough fixture Arsenal have left is Newcastle away. I can see them winning the others

Given their recent run of form, Newcastle are not the only team that can take points off them.

Bearing in mind saints are anchored to the bottom and virtually gone, i think they have leeds and another relegation battle team?

[salford city]

We smashed arsenal at theirs and then drew at forest. No repeat boys, let's crack on. Outstanding tonight boys - men against boys

[Nigels Tackle]

magnificent!
but…
there was a point that i was going to dust off the finishing thread
it should have been 10!

[carl_feedthegoat]

Oliver is one cocky cunt who thinks hes the best ref out there.
He was fuckign diabolical tonight - a fucking shit house of a ref who has the same form when he refs us, time and time again.

[Vantage]

We won well despite that pointy faced tw*t Oliver who is another in the Webb/Clattenburg “it’s all about me” vein.

That could have been 8-0 tonight.

[PeterParker]

What actually happened with the penalty claim?
To be honest, I saw only the replay when Kevin hit Partey in the leg. What actually happened there because even the bent media like Talkshite were claiming it was a clear penalty.

From that replay, the decision looked right.

[blues2win]

https://twitter.com/stokeyyg2/status/16 ... 9Awxy5lqVQ

Ben White having a go at Foden after the match. Sore loser. Not a good look.

[blues2win]

https://twitter.com/bluecitybrain/statu ... 9Awxy5lqVQ

Here’s the penalty claim. It should have been given.

[johnny crossan]

Anybody want a LB?

[Mase]

[Blue Jam]

Next werk will be tough.
After 3 days rest we begin a week with 3 PL games in it. Need to win all of them.

Dripping points wouldn't be a surprising twist.

[Crossie]

Can we talk about Haalands hair at the end? I missed the last 10 mins or so, what happened with him? Did his bobble snap or did he go full lion hunting caveman in anger at his misses?

[stupot]

I saw the team and everyone around me was thinking maybe Walker was going to play left or would he play Stones as the inverted full back on the left but yet again Pep got it spot on. Akanji was fantastic at left back- had Saka in his pocket and went on 2 unbelievable runs.
The relationship between Kev and Erling is frightening. Erling terrorised them all night- Kev proving again he's the man on the big stage. We won at the Emirates when they had more possession and were better team 1st half. Last night we gave them a football lesson. It was football poetry

[john@staustell]

Can we talk about Haalands hair at the end? I missed the last 10 mins or so, what happened with him? Did his bobble snap or did he go full lion hunting caveman in anger at his misses?

Apparently letting his hair down was upsetting and disrespecting to Arsenal especially when he scored. Soft twats

[sheblue]

I saw the team and everyone around me was thinking maybe Walker was going to play left or would he play Stones as the inverted full back on the left but yet again Pep got it spot on. Akanji was fantastic at left back- had Saka in his pocket and went on 2 unbelievable runs.
The relationship between Kev and Erling is frightening. Erling terrorised them all night- Kev proving again he's the man on the big stage. We won at the Emirates when they had more possession and were better team 1st half. Last night we gave them a football lesson. It was football poetry

There was a lot of silly criticism of Akanji earlier in the season. Truth is he has been an excellent signing, ok he might not be prime Baresi but we have needed him and he has delivered. Jack needs a mention he played deeper last night and was also very good defensively.

[john@staustell]

I saw the team and everyone around me was thinking maybe Walker was going to play left or would he play Stones as the inverted full back on the left but yet again Pep got it spot on. Akanji was fantastic at left back- had Saka in his pocket and went on 2 unbelievable runs.

Wasn't he just? Didn't see that one coming. Lots of commentators raving about him - bargain of the season. Usually anti-City Ally McCoist was raving about him and us and Big Al, probably with slight overkill, said it was the best performance he'd ever seen

[blues2win]

Pep didn’t take long to celebrate the first goal. Here he is having a right go at Ederson immediately afterwards.

https://twitter.com/guardiolatweets/sta ... 9Awxy5lqVQ

[PeterParker]

I saw the team and everyone around me was thinking maybe Walker was going to play left or would he play Stones as the inverted full back on the left but yet again Pep got it spot on. Akanji was fantastic at left back- had Saka in his pocket and went on 2 unbelievable runs.

Wasn't he just? Didn't see that one coming. Lots of commentators raving about him - bargain of the season. Usually anti-City Ally McCoist was raving about him and us and Big Al, probably with slight overkill, said it was the best performance he'd ever seen

Grealish helped him also a lot.
I think we are going to be ok versus Rodrigo.
Walker had Mbappe in his pocket, I am sure he can handle Vinicious.