12 May 2024 00:28:56
One of the biggest games of the season tomorrow for me.
Never have I gone into a game with less optimism.
Injuries have killed us but I fully expect the team to fight and make it competitive. If we grab an early goal anything could happen.
If it gets messy I Ten Hag could be gone.
There are excuses but also some glaring mistakes.
Tomorrow will tell us a lot.
12 May 2024 03:20:45
Why tomorrow? The only important game left this season is the cup final, tomorrow we will most likely lose as Arsenal are a lot better than us and our players have already given up.
12 May 2024 06:58:19
If its Evans and cas as CB's it will be a long day. Might as well play the young guys from the academy, if they get turned over no shame. Rather play Mc as a CB than those two.
12 May 2024 08:08:15
Let's be honest, if we come away from this with anything better than a 3-0 loss then we can probably count ourselves lucky.
We are in terrible form, can hardly create a chance, let alone score a goal. While we have an injury crisis meaning we will at best be able to name one half fit CB in the starting lineup.
Palace just smashed us 4-0, and we are playing Arsenal. A team fighting for the title, who are in great form, have the best defensive records, play a style that controls the game, and are scoring pretty freely.
I think there is a genuine chance that we suffer a record defeat today. It feels like we are at the centre of the perfect storm right now. It'll take something special from the players to avoid us being embarrassed today.
12 May 2024 08:44:59
I can't see beyond us getting mullered, a record score against and Arsenal enhancing their good by a phenomenal figure. The guys who got us into this sh*t should face that humiliation, not up and coming youngsters.
12 May 2024 08:51:46
I’m more optmistic we might get something ??.
12 May 2024 09:10:06
We are woeful given the sheer number of injuries and patchwork back four. But we haven’t seen Arsenal wobble yet. Have they really shaken the tag of ‘bottle jobs’?
If we frustrate Arsenal I can see a cagey 1-1, but if Casemiro of in the back 4 it could be a cricket score.
In better news Martinez is said to be desperate to play. He is such a breath of fresh air in this side and his fitness will be critical to improving next season.
12 May 2024 09:42:04
Totally agree with fizz and gds, only game I give a shiny sh#t about is the final and also I wouldn't give any of these grifters the opportunity to hide . Sick of these players and sick to death of being in this position every 2 years.
12 May 2024 10:21:35
Exactly Deano. Going to be interesting inside OT today and Wednesday. Two very tough fixtures that we should be relishing, but I’m not expecting anything from either given the state of our injuries, and the complete contrast in desire between our players and their Arsenal and Newcastle counterparts.
This feels like a carbon copy of two years ago, and two years before that. And so on….
12 May 2024 10:26:06
Wazza, Martinez is the only player who isn't a youngster that I care about in our current squad.
I can see the benefits players like Bruno, Rashford, Onana, Mount, Dalot and Shaw bring to the squad. And I wouldn't be pushing to sell any of them this summer.
Yet I also wouldn't care that much if a good offer came in for them and we accepted it.
Beyond Garnacho, Mainoo and Højlund, Martinez is the only non-sellable player we have. He's a leader, a warrior and actually good enough to be first choice. I don't care who wears the armband, Martinez is the real captain of this side.
You see it when he plays, he encourages and inspires those around him and he makes them better players when he's alongside them.
His desperate desire to get back on the pitch even for a game that effectively doesn't matter now shows he has the character that so many of our squad is missing.
Hopefully he can come back next season injury free and be a regular starter next season, because while we have missed his talent, it is his infectious mentality that we are in dire need of.
12 May 2024 11:05:40
Fact wazza ? going weds and dreading it tbh . Why I would keep the manager for another season ?♂️ we need to know what happens in the 3rd year . We can't just keep sacking managers after 2 years and starting again, it's counter productive imo.
Ten hag has a lot to answer for this season, some of decisions and set ups have beggared belief, but we are still looking at the same players hiding and downing tools knowing that they can get rid of the bloke they don't like and start the whole sorry saga again.
Imo, if we don't stick now we will be in the sh#t for decades .
12 May 2024 14:12:16
My concern with Martinez is that he is not at all careful with his body. The most recent injury he picked up was most likely as a result of his excessively and unnecessarily aggressive protection of a ball going out of play for a goal kick. Being very small for a CB he quite possibly overcompensates. He needs to find the correct balance in his game. Otherwise he could end up with injury after injury.