***pep's city v arsenal official match thread***

[South Stand Balti]

Staggered. What a great win, a top performance and a great atmosphere. It was never in doubt really. The problem with you lot is you don't see the bigger picture. I'm fckng bouncing!

[nottsblue]

Great win. Really was the proverbial game of two halves. Well done to Pep for whatever was said at half time and well done to the players for turning it around to the extent Arsenal didn't have a shot on target after Walcott scored.

KDB was excellent, the tracking back for their goal aside. I thought Sane played well as well. Credit also to the defence. Much maligned yet where were Ozil and Sanchez for much of the game. I only remembered Ozil was still on the field when he took that free kick in the last minute. He did the square root of fuck all. Yaya too had a solid game.

Three points was just what the doctor ordered and the second half performance will have brought the confidence back a little. Happy boy tonight!

[South Stand Balti]

Yaya was fuckng awesome.

[iwasthere2012]

Excellent win.
The work rate was upped in the second half. For me that was the difference.
Concentration and work rate. Even with a shite defence we should have the quality to beat most teams. 4 at the back, and we can see this difficult period through.

[PeterParker]

Yaya was fuckng awesome.

This.

Huge.

[Sideshow Bob]

Let's face it, zabba cannot cut it and needs to retire or move on.

[South Stand Balti]

Not having that. It want a game of 2 halves. They had 5 mins and then we took over.

[KoKo0227]

Wtf did Cech come up at the end for? A quick tappy to feel involved, I don't even know...

Lol...who knows maybe he was just trying to get his pass count up. But who am I to judge I'm not complaining.

[sheblue]

Shocked and delighted in equal measure!!

[s1ty m]

Fernando was excellent after their goal. Yaya was immense.

[carolina-blue]

Great performance today
Saw Pep having a go at Nacho as he came off
For crossing the ball instead of keeping it at the end
Hard Hard task master Lol

[nottsblue]

Not having that. It want a game of 2 halves. They had 5 mins and then we took over.

Apart from Sterlings missed header, what did we create? Not much, that's what. Arsenal, as the away side, got their goal and soaked up the pressure without really allowing us to do much. Yes, they didn't press their early advantage but were you happy at half time? I for one wasn't .

Second half was just so much better from us. Obviously the early goal helped but we were first to the second ball, our passing crisper, our energy was better, we ruled the midfield and snuffed out their attacking threat, we had much more intensity and we attacked the wide areas more and the result was the win.

[london blue 2]

Shut up Henry. We dominated the entire match

[nottsblue]

Let's face it, zabba cannot cut it and needs to retire or move on.

He can still do a job. Just not against decent opposition and not against a pacy forward line.

[london blue 2]

Wankers trying to give them an excuse. Sky are pathetic

[Mase]

Shut up Henry. We dominated the entire match

He's a bitter prick. Would love for someone to just call him out for being the cheating bastard he is!

[Beefymcfc]

Before I even think about post-match, what the fuck is going on with the commentary!

Neville and sidekick were nearly crying when we scored and then tried telling Arsenal how they needed to play to beat us. After the first half when they were loving the Arsenal set-up and our crapness going forward you'd think he'd be all over our lovely play.

And now they're trying to get Cesc to say that Dave Silva was in his eyeline but he's said it wasn't in the equation. But now they're going to talk about it, as if we've somehow cheated Arsenal out of a win!

They'll be forcing a retrospective points deduction for that goal!

Cunts!

[london blue 2]

Shut up Henry. We dominated the entire match

He's a bitter prick. Would love for someone to just call him out for being the cheating bastard he is!

And sourness. Arsenal were never "bossing" that game.

[Slim]

I'd like to know how the fuck that inbred manages to get on the air every fucking week.

He has all the insights of a Carragher with the added bonus of being a French cunt.

[Beefymcfc]

Nobody should be complaining after that performance. Arsenal fended in numbers and made it hard. We went on the offensive and upped the pace, they couldn't handle it, we won.

We cannot complain, at all!