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BlueLlama · December 17, 2012

Christ Reading are gash - how did we lose to them?

Tubey · December 17, 2012

Possibly the worst defence I've seen in a Premier League match here. The back line actually look stupid.

thebluefox · December 17, 2012

Brennan91 said:
3 or 4 nil here.

if they dont take there foot off the gas it could 7 0r 8 easy

Brennan · December 17, 2012

Quids in. This was always coming after the Bradford game.

noharmdone · December 17, 2012

Brennan91 said:
Quids in. This was always coming after the Bradford game.

I had every available penny on.. just cashed out. Sweet as !

Deleted member 28206 · December 17, 2012

Arsene out.

Brennan · December 17, 2012

thebluefox said:
if they dont take there foot off the gas it could 7 0r 8 easy

Kind of team we need to outperform if we want 4th. They're not superb at the back but they do what we don't, score a lot of goals.

DanEFC92 · December 17, 2012

Reading won't get more than 4 wins all season i'm guessing, they're awful. And one of them was against us, superb.

paulbefc · December 17, 2012

They look very good. We'll need one of our best second half of the season run-ins to beat them to fourth.

Brennan · December 17, 2012

DanEFC92 said:
Reading won't get more than 4 wins all season i'm guessing, they're awful. And one of them was against us, superb.

Another one of the games i heard 'happy with a draw' against.

Brennan · December 17, 2012

paulbefc said:
They look very good. We'll need one of our best second half of the season run-ins to beat them to fourth.

Yep.

I'm confident our record against the top teams will be better than theirs. We're superior defensively and know how to pull out victories when the run of play is against us. Problem is there are a lot of worse teams that Arsenal will smash all over the shop who we struggle to beat. Still not good enough on the attack.

djpauly · December 17, 2012

Fuming watch this. They beat us. Thats why i cant take anyone who thinks we have a chance of 4th seriously. Lose to Reading, cant beat Wigan, Norwich or QPR.

djpauly · December 17, 2012

Brennan91 said:
Yep.

I'm confident our record against the top teams will be better than theirs. We're superior defensively and know how to pull out victories when the run of play is against us. Problem is there are a lot of worse teams that Arsenal will smash all over the shop who we struggle to beat. Still not good enough on the attack.

For real?

paulbefc · December 17, 2012

Brennan91 said:
Yep.

I'm confident our record against the top teams will be better than theirs. We're superior defensively and know how to pull out victories when the run of play is against us. Problem is there are a lot of worse teams that Arsenal will smash all over the shop who we struggle to beat. Still not good enough on the attack.

Mirallas' fitness will be key, imo. We haven't had him fit for long enough yet. When he's been on form, he's looked brilliant - often our best player - and is refreshingly gung-ho in attack. Obviously, January is mightily important as well. If things were to stay as they are, Arsenal would beat us to 4th comfortably as we're too thin, with Spurs probably taking 5th.

Hopefully we'll have a trump card in Barkley. Not holding my breath, like, but if we're ever going to need extra quality players coming through and filling out the squad, it's now, so we should look to ease him back into regular team action in the next three games.

ijjysmith · December 17, 2012

djpauly said:
Fuming watch this. They beat us. Thats why i cant take anyone who thinks we have a chance of 4th seriously. Lose to Reading, cant beat Wigan, Norwich or QPR.

Arsenal have been clinical.

We weren't. We should have been 3-0 up at half time too.