Happy that Özil is out. Hes become a liability.

Very tentative start to the half. .

Bournemouth look most like scoring.

Much needed sub.

Wolves 1 up at City.

Really seem to be struggling at home against a mid table team.

We've been poor and the youngsters are looking every year of their inexperience.

Second half has been poor. Please don't throw the points away late.

Happy that Özil is out. Hes become a liability.

Very tentative start to the half. .

Too many flicks instead of making the simple pass.

Where they've found 5 additional minutes from I don't know.

Scrappy 1-0 win. Better than losing 3 to Brighton. Hot on Man City's heels now for second

3 points in the bag. But a very poor match. We were so disjointed in our attacks.

Can we catch City? #feelingoptimistic

Aubameyang very quiet..

City hilarious.

Top Gun would agree that Aubameyang was in need of a rest midweek, not coming off the bench against the Belgians when we were 4 up.

Decent first half when Bournemouth were not at the races but failed to grab more than one goal. Bournemouth stepped it up second half and we lost control of the game. Lucky to win in the end. Poor second half.

Not vintage but a win and a clean sheet, not a game anyone will remember at the end of the season.
I thought Chambers was MOTM, I haven’t ever been sure he’s up to the quality we need but he’s been excellent this season.

Still frustrated how we don’t attack and kill the game, far too tentative in he second half. Felt like there were too many players trying to force it and frustratingly playing the difficult pass or flick when it’s only 1-0.

Also frustrated that when Bournemouth did attack us that we don’t seem to offer any threat on the counter attack.

How do Bournemouth find their strikers running in behind our defence so often and we couldn’t do it once?

Your right the 9 minutes on Tuesday killed him today and it wasn’t that he looked gingerly after getting a massive whack off Ake in the first half.

Thanks TG it's big of you to admit you were wrong.

Can't help but have to say that it is so easy to get past Xhaka. What does Emery see that we don't?

Your right Xhaka needs to go but I’m not sure the whole midfield is structured properly. Ceballos and Guendouzi don’t seem aware of their roles and want to do a bit of everything leaving us without a no10 if Özil doesn’t play.

Xhaka seems to think he is a DM even though we have been here before and sits on the halfway line committing foul after foul.

The other 2 midfielders aren’t making enough runs in the penalty box so Aubameyang gets little support.

I also think we are missing Ramsey.

Think people are unaware that our midfield problems are putting more pressure on the defence.

Not a good performance today by any stretch of the imagination but hopefully the start of a good run in the league.

Lacked creativity and Bournemouth were worthy of a leveller but luckily fluffed their lines with that gilt edge chance.

Looks like it was a good day for me to have been playing in a tennis tournament. I missed the ‘fun’ at the Emirates and couldn’t check the score until after the match had finished. The 3 min Sky highlights look to be sufficient for a recap.

and the day keeps on geting better.

Newcastle lead Man U 1-0

Steve Bruce couldn't do a worse job than OGS......

Anyone from outside the top 6 who feels like getting somewhere close to 65 points is going to have a serious chance of challenging top 4.
Man U are woeful, spurs are going backwards, we’re flattering to deceive and whilst Chelsea maybe look the best they can still be quite brittle with such an inexperienced team.

I think we're doing ok. Chelsea as well. The question is whether Spurs or Utd can recover from their poor form. Long way to go. Leicester look the best of the rest.

3rd after 8 matches and ahead of all main CL challengers.
Emery out!

I thought we did well enough in the first half to wonder if perhaps the team is learning lessons from previous poor performances. However, the second half made me think perhaps lessons haven’t been learnt after all because we struggled to control Bournemouth when we needed to. I thought all the players did okay, though Pépé does seem to hold on to the ball too long. I have to commend Emery for bringing on Willock and Martinez too. It’s funny to think we are 3rd and only a point behind Man City as our performances aren’t totally convincing.

Anybody notice that turn of speed from Luiz near the end. I did't think he could move that fast............

I didn't like our team selection initially. Way too defensive I thought for a home game against Bournemouth. It worked out but it helped make it a more tedious game. That game could easily have been a draw from how we were set up. The late substitutions helped create a bit more.

It didn't strike me as a defensive selection at all. I think there was a lot of attacking promise on display.

Our front players and midfielders coughed up too much possession in the second half, and Bournemouth made better use of their possession.

I don’t think it’s a defensive team selection it’s just that the 2 pivot midfielders in ceballos and Guendouzi aren’t supporting the strikers enough and not providing enough decisive passes and though balls for Aubameyang.

They might be instructed to do this in which case it’s overly cautious tactics or alternatively just aren’t playing well enough but I watched today’s game thinking we really are missing Ramsey

Chelsea have had a few more convincing victories than us. 4-1 and 5-2 away. Yes they got humped 4-0 by Man U and gave up a 2 goal lead v sheff utd but they seem more fluid going forward. I think Hudson-odoi is a big player to get back for them.

Agree with those saying about the lack of midfielders getting up or beyond the strikers, it is harming us a bit. I also think missing Lacazette is hurting us. Getting him back gives us a dual goal threat up top.

Yeah, I'm going to say it 8 games in. Liverpool will win the title and the media will go on a nostalgic bore tour down memory lane. 20 years since they last won, blah, blah effing blah.

30 years...

Chelsea run hot and cold. But I do agree so far they are looking the biggest competition to a top 4 spot. Luckily, there is room for both of us. They can be better and we still get top 4.

There was a point in today’s game where a Bournemouth player made a pass that hit the referee, the ref stopped the game and gave an uncontested drop ball to Bournemouth. Is this some new rule I’m unaware of? I always thought the ref is part of the field of play so it’s play on if it hits him?

I can see why Pépé’s penalty shout wasn’t given has the defender touched the ball....but if you take each part of the incident as separate parts, Pépé goes to take it past the defender, defender touches the ball, As the ball comes back to Pépé off the defender he touches it past the defender who doesn’t touch the ball, defender brings down Pépé.

There was a law change this year. It was to stop the situation where a ball hitting a ref gave an unfair advantage.

Although that doesn’t quite seem to apply to what you’ve described.

Dropped ball : laws 8 and 9


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