I just can't see us losing 3-0 in Moscow so to all intents and purposes we're through. CSKA did cause us plenty of problems in creating chances but the standard of their finishing makes Danny Welbeck look like Gerd Muller. On the evidence of last night it would take about ten years for them to score three and defensively they look as bad as us, maybe even worse. I actually fancy us to win the Europa League as worse teams than Arsenal have beaten better teams than Atletico Madrid countless times. Just got a feeling we'll do it.

Starting to think likewise. Athletico are good but in a one off game with Wengers future at stake I wouldn't be surprised if we won. Then it's goodbye Ramsey and Wilshere and hello another 1-3 years of Arsene.

No ... being the super Cool Hand Luke sort of guy I just like to let the little woman feel she is contributing ... she reminds me the cricket is on , the Warriors / Roosters are playing today / tomorrow makes her feel good when I politely thank her .

Now I know damn well for you full blown red necked Aussies in sun baked North Queensland such niceties don't exist ...

The only conversation you have with the wife runs along these lines
........." Hey Darl , here's the keys to the ute , get your arse down to the pub , grab us a couple of blocks of Toohey's and a bottle of Bundy ; two bags of ice and two litres of coke

....... ' cause me and the boys feel like wetting the whistle .

Pick up some dog tucker while you're at it .

Wilshere is off form at the moment. Needs a rest I guess.

Imo you're being a bit unfair to Jack. Anybody playing second string to Ramsey would have looked weak in comparison.

Mkhitaryan out with knee injury possible last game this season I'd have thought.............

An outrageous slur on me and my countryman. We never use the term ‘wetting the whistle’. What about my throat is as parched as a dying dingos scrotum. Sounds to me like you went to many Australian BBQ’s.

He got into the Arsenal swing of things pretty quickly.

Alex I had a great first half yesterday but faded in the second. Great result for Utd hopefully they'll have other things on their minds when they play us on the 29th.

Anticipation for tonight’s game really making the forum buzz.

Here's a multiple choice (well, two possible answers) question for you. I'm on the train to Finsbury Park for the game. As is normal, plenty of the passengers have Arsenal scarves, jackets, hats and shirts on. They all:

(a) Look really excited, talking about the game, disussing possible results and so on.

Or:

(b) Look bored stiff or that they'd rather be elsewhere.

Glad to see Nelson getting a start today.

Whenever he makes wholesale changes we screw up:

33Cech
24Bellerín
21Chambers
20Mustafi
31Kolasinac
35El Neny
29Xhaka
17Iwobi
61Nelson
23Welbeck
14Aubameyang
Substitutes
9Lacazette
10Wilshere
11Özil
16Holding
18Monreal
54Macey
62Nketiah

Ramsey and Özil play there best games in ages and are rewarded with a rest.

All the more reason for Southampton to go for it.....

That’s a nasty rake down Nielsen’s calf. Shouldn’t matter that it’s 90 seconds in to the game that should be a yellow

A lot of empty seats ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6JxAgmxXg[/youtube]

I really hate those 1-2’s we play on the edge of the box that are planned as a 1-2 from miles off and no matter what the defensive set up and number of players in the way we are still going to try the 1-2. They are never even close to coming off

And we go behind, surprise?

Another for the Mustafi show reel. Absolutely staggering defending

Utter embarrassment yet again FFS

Mustafi just letting Long run from miles to get in front of him and poke it Home. First time Southampton have pretty much touched he ball.

When will this season end. Wenger’s teams will ALWAYS make these mistakes.

Good grief. How bad a goal is that to concede. For decades we were known as a team that were expert in defending. No longer.

Long’s 2nd goal in 48 games. Was it ever in doubt today?

Meanwhile arsenal just pass pass pass. So boring

Remind me, what pub did we buy Mustafi from?

After playing for so long, they still don't seem to understand each other. Time and time again the midfielders has to point out to strikers on where they expected them to run to. What does Wenger coach the team on? Does he even see how disconnected we look at the front? Ball stops going forward as soon as it gets close to their penalty area. Side passes, back passes, more relaying to each other, boring boring boring!

As it stands we are as close to Southampton as we are Man U

The defending for the first goal sums up wenger. There will be absolutely no repriscussions and no improvement. How do we know, because if there were these mistakes would be cut out

Aubameyang draws us level. First chance first goal

Good goal

Nice goal indeed. Can we score more than we give away though?

Yay!! Another ‘good’ goal albeit with a most helpful deflection

Lovely deflection for Welbeck! 2-1

Welbeck ! Lucky deflection though.

Liking elnenys work today.
I wonder of the only reason the crowd shout “shooot” when Xhaka has it is because they know he is the only one who occasionally will. Most are pretty awful if we’re honest

So far, a poor match between two poor teams.

Great decision Lino !!

Getting sloppy and giving saints a sniff here. This is a team who have been woeful all season and are rightly in the bottom 3.

We are rightly best of the mid table teams

Lost count of the number of times we lose possession immediately from our own throw in.
It is just the basics all the time with arsenal. There is clearly no work, no plan, no structure. We know that players are sent on the pitch and made to work it out for themselves and it shows

Got what we deserved. As soon as Charlie Austin came on it was a problem

Awful again. Arsenal throw in, easy header back from saints puts us under pressure and we concede a silly free kick.

It is about concentration. In possession arsenal are in the mind set that nothing bad can happen

Pathetic arsenal. Well done.