take it however you want, it's really lame to blame a goal to a curse hahaha

i honestly believed that Angel of Death worded it wrongly. i myself think that Arsenal ex-players do have the tendency to score against us, as do other ex-players against their old teams. we just noticed ours because we always watch our matches

and if you have nothing more constructive points to add, do F OFF from here!

more on the game, i honestly cannot see how anyone can defend Average Al for his last 2 performances. DM not provided enough cover? we do not even have a DM once we went 2-1 down

Robin van Persie has issued the following statement following an incident with Emmanuel Adebayor at Saturday's game:

"I am sad and disappointed by my former team-mate Emmanuel Adebayor's mindless and malicious stamp on me during today's match.

"We are both professional footballers and I know that the game is physical, I too have made hard and sometimes mis-timed challenges but never with the intention of hurting an opponent. He set out to hurt me today.

"I knew he was aiming for a collision because he changed the angle of his body to allow contact to be made.  He moved backwards when his natural momentum would have taken him forward. I find that deeply disrespectful. He has shown a real lack of class today, to me and the fans.

"I do feel lucky that I have not suffered a greater injury. The contact was only centimetres from my eye. I have not received an apology from him, there were no words exchanged afterwards. He had his own agenda today and that is bad for football. It's bad for the game we all love.

"I want to make it clear that this has nothing to do with the result of today's match.  We do not hide from that disappointment but I need to speak out about his behaviour."

On dropping more points in Manchester…
"We have the same feeling at little bit as the first game in Manchester [two weeks ago]. There was more in the game for us than what we got and we go unfortunately home with the same spirit, the same disappointment and of course with the feeling that we should have got a much better result today considering the way the two teams played. But they negotiated better the two turning points of the game, and I believe we were defensively a bit shaky today."

On accusations of defensive naivety…
“It's difficult to say because I believe many players came back from international games, and when you play away it's very difficult to say. We're not completely sharp and fresh like we can be and I felt it had an impact on our defensive concentration."

On the balance of play…
"We looked always in control, especially in the second half, and when it became 2-1 we threw everything forward and got caught on the break. But at the end of the day, when you concede four goals and you look at the time of possession we had and the number of shots on goal they had and what we had, it's very difficult to take. But when you make mistakes at that level you pay for it."

On Adebayor's alleged stamp on Van Persie…
"I haven’t spoken to him yet [Van Persie] and I heard about it on the radio, but I haven’t seen the incident because the ball was moving away. I will have to see it again to assess that."

On Adebayor's celebration in front of the Arsenal fans…
"As you know that is not welcome, but his attitude and his behaviour is out of my control and I cannot influence that."

On Tomas Rosicky's scoring return…
"It's good to have him [Rosicky] back, but he's not completely fit yet to play in top-level competition. I think we need to be patient."

exactly, its just lame to even mention the word "curse". there's no such thing, it was a coincidence and due to abe's skill.

as for being constructive, i do think arsenal needs to buy more players to replace at least Abe. if you are facing a team of Abe, Bellamy, and Wright Philips, and your best striker is Niklas Bendtner, how could you expect to win?

who is Abe?

and by what ground you said our best striker is Nik? our best striker was not even starting tonight

quality-wise we do not need anymore bodies. a midfielder of Samir, Cesc, Denilson, Alex Song, Aaron and Abou is good enoguh to challenge for the title. however, knowing our injuries trends, additional qualities won't hurt either me think. the fact that our boss weird obsession of playing player out of positions does not help either. his obsession with playing Abou also will always be a mystery to me

i think adebayor cant remember where is he from.. without wenger i dont think there is adebayor and the way he act showing that he is has no respect to those who respect him and yet he purposely want to kick our robin v.P 

very dissapointed ... is this what we called him PROFESSIONAL player?

Van Persie reaction to Adebayor incident

Robin van Persie has issued the following statement following an incident with Emmanuel Adebayor at Saturday's game:

"I am sad and disappointed by my former team-mate Emmanuel Adebayor's mindless and malicious stamp on me during today's match.

"We are both professional footballers and I know that the game is physical, I too have made hard and sometimes mis-timed challenges but never with the intention of hurting an opponent. He set out to hurt me today.

"I knew he was aiming for a collision because he changed the angle of his body to allow contact to be made.  He moved backwards when his natural momentum would have taken him forward. I find that deeply disrespectful. He has shown a real lack of class today, to me and the fans.

"I do feel lucky that I have not suffered a greater injury. The contact was only centimetres from my eye. I have not received an apology from him, there were no words exchanged afterwards. He had his own agenda today and that is bad for football. It's bad for the game we all love.

"I want to make it clear that this has nothing to do with the result of today's match.  We do not hide from that disappointment but I need to speak out about his behaviour."

almunia is unlucky la.. cant blame on him for da 1st goal...

arsenal weakness at the back really need to improve. the dm just cant provide enough cover...