Given Giroud's height I'd think he should score a header or two, in fact when I looked for his video he did score quite many goals with header but he doesn't seem to be able to fight for header so far, I think he needs to go to the gym more to strengthen his body as he can't even receive aerial ball well sometimes.

Another problem with Giroud seems to be that he doesn't read passes from midfield very well. To break a defense like this you need splitting passes unseen by the opponents to reach the front line for your striker to go 1 on 1 with the GK. He needs to attack the offside trap more, up to this point I haven't seen him flagged offside too much. Cazorla and Ramsey always tried to create that yesterday but their balls but well closed by Norwich's defenders, even Arteta did a brilliant one yesterday only to be headed away.

I might be expecting too much from him but he's our only usable, natural CF at the moment and if he doesn't deliver it will be hard, can't expect Cazorla to net something like his third goal in West Ham game every week. Then the flanks.. Podolski's been on his off day for too long! Gervinho too wasteful in front third and he should learn how to cross. I only saw his first cross yesterday and it's really a brilliant first touch cross.

This is not a forgivable performance. We could have conceded at the very least three more goals if not for Norwich indecisiveness in front of goal. The BPL is a harsh and punishing league and so if you allow your team to perform like that then we will become a mid table team very soon.

This post has been edited by JustForFun: Oct 21 2012, 10:57 PM

Szczesny is still young and being young makes you aggressive, which could be dangerous at times and cause you to make fatal mistakes like what he did in Euro.

I hope he will be more humble after coming back from injury, a GK needs confidence but you have to stay calm and composed and not committing needless fouls. That's what experience will teach you so Szczesny will definitely need more game time but at the moment we might need a better back up keeper. Mannone is just not up for the job, time and time again he missed saves he should have made, hence the reason Wenger wants to sell him last summer.

The January window will be important to us, we better spend on some prolific goalscorers as we definitely need to beef up our attacking options.

Looks like Wilshere is playing well for the u21 team... Involved in all chances created and two goals scored by Eisfield. Time to be bold and play Eisfield on the right flank!

Wilshere grabbed assist for Arsenal U21

Well.. we're playing at le Forteresse

So fxxking tired with Gervinho ans Ramsey

It puzzles me as to why Gervinho is playing the CF position... Theres not a thing he did right at all!

Meanwhile look at Dortmund... One chance and Lewandoski converted... And here we are struggling to score against Schalke

Gervinho can't even pass!!

Ramsey with his poor passing again

Sub that should have been made years ago

Time to sleep

Such a terrible game to watch. Wasted my time staying up to see such poor performance.

Why can't Wenger f**king realize that Ramsey has been cutting off all the strings Arteta and Cazorla try to build in the midfield, he's hardworking but all his hard work HAS DONE MORE HARM THAN GOOD TO THE TEAM. His f**king misplaced passes always make us concede hard-earned possession and his two attempts to cross the ball near the end are just JOKE, flying far away from the goal!

Then there's the defense, what in the flying f**k to leave Klaas Jan Huntelaar lurking in front of your goal to go 1 on 1 against Mannone, both TV5 and BFG are guilty for second goal! Then there's Santos, I don't even know what to say anymore, it's him that gave space for the cross of first goal. Then there's the Mannone who's known for his shot stopping? It's time to say even his shot stopping is mediocre at best, true you don't expect GK to save that kind of goals but a good keeper will be able to save those every once in a while, he's saved 0 of those hard, close range goals thus far! Not to mention his ridiculous decision to bring down Affellay.

Going upfront I don't know what to say anymore, playing Gervinho and Ramsey beside each other? Then you'll have first shot on target at 90th minute. So many glorious chances wasted by Gervinho and he and Ramsey are just trash. It's painful to watch them two play.

With Walcott current contract issue, I doubt he will be started even though he should. Everytime he comes on the game changes in some way and although reluctant, I'd say that he's our best goal threat at the moment as Giroud is still finding his feet and Podolski's been poor lately.

With that we have Ramsey and Chambo going for that position. Hopefully Chambo can get in front of the pecking order but I'm not sure as Ramsey is the anak angkat... but since Chambo performed remarkably against United last season I think he might be played. If Ramsey plays, there's totally no chance...

Ramsey MUST not play. He's the weak link in our team, heck he can't even provide a decent cross when he play on the right and he is of no threat in front of the goal! I'd much rather push Sagna to the front and let Jenkinson play RB.

Faster check who's the referee for our match next week!!!

We got it with our offside goal

Meanwhile in US

Even though unfair I'd say it might be a better result that way. Chelsea look the team to beat this season, they had four other very good goal attempts bar the ones that went in: Luiz FK, Torres header, Mata's low drive and Cahill attempts. DDG saved all of em with his reflex.

Then when they went on to pressure MU when they're parking the bus, it doesn't seem to be able to stop them at all. Very unlucky to concede that own deflected own goal and a defensive blunder to provide that much space and allow VP to score, otherwise they look tight even with 9 man defending against 11 devils.

They would be one scary team to face when they get Falcao to replace Torres, who IMO has been the weak link to be honest.

This post has been edited by JustForFun: Oct 29 2012, 11:18 AM

He will play on the flank that is closest to the stand so he can communicate and receive order better.