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hensben:
Mourhino will really fit Newcastle United, they will win epl with him because the current players are his type.

If Mou couldn't do anything with his type of players at Tottenham, what makes you think he'll do something (as carrying league) with Newcastle?

Most of you can't just stomach the fact that Mou isn't that special as you think he once was.
And you're so always known for making such careless remarks such as the bolded

mostob:
Abegii... they must go to Dubai o.

Lol....
Omorr, Arteta said they need to rest oo, Moreover Dubai will be too short since it's immediately after Fa cup ties most players will be heading to int'l

germaphobe:
I know that once ATM eliminates Inter this conversation is going to start. The thing is that you guys misunderstood jod.era and what he had in mind. Porto have a good attack but you can't compare it to that of Inter, an Inter team that have scored 70 Seria A goals this season, do you need to see how many matches that they've won by 3 or 4 goals difference?, No be only Porto Sabi beat person by 5 goals. The fact that they met resistance from a well organized defense doesn't take away their record. I don't watch the Portuguese league but I have seen Inter play this season countless time to know what I'm saying. Checking their goal record and statistics can easily end this argument but what do I know?.

Lol... Omorr they really misunderstood what I actually meant and to be honest I really didn't expect that post to garner such reaction.

WhoDeyHause:
Jode calm down You won Porto in 90 mins or with fifa golden goal? Well I didn't say you won't qualify against porto I said we'll observe your jorginho as we come into the business end of the season I thought you are fighting on two fronts right now?
And I posted that because of the mouth you people were making that you will destroy Porto, you will do this, you will do that as if you don't know their history in the champions league, I'm sure your shirt was filled with sweat after Raya's last save.

Lol, you can keep on observing till the end of season.

Whether we flog Porto 8-0 or 15-14(through penalties), the goal is to qualify. We can do the flogging in the league where goal difference matters.

Anyways, keep on watching Jorginho

iamoyindamola:
Same inter say never qualify

Hopefully, we don't pair with any of the two. I see any of the two to give us problems and I'm suspecting that inter will qualify tonight.

daveP:
Exactly. Especially Jover.

Evanilson is such a tactical guy. I love his press energy.

Lol... Immediately Taremi entered, their attack just solemnly died

WhoDeyHause:
Give us Madrid
Give us Bayern
Give us Apari
Give us Supa strikers
Give us Shaolin soccer
But Portugal sheffield united last night made my gunners be like

Lmaooo...
You don forget say na Jorginho led Arsenal beat Porto ba?

I know say you go don delete that draft of me boasting that if Jorginho starts we'll win Porto

Anyways, try another day

BlueRayDick:
Na all of us watch that match na. If our defenders had given Porto attackers breathing space, ethey would've hurt us. Didn't u see the yellow card Saliba copped in the first half? He had to hug and drag that attacker if not we are in soup.

An attack that can score the kind of goal against Raya in the first leg would've hurt us real bad if our defenders were complacent.

We're actually saying the same thing with different wordings but it's all good...

iamoyindamola:
I disagree the Porto I see yesterday are better stock than inter
Inter won't be super aggressive like Porto
We also have attackers that can dismantle and hurt inter
That Porto of yesterday made me scared

Okay then we'll possibly hope and see.

But to be honest, I wasn't really scared ystdy in terms of their attack. What really scared me was breaking their defence and playing our game. Their Midfield and defence are really really organised

BlueRayDick:
U made two contrasting points in the same post. U claim Porto lacked that great attack to compete them and u also posited that our defence deserve kudos.

Okay let me rephrase my post like this: Arsenal defence being at their 100% was the reason why u think Porto lacked that great attack to compete them. They have a great attack that blasted Benfica away 5-0 last week and 2 weeks ago they scored 1 unreplied goal against same Arsenal

Their defence and keeper is certainly great. Arsenal could hardly get a sniff.

Porto attack is good but it's not as great as their defence. That's the completeness I'm talking about.

I believe good and great are two different things. I never said it's a bad attack

iamoyindamola:
You claimed Porto attack wasn't effective enough
Trying to play down their attack and I tell you for free if we give them more space they will hurt us
The best saves in the match is from Raya apart from the goal Costa didn't do much

I never said their attack is bad which is what perhaps you guys are implying, I said it's not great. I didn't even say it's not good, I said it's not great. There's a reason I praised our defence for shutting them down.
Inter of Lautaro and Thuram(with their Midfielders)will surely trouble us than the attack of Evanilson and Co.


How you guys claimed I said "ineffective artack" is what I don't understand

Lush100:
What a performance.

I knew we would win. I know we just needed to score that goal to balance the deficit from the 1st leg.
Raya is proving to be the signing.

I had wanted G.Jesus to play from the left with Saka on the right.
I was only concerned about him being clinical in front of goal.
Gabriel is good against teams like this. Because he attracts many players and able to release the ball to our players who may be free.

Arteta should take them to Dubai for another hot weather treatment....Dubai Magic....

Arteta said no Dubai again this season oo

BlueRayDick:
Don't mind him; instead of praising our players for shutting their attack down, he say porto lack great attack.

The same Porto beat Benfica 5-0 last week o.

Did my post in anyway imply that our players didn't do that?
It's literally present in that post so I don't know which praise you're talking about again?

daveP:
It's not that David Raya is good at PKs o. This is another backroom staff moment actually


Inaki Cana has been training Raya for PKs in last 2months. That went on silently sotey it was even hard to wonder if the guy was known for such expertise before pk started.

Truly this is a crew influence on this team.

Jover
Cuesta
Stuiverberg
Cana

All working hard and reaping results. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
He didn't even need a bottle to see where anyone will kick.

There's a reason Arteta deh always celebrate goals with them anytime we score or take pix with them when he's been awarded coach with the award.
He knows these success is not only him and that these guys put in alot of work for the success of the team.

If you notice before the Pk started, Stuivenberg was already showing Raya something on the pad. I believe it's what they've worked on.

The togetherness in the team is unreal

mine3112:
The coach may have a genuine reason why the guy should still be part of the team. I know the guy is humble, loyal and ready to play anytime he's called upon.

Cc: Limcar

andrewbaba44:
You self you see am nah

They should have given them 5/6 odds ,those guys are good ,was tipping arsenal to win 2-0/2-1 ,so wasn’t surprised it went to extra time and Pk

Yes pundits and analysts

Same here too. I was expecting either 1-0 or 2-0 win. Watching first leg, I knew the 2nd leg will be really really hard and I was expecting extra time too.
So glad the guys weren't carried away by all these pundits and analyst talks if not, if we'd believed in the hype and underrated Porto na we for deh cry by now cos those guys been mean us

andrewbaba44:
Bookies giving Porto 12 odds against arsenal is one of the biggest disrespect I have ever seen

Arsenal have been winning teams 5-0 4-0 at the epl on a steady so they think they will get it easy against Porto ,Porto is even a better European team than arsenal self

The disrespect to other leagues ehnnn,giving Porto 12 odds as if na Copenhagen

E shock me Tbh. A whole Porto oo. It's not as if they're one kind Conpenhagen and we're prime Barca

It was a big disrespect no cap and I believe that's what made them very aggressive to put put such disrespect to the bin and I'm not even talking about the bookies but pundits and most analysts who believed we'll roll over them

This team is on the ascendancy but one thing I will always acknowledge these guys is their "efforts". No matter how, whether they win, lose or draw, they always always show effort and "care". You'll hardly see them being bullied or lacking desire. They always care and you can see it in their celebrations.

And there's nothing fans love more than these attributes!!

Shegzdave:
Thank God for the win and the strong Mentality the boys showed int the PKs after playing for 120mins.

You see that Inter ehn, I was discussing with a friend of mine who is also an Arsenal fan that I pray not to see those inter boys cause those ones are something else

Those ones looks complete in their "compactness" masterclass esp Inter. Porto for all their compactness and organisations lack that great attack to 'complete' them. Kudos to arsenal defence and our organisation for trying to even shut them down but Inter will be a whole new difficulty

Kilishihunter:
Very good ooh cause Costa is a good penalty expert, and raya too, even got a hand to the second Porto penalty scored, I'm sure few teams will be willing to go to penalty kicks with them as of now but then again penalties can be a game of Russian roulette

Costa is good but if you watch the way arsenal took their penalties tactically, you'll know it'll be hard for a goalkeeper to save them. We did same against Man City in the community shield and just like Costa ystdy, their GK went the wrong way.
That long time delay arsenal do take before they strike the ball have a way of mentally disbalancing a GK.

Wowwww!!!... Finally, after not being able to progress past the round of 16 for years, then not be in the competition for another 7years we came back and we're now in the quarters. 14 long years since last time we were in quarters
Congratulations to the boys!!!

I was so happy when it was heading to PKs knowing that Raya had good PK abilities. The tactics which our players used for the Pk(long seconds of delay before striking the ball) was really really effective. It totally disbalances the GK and his thoughts on where the ball was to be actually played if it was rushed. Also the four PK takers were the best takers I can actually think of in this team (bar Trossard and Jorginho who were already out). Kudos to the selections

Porto really deserve the applause. They were really good mehhn. If this match was played 10 times, I doubt the scorelines would exceed more than 1-0s. Skills, discipline, aggressiveness they have it. And boy, who's that Wendell?. Old man with a young body. That guy no allow Saka breathe for one second.

That assist from Odegaard is filthy. The move in which he evaded his marker and the pass to perfection to beat the players, was all sublime. Geez!!
The ice cool Trossard. Infact, in that situation, it's him I'm 97% that'll convert that all important chance in our team. That goal was really pitch-perfect. If that's the only reason why Martinelli was unfortunately injured, I'll take it with full chest .
Very important player Trossard.

Hmmm, At an aside, I hope we don't meet Athletico or inter sooner cos those two na advanced Porto

Football break till 31st. The boys needs it.
Still in awe for their mentality

COYG!!!

Lush100:
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It wasn't a recent post I think
Brentford Jersey was blue

Naah, it is same Jersey

Colson:
Lol. I no first dey take that guy serious, definitely a part time fan.
Person wey dey clamour for Xavi to stay and said our level is mediocrity. He's not a true culer.

Lol...
Everyone have different opinions sha. It doesn't make anyone less of a fan as long as they're not trolling

DissTroy:
Odd feeling for Nigerian Culers that the player who is most likely to end Barca's run in the UCL and make them unhappy is a Nigerian player who has made them happy the most and who we want to see succeed - Osimhen.

Whatever the result, we still lose.

Lol... Nothing ought to be Odd here.
The only reason Osimhen suppose to get any support from culers is if he's playing for Nigeria or against another team not named Barca.
Anything other than that suppose be OYO

dostr4:
Dr pulisic is showing him levels.

Lol... Imagine

It Really shows how Rafael Leao don drop this season. No wonder nobody deh hear him name again

So these boys still do same thing against Brentford too

I go like see whether dem go do am against Porto and Man City

Spy360:
Ok. If that's your opinion it's completely fine. However I don't think Liverpool have more quality individually than Man City. People underestimate the effort of Klopp in building a team that stay consistent over a season. What you see as individual performance in Liverpool, I see it as team work.

Liverpool play in different shapes that carves open any defense irrespective of who they play against. The only manager that has successfully maneuvered Klopp tactically is Arteta and that was after two losses.

Well, your points are very very valid.
I agree with it too

eph12:
If the owners truly listen to fans more than logic, Ole will still be here by now. If only they truly listened to fans, we won't be in this ETH mess.

When did the legends start paraing? Was it not recently, after many years of decline, that they couldn't take it anymore? And I think it was majorly Scholes that was hardly ever happy or satisfied. These legends also had problem with Mourinho more than any other coach for obvious reasons. In fact, I believe they were impressed with ETH history, his brand of football, and what it means for the club. I repeat ETH had enough goodwill to ride any storm in the first year or so at Manchester United

Well, after thinking everything through, I think I finally agree with your thoughts

Akinbahm:
That match reaffirm my stance on picking Klopp ahead of Pep, I was like is this not the same Looserpool I thought is dead last season.

If you are good you are good... kudos to Arteta too for competing against the best.

Lol, I knew Liverpool will be back this season as long as Klopp is there
Klopp is the best coach therein and the best Man Manager.

As for Arteta, he deserves his kudos too. I'm so glad reading his pre-match interview ystdy when he was talking that we're at the stage of winning big trophies and that that's what we're aiming at presently. Odegaard also affirmed same stance.

It really bodes well for the future

eph12:
Facts ko, oil ni.

There are so many complaints about Poch playing style from chelsea fans, not just the result. You know this

With his reputation coming into Man u and the craze for winning, any coach not named Guardiola would have panicked. The difference between you guys and others is that Una legends too dey para ontop Una club matter when any small thing happened.

You guys don't have the players and with the uproar over the first two games and the kind of limited/deficient players he had, I doubt you guys wouldn't have mind if you finished the season outside top 6 and even without a trophy. Hindsight is a beautiful thing they say

Also Knowing the kind of owners who listens to fans more than logic, I doubt Ten Hag would even have lasted here after first season with poor results.

ChristoBam:
Are people now saying they'd be happy if we were languishing in 12th but playing good footy and bossing possession stats.

I've watched enough Chelsea games to know this is a huge lie. In reality, results matters.

I can't look at that backline, then watch Casemiro, Mctominay and Bruno do their thing, then delude myself that the manager should be playing good footy while getting the results.

After 2 years, with 400m spent, we should have have a better squad, right? But mistakes were made. Good thing is we can step into the future confidently with this manager because we now have one of the best structures in Europe.

One reason I'm even super confident Ten Hag is staying is I've seen people go through managerial options and no one on the list is that special. Not one.

This here is facts!!!