Palass A Mon 21st Aug KO 8pm

[Stuart L (2)]

Glad we won but it was painful to watch.

Yep shocking

[mcdowell42]

Cootes might as well given the whistle to the Palace fans ,it seemed like they were reffing the game anyway

[rodders999]

Stopwatch on every throw in during every game for the rest of the season now please. Any player holding the ball for longer than 7 seconds needs to be booked.

[Natural Born Gooner]

Refereeing incompetence aside, if that's the state of our play against 2 poor teams then it's going to be a long and frustrating season

[Perryashburtongroves]

Tomiyasu booked for 8 second throw and then a non existent foul. Meanwhile Ayew gets away with a blatant one on Saka bearing down on goal. Fucking ridiculous.

Needs to be raised with the Premier League this week. All the cameras and all the radio communication and they still do that. It's unacceptable. No law about holding the ball before giving it to another player for time wasting but as always, the refs fucking make it up and look like the clueless cúnts they are. No contact for the second booking. I hope we're all over the compliants process this week. Absolutely fucking embarrassing as always from the worst officiated league in the world

[augie]

Ayew not getting second yellow was a disgrace - I understand the hesitancy for refs to give second yellow sometimes (even if I dont agree with it), but to show such double standards in his treatment of ayew and tommy is fcuking criminal

Make no mistake this manager is going to be a liability this season - if the club allow gabriel to go before signing a better centre back, then someone in the club needs to be shot

[Retro Gunner]

Absolutely sick to death of Granit Xhaka being his same old anonymous, useless self.








Oh, sorry....it was Kai Havertz.

[cameron326]

Tomiyasu didn’t use his brain for the first one, as the total time for the throw was already significant and the ref was getting twitchy. The second was an utter joke though. I mean if he’d red carded Ayew for a worse one earlier on then fair enough - he could have just about sent off Tomiyasu for flicking his hand in Ayew’s direction for the sake of consistency. But having let Ayew off with blatantly and purposely taking down Saka bearing down on their penalty box, to then red card Tomiyasu was absolutely farcical referreeing. Decent 3 points though and ironically Palace may have had more joy against us playing on the counter with 11 men in terms of creating clear chances.

[Natural Born Gooner]

Pundit in the studio on beIN absolutely nailing it on the ref about the red card and the Palace non penalty.

[Perryashburtongroves]

Declan Rice is the Paul Davis character which we've needed for so long. He's not a Vieira player but he'll sit in there, hold the ball, find the pass and pick the runner when he's on. That's what we need right now.

[mcdowell42]

Understand Arsenal have no intention to sell Gabriel Magalhães despite Al Ittihad interest #AFC

Arsenal not even intentioned to indicate a price tag for Brazilian centre back at this stage. He’s expected to stay.

[Midz]

Understand Arsenal have no intention to sell Gabriel Magalhães despite Al Ittihad interest #AFC

Arsenal not even intentioned to indicate a price tag for Brazilian centre back at this stage. He’s expected to stay.

Havertz is expected to score yet he doesn't.

[falkirk goon]

A win is a win and all that shite

[John F]

Refereeing incompetence aside, if that's the state of our play against 2 poor teams then it's going to be a long and frustrating season

Unfortunately, the two wins will in Arteta's mind convince him to stick with Partey as a right back and Havertz starting.

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

All I can say is that I've not heard any mention of the ayew non yellow card on slysports, two absolute detestable *word censored* who are known Arsenal haters, no surprise but wait till it happens to their cuntss of a team, oh wait