[Match Thread] Arsenal F.C. v.s. FC Porto

1 minute of extra time is a fucking joke

arsenal scored because I cracked open a cold one for this Tuesday night. You're welcome lads

What did Arteta do to this refs mother?

Just looked over at the match thread over at r/gunners. I beg we never turn into that dumpster fire. Such a negative vibe.

Varela was a twat in the press, be happy to see him crushed.

This commentator called the ref out. Said he hasn't done that good a job despite his "experience".

Thank you.

We need to counter their offside trap and have someone on the edge of the D charge into the box for set pieces

Havertz needs to be more involved honestly, not been able to get onto those headers.

Uefa should fucking crown us now for services to football. Fuck all these "Credit to Porto" commentators, they were truly awful to watch over both legs.

why is Rio Ferdinand on my fucking stream

I AM BITING MY TEETH WITH MY OTHER TEETH CURRENTLY

Hell fuck yeah

WENDELL YOU FUCKING CUNT, KNOW THAT YOU DESERVE THIS

At least we get to have the penalty shootout on home turf. That should help us a little bit.

Honestly Andrew puts it better than I ever could https://files.catbox.moe/sg28vt.png

Fuck the ref

GET IN THERE

I would kinda love to get one more and then time waste the rest of the game

Looking forward to multiple of those tackles to go unpunished and then Rice to be carded for his first challenge

Oh that was a close one, good start from the lads.

Lol why is George Constanza working the sideline?

Referee felt bad for not giving Porto a free kick in the last 30 seconds.

Ref didn't even play advantage, Saka continues to be discriminated against

Cheeky from White

You have to love how nonchalant White is about everything to do with football.

what a ball from White honestly

I don't actually want this, but I'm imagining we score in the next 8 minutes and the added time goes from +3 to +50

COYG! See you in the post match thread

Partey helping Jesus get dressed. Hahah

Man, I feel bad for White - he overlaps tirelessly, but no one ever takes the bait because teams would rather let him go than not triple mark Saka

Ref's lost the game, if he ever had it to begin with.

Sure Porto can be angry at Saliba, but we had a fucking goal disallowed for nothing

Oh now he calls fouls?

John Green: This Arsenal game is giving me palpitations and I'm a neutral.

https://twitter.com/sportswithjohn/status/1767678759048565001

T R O S S A R D

I am actually in shock... this ref has to a Manchurian candidate from Manchester or something

Pepe counting on his fingers "39, 40, 41. That's how old I am."

I would love it if we could play with 15% less lackadaiscalness, please

Oh get the fuck up Wendell you twat

It's like Porto are trying to speedrun this match or something. Constantly feign injury, constantly put the ball out for throw-ins, never get carded. Where's the downside?

I hate this commentating. Get me away... I think I've reached my limit

I hate to say it, but seeing Nketiah come on doesn't give me much hope. Just about anybody else and I'd at least be happy to see fresh legs out there. But, even when Nketiah has fresh legs he doesn't seem to move in a way that puts pressure on defenders. He'll probably be useful if it comes to penalties though.

FUCK YOU REF

FUCK YOU REF

FUCK YOU REF

FUCK YOU REF

Oh wow, he can card players for their actions

They're injuring themselves haha

Raya whew

they've wasted so much time that it's gone from 1 minute to 3 of added time

What a twat! Lmao... man this is an absolute joke. What a joke of a club. No wonder they aren't doing as well domestically when playing such negative football all the time

Howdy all! See the time wasting has started already...

RAYAAAA!

7:46 into 3 minutes of added time.

Tomorrow we'll see Varela at an amusement park having the time of his life

the timewasting is making me mental. We need to score early

All I want is for Saka to play like he can't be pushed off the ball, because he fucking can't

GET IN

LET'S FUCKING GO

I wonder what the English media would call Arteta if he reacted to anything like Conceiao does. "Deranged", perhaps?

MORE OF THAT PLEASE

Surely even neutrals can see how fucked this game is

What the hell even is this ref?

What a fucking touch from Leo

I'm trying not to complain too much, but this is such an awful game. From some of the refereeing to Porto playing and acting like twats... and then having to hear the commentators spout shit like "altitude sickness..." wtf are you on about? They're not playing on fucking Everest.

Sorry for the mini rant. I need more coffee lol

Holy shit that was amazing from Pepe, gotta hand it to him

Martin, what a lad

Stop trying to pass it out to White after Saka's already worked it inside!

Ok TNT you can't call the fucking year 2002 "twenty two"

Raya nice

oooo some decent chances there

Much better lads

let's go out there and win this shit

get the fuck up you lazy timewasting twat

How the fuck is that not a foul ref?

come on lads let's score a fucking goal

That was beautiful from Jorgi

REF

Ok lads lets keep cooking

Leoooooooooooo

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

ONE

MINUTE

ADDED

TIME

So you add one minute on, acknowledging that there was some sort of time wasted, proceed to watch Porto waste 2 minutes and 30 seconds of it, and then as soon as we kick the ball, you blow the whistle?

They have two pepes? god help us

Calma Decs

Get in!

@Astrealix 4-2!

FUCKING COME ON

Big Gabi didn't hear no bell.

Cmon lads! Let's put this game to bed!

Whatever happens at the end of this game at least I won't have to watch this guillable muppet ref or Porto again this season.

I'm glad I'm not paying for this commentary.

Was this what Mikel meant about we need to suffer?

EDWARD

Woot woot!

Kind of seems like this half of added time has gone by in a flash, at least compared to the first 90.

Martin: "We go first". <3

Going dark on the thread so I get no spoilers from Lemmy, see you guys on the other side

Bro the Porto physios might as well just take up permanent residence on our penalty box

They think a BIT of time wasting is going on. A BIT of time wasting. BIT

Bit must mean something else in different countries

Ref, don't give him that face. It's your fucking fault for not punishing the Porto players and making them feel like they can get away with whatever they want - because they can

Not surprised to see Porto playing as if they were just handed a lifeline, since, you know... they were

Where are the subs?!?

I can't fucking even with this ref anymore. Havertz has the audacity to BREATHE within 5 feet of a Porto player and that's a free kick and a stern talking to, but Jorginho and Trossard get their fucking clocks cleaned out and nothing at all.

ok can the ref fucking do something

lol okay then. Nice smirk from the ref. Draco Malfoy looking motherfucker

Lol Jesus forgot to take the warmup shirt off

SO CLOSE

After Brentford, corners seem pointless if we constantly get fouls called on us as we take them

We're knocking on that door

we need to hold onto the damn ball!

So fucking close from Ode

FUCK YOU REF

Porto trying for another wonder goal

Lads getting frustrated. We need to just score a banger. Elneny on the pitch maybe? XD

Oh wow, exact same push and no card. I wonder why?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, HE FUCKING SPUN SAKA AND NOTHING. YOU PIECE OF SHIT WANKER REF

Whoever this Scottish twat is said something along the lines of, I know the Arsenal fans don't like this referree, but I quite like him, I think he's doing well.

I'm on BEIN now, I think?

ref what

FUCK FUCK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL

lol 3 mins ET

Thigh grabbing not a foul. Got it.

see the thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in

BRO ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW. This is corruption plain and simple

Oh we're going one pivot lol

Could everyone STOP TAKING THE PISS

FUCK OFF RIO FERDINAND

Fuck off... whole team is full of shit

Get the fuck in!!!!

Is this a play to eliminate as many English teams as possible so they miss out on having 5 or so teams in European football next year, or whatever it is. The coefficient, I think it is

Lots of fresh legs on for them. Need to not get excited and calm down for a bit

I'm genuinely curious what would happen if we brought Vieira on. He might have to be stretchered off.

the corruption on display here is elite levels

Atmosphere is electric

Omg get off the pitch

Omg B wake up

That was like 12 seconds of added time

The club knew it'd be a while before we'd get to watch Arsenal again so decided to give us extra

Really gonna need Trossard to step up today.

what's wrong with that from havertz, ref?

We have a 2 week-ish break after this game?

Porto time wasting in the tunnel? lol

LETS. FUCKING. GO.

Who thinks this won't go to penalties?

Having my most recent FM save been in Portugal for a good while is making me remember how much I hated Porto.

@Astrealix 3-1!

Yes Trossard, get in the ear of the ref. Bring him to the light! xD

REF

Saka seems completely knackered, but there's no way Mikel takes him off in this position

Imagine the two Pepes intentionally colliding to waste EVEN MORE TIME.

At this rate Saka's gonna end up like Eduardo

Who would be our subs?

get Varela off the pitch wtf

that's what kai havertz is made for

No card for that?

Yo this fucking ref

GTFI

Yes review that shit

Newcastle should honestly take notes if they want to win any more games this season. This is the template for playing cunt football.

Nerves still showing.

God I fucking hate Tyldesley on this feed.

REF????

WTF ref!! How was that not a foul??

bit early cuz i'm waiting for my dinner (ish?) to be microwaved and i don't want it to be late lol

Looks like it hurt on Pepe tbf, but Varela needs to get stuffed

That wasn't a foul at all, lol

A+ for effort on that shot from the free kick lol

Gabi XL is a unit

TROSSARD

tbf I think there probably coulda been a free kick porto from Saliba there

WHAT. A. FUCKING. RELIEF!

These tackles seem pretty intentional. Perhaps the referee should use one of his little bits of plastic to tell the players that they're not supposed to do that?

Watching this match is more tiring than my workout this morning