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

1 minute of extra time is a fucking joke

It's Champions League 🤷🏻‍♀️
That is truly fucked

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

Thank you.

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.

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

Have another man
- Wait, not yet!

What did Arteta do to this refs mother?

signed the favourite son Leo

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

The timing is off a bit, he'll get one

Fuck the ref

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

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

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

two. Need that safety if we're gonna timewaste.
Or, or, hear me out. 10-0.
Nah at least two

Hell fuck yeah

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.

I AM BITING MY TEETH WITH MY OTHER TEETH CURRENTLY

why is Rio Ferdinand on my fucking stream

WENDELL YOU FUCKING CUNT, KNOW THAT YOU DESERVE THIS

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

Good call, even to pick up an errant clearance
- Easy to be an analyst when you have a view from the spidercam. But I hope Airpod Albert is watching :)

GET IN THERE

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

He's made them feel entitled to free kicks.
- And made them immune to cards. Up until recently, anyway.

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

This was about Nico going down after jumping for a ball and falling to the floor when his poor shoulder was brushed

They're injuring themselves haha

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

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

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

Partey helping Jesus get dressed. Hahah

7:46 into 3 minutes of added time.

Oh now he calls fouls?

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?

there is no downside and hasn't been since they did it against Man United 2 decades ago.
- None whatsoever.

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

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

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

Fuck their coach, I'll be glad if we drop 6 on them tonight
- He had the audacity to say we didn't go to Porto to win last time around. If that was truly the case, then technically neither team did, lol

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

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

Oh get the fuck up Wendell you twat

RAYAAAA!

COYG! See you in the post match thread

Raya whew

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

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

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

I had to mute it, I could feel my blood pressure rising by the minute
- Same thing here on CBS, god it's insufferable
The stream I'm watching is from TNT Sports, and the Scottish commentator keeps saying "Yayzus".
He's Brazilian. Spanish speakers pronounce it similar to "Hayzus", Portuguese speakers pronounce it "Jesus" with a "J" like "James". This really shouldn't be difficult, but for some reason people keep making that mistake.
- If it was "Yayzus" he'd be Scandinavian, haha

GET IN

Surely even neutrals can see how fucked this game is

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

Cheeky from White

Must've caught the Bayern game lmao

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

goal's a goal innit then we get paid

what a ball from White honestly

PEPE IS 41??
- They've only been mentioning it every two minutes
- Something like that, yeah

Lol why is George Constanza working the sideline?

Saw that too haha

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

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.

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

FUCK YOU REF

MORE OF THAT PLEASE

What the hell even is this ref?

Always 11 vs 12 in Europe. Got to suck it up.
- This isn't 12... it's at least 15 from Porto's physios
- Also, I'm going to whine for a bit but why do we have to suck it up, exactly? Why is it never the other team that gets no benefit of the doubt and blatant favoritism?

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

T R O S S A R D

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

Nice word, don't think I've ever heard that one before
- I'm not even sure if it's a real word, but if it is, we're playing with it right now

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

Oh wow, he can card players for their actions

I was surprised it came out

What a fucking touch from Leo

LET'S FUCKING GO

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

altitude sickness??? wtf???
- Yeah, I couldn't tell you. Maybe I missed a previous joke or part of their "banter". But if we played a shit pass like they had at that point, it would have been put down to carelessness or "nerves".
  Unless the guy just meant jet lag, but it's the same timezone anyway, so I don't see how that tracks, lol
What fucking coverage are you on lol???
- I think it's TNT Sports? Not sure, but there's a Scottish guy and some English guy.
  I think the Scotsman excused a shit pass from Porto as "atlitude sickness". It may have been in jest, but I don't see how? It was just a bizarre comment

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

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

You know what would be cool? If they punished teams for timewasting. Like ever.

Leoooooooooooo

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

ok can the ref fucking do something

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

EDWARD

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.

Thigh grabbing not a foul. Got it.

My friend, is okay, no?

lol 3 mins ET

oooo some decent chances there

B is so strong. So strong.

Was this what Mikel meant about we need to suffer?

FUCK FUCK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL

Much better lads

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

ref what

We're knocking on that door

Been knocking on it, lad, we need to fucking breach and clear
- Divine intervention incoming

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.

It is so dreadful. I can't wait for the post-match ratings to mean nothing but make me feel better about myself, lol
- Inshallah we're too busy celebrating going through to be too mad

Where are the subs?!?

We're knocking on the door and we might be going to extra time - ill-advised to make any changes until we know which way the wind's blowing
Subway: Eat Fresh!

let's go out there and win this shit

COYG!

we need to hold onto the damn ball!

Can't waste time if they don't have the ball

So fucking close from Ode

Martin, what a lad

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

get the fuck up you lazy timewasting twat

get him off the fucking pitch then

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

FUCK YOU REF

How the fuck is that not a foul ref?

come on lads let's score a fucking goal

That was beautiful from Jorgi

REF

Lol Jesus forgot to take the warmup shirt off

He's chomping at the bit - I'll take that as a good sign

Ok lads lets keep cooking

Raya nice

Beautiful save

Big Gabi didn't hear no bell.

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

Bit must mean something else in different countries

Porto trying for another wonder goal

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

ONE

MINUTE

ADDED

TIME

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

SO CLOSE

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

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

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

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?

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

Martin: "We go first". <3

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

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?

They have two pepes? god help us

One is Pepê
- eh, same difference.
- like Tony Toni Tone

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

Woot woot!

Calma Decs

Fuck that, they need to know we won't be disrespected in our own house
- Can't have him get another yellow

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?

They might be using the same commentary if that's the case, which doesn't seem likely. Still on TNT and it's still this scottish twat
- I specifically waited to hear who it was haha. But, yeah a few streams are using the same commentary team
McCoist
- Well, he can McFuck off now
Ally McCoist - the same dude that almost busted a nut for the Ode assist

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

Get in!

@Astrealix 4-2!

FUCKING COME ON

LETS. FUCKING. GO.

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

Atmosphere is electric

Nerves still showing.

God I fucking hate Tyldesley on this feed.

At least they're actually playing as opposed to putting 9 men behind the ball.

At this rate Saka's gonna end up like Eduardo

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

Really gonna need Trossard to step up today.

all of them including whoever we bring on from the bench
WHAT DID I SAY

GTFI

Fuck off... whole team is full of shit

Rice got shouldered in the nose and kept going. With this lot, you just brush their hand and they flail around on the ground like their leg's been blown off...

Aye! We got one, lol

What a little chip from Gabriel that lol

saliba ffs

I can see why he did it, but it feels a silly card to get

TROSSARD

GET INNN RACOON EYES MESSI

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

Yes review that shit

No card for that?

get Varela off the pitch wtf

VARela.. please?

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

Porto time wasting in the tunnel? lol

Radio commentator was ripping into them lol. "porto have graced us with their presence"
- Love it! lol

That was like 12 seconds of added time

Omg get off the pitch

the corruption on display here is elite levels

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

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

Could everyone STOP TAKING THE PISS

HE GETS THE BALL FIRST

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

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

Omg B wake up

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

Oh we're going one pivot lol

what's wrong with that from havertz, ref?

Watching this match is more tiring than my workout this morning

WHAT. A. FUCKING. RELIEF!

Who thinks this won't go to penalties?

@Astrealix 3-1!

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

REF

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

Who would be our subs?

Jesus, Vieira, ESR, Partey?

that's what kai havertz is made for

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

Yo this fucking ref

Get the fuck in!!!!

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

REF????

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

Arsenal

FUCK OFF RIO FERDINAND

That wasn't a foul at all, lol

Irrelevant in this case, it turns out

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

Gabi XL is a unit

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

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?

Fuck off you nepo baby

Yes we know Pepe is 41 🙄

The secret to longevity: being an absolute cunt?
- Dude lived through Florida, he's seen things

Set piece goal, cmon!

Genuine question: Do we sub on Aaron Ramsdale here

CL has VAR right? How was that not checked?

it was - they said the shirt pull was the foul
- That was a pretty instantaneous check if so
- I'm flummoxed

UWCL ad, goddamnit why are we not in it

assuming the assistant ref is saying "don't worry about it it'll get added back on" lol

Narrator: it did not, because no ref is willing to add on 20 minutes of added time
- I miss the world cup refereeing rules, made shit a lot more exciting.
- especially in this competition
It'll still be like 2 mins, lol

declan rice, what a tackle that

I cannot believe this game. Genuinely what the actual fuck...

We're going to need a whole lotta Jesus

Almost did, lol
- He's creating chaos which is what we need

if they'd played like this for the first 90 minutes i wouldn't be hating them nearly as much

Ehhhhh I have a suspicion we'd still hate them :)
- emphasis on "nearly as much"

I'm tired Robbie...

And fuck off Tyldesley

Manchester United why didn't you buy THIS goalkeeper instead ffs

a) that would have been way too sensible and b) he wouldn't have cost as much

Paramount is stuttering again wtf

Saka's been not good

He's not had much of a chance to, but the last 2 crosses could have been better for sure
- I do have my homer glasses on, but Saka has had the absolute shit kicked out of him since minute 0.

We need to stop passing to White around the box

I don't know what to say anymore, lmao.

We did it twice, we can do it again!

We're gonna need to do it three times in order for it to count with these shit officials

Mark my words. Porto will score one in the second half. It'll be a flukey wonder goal, I'm talking lower than 0.05 xG. WE NEED TO SCORE ANOTHER AND FAST.

we need to score 3!

Wilo 🙃

Wtf is going on with my Lemmy. I was looking for this match thread while watching the game last night and it's only appeared to me now.

I blame the Heysel disaster for refs hating English teams (and also the French)

We need to kick up the pace in the second half.

This is the first Champions League shootout since the 2016 final. What the hell. https://twitter.com/brfootball/status/1767677097772814851

Did the Porto player who went down and walked off near the end of the 2nd half get subbed off?

That's three slips in a minute....

yknow what fair play lol

CBS showing Titi walking into the stadium prematch...they whipped out the pyro for him lol

DJ_Khaled.webm

How is that not a foul?

Because Saka

So, he finally shows a card. That was nice of him

SEND TAREMI OFF THE KHAMENEI LOVING TWAT

trossard tell your brother to give some decent decisions our way ffs

ref treating us like we're Slavia Prague
- nah they're just treating us like we're arsenal tbh.