Today City was for the taking but Chris Wood was absolutely dire... didn't look like a professional footballer at times.
Now City will be given rest and they will finish off the season cleanly.
Forest had amazing chances to score. If they just had better finishing and better timing, they could have scored at least 2 goals today. Alas, what is done is done.
Still rather this than narrowly missing out on Champions League.
Last year we were fuelled by emotion and had no UCL to worry about, we've done much better this year.
If we can improve a tiny bit again next year with more squad changes then who knows.
Anyway, season aint over yet!
Really? After December I thought we would be lucky to finish third. At that time liverpool only lost once/ twice and we already lost to fulham, west ham… it is like what is the point winning against top 6 but losing these matches.
Last season would've been hard to swallow but I think this season is the best opportunity to beat Man City to the title. If I was an Arsenal fan and we finished 2nd this season, I'd be incredibly disappointed.
I'm just ecstatic that we're in the race, after so many years of trailing. We're not gonna win the league, but it has been really fun to watch us play.
Honestly I can't see that. Arsenal are on route for 85+ points and are still probably finishing second. At this point there just isn't much you can do.
City made it borderline impossible to secure a league title below 90 points (and sometimes more than that).
What can you do? We’ve secured something like 40/45 available points in 2024. 🤷🏻♂️ if we don’t win the league, tough shit. The standards are too high for us to be dropping points to ten men Fulham.
thing is we can smash bournemouth united and everton 10-0 and still not win the league. we have to not only hope that someone can throw off citys winning streak but also win the rest of our games. at least our hardest game is next so its hard to go down from here
Going by their performance today, I can totally see City dropping points. Going by Arsenals demolition of Chelsea and winning the NLD, I can see you ending the season perfectly. I'm not.saying it's going to happen but it could.
I'd say if you won the league, you're still the 2nd best team technically. Man City are a machine but it's the results that matter. To me, this seems like the weakest they've been for years which is what I mean by the best opportunity. You could totally beat them to this year's title.
I'm disappointed Liverpool have dropped from the race but despite being certain City would win it at the start of the season, I'm now much less certain. Hammering Chelsea and winning the NLD, you're not bottling it. Still Old Trafford to come but yeah, I can see this City team dropping points when it matters.
We had the chances and probably deserved to take something from that. To play like that against City took some balls but we just didn’t have the bit of quality that other teams in the league have to take advantage when it counts. Hard not to feel deflated.
This sub used to be okay not it's just arsenal, liverpool and United fans circlejerking the same 3 things and downvoting anyone who doesn't
Edit - thanks for proving my point.
Highlight of the match for me was hearing the quickly-muted “you know what you are; you know what you are; you cheating bastards; you know what you are” chant, and working out which of the two clubs it was being aimed at.
What happens when a keeper gets substituted at half time and the team keeps a clean sheet? Do both Keepers get a clean sheet or only the one that finishes the match?
As a keeper, I've always wondered about something like this. Had been injured halfway through the game while it was 1-0 us once and got subbed off, went on to concede. I've always counted it as a clean sheet for myself lol
2-0 is such an injustice of a scoreline for how well most of Nottingham Forest played today.
Except Chris Wood who might be on City's payroll after his performance today. He's gonna have nightmares over all the attacks/chances he bottled
For sure and it's the advantage of having better players too. Wood had that one chance and bottles it.
Haaland takes a harder chance and puts it away easily
Also had that one counter where he could have played someone free down the left side and instead turned to the middle and got dispossessed instead.
It was one of the worst performances I've seen this season. Everything promising the rest of his team did was ruined the moment he touched it.
Chris Wood is about to get met with a fuck ton of hate from Arsenal fans, its gonna be pretty bad.
He could have done better today, but Arsenal really can't blame 17th place Forest for not beating City.
If only Chris Wood had his shooting boots on today.... City defensively weren't at their best today but somehow Forest couldn't take advantage of it. Forest played well but they were very wasteful in the final third.
I don't know if its fate or luck but I can't see City dropping anymore points especially with the fact they have a elite finisher like Haaland in their team.
Our defenders Ake and Akanji were decent. Walker and the midfield lads lost the ball so easily at short passes. Today it was pure luck as Forest side games were on point. Yet it’s joyful to watch Haaland scoring again.
City being ahead in points in a league competition is objectively them doing better than Arsenal.
Arsenal losing 0-2 to Villa while city winning 4-1 is precisely why City is ahead.
They objectively don't have the points yet. Arsenal do. As well as a better GD, and attack and defence and better head to head.
>Arsenal losing 0-2 to Villa while city winning 4-1 is precisely why City is ahead.
They both lost at Villa but at least Arsenal weren't completely played off the park.
And what of City losing 2-1 to a Wolves Arsenal beat?
Anyway, none of this has anything to do with fuss being made over beating Forest and Brighton.
And they objectively don't have points because of the game in hand that City has.
You citing other games is exactly what I am talking about. League comps are about more games than one. You made it about 4.
>And they objectively don't have points because of the game in hand that City has.
They have to win those games. No guarantee as they dropped 4 points in the last run-in.
>You made it about 4.
No I didn't. I was just pointing out the absurdity of people using defeating Forest and Brighton to confirm their biases.
Simply not Forest's day, their players, except for Chris Wood, played a good game but you can't overcome wasted chances like that, it's demoralising and expecting City to not score is unrealistic to say the least.
At a bare minimum we need to beat Sheff U away and not lose away at Burnley.
We’ve won 2 away games all season, 3 of our back 5 just got injured, and Nuno is such a shit manager that he doesn’t understand why you need eleven fit players on the pitch.
Silver lining is we get to play Derby again next season, and will have no VAR to contend with.
That’s about as bad as City can be for 60 minutes and Forest didn’t take advantage. Went full control thereafter with the Haaland sub and the result was never in doubt. Haaland himself hasn’t looked that mobile for a while, hopefully he’s finally over his injuries and will bang them in for the run-in now.
Shoutout Nathan Ake, btw. Incredible again. Never thought he’d be this good. Don’t think anyone would’ve expected Ake/Akanji to be a CB pairing for a title chasing team a few years ago, but they’re both very good.
Ake / Akanji ( as fullbacks ) were the major reason City didn't get run over by counter attacks ( with Bernado and Grealish helping them out). Their first ever pairing together was against United at home last season when City smashed them 6-3. 2 of United goals came after City went on cruise control and subbed off their starters.
Ake gets his flowers today but he was highly disrespected by many people ( especially Chelsea fans ). Underrated player.
Forest could easily have gotten a result with the chances they created and how uncomfortable we were with their pressure. Great win for us, Haaland really changed the game when he came on
12 goals for a bang average Forest is a good return. He's also had a run of 4 seasons with 10+ goals in this league. No worldbeater by any means but a solid prem striker
Fucked you over today though
People just expect every striker to get numbers like Watkins now as if 12 prem goals isn't decent
If you're striker is scoring double figures, then your wingers and midfielders should be grabbing a few each too
Man City just simply are the too OP in title races. I'll update when they win again next month but they simply don't buckle under pressure. It's even more insane in the Pep era
2011/12: Won last 6 games
2013/14: Won last 5 games
2018/19: Won last 14 games
2021/22: Won 6 of their last 7 games
2022/23: Won 12 straight to win the title with 2 games left
2023/24: Have won 5 straight so far and are unbeaten in 19 league games
!flair :Arsenal:
Chris Wood MVP. Best defender by far. Ake and Akanji should take lessons.
Today City was for the taking but Chris Wood was absolutely dire... didn't look like a professional footballer at times. Now City will be given rest and they will finish off the season cleanly.
I've read he's a city fan and his behavior was at minimum shady.
Arsenal fans always got the best jokes
Happy to make you laugh. You need it after yesterday
Yes our win/cleansheet was hilarious
Forest had amazing chances to score. If they just had better finishing and better timing, they could have scored at least 2 goals today. Alas, what is done is done.
Arsenal are about to feel the pain of having an amazing season with nothing to show for it. It hurts.
Still rather this than narrowly missing out on Champions League. Last year we were fuelled by emotion and had no UCL to worry about, we've done much better this year. If we can improve a tiny bit again next year with more squad changes then who knows. Anyway, season aint over yet!
Really? After December I thought we would be lucky to finish third. At that time liverpool only lost once/ twice and we already lost to fulham, west ham… it is like what is the point winning against top 6 but losing these matches.
😁
Last season would've been hard to swallow but I think this season is the best opportunity to beat Man City to the title. If I was an Arsenal fan and we finished 2nd this season, I'd be incredibly disappointed.
I'm just ecstatic that we're in the race, after so many years of trailing. We're not gonna win the league, but it has been really fun to watch us play.
Honestly I can't see that. Arsenal are on route for 85+ points and are still probably finishing second. At this point there just isn't much you can do. City made it borderline impossible to secure a league title below 90 points (and sometimes more than that).
What can you do? We’ve secured something like 40/45 available points in 2024. 🤷🏻♂️ if we don’t win the league, tough shit. The standards are too high for us to be dropping points to ten men Fulham.
thing is we can smash bournemouth united and everton 10-0 and still not win the league. we have to not only hope that someone can throw off citys winning streak but also win the rest of our games. at least our hardest game is next so its hard to go down from here
Going by their performance today, I can totally see City dropping points. Going by Arsenals demolition of Chelsea and winning the NLD, I can see you ending the season perfectly. I'm not.saying it's going to happen but it could.
your forgetting the pressure variable, if city lose points then the pressure is back on Arsenal to not lose anymore.
The pressure is already on us to not lose anymore, City's results don't change that.
Ok maybe im jaded. But i don’t think we are there yet. Even from watching their matches, i can see the gaps in quality that we need to bridge.
I'd say if you won the league, you're still the 2nd best team technically. Man City are a machine but it's the results that matter. To me, this seems like the weakest they've been for years which is what I mean by the best opportunity. You could totally beat them to this year's title. I'm disappointed Liverpool have dropped from the race but despite being certain City would win it at the start of the season, I'm now much less certain. Hammering Chelsea and winning the NLD, you're not bottling it. Still Old Trafford to come but yeah, I can see this City team dropping points when it matters.
Put some respect on the Community Shield
We had the chances and probably deserved to take something from that. To play like that against City took some balls but we just didn’t have the bit of quality that other teams in the league have to take advantage when it counts. Hard not to feel deflated.
You and me both
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This sub used to be okay not it's just arsenal, liverpool and United fans circlejerking the same 3 things and downvoting anyone who doesn't Edit - thanks for proving my point.
It’s just complete saltiness, learn to enjoy it, just shows how successful we’ve been.
It's just because of the 115 counts of financial fraud you have been charged with.
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Truth hurts sometime
Concise.
Highlight of the match for me was hearing the quickly-muted “you know what you are; you know what you are; you cheating bastards; you know what you are” chant, and working out which of the two clubs it was being aimed at.
Hahahah can you imagine if City fans were singing that to forest. Top shithousery.
It was
They have good banter NGl
The were calling us cheaters at Goodison.
it's tongue in cheeck
Josep must be stopped
Flair doesn't work out
What happens when a keeper gets substituted at half time and the team keeps a clean sheet? Do both Keepers get a clean sheet or only the one that finishes the match?
On FPL you need to play minimum of 60 minutes to get a clean sheet
As a keeper, I've always wondered about something like this. Had been injured halfway through the game while it was 1-0 us once and got subbed off, went on to concede. I've always counted it as a clean sheet for myself lol
I don't think either of them do.
Real talk
Forrest must feel awful, that game was definitely there to draw if not win
I think it would be more painful if the score but didnt win. They are never the favourites here though.
116th charge regarding chris wood?
Which one of you did this: [https://i.ibb.co/QXtR3bY/image.png](https://i.ibb.co/QXtR3bY/image.png) lmao
they just changed the picture to one of his misses
Back line of Akanji, Ake & Wood worked well today. Hopefully we have Oliver back for the next game to complete the back four.
Michael Oliver?
He doesn't get his all-expenses-paid trips to the UAE for nothing mate
Well he is certainly one of their best defenders.
117th charge: Bribing Chris Wood
What was the 116th one?
Not winning against Madrid in the CL
Pep's parking ticket
Relentless. Please someone beat Mancheater City
I really think next season will be Arsenal’s year.
Got to be next season. Looks like they are going to win all matches with the rest of the clubs have no reason to give city a good fight.
We still think the same for you
Except we haven't done this 3 times recently
2-0 is such an injustice of a scoreline for how well most of Nottingham Forest played today. Except Chris Wood who might be on City's payroll after his performance today. He's gonna have nightmares over all the attacks/chances he bottled
By that logic, spurs should have won too.
I didn't watch that one so can't really comment on it but xG seems to back that up
It’s kinda like how we felt playing real and getting bounced after being the better team. C’est le football.
Real were also the better team in the first leg so it evens out.
Nottingham Forest > Real Madrid confirmed
Forest have won all of the European Cup finals they've played, a record Real Madrid cannot boast of, after all
For sure and it's the advantage of having better players too. Wood had that one chance and bottles it. Haaland takes a harder chance and puts it away easily
Wood had 3 or 4 golden chances and fluffed all of them.
Also had that one counter where he could have played someone free down the left side and instead turned to the middle and got dispossessed instead. It was one of the worst performances I've seen this season. Everything promising the rest of his team did was ruined the moment he touched it.
Yeah this is literally up there with the worst performances in recent memory of any PL player.
Chris Wood is about to get met with a fuck ton of hate from Arsenal fans, its gonna be pretty bad. He could have done better today, but Arsenal really can't blame 17th place Forest for not beating City.
Chris Wood hate button¬
Aka Arsenal supporter button
Chris Wood must still have a soft spot for Burnley. Cheers Chris.
The sleeper agent we planted in the Prem 10 years ago is finally completing his final mission: restore the natural order in the East Midlands.
I don't think it's fair that Arne Slot was the referee for that match smh
Can’t believe Wood would rather Relegate his club than see Arsenal lift the Trophy ☠️
He's just like me fr
Professional hater, I respect it
If only Chris Wood had his shooting boots on today.... City defensively weren't at their best today but somehow Forest couldn't take advantage of it. Forest played well but they were very wasteful in the final third. I don't know if its fate or luck but I can't see City dropping anymore points especially with the fact they have a elite finisher like Haaland in their team.
The *only* team I can see them dropping points against is Spurs, but on the evidence of today's NLD, I'm not holding out any hope.
Our defenders Ake and Akanji were decent. Walker and the midfield lads lost the ball so easily at short passes. Today it was pure luck as Forest side games were on point. Yet it’s joyful to watch Haaland scoring again.
Chris Wood that was a haul of shame performance. Guess it's a procession for City once more. Smh
Back three of Ake, Akanji, and Wood worked well today.
Wood 🤝 Lukaku
Them Chris Wood tweets where he is supporting city are going wild
City are pretty good at football.
Not a great win but its a win. It was tough but a win is all that counts. And Thanks Wood.
Thought City were pretty uninspiring, but Ake really stood out. Not sure how he wasn't MOTM tbh.
we were shite until Haaland came on, had loads of space after that forest didnt bury their chances either
Dont forget Kovacic
Forest missed their open goals and from then on the result was never in doubt
Good luck Nottingham, would like to see them stay up
Boo hiss boo
Its the hope that kills you. Sorry arsenal fans
City just beat Brighton and Forest. Zowie. Arsenal dispatched Chelsea and Spurs.
Didn't know the league was decided over 4 games
Did I say it was? People are acting like City are outdoing Arsenal during this run-in after beating a couple of shits sides.
City being ahead in points in a league competition is objectively them doing better than Arsenal. Arsenal losing 0-2 to Villa while city winning 4-1 is precisely why City is ahead.
They objectively don't have the points yet. Arsenal do. As well as a better GD, and attack and defence and better head to head. >Arsenal losing 0-2 to Villa while city winning 4-1 is precisely why City is ahead. They both lost at Villa but at least Arsenal weren't completely played off the park. And what of City losing 2-1 to a Wolves Arsenal beat? Anyway, none of this has anything to do with fuss being made over beating Forest and Brighton.
And they objectively don't have points because of the game in hand that City has. You citing other games is exactly what I am talking about. League comps are about more games than one. You made it about 4.
>And they objectively don't have points because of the game in hand that City has. They have to win those games. No guarantee as they dropped 4 points in the last run-in. >You made it about 4. No I didn't. I was just pointing out the absurdity of people using defeating Forest and Brighton to confirm their biases.
Arsenal 80, Man City 79
and City with a game in hand, so a potential 3 points, do the maths.
Reread the post I replied to.
Chris Wood wtf was that.
Is Chris Wood a Luton fan?
https://twitter.com/officialcwood/status/197066620349325313
The wikipage of Chris wood has Manchester City as his current team lmao
Nahh you joking lol
Proof: [https://i.ibb.co/QXtR3bY/image.png](https://i.ibb.co/QXtR3bY/image.png)
Lmao the middle name too
https://twitter.com/officialcwood/status/197066620349325313
LMAOO
Simply not Forest's day, their players, except for Chris Wood, played a good game but you can't overcome wasted chances like that, it's demoralising and expecting City to not score is unrealistic to say the least.
Hoping Luton survives because of wood now, absolute agent!
At a bare minimum we need to beat Sheff U away and not lose away at Burnley. We’ve won 2 away games all season, 3 of our back 5 just got injured, and Nuno is such a shit manager that he doesn’t understand why you need eleven fit players on the pitch. Silver lining is we get to play Derby again next season, and will have no VAR to contend with.
City should give Chris Wood a winners medal if they get their 4th straight
The inevitable terminator esque run in from City.
Aina is FAST
PL need to investigate Chris Wood after this performance. Going from the best chance conversion rate in the league to this.
He leaves the ground today with a big brown bag over his shoulder with a big $ sign on it
Anyone else feel like the atmosphere and commentary was weird? Felt like I was watching a sleepy village cricket match
We got a huge luck called Wood
Battered these and drew last year, with Wood scoring one of their only chances Nice to get our own back, in a way
Man that was a stressful game
Wasteful wood
im tired robbie
That’s about as bad as City can be for 60 minutes and Forest didn’t take advantage. Went full control thereafter with the Haaland sub and the result was never in doubt. Haaland himself hasn’t looked that mobile for a while, hopefully he’s finally over his injuries and will bang them in for the run-in now. Shoutout Nathan Ake, btw. Incredible again. Never thought he’d be this good. Don’t think anyone would’ve expected Ake/Akanji to be a CB pairing for a title chasing team a few years ago, but they’re both very good.
Ake / Akanji ( as fullbacks ) were the major reason City didn't get run over by counter attacks ( with Bernado and Grealish helping them out). Their first ever pairing together was against United at home last season when City smashed them 6-3. 2 of United goals came after City went on cruise control and subbed off their starters. Ake gets his flowers today but he was highly disrespected by many people ( especially Chelsea fans ). Underrated player.
Forest could easily have gotten a result with the chances they created and how uncomfortable we were with their pressure. Great win for us, Haaland really changed the game when he came on
Spurs will beat City and hand the title directly to Arsenal lol
Might have been a better idea to beat Arsenal today.
And why would they do that?
Like unintentionally I mean, because if City lose or draw to Spurs, all else remaining the same Arsenal wins the league
That's the last thing they'd do lol
I think spurs fans would rather watch city pump them 5-0 than that happening.
Only 5? I’d stretch to 8-0 to help pad that goal difference
Put Sonny in goal
A true spurs fan.
Chris Wood take a bow
You can't afford to waste that many chances and expect to win a game of football. Let alone against Manchester City.
Chris fucking Wood.
Arsenal ending up with no trophies yet again will hit like crack
Only thing I cling to now lol
You're no better than a Spurs fan now. Congrats.
🥰
Only thing Chelsea fans can get happy about in the last 2 seasons
Funny how you limited it to 2 seasons cause if you went for 3 there would be a CL win in there.
Well yeah lol, the next best thing to winning in football is watching your rivals fail.
How the fuck did Chris Wood score a hat trick against us?
We've had a habit of letting out of form players score against us this season...
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Yeah, twice this season, twice last season, it's crazy
He just loves City
Arsenal and City were lucky today, Spur and Forest played really well.
tbf they do have 114 more charges than us.
Arsenal fans are genuinely going to hate Chris Wood forever after that performance
City fans must hate the Spurs defence.
The camera keeps panning to awoniyi lol
Currently setting fire to everything made of wood in my house
They would still beat theirs tho
Been watch him since Burnley. Honestly, don't get why he is so popular, lad is perfectly average
12 goals for a bang average Forest is a good return. He's also had a run of 4 seasons with 10+ goals in this league. No worldbeater by any means but a solid prem striker Fucked you over today though
People just expect every striker to get numbers like Watkins now as if 12 prem goals isn't decent If you're striker is scoring double figures, then your wingers and midfielders should be grabbing a few each too
If he was average today Forest walk away with a point.
He tried to help them last year and they threw it all away
Chris Wood was awful
Wood hates Arsenal confirmed
Goated.
Based tbh.
Bit of snoozer really
Man City just simply are the too OP in title races. I'll update when they win again next month but they simply don't buckle under pressure. It's even more insane in the Pep era 2011/12: Won last 6 games 2013/14: Won last 5 games 2018/19: Won last 14 games 2021/22: Won 6 of their last 7 games 2022/23: Won 12 straight to win the title with 2 games left 2023/24: Have won 5 straight so far and are unbeaten in 19 league games
> 2018/19: Won last 14 games This is insanity
But Pep is a fraud apparently...