Arsenal lose to Bradford on penalties
Arsenal’s dramatic run in the league cup came to a dramatic end in a penalty shoot-out as Thomas Vermaelen missed the final spot-kick on Tuesday night.
The Belgian had played a vital role in all decisive moments – both the good and bad – tonight, but he fluffed his lines when it mattered the most.
Apart from the omission of Mikel Arteta, Arsene Wenger fielded his strongest first-team available and in the opening minutes, Vermaelen blatantly blocked his opponent to give away a cheap free-kick from which Bradford City took an emphatic 1-0 lead after the Gunners failed to clear their lines.
But Arsenal’s captain atoned for his mistakes in the dying 87th minute as he headed home an equalizer after Arsenal had knocked and knocked a solid Bradford door without finding an answer.
Momentum then belonged to Wenger’s men as they bossed extra-time. And indeed only a mixture of tame finishing, good defending and tough luck denied the visitors from a winner as Santi Cazorla in particular saw an effort well saved by the goalkeeper and another one met by the crossbar.
Into the penalty shoot-out, the Spaniard’s shooting found no success again as Arsenal’s first penalty-kick was saved. Bradford however, had netted all two of their opening kicks and when Marouane Chamakh stepped up to reduce the deficit, he too failed from 12 yards out.
The Bantams then missed their third kick but Jack Wilshere encouragingly scored for Arsenal to make it 2-1. And after the hosts netted their next spot-kick, Oxlade-Chamberlain calmly made it 3-2 ahead of the 5th and last round of penalties. Some hope restored for Arsenal, and indeed another miss from Bradford meant that Thomas Vermaelen had the opportunity to level the shoot-out and send it into sudden death.
But his shot which did beat the goalkeeper could only meet the post as Arsenal were ousted from the competition, losing 3-2 on penalties.
wow
this team..
#iquit
Embarrassing… Gervinho and chamakh were so bad that the team started to avoid passing to them. Major overhaul needed. Not fit to wear the shirt
This is by far the worst arsenal team I have seen. Top four? We need at least one world class striker to achieve that and unfortunately do not. United and city have four.
Please do…….
Totally disgusted after our latest defeat….. Gervinho, Chamakh & I will even add Ramsey to the list! We hardly win a game with him in the starting line up!
common its time for Wenger to go.he makes me sick.im tired of his philosophy
There isn’t any
You get what you deserve when you play like that.
Chamakh was just awful. As soon as he stepped up to take a penalty, I knew he’d miss.
absolutely pathetic..
Disgrace and humiliation just about sums it up. Bradford were very good but a practially full strength Arsenal team should have destroyed them…………… it hurts to follow Arsenal these days!
Arsenal should be ashamed. Gervinho, chamakh and Ramsey MUST be sold ASAP. Wenger has to go as well. No ideas. Same old. Same old.
GERVINEO what else can I say!!!!!!!!!
Dis is another brutal lose 4 arsenal. Could dis be a blessing 4 chelsea fc?
Pls wenger should be sack
Sack???6
This team doesn’t give a toss!
if they dont why dont our manager who knows there players do something bout it ?….or dose he not see whats wrong with the club.
what are you king of…..bad grammar?
There were league 2 players out there I’d gladly swap for Ramsey and Gervinho, both totally incompetent. Wenger’s tactics were, as usual, a puzzle for anyone. Time for a new broom to sweep away the cobwebs that hav eaccululated over the past 7 years!!!!!!
eaccululated???66
no one can even defend that,,,
brentford agains our first eleven toke us 70 mins to get a single shot on target…..wenger again starts with gervinhio who cant shot and ramsey on the wing…..wenger has his self to blame…its a shame no good play would want to come to us, we have become a joke.
What a fucking load of shite, had enough of Ramsey and gervinho, and no fowards pay 2£k a season for rubbish, where is the money gone ,
Denilson 60k
bentner 60k
And can be arsed with others you know who they are all on 60k a week and arshavin 70+
Where did you get those salaries Davey….I didn’t know Fantasy Football Manager provided accurate wage information!!1
Arsene wenger deserve to b sacked bcos he has no luck left at our club any more.
Wenger n ramsey has to leave arsenal. Enough of the defeat we are not losers.
this is d matter of game u realy have tried ur best everybody in d world saw what happened in d field.we realy appreciated.
WTF?????
no surprise just not good enough
Wenger has to go. How long can he keep banging his drum with the same tune. Change might be difficult in the short term. But anything is better than more of the same. The saying in “Arsene we rust” is ringing very true tonight. I actually hate my football club.
Then you fuck off and find a Club you can love!
Wenger please just resign!!!!
chamakh penaltytaker????
Gervinho is a truly awful player but plays and plays??????
We have no tactics?? no slide rule, no long ball, no getting wide and delivering crosses. No management, no leaders, no chance with this squad or manager that created them.
There is soooo much wrong at Atsenal it is scary!!
Is this what my arsenal has become? I am physically shaking with anger with the way arsene has turned this club from an unbeatable force to a team ANYONE can beat. Another season. Another trophy less year.
Arsene and Gervinho must be sack
sack??
Absolute rubbish iv watched this club go backwards for the last 7 years now and all they ever seem to talk about is money money money there is no interest in ever winning anything while that board of directors is in charge and wenger is manager the worst thing about tonight was that team acctualy tried and we Cldnt beat Bradford of league two the only way were ever gna se arsenal rise again is if us the fans rebel and don’t spend money on tickets or shirts and ushamanov finally takes over I’m fed up of the board and the manager not caring about us fans and what we want the club is an absolute joke at the minute and will be until that board leaves and ushamanov takes over
Am nota fan of Wenger but explain to me what the guy did wrong tonight?Blame these stupid players and give Wenger a break…What he should not have played gervinhoand Ramsey…At the end these guys have to play…it cannot be up to the Artetas all the time…i will blame the board for not making more funs available to buy better players and for allowing the best of ours to go…
Ill explain to you what he did rong mate he bought them players and had to field them these are the players we have ended up with these are the only players he can play because he refuses to spend money him and the board there both in it toghever wenger nice 10 percent bonus he gets for selling a player
Pure BS Liam!
ramsey on the wing and gervinho as the centre forward for roughly 70 minutes is what he did wrong it hasn,t worked in the past and he should have changed it before half time. when i saw the line up i was happy ,when i saw how they lined up my heart sank and i got angrier the longer he left it.
It shows, no matter what we do regardless of lining up a stronger line up or not this team has lost it’s spine, when there is no spine there is no spirit, and no love and respect towards the colours we all love, it hurts but getting used to this kind of performances every week now.
It’s hightime wenger and his board buy experience players,otherwise the ugly story goes on.I will rather quit.
Please quit!!!
can’t beliv arsenal has deteriorate dis bad, for God sake Bradford of all teams, unbelievable
Is quiet unfortunate that luck is not on the side of Arsenal…
They need to stop €ussyfooting about and get
Ruthless from the players all the way upto fu Kroenke
Ox and gervinho just plain stupid! Wenger out already!! Hope we get 11th place in the league….
Arsene wenger is a disgrace to arsenal,selling top players and buying low players,we need to refresh our squad by all miss otherwise we are not going to end in top ten.
this is hapend becouse of fans like you.!!! Dont put presure on Wenger and Arsenal, its time to suport the team. This lost on penaltis is becouse players feel presure. Wenger is legend who made Arsenal top club. Hi is the best manager. Look on Chelsea they have very expensive team and they change 7 managers in past few years and they cant find good manager. Sory for my bad english. COME ON ARSENAL
Maybe.but they won the CL before us
Cunt! You have no idea.
If I am a manager I know not to play gervinho as a striker as he has no intelligence or composure whatsoever. Not play Ramsey out wide as he has no pace or trickery. And chamakh……… Worst player I have seen in a long time. When get has to go. He has become a stale old man reminiscing of what once was.
Finally someone without no axe to grind against Wenger and the team…..a real supporter maybe?
Wenger, if u love this club just go and dont look back!!!
All they think about(board)is MONEY.It all starts when Vieira left the club.Then A.cole,Fabregas,Nasri,Song,Van Persie,Clichy.I think the next is maybe Sagna,Wilshere and Theo.Wenger is making AJAX AMSTERDAM of our club.GUNNER4LIFE
The only player who can have his head held high is wilshere and maybe santi the rest were absolutely useless #WengerOUT
It really pains me to watch nowadays, knowing that we have no natural goal poachers, not even one! How can Arsene lift the team after this?
Arsene wenger is total nd completed madness
Wenger…will you piss off. And don’t forget your Chamakhs, Gervinhos, Ramsays with you…
This finally tells us what we knew already.
Arsene has taken us to a new low!
Someone needs to look at what is on the pitch- no leaders(Jack besides)
HE AND THE BOARD HAVE TURNED US INTO A LAUGHING STOCK!!!
Its a cliche, but that is all we get from these people who have creamed the Arsenal fans for long enough.
Arsenal are in good shape- who do you think you are kidding.
LETS HAVE SOME HONESTY!!!!!!!!!
WENGER AND THE MONEY GRABBING BOARD HAVE TO GO… NOW
PARASITES
I hope they lose monday night and the next and next and next game,so Wenger could FINALLY GET FIRED.
you are a total asshole Dino….wishing your team would lose….what a plastic fanboy you are….you don’t like Wenger…we get that but wishing defeat on your club….you are the loser!
Wenger needs to stay….. give him another 10 years and he will come good.
hmmm sagna was to blame for he goal.he watched the ball pass over his head and was not aware there were players in behind him…….and he wants a longer contract?????? please don’t lose your heads folks wenger is not the problem these mercenaries are to blme!!
When u cannot afford to by a new cloth, you will keep and maintain those one available to you but arsenal will never do that. Arsenal sold all her best players and are still planning to sell few good ones that are still in the team but will only replace then with low quality players. Money Money Money is all they care about, when the current first team cannot even win ordinary division two team. More emberrasment to the name Arsenal if Kronke, Peter Hill Wood’ Ivan Gazidis and Arsene Wenger are still working together. I love those players they can only give what they have in ability, i will rather blame the stupid and greedy board of directors .
Ameeeen……
I think the main problem is Wenger buy’s far to many young boy’s and try’s to get them to play a certain way… Ie… to play with his cock and bum. Wenger sells his well groomed boys as soon as they become men…..he has no use for them after their balls drop!!!!if you give wenger a team full of boy’s he may well get the best out of them from the touchline(he will be there with a huge stiffy…. and the boys will know if they do not play to their best, they know wenger will give it to em in the showers.
You must be a closet homo andy…..you seem to enjoy this rubbish you just wrote….personal experience I bet….go suck a few mate!
I’ve been saying this ever since Gervinho arrived at our club, he’s an untalented dud, who fooled his way into this side, thanks to Mr. Wenger who’s in self-denial by making comments after the Bradford defeat that we;ll bounce back, sick of hearing this every week he needs to change the wording a bit.
as a supporter of this club, i’m really disappointed with the result. we’ve lost that winning feeling for a very long time now since the ‘invincible days’. but what ever said and done… AW has one last shot by getting in top class players in when the January transfer window opens. then the board must start looking for someone else to take over his position and move forward. its been to agonizing long w/o trophies for this amazing club…
A shocking season is what is needed to breakdown the diehard Wenger support so despite the pain this is actually going according to plan!
It proves over and over again, team full of champion players don’t allways make it a champion team like ours, but team full of players who play for their colours and for their supporters always make a champion team (Bradford)
Ohh nearly forgot, time for our players to grow some balls, and deserve the mega dollars they are earning every week.
Play with your hearts have some passion when you go outthere, you are playing for the greatest club in the world with graet history.
PROUD TO BE GUNNER