reality check says:

subs were a bit too late i think. Rambo had a stinker. No st totts day this year then i suppose.

Chris M says:

We needed a win today but the run the team has been on for the last 2 months we have to accept we are going to have a few off days, your rating for Djourou was spot on he had a great game but most of the team was off the pace. I think we need to let Arshavin and Chamakh go in January and get a good striker in because we cant just rely on Van Persie to score every game and we need another winger because we have no real back up if Walcott or Gervinho get injured. I hope arsenal fans don’t get to down about today’s result because the team has put in some great performances lately, we have topped are Champions league group which is better than we did last season and are looking much stronger in the League .

Hunter says:

I don’t think you can fault Santos for the yellow card. That was one he had to take for the team because we inexplicably tried some stupid short corner routine that resulted in a Fulham counter. Had he not intentionally handled that ball we may well have lost the match. He still definitely needs to improve but for me he is better than Clichy and Gibbs so I’m not complaining.

Djourou was excellent. Did all he was asked and then some.

Per also excellent. Was never really troubled and had it not been for TV5 putting through his own goal it would have been a clean sheet.

Aside form that the only other player who didn’t look leggy was Theo. The rest looked like they need a week off.

Let’s hope the gaffer opts for the kids midweek so the rest of the squad can get a break.

One more note……good on Jack Wilshire and Carl Jenkinson who stood out in front of the stadium collecting donation for Save The Kids. Also to the rest of the players for donating today’s wages to the same charity. Always nice for players to help out a good cause.

The Don says:

Nice To See Theo showing how good he is week in week out
his starting to be just as importan as v perise and vermilen for us.
his still young a bit more time for him he will be destrying deffenders.

It was not a great game for we looked slow and half asleep
only when fulham scored we woke up.
and its not the first time we have done this, we always seem to get fired up when we let in the first goal.

Arshavin, lost us the game in my opinion.
his has over 40 games and been below par on all of them.
when gervinhio come on he looked a diffrent class to arshavin.
i rather someone like alex or ryo get a chance then arshavin.

Ramsey didnt do to bad lets not be so harsh
he put his heart in the game he was all over
he needs to learn to shoot from v perise but he done well to get him self in right place.

swazigooner says:

The boys did look tired and its understandable. Those germans were not a push over.
It was a very physical game.
That being said i must say im sad to say arshavin’s time at arsenal could be coming to an end. I was also expecting a push to get back into the starting line up. And saw no spark from the russian. We were also unlucky with the chances that were saved, overall i am happy to stay unbeaten. We still have a long way to go

Shari says:

I had a feeling before the game that it’s not going to be that easy with Fulham. In fact I was anxious that we might unexpectedly lost the game. We played Dortmund only 4 days ago, wasn’t an easy game either. Our players gave their all out performances in that game and I was worried that they might feel burn out and fatigue. My feeling turned out to be true. We lost some of our pace, passing accuracy and sharpness in front yesterday.

But yesterday’s result wasn’t all due to our condition. Fulham did very well defensively. They were solid, well organised and very discipline at the back. If not because of their solid display in the defensive department, we would have won at least by three goals. And, I have to say this, had Vermalen not made that defensive mistake which led to his own goal, we would also have won the game, don’t care if only by 1-0 as long as we got three points. But then I have to accept it, we drew, got only one point. Well, I should see the positive that at least we didn’t lose as we were very close to it.

I hope we will do much better on Tuesday with City. And I hope Arsene will rest Robin in that game as he clearly needs it.

summerbreez says:

To be honest they played really well i enjoyed the match but MR wenger gambled and fielded tired players even they didn’t look that tired he didn’t need to do that i don’t know if rosciky was available but beayoon was any way the match is well over now and now we have a bigger headache as the players ran their socks off for 30 minuets or so unfortunately we now got a dilemma
who is he going to field on Tuesday the same payers again i suppose lets burn them to the ground attitude he is demanding to much from the 11

Shafiu says:

The problems with this game is that Fulham were under rated by Coach, players, fans and writters. No one expect anything less than win.

terry says:

for city line up like this:
flappy
djouru kozzer vermy santos
aox frimpog coquellen yossi
arshavin
chamak

i strongly think if arshavin is plyed behind the striker he can be one hell of a players…
AOX and yossi are fast and tireless players they would do very well on the wings
frimpong and coquellen are both def minded and this would not require arshvin to fall back every time… AOX has amazing crossing ability and i still believe chamak is one of the best stikers in the air.
we play 433 and we are doomed against city … we play this 442 or as you call it 4411 we may stand a strong chance against them.

Kanishk says:

I think Arsene just missed a trick in this one with the rotation thing. Yossi should have played in place of Andrei/Ramsey. Yossi has always done a job for the team whenever he has come on without a consistent run in and one has to wonder when he will finally get a chance to shine. Andrei just doesn’t look interested and its shocking considering his place has been taken by Gervinho and yet he isn’t working hard.

But overall the defense was solid again apart from the one unlucky OG. And Santos was top class, we really should let him go more forward or heck even use him as a left winger when we rest Gerv and when Gibbsy is fit.

Overall not too dissapointing though. Just felt the team needed a rest and Arsene perhaps overdid playing with the squad in form a bit too much.

Lets beat the Mancs now. Will be good to see Samir playing in the Carling Cup side xD

William says:

Even if you take away both the goal and the own-goal, Vermaelen did not have a good game today. He still has a tendency to get caught far up the pitch when he doesn’t need to – I think Szczesny’s only real save was after Vermaelen tried to close down a player for no reason and was caught out. Not to bash on Vermaelen, he’s a very good player, maybe our best defender, I just think that this game shows some of his deficiencies that people tend to ignore when they talk about him.

zekeh says:

ramsey was extremely poor for entire 70 minutes….i dont agree with the ashravin rating…as wenever he got the ball he tried making runs in the box…if u would observe ramsey did not pass a single ball to arshavin in the first half…less feed so less output….
ramsey was flop of the match . ramsey stil needs to be crisp. he plays incesc role he needs to run d game and not theo.
good subsitution made by wenger to earn a point.ramsey stil needs to be crisp.except for theo vs riise rest all individual battles were lost
diaby and chamakh both lookin gr8….certainly once to start at ccup……may give arshavin atleast another game and some more quality time on pitch .

Poor says:

Wait a minute what is our goal, are we going for 4th or to win the league, im not having limited ambitions we have to finish as high as possible.

We drum on about having a better team than spurs but if they win there game in hand against Bolton at home then they go second in the league and are yet to play Norwich, Swansea, Bolton, Stoke, Sunderland before the half way mark.

Lets not make excuses we didnt win today because Arteta and Ramsay were poor and Robin didnt score, first team to man mark him and we draw, if other teams follow suit we wont win unless someone else steps up.

They got themselves in this mess with a bad start and now we are suppose to congratulate them for a spirited 1-1 draw with Fulham, Noo……..

Johnny Deigh says:

Did anyone else notice the play when Arsenal countered, Arteta played the ball for Ramsey who took the ball all the way up the left flank, beating two or three players. Arshavin started sprinting early on the break but after about 50 yards he ran out of gas and just stopped then and there on the pitch. Ramsey then didn’t have anyone to pass the ball to because Arshavin didn’t run into space behind the defenders, presumably because he was tired.

Hate to say it, but Arshavin is the new Denilson – lazy and like playing a man down when he is on the pitch.

Aleito says:

Did anyone else notice that Arshavin was supposed to play behind or infront of RVP, yet he ended up drifting to the wing way too much… I think that was the biggest clue – he forgot how to play in the position in which he can excel. At least he doesn’t look as chubby as he did end of last year, but honestly it’d be nice to see more than 10 minutes of decent football out of him.