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

1 minute of extra time is a fucking joke

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.

What did Arteta do to this refs mother?

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

Thank you.

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

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

Hell fuck yeah

WENDELL YOU FUCKING CUNT, KNOW THAT YOU DESERVE THIS

Fuck the ref

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

why is Rio Ferdinand on my fucking stream

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

LET'S FUCKING GO

MORE OF THAT PLEASE

I AM BITING MY TEETH WITH MY OTHER TEETH CURRENTLY

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

Lol why is George Constanza working the sideline?

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

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

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.

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

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

GET IN THERE

Raya whew

RAYAAAA!

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

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

Leoooooooooooo

come on lads let's score a fucking goal

oooo some decent chances there

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

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

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

Oh get the fuck up Wendell you twat

How the fuck is that not a foul ref?

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

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

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

What the hell even is this ref?

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

Cheeky from White

Oh now he calls fouls?

7:46 into 3 minutes of added time.

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

COYG! See you in the post match thread

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

They're injuring themselves haha

Surely even neutrals can see how fucked this game is

FUCK YOU REF

FUCK YOU REF

FUCK YOU REF

FUCK YOU REF

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?

T R O S S A R D

GET IN

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

Much better lads

What a fucking touch from Leo

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

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

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

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

Partey helping Jesus get dressed. Hahah

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

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

what a ball from White honestly

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

Oh wow, he can card players for their actions

Thigh grabbing not a foul. Got it.

WHAT. A. FUCKING. RELIEF!

What a little chip from Gabriel that lol

Was this what Mikel meant about we need to suffer?

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

lol 3 mins ET

Martin, what a lad

FUCK FUCK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL

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

Where are the subs?!?

get the fuck up you lazy timewasting twat

TROSSARD

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

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

ok can the ref fucking do something

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?

Porto trying for another wonder goal

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

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

So fucking close from Ode

We're knocking on that door

let's go out there and win this shit

Woot woot!

we need to hold onto the damn ball!

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

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

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

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.

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

Big Gabi didn't hear no bell.

@Astrealix 4-2!

Martin: "We go first". <3

Ok lads lets keep cooking

FUCK YOU REF

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?

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

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

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

They have two pepes? god help us

Calma Decs

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

Lol Jesus forgot to take the warmup shirt off

That was beautiful from Jorgi

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

Bit must mean something else in different countries

SO CLOSE

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.

Atmosphere is electric

Get in!

ref what

Raya nice

FUCKING COME ON

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

ONE

MINUTE

ADDED

TIME

REF

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

EDWARD

the corruption on display here is elite levels

LETS. FUCKING. GO.

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

that's what kai havertz is made for

@Astrealix 3-1!

At this rate Saka's gonna end up like Eduardo

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

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

Fuck off... whole team is full of shit

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

Porto time wasting in the tunnel? lol

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

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

That wasn't a foul at all, lol

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

No card for that?

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

Nerves still showing.

God I fucking hate Tyldesley on this feed.

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

Could everyone STOP TAKING THE PISS

HE GETS THE BALL FIRST

FUCK OFF RIO FERDINAND

GTFI

Watching this match is more tiring than my workout this morning

Omg get off the pitch

Who thinks this won't go to penalties?

Yes review that shit

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

what's wrong with that from havertz, ref?

saliba ffs

Really gonna need Trossard to step up today.

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?

get Varela off the pitch wtf

Omg B wake up

Gabi XL is a unit

Get the fuck in!!!!

Fuck off you nepo baby

REF????

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

That was like 12 seconds of added time

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

Aye! We got one, lol

REF

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

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

Who would be our subs?

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

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...

Yo this fucking ref

Oh we're going one pivot lol

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

CL has VAR right? How was that not checked?

Saka's been not good

I'm tired Robbie...

And fuck off Tyldesley

UWCL ad, goddamnit why are we not in it

How is that not a foul?

DJ_Khaled.webm

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

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

SEND TAREMI OFF THE KHAMENEI LOVING TWAT

We're going to need a whole lotta Jesus

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

We did it twice, we can do it again!

Yes we know Pepe is 41 🙄

Set piece goal, cmon!

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

We need to stop passing to White around the box

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

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

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

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

yknow what fair play lol

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.

declan rice, what a tackle that

Genuine question: Do we sub on Aaron Ramsdale here

Paramount is stuttering again wtf

Wilo 🙃

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

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

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

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

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