The scoreboard is indicative of the events of this afternoon. Joey Melo registered our first shot on goal at about the 55 minute of the first half. If that doesn’t tell the story how about a 21(11) - 3(0) shots on goal disparity. But let’s leave statistics aside for a moment because they don’t tell the whole story. There is no stat that measures how bored and tired Lombardo must’ve been waiting for ANY sort of service. Our midfield couldn’t even put together 3 passes without either turning it over through a bad pass or getting tackled. A really disappointing game for everyone including Reda, Braz and former NYRB Dunivant. Our back four caused no discomfort to any NY player and we’re lucky the scoreline is only 3-0 because NY missed some golden, golden opportunities to really shit on us.

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This game brought back some painful and familiar memories. It looked like all the optimism of the preseason was about to get two-flushed down the toilet up until the 83 minute mark. Now it might appear like Tony Warner had an unbelievable game but we’re Arsenal and we’re in the business of making average goalies look great, so we did that again. We created 36584 chances in this game and probably should’ve scored on 12587 of them, but it’s good for us we managed two.

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