OTF

Haidara on for Sissoko, can only assume Santon to push up?

Flamini you little cunt.

For Anita. Can't argue too much with that.

And here he comes.

Arm hooked around him, dragged him to ground, no penalty apparently.

Debuchy, phew.

How long until Shola is stripping off?

Fuck.

Fuck.

It was a pisstake at that very point. In fact he rates him so poorly that he blames him for the performances of others.

Gouffran for Ben Arfa. Good substitution.

Monsieur Pardeux looks to be making the first move here...

He's clearly being made to look better than he is by not having Ben Arfa on the pitch.

That was bloody close. Positive end to the half for us.

Get stuffed Walcott. Pretend footballer.

How was that not a foul? Absurd.

They're not used to playing with this much sustained noise from the crowd.

Then mixing in the waste of time dive and feign of injury on his own poor attempt at a 'tackle'. Frenchmen!

Don't know about you but Debuchy covers a crazy amount of ground at pace without ever looking exhausted.

Just got the condescending pat on the head from the commentator here saying we are well organised and disciplined defensively.

Sissoko had a busy but unproductive first 10 and has done little since. There's a case for an earlyish substitution bringing on Ben Arfa. Likewise for Shola. I get the feeling that Pardew is simply hoping not to concede this half to leave his options open in the second.

For sure, I was trying to say that it was worrying that it was 2 on 1. Did a horrible job.

Cabaye's definitely up for it, covering plenty of ground defensively. The crowd has been good also.

Difficult for Santon there, we didn't pick them up from midfield. In the end he did well.

Mertesacker making Williamson look dexterous and mobile there. We're handling their propensity to go to ground incredibly well at the moment, backing off at the last and not being overly physical.