Thought Bolasie (being a boyhood Arsenal fan) seemed a bit star struck by te occasion. Shame as he is capable of better and he will be replaced by Ince very soon.
You don't pay a loan fee as big as £1m and not play the boy. Plus you're not going to drop Punch. He's our only goal scorer right now

im one of Bolasies biggest fans, but if im honest at this level he would be far more effective as a impact sub, to run at tired fullbacks he will the have more time hopefuly stop panicking and make the rite decisions.

Back from the game-- Palace showed great spirit but some of our players were not at the races today,KG was poor and will be replaced by Ledley,Balasie was wasteful and will be replaced by Ince,Puncheon was completely out of sorts and Speroni could have done better with Arsenals second goal so Hennesseys turn might come sooner rather than later
Chamakh as always had lovely touches but we have no cutting edge and we may have to rely on Ince and Ledley for those extra goals with a shot shy forward line.Oh for a fit GM!

Remember KG has been injured and had to play when not match fit

I actually thought we were poor in relation to recent performances. We made more mistakes at the back than I have seen for some time. Yes I do appreciate Arsenal have some world class players but Manchester City also have a few of those and we were better against them.

The bottom line though is that I am upset we lost a game that three months ago I would have been expecting a 5-0 drubbing. We have come such a long way so quickly and with our new signings plus GM almost ready to return I am expecting us to climb another rung on the ladder.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx

For me Chamakh was the standout player yesterday, had some lovely skills and managed to beat his man well on a few occasions and gain space and time to turn on goal. If Chamakh was getting better service he would definitely be getting more goals. Right now its a situation where he drops deap and leads the attack from a much deeper position though, so his scoring positions are generally compromised as a result.

I thought outside of Chamakh, no one had a great game in particular although Ward played well as always I thought. For me the two players that did look poor today were Puncheon and Bolassie today. Bolassie running wildly into the Arsenal backline, it was valiant and brave but ultimately not going anywhere. And Puncheon had a bad day, the two worst moments for me was misplacing a 5 yard pass out in to touch, and then recieving the ball on the byline and letting it go through his feet and out. Those were two really poor moments where we lost possession in counter attacking positions.

We lost to the top of the league, and personally I thought both goals were very well worked and couldn't really complain about either.