That Was EMBARRASSING! (Laurie) | Fleetwood 1-1 (5-3 Pens) Arsenal

Marty from AFTV here with Laurie after Arsenal going out on penalties to Fleetwood Town in the Carabao Cup. One word, mate. One word. Embarrassing. And before I go any further, I do want to shout out Fleetwood. Well done to Fleetwood Town. I would imagine, I don't know too much about Fleetwood Town, but I would imagine that's probably their best result in their history. And they deserved it. Not because they played us off the park. It wasn't that type of game. I think what Fleetwood did, to their credit, It was they had a game plan, which was to nullify ourselves, keep it tight. And they managed to do that. And the tactics worked. So, shout out to their coach for getting the tactics right. And I've got to be honest, mate, and I said this to you on the watch along, that when it got to about 65, 70 minutes, and I said, you know what? It's looking like this is going to go to penalties. I was not confident. Yeah. Because we were playing so poorly. And what I can't quite work out was whether it's just one of them days where nothing goes for you or were we maybe a bit complacent a bit too overconfident going in I mean I didn't see any lack of effort so um I wouldn't want to just put it out there that we were overconfident and we're arrogant or I don't think it was anything like that I just think that we just didn't play well right from the start you could see there I can't remember an Arsenal game obviously with a possible exception of Brighton where there were so many players off it right from the start we just wasn't and I must admit Marty I'm a little concerned at the lack of goals from the attack there's been a few games this season where we've been the better team and we we scraped through from goals from other areas of the pitch yeah tonight was a absolute night to forget for Kai Havertz he had an absolute nightmare in front of goal today and you know what I'm going to give him a little bit of credit actually yeah because he played so poorly that I was worried for him in the penalties so when he stepped up to take his penalty i was thinking you know what given the kind of game he's had it wouldn't surprise me if he missed it but he actually put the penalty away well but yeah, him, uh, Victor Houghton, I was pleased for him that he got a goal but he was off it, um, even Max was off it, I was just coming on to that because I wasn't being rude, I was looking obviously the Mac, they're replaying the Max Dowman red card on the screen in a variety of different angles in slow-mo and obviously I just wanted to get your take on it and, uh, I've seen that in a few, yeah, I've seen it broken down, I just want to get your take on it. To me it was a sending off, you can't kick out like that, I mean, the, I know you are one of a few people I've spoken to said that the challenge was a little too strong and listen Max Dowman is a tremendous talent, he's a young man, what, 16 going on 17, he's young, you know, I'm saying um this will be a lesson for him to learn tonight, you know, I'm saying, uh, you can see that the manager was not too happy about what he'd done because when he got sent off, that was pretty much, he knew he weren't going to come back from that and score So it's cost the team And listen, I don't want to over-deliberate on it but he was in the wrong. You can't kick out like that. You run the risk of getting sent off And once you go down to 10 men in a game like this it was always going to be difficult. That wasn't the reason why we didn't get the result tonight because we were playing poorly long before he did that. So, that was just another black mark, really on what was a humiliating night, ultimately So, Anfield Sunday You know what? I would say this, yeah So, obviously, what happened tonight was, I didn't see that coming. You didn't see that coming. No, I mean, we were predicting four, fives and sixes, yeah? So, yeah, it was embarrassing, like I said, to go out of this competition to fleet with. However, the one sliver of comfort and positivity that I can take from tonight is that those players tonight will be feeling embarrassed. I'm sure the manager will let him know how he feels about it. And I'm backing the guys to bounce back on Sunday and this will probably motivate them to perform even at a higher level than what we would normally do. So, yeah, you know what? I don't think that this result... I guess what I'm saying is I don't think this result will have a bearing on what we see on Sunday against Liverpool. I hope not, anyway. Well said, Laurie.