Accepting we didn’t deserve to win last night and coming away pleased with our overall performance ( except we should have peppered the goal more) I feel very frustrated about how Arsenal conducted themselves.
I watch players time wasting which I suppose is a part of our game but the level of time wasting last night was disappointing..and what made it even worse was Arteta talking about using stop watches to time players taking throw ins….he said it was 8 seconds…what an idiot as it was over 40 seconds between two players who were involved.
There was also little mention by all the Arsenal people like Piers mouth Morgan who complained bitterly about the sending off but nothing about the fact that the Arsenal penalty should have been disallowed as our defender was illegally blocked off denying us the ability to defend properly…this is cheating.
So time wasting cheating Arsenal are joint top of the league.
I hope that fair play City and even the scum on the south coast finish higher.

Let's be honest the worst decision of the game was the 2nd yellow, if we was in arsenals position, we would have been fuming if their pen wasn't given and if eze's was given against us. As poor as the ref was we was gifted 30 mins against 10 men and couldn't make it count, I dont think we even had a shot on target did we ?

There was quite a bit of time wasting, but ironically the worst of it wasn't Tomiyasu on that throw in. Him going off took about two minutes, however. All of their subs and goal kicks took ages, their later throws took longer.I wouldn't think that 7 minutes was long enough. Personally don't feel that Tomiyasu did enough to get sent off. Some fouls against us were soft. That wasn't the worst reffing we're going to see as Palace fans this season. I was interested in the way Arsenal bought the penalty but ours was unconvincing. The game is so silly these days that we better look at that.

Red and Blue Army!

If it would be considered 'incorrect' to say Arsenal were cheating last night then the least I could say is that given the players at their disposal etc they certainly looked to be relying upon tactics outside of pure footballing ability to win the match.

They wasted time at every available opportunity, threw themselves to the ground on multiple occasions (there was actually one incident, I think it was Partey, where his doing this was quite literal right in front of me, utterly ridiculous) and their football was not even admirable/entertaining to watch, employing underhand tactics as though this is clever or any achievement.

All that said I think they did not deserve a win but more so that we deserved nothing from the match. We didn't seem to have any answers to the questions they asked of us especially when down to ten men. That aptly named Coote seemed intimidated and unfamiliar with the game being played around him with the sending off just one of many dubious decisions which I felt mostly boded in their favour.

Were we to have got even a point my commentary would probably be more loaded toward praising of our team, who I think played very well beyond a lapse of concentration and lack of threat up top, but either way I'd like to believe I still would've thought it was a bit of a 'crap match'.

C'est la vie and on to the next one. Brentford may well offer more for us, unlucky not to get the win there last season.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Painter I rarely comment or reply on this forum but to say that my comment was unbiased is daft…did you go to the game last night?
Ayew went down as he was pulled back by a player who had just been booked..
7 minutes at the end for time wasting when you see how much time is added on in other games…both Vatr decisions took 3 minutes each ..let alone all the time wasting….
Cheating Arsenal.

I agree. The way Arsenal managed their play was embarrassing and could not be held up as a great advert for the beautiful game.