A new season, a new goalkeeper and high expectations were buzzing around the Emirates on Sunday, but the Gunners start to the 2015 Premier League season was ever so Arsenal.
Almost all the soccer pundits (including us) bought into the early hype for Arsene Wenger’s bunch this season. A top two finish seemed to be the consensus for Arsenal, but after a 2-0 loss to West Ham today, are Gunner fans in for another up and down season? The area of concern for the lads from London: Goalkeeper. The long time Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech had himself a debut to forget as the 35 year-old keep was looking, well, 35. The two goals scored against Arsenal were simply mistakes that you aren’t used to seeing from the Czech international. And, as you would expect, the internet exploded with overreaction following his poor performance. Isn’t the Premier League fun!? Before we get to the hilarious tweets regarding Cech’s performance, take a look at the two goals he allowed.
Now for the tweets:
Twitter is too fast ffs pic.twitter.com/Q8h7Dx8iWy
— ⠀ (@Loso_LFC) August 9, 2015
Meanwhile, Szczesny watches the game in Rome. pic.twitter.com/iY3S3jOp5C
— Coral (@Coral) August 9, 2015
New goalkeeper: Cech ✔️ Same old Arsenal goalkeeping: Cech ✔️ Bad start to a supposed game-changing season: Cech ✔️ #Arsenal #BPL #ARSWHU
— Ben Hayward (@bghayward) August 9, 2015
Double agent Cech is doing an outstanding job today #ARSWHU pic.twitter.com/cB6DUGfrpG
— Spurred On (@spurredontv) August 9, 2015
Petr Cech looking around like pic.twitter.com/UuQwrR5nkA
— Footy Jokes (@Footy_Jokes) August 9, 2015
Wenger: "can I have a refund on Cech please Jose?" http://t.co/ppsuWsoud3
— Footy Vines (@FootyVines) August 9, 2015
Good stuff Internet. Arsenal will look to get back on track next weekend when they face fellow London club Crystal Palace. The overreation was expected, especially since Arsenal was the butt of the joke. But don’t worry Gooners, luckily for you, it’s the first game of the season and there is still plenty of time to reach those top two aspirations. It’s not like you’ve finished in 3rd (four times) or 4th place (six times) every time in the last 10 seasons. Okay, fine, maybe you are in for another whirlwind season.
