No, it isn't. But we should be able to do it away too. NQ's post about inertia is more plausible. Maybe teams are giving us too much respect.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
No, it isn't. But we should be able to do it away too. NQ's post about inertia is more plausible. Maybe teams are giving us too much respect.
The home teams come at us because they are at home, roared on by their fans and we can't handle it.
It's the same answer.
It's not the answer that's the problem. It's the question.
At this late stage in procedures, how can anybody still be asking why we're so shit? This bloke has been in charge for years. It's not like some new appointment we are still trying to figure out.
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The guys on the AVpodcast pretty much nailed it.
We're shit defensively and have zero control in the CM - that's been an issue since the start of the season (god knows why we haven't signed an athletic CM yet). We can get away with it at home as apart from the top teams most teams don't have a go at us instead preferring to sit back and soak up pressure.
However away from home, most teams are more prepared to have a go at us and we have such a brittle & weak centre that crumbles under the slightest bit of pressure. The end result is our away form.
well I just posted that, don't need AVpodcast to tell you that.
Which implies we are one collective realisation away from a relegation fight. People said we'd never end up mid table under Wenger. Here we are, mid table. Battling Burnley. Next season, there are no limits to the possibilities, all of them bad. If Wenger stays.
Look at what he has now. Aubameyang and Lacazette. And he doesn't have the first clue how to use them. No amount of money, no signings can compensate for how shit this manager is.
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Coming to the Emirates to face Arsenal is still a task most teams don’t relish and in general teams will always collect more points at home because it’s easier to do so.
Winning away requires more thought and courage, things we are severely lacking in.
Our record probably wouldn't be quite as bad if Wenger wasn't throwing PL games so he can keep his last best hope to save his own useless arse alive - his team wrapped up safe and cosy to somehow, by whatever means, find a way (despite him) to beat Atleti.
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They take a win for granted and they have for a long time.
Wenger on the CSK match in Moscow. "Maybe we were surprised by the intensity at the start."
I think Theo said something similar about Preston last season. We were surprised that they wanted it, or something like that. They don't expect teams that they deemed to be 'lesser' than them to turn up, so they are complacent and end up losing. (Scraping a win in the Preston case.)
We go into away matches completely unprepared for the increased intensity we will undoubtedly face.
Because we don’t prepare any differently regardless of the team, form or situation we face, we lose.
Our decline has been gradual, but it has passed a tipping point. If it continues, and it surely will without a change in Manager, our home form will regress to match our away form.
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