Goalscoring not defending the issue

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

still a better success ratio then sagna

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Wow a few bad games and a dip in form after a couple of leg breaks and 'true' arsenal fans slam one of our most consistent performers over the last 3 seasons! Nice.

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Originally Posted by Bergkampwonderland10

Wow a few bad games and a dip in form after a couple of leg breaks and 'true' arsenal fans slam one of our most consistent performers over the last 3 seasons! Nice.

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:haha:

a few bad games, added into the fact he has a shit attidue right now, and the fact he has never been able to cross

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Originally Posted by Bergkampwonderland10

WhoScored.com (WhoScored):
Gervinho: In 41 PL apps since joining Arsenal (24 starts on the wing) Gervinho has found a teammate with just 3 of his 63 attempted crosses

http://twitter.com/WhoScored/status/293769733805862913

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You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was surprised by that

It's because Gervais doesn't have the composure or awareness to think about what he's doing.

There's an element of hit and hope about everything he does.

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Originally Posted by Cripps

Would help if Arteta had a creative bone in his body

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Pretty much, though we have some talent in midfield but we don't have the right mix of players.

The defence is shocking and full of average players, the forward line is again very average.

I'm sorry but the signings in recent years have been shocking, there's barely an ounce of quality and this from a man who claims he only looks for super super quality and only wants players that are better than what he's got.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

We bemoan our defending and rightly so, but for me the main problem is lack of goals.......with the exception of a few games where we have scored five, sixes and sevens....we are not scoring enough goals on a consistent basis.

In 14 of our 22 League games we have managed to score one goal or less, of those 14 games we have won 2 drawn drawn 6 and lost 6. In eight of those games we have managed one goal, in six of those games we have not scored. When we score one goal we have only gone onto win in 25% of those games. When we fail to score full stop we have drawn half the games and lost the other half.

In the remaining 8 when we have scored more than one goal, we have gone on to win 87.5% of the time.....in that there has only been one game in the league this season where we have scored more than once and not gone onto win (the 3-3 draw against Fulham).

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we have the talent and squad to be pushing for 3/4 at least and we even gave city a very good game at their place earlier in the season. but we can't achieve that because of the manager.

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Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz

we have the talent and squad to be pushing for 3/4 at least and we even gave city a very good game at their place earlier in the season. but we can't achieve that because of the manager.

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We wouldn't have this squad at the price we do if not for the very same manager.

that's great. a cut price squad because of a manager who can't sustain their ability. useful that.

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Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz

we have the talent and squad to be pushing for 3/4 at least and we even gave city a very good game at their place earlier in the season. but we can't achieve that because of the manager.

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There's not a huge amount of talent in this squad IMO, if a new manager came in a massive clearout would be due with maybe a handful of players remaining.

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Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga

There's not a huge amount of talent in this squad IMO, if a new manager came in a massive clearout would be due with maybe a handful of players remaining.

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lets take our first choice team.

chesney

sagna kos/merts/verm gibbs
arteta
theo jack cazorla podolski
giroud

no manager would get rid of that. they might drop sagna (current form) giroud to bench and get better striker in and maybe a left winger.

but thats a good team.