He's basically become Cesc, he may have started out as CM, but he really doesnt seem to have the discipline to play the position. Flamini is basically going at it in the middle on his own.
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Clean sheet :bow:.
Top of the league :bow:.
Wenger :bow:.
Tony Gale :haha:.
Absolutely piss poor football which is what we are regularly seeing now. Last time we played anything like decent football was the Ist half an hour against Man Utd. Look at the recent results & who we've played. Is that what the new stadium brings or would we not be expecting to be playing better football if we were still at Highbury.
Whatever we saw today, it will be exactly the same next week against Sunderland. Wenger has no tactical nous to open up defensive teams with the players he has.
Ozil absolutely needs to be rested or at least benched for the FA Cup game.
We were so poor and lucky to come away with three points.
The Ramsey Flamini midfield pairing is horrible ....... there's zero control or discipline between them. Frankly until Santi comes back we probably won't be able to dictate a game again. Giroud and the attackers had no service and you could see the likes of him and Ozil growing increasingly frustrated with the wayward passing and movement.
I know the cliche is that "it's the sign of champions, playing badly and winning", however that is precipitated on actually playing well in other games and to be honest, apart from City at home, we haven't looked at our free flowing best since we lost Carzola and Coquelin.
Worryingly as well, our run of fixtures now until the end of Februray are horrible starting of with a trip to Liverpool and then Stoke. Good news though is that we'll hopefully have Alexis back and the current setup is probably better suited to putting men behind the ball and countering (see City at home) rather than bossing a game through possession and passing.