at half time i was convinced if we got an early goal, we could do it, missing those chances was poor and cost us.
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I think Merse was spot on yesterday when he said Wenger cannot expect certain players to just slot right into the system and play the style of football he wants. It just doesn't work like that. You need to play to your strengths, work out the best tactics to get the most from what you have. I guess it fits into the idea of Wenger not being anywhere near as tactically astute as other managers in this league.
Yeah, Merse was absolutely spot on. As he said, you'll get league one sides go there this year in the Cup and offer more resistence than that. OK, we had players out but so did Utd. If our squad is too weak without key players then we clearly need a stronger squad. Wenger must know that. And given that our team was clearly far too weak we needed to give the defence some help, pack the defence, make it hard for Utd. Just trying to play the 'Arsenal way' was suicide and as Merse said completely unfair on the players.
We're not going to be playing sides that good every week and Wednesday showed we're not a bad side but the squad is far too weak and if we don't get several good players, which as the time ticks down is looking increasingly unlikely, then it's going to be a long, hard season :(