He has won the league 3 times in 17 and the CL 0 in 17. So you tell me which is easierQuote:
Originally Posted by the ollie and the ivy
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He has won the league 3 times in 17 and the CL 0 in 17. So you tell me which is easierQuote:
Originally Posted by the ollie and the ivy
di matteo won the champions league and finished 6th in the league. i think that answers your questionQuote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
when we play negatively we are asking players to play differently to what they are asked to do 80% of the time. We get beaten by a shit Man Utd side because we were negative, which will happen when we play City & Chelski. And we wonder why our recored against the big teams is poor? Our attacking play tonight was simply embarrasing against a poor Napoli defence. Attack is the best form of defence - we have been playing the best football in the league, why dont we let teams worry about us.
Champs League isn't easy otherwise we'd have won it by now. There are some top clubs that haven't won that competition in ages. Look at Real, Juve...took Bayern a long time to win it again. You get the odd fluke results but it's difficult to win because you have to be in control of your emotions in the night and not bottle it.Quote:
Originally Posted by the ollie and the ivy
The CL is the holy grail for every top club whatever you say, you're Champions of Europe if you win it, not of your country so it's actually a bigger title.Quote:
Originally Posted by the ollie and the ivy
Winning the league is special, winning the CL must be something else though.
Meaningless result as we still went through
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Originally Posted by Letters To Santa
id argue you the league is a bigger title as it proves once and for all that season you were the best. champions league is a cup competition, theres a lot of luck. huge title and incredible to win though but winning the league proves you are the best in your country, winning the champions league doesn't always prove you are the best in europeQuote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Ask Real Madrid which one is more important, or even Barca.Quote:
Originally Posted by the ollie and the ivy
The CL is the big one, all the top clubs want to win that one, winning the league is great but it's not as important as the CL. Most of the best teams in the world are in the CL, they're not all in the PL.
This is my biggest concern after tonight. Wenger seems to have completely given up on having some pace on at least one of the flanks and decided we have to play with 5 central midfielders. This is concerning on so many levels. Because it makes us very one dimensional and having to be at the very top of our game in order to pass the ball through a midfield and defence and lastly it doesn't give us any outlet to relieve pressure. Furthermore it means that teams with pace on the flanks will absolutely crush us given the tendency of all our players to drift centrally and leave our fullbacks exposed. None of the teams we've played so far have had decent wide players barring Everton and they gave us a lot of trouble down the flanks as a result.Quote:
Originally Posted by milla
I shudder to think what would happen with Man City (Navas and Silva), Chelsea (Hazard and Schurle), Bayern (Robben and Ribery), Madrid (Ronaldo and Bale). We will get creamed in those circumstances.
The best team we have requires at least one wide player with pace - be it Theo or Gnabry or the Ox. I'm not sure Podolski has the pace to do this.
As you say, against Man City we will be well and truly screwed on the flanks. And you're right, he will not play Theo on the wing.
January can't come soon enough. We really don't have a plan B if Giroud isn't firing on all cylinders. He's fantastic at bringing our midfielders into play but as has been touched upon on countless occasions we desperately need a player to be able to get in front of Giroud and play off the shoulder of the last defender. Options are seriously slim in January but we've left ourselves terribly exposed by that. I can't think of who we could realistically aim to get. Perhaps that Belgian striker who seems to have pace to burn?
Biggest concern of all our players at the moment is Cazorla. Not sure what is up with him. But he's struggling to create and shoot. Very poor season so far. Needs to sort it out.