It's true that our performance have been quite good, we have however been "in form" and yet only picked up the equivalent of 3 wins in 6 games which on reflection isn't great.
Things can change, but I think the weakest part of our season is the tail end and thus a good start was essential IMO.
Nah we tend to finish strong, its the middle part we seem to flop, around feb-march.
End of the day, most have been brought back down to see where we are. we have 3 easy games and we should be winning them all.
Not really bothered about the table now, if its 20 games gone and we still have 9 points then its time to worry about form etc.
Last edited by Olivier's xmas twist; 29-09-2012 at 08:21 PM.
No idea why Wenger decided to drop Merts. He's been consistent and our best CB so far. He was excellent against City and based on that performance alone, he should have been one of the first players on the team sheet. If Ramsey keeps his spot after his last performance against City over Ox and Walcott, then surely Merts warrants a start for this game? This is the sort of thing from Wenger that worries me. He has favorites and will try to squeeze them into the starting line up regardless. He needs to cut that crap and play whoever is in form. Kos cost us this game. At fault for both goals and could have been 3-0 if wasn't Torres being Torres.
It wasn't a great performance from the squad and I have no idea why we weren't pressing Chelsea high up the pitch and making it difficult for them to get out of their own half. It worked wonders last season but we didn't approach the game in the same way this time round. Verms and Kos were pretty bad, Cazorla had an off game and struggled, Poldoski was quiet as usual but shouldn't have been subbed because he's still a threat. Ox had an off game too...how Giroud missed that last chance. Poor really. Chelsea weren't that good either but we just gifted them 3 points. On to the next game.
things can change very quickly but last season we had the best striker in the world spearheading our change.
this year we have giroud who without sounding disrespectful cant hit a cows arse with a banjo.