Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
I brought out the spreadsheets to see what the stats could actually say about our 'feelings vs facts' of facing 90 mins of 11 men pinned in their half behind the ball.
I mean, firstly: you
This is excellent work.
I'm not super convinced that 4 games is statistically that significant. But I don't think it's controversial to say we struggle against sides who come and sit deep/park the bus/deploy a deep block/call it what you will.

I don't blame teams for doing it - Spurs are much mocked for being too gung-ho. "It's just who we are, mate" has become a meme. The Spursiest example surely being when they were down to 9 men against Chelsea and were still trying to attack. Ridiculous game management. For all our wobbling this season we are one of the best sides in the PL and of course sides outside the top 6 are going to come to The Emirates and try not to lose more than they're going to try to win. Twas ever thus, I remember in one of the title run ins back in the day we had some frustrating games where we struggled to get the breakthrough. Back then we invariably did in the end though, we were more potent up front. Now...well, we all know about our issues with a striker, and Saka being out is obviously affecting us.
It is frustrating because we have some quick players, if we just broke we pace more we'd surely be more effective.