Quote Originally Posted by ollie the optimist View Post
but you could argue the reason song has more assists is that he knows he can go forward and arteta will cover him and do a good job thus allowing him forward to create safe in the knowledge that arteta will be discplined and break up any counters.
quite glad we arent trying to play our tipp tappy beautiful passing game, last few years it hasnt worked, didnt work begining of season and we changed. we are now unbeaten in 7 games in a row, dropping just two points (if i am right, think its something like that) which shows its working. saturday didnt because palyers were rested and the team lost something. partly cos fat fuck does fuck all so we are down to ten men
You could but around this time last season Song was going forwards as getting goals as well. That's when he was paired with Wilshere. Also, it's totally unfair to blame Arshavin for the draw. Against Dortmund we were struggling as well but it took Song's run and cross to flip the tie. I don't think we're purposely going out there to avoid playing tippy tappy football. We just can't do it. We were still trying to play it short against Fulham and it's not as if we saw many direct passes or people attempting to go long and spread it wide. It was the same coming short intricate passing style but it wasn't working. Our defenders were still playing it short and looking to work the ball through the middle.