Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Cazorla has taken a month or so off. I wouldn't hold him up as a great example just yet. He can go into hiding, be just as wasteful and get caught in possession like the rest of them. He can go long stretches through the game where he won't even touch the ball and for a player of his quality it's not enough. His shooting is pretty bad as well. He's a good player but he needs to step it up because he's done very little since scoring that hat trick and hasn't put in a proper shift since. He can be just as lazy when pressing the opposition as well.
He's playing in a system that inexplicably performs when we are up against it but relaxes when we gain the merest advantage. It can't be all eleven deciding to play this way simultaneously. It must be some sort of fucked up tactic that fails to work season after season. The players get instructions before they go out on the pitch. The instructions are faulty, or at least they don't maximise the potential of the team. I suppose Wenger would claim over the course of a season his tactics do work because we keep hold of that 4th spot. But it must be confusing for certain players when the tempo is shifting all the time and there's no opportunity to get a steady rhythm going and build control of the game.