Well it would be nice if we had a choice of CBs. Verm and Kos are virtually same player and don't really work in our favor together. So Mert is the only other option.Originally Posted by milla
How we haven't brought in a CB is just madness. Now a LB is a must too.
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It wasn't the high line that did Mertesacker. Just the fact that he's clumsy, weak and slow. Fuck knows how he let Henderson shrug past him. Also that suicide pass in the first half that nearly ended up in the net - just the kind of thing you expect from a German with 85 caps.
Sagna, who used to be a physical beast, has turned really weak, slow and careless. Don't know what you do with that. Desperately need buy a LB, RB, CB, CM and a new manager.
The brits did well as usual - or, at least, they did their jobs to win us the game. We created the chances and would've won the game for sure if not for Vermaelen, Sagna and Mertesacker making schoolboy errors.
It will work, just need then to learn how to play next to each other. Verm attack the ball, Kos play as the last man (better marker, better tackler). Or play deeper with Mert, he will a beast in this setup.
somebody put something in my milk
Pretty much.
Arsenal are so random. At times we look so good going forward, at other times we move the ball so ridiculously slowly that it's easy to defend against. At times we're dealing well with crosses and blocking the ball well, at other times we're just passing it to the opposition and inviting pressure.
There's the makings of a decent side there but we have to sort out the stupid mistakes at the back. I like Chesney but what the f*** is he doing trying a Cryff (sp) turn and almost gifting them a tap in? What are we doing passing it to their attacker when under no pressure? It's just stupid and undoes a lot of good work. After working well to equalise we had a load of chances to win it and gave them a load of chances to lose it. Draw was a fair result overall.
That I agreed but it is down to our coaching not players. Merts has always been like that, doesnt make him bad tackler though.
somebody put something in my milk
Wengers excuse for the defence tonight was nerves,the word he should have used was incompetent bit like the guy who gets paid 7 million a year. to sort it out.
The defence and defenders are sh*t IMO.
- Mertersacker slow and ponderous, never been particularly good and we're seeing it now.
- Vermaelen, he's got no positional sense and wants to go forward all the time.
- Koscielny, a calamity, a goal (for the opposition) a game man.
- Gibbs, a crock, will never stay fit for more than a handful of games
- Santos a winger who can't defend for his life.
- Sagna, a player who's realised what a sh*t club he's at and wants to move on to better things.
- Wenger, know nothing about defence and makes up new excuses for the poor defending every week, today's was another classic
Get rid of them and start again, has there ever been a worse group of defenders at top club?
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Wengers excuse for the defence tonight was nerves,the word he should have used was incompetent bit like the guy who gets paid 7 million a year. to sort it out.
he's running out of excuses. next he'll be making words up.
A Crap manager who used to be a crap defender, recruits crap defenders and coaches them crappily, I think I see a trend here. Wenger has been winging it with Arsenal for the last 16 years. In the past he always had at least 1 WC player to bail his badly assembled coterie of clumsy oafs out each season. This is the first season he has no such world class player. I fear for us come May.
Watching highlights(was at work during the game), basically we are average, and so are Liverpool. Only difference is, their management know, they are average.
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