You could say it was luck, but you had about 5 chances to clear our first and Henderson, who isn't exactly Drogba, was able to skip away from Mertesaker (?) and hold off Santos and was able to get a shot away before any of them even put a tackle in. I think Ramsey was the one who put the block in.Originally Posted by Grebbo
Didn't Henderson get his shot away and then it was saved/blocked off one player on to another player and then the ball rolled right into Henderson's path for a tap in? I'm sure it was something like that.
Anyway they all count and we were well beaten last night I'm not disputing that. It just seems that when you're on a bad run you don't get any breaks whereas the opposition often does.
Ramsey blocked his first shot, it hit Santos and rolled into Henderson's path. You could say lucky (I'd be hesitant to since no one would have said it was unlucky for us if it hit Santos and went straight to Sneezy), but he should never have been allowed to get that close to the goal in the first place, nevermind have a shot.
You could say the same about last night's goals. Their first was a poor cross but there was no picking them up, their second was just dreadful defending. I'll let you have their third, since it looped up and in. I take the point about when you are on a bad run you don't get the breaks, but a lot of the time that's just down to bad defending/finishing/passing/concentration. An example for Liverpool last season; we hit the post a silly number of times. That stops being bad luck and is just put down to poor finishing after a while. And because we couldn't score, our defensive mistakes and lapses were often more important than they should have been and just conceding one was more of a mountain than it should have been. And as you say, you got your own slice of luck with your goal from the "corner"; but even then Bayern themselves will be disappointed with their defending and letting it bounce in their own 6 yard box.
We got a break, we'd been comprehensively outplayed by a Bayern who to be honest didn't play that well and as Letters said didn't get out of 2nd gear when we got a goal form a corner which anyone with eyes could see was never one.
Before this we didn't offer any threat at all and huffed and puffed a bit, so we got our break (one we didn't deserve and still couldn't make the most of it). We've been on a bad run for much of this season, guess why? We're not good enough, the manager hasn't coached the players, the tactics are non existent, the defending is atrocious and there's a lack of quality due to his poor signings.
There's no excuses for what is car crash management, I'd have expected players to come out and really get in the faces of the Bayern players and run their hearts out, that's how you react to adversity, by fighting for and chasing every ball until you can't anymore....when the chips are down we collapse in a heap as we have done for as many years as I can remember under Wenger.
Last edited by Özim; 20-02-2013 at 11:27 AM.
You make your own luck really. Everyone has moments which go for or against them, there's no point in dwelling on things like that. Our last 2 league wins have come about from deflected attempts.
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