Are you NQ in disguise?Originally Posted by Munchies
Their left back will have nightmares about theo for the rest of his career.
He was great today.
Are you NQ in disguise?
Their left back will have nightmares about theo for the rest of his career.
He was great today.
Walcott was great, and Rosicky and Ramsey played well too. Giroud layed the ball off well but he's just not the clinical finisher we need. Good performance overall.
Suarez can finally come home now.....
Or not
Which celebrity is going to die?
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Ramsey from the last 6 months looks a completely different player to what he was. Seems to be fulfilling the potential that he showed pre-injury. Very smart little player with bags of energy.
Recovered very well from when Wenger tried to bury him by sticking him on the right.
Beastly performance indeed. Hope we still get a proper DM in though.
Geez, wins are bad for business.
On the plus side, Ramsey and Cazorla played really well. Rosicky was good in the second half and Wilshere got 90 minutes and seemed to be settling down towards the end of the game. Defence wasn't really tested until late and it was encouraging to see Sagna pulling players around trying to get them organised. Less encouraging that whatever was said seemed to bounce off Mertesacker's head without going in. He was out of his depth again, this time against a nothing team. Hopefully Kos' isn't too badly bashed up. That was a deliberate kick on him, watch the replay and you'll see the player's foot is a yard from the ball. Chesney was strong today, the pressure seems to have brought the best out of him.
On the minus side. Walcott was pitifully bad as usual. For sure he can run fast, there's little doubt about that. But you'll get maybe one completed cross out of him in 90 minutes, maybe 10% of his passes retain possession. A little credit to him, after hogging and wasting everything he eventually decided to try passing to a team mate in a better position and it paid off. Will he learn? If we could get a decent player with the same pace into that position it would transform the team. Same with Giroud, he's awful and even when one of our misfits manages to get a cross in he'll be 10 yards off the play. When these two went off the passing game just clicked into life, a shame there was only 10 minutes left.
First half was dreadful to watch, things picked up in the second half and 0-3 was a fair result in the end. But this team will struggle badly against better opponents. It's good to be almost through to the competition proper but you wonder what the point will be if the squad is not strengthened significantly. At the very least a striker who isn't so easy to mark out of a game is the minimum requirement.
Hopefully Wenger doesn't use this result to try and vindicate his actions this summer but you can see him giving it a try. Merson and Nicholas were going on about it being a good performance but they'll be just as quick to say the opposite when this team goes up against a better opponents and Wenger's tactics are once again found wanting. So yes, a win, but a total overhaul still required if we are to get anything from the competition.
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