Wenger Out?

[Syn]

I think what's quite interesting is that we've been notoriously bad starters of games. Last season we often found ourselves a goal down early and then we had the best second half record out of everyone. In this '18 wins from 21' form, we usually don't look in the game in the first half.

But now that seems to be a tactic. It's like we accept we're going to be shit and so just work hard on defending by purposely staying on the back-foot in the first half and not trying anything risky. And then we trust our fitness levels to take the opposition on running power alone in the second half. Looking at the goals we're scoring recently, it's not like we're doing anything special from a technique POV. It's just athlete ball and the opposition getting physically tired.

In the bigger games - and by that I mean the CL - our inability to keep 65% possession might get us into trouble. But it's hard to see it being too much of a problem in the league.

[Bumble]

Although this season Swansea was the first game we didnt score in the first 25 minutes so goes against what you are saying. And the only game we have lost was the only game we gone behind in and had to chase.

[Ollie the Optimist]

saw a stat that said if you took the last 38 games played in the league, we would be second.


its a slightly skewed stat given that we will have played some teams twice and others not at all, ie swansea away twice in that run. however its showing very pleasing form, and a real desire to win. 18 wins in last 21 games. 9 wins in a row since villa loss. some have been games we expect to win (stoke, fenerbache, sunderland) but still you have to win. swansea and spurs were very tough games and a draw would have been acceptable but we won. if we keep this run going, the same desiere and passion shown so far, then one loss wont hurt us. just look at villa. long way to go yet but so far, so good

[Ollie the Optimist]

Although this season Swansea was the first game we didnt score in the first 25 minutes so goes against what you are saying. And the only game we have lost was the only game we gone behind in and had to chase.

we havnt gone behind in a single game this season. we scored first against villa.

[Bumble]

we havnt gone behind in a single game this season. we scored first against villa.

to lose you have to go behind though.

[Ollie the Optimist]

to lose you have to go behind though.

sorry misread your post, i thought it said that the villa game we were behind all game. of course to lose you have to be behind but you meant villa took the lead and we just scored a consolation

[Bumble]

sorry misread your post, i thought it said that the villa game we were behind all game. of course to lose you have to be behind but you meant villa took the lead and we just scored a consolation

no just meant that villa are the only team who have lead against us at any point in the match. I think we are a bit naive when chasing the game.

[Ollie the Optimist]

no just meant that villa are the only team who have lead against us at any point in the match. I think we are a bit naive when chasing the game.

not sure on that. havnt really been tested by being behind this season, but the more games that go by, the more that loss looks like it was heavily down to the referee in the villa game.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

saw a stat that said if you took the last 38 games played in the league, we would be second.


its a slightly skewed stat given that we will have played some teams twice and others not at all, ie swansea away twice in that run. however its showing very pleasing form, and a real desire to win. 18 wins in last 21 games. 9 wins in a row since villa loss. some have been games we expect to win (stoke, fenerbache, sunderland) but still you have to win. swansea and spurs were very tough games and a draw would have been acceptable but we won. if we keep this run going, the same desiere and passion shown so far, then one loss wont hurt us. just look at villa. long way to go yet but so far, so good

this. our run may not have been created from winning against the elite of the PL but thats no fault of ours......in fact in seasons past, it has been the lower teams, the teams we should have beaten that have been our undoing! a run such as this can only be great for the morale of the team.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Of course there is no need to gloat. You could just as easily turn around and say where are folks that wanted Stan/Gazidis/Board out?

Most people have been critical of the transfer policy for years and although it looks as though we’ve changed our approach, I still can’t understand why we couldn’t have done this 2/3 years? A class signing each year with a few bargain basement deals.

To be fair, I wanted everybody out and for them to take Ramsey with them.