Quote Originally Posted by milla View Post
We really need some pace from midfield. I thought we going to see a lot Gnabry his year but it looks like Wenger doesn't trust him yet.

You can bet your money we will not see Feo on the weekends, it will be Cazorla and Jack on the wings and we will be fucked. I will dread to watch Jack tracking Jesus Navas run from wide area.
This is my biggest concern after tonight. Wenger seems to have completely given up on having some pace on at least one of the flanks and decided we have to play with 5 central midfielders. This is concerning on so many levels. Because it makes us very one dimensional and having to be at the very top of our game in order to pass the ball through a midfield and defence and lastly it doesn't give us any outlet to relieve pressure. Furthermore it means that teams with pace on the flanks will absolutely crush us given the tendency of all our players to drift centrally and leave our fullbacks exposed. None of the teams we've played so far have had decent wide players barring Everton and they gave us a lot of trouble down the flanks as a result.

I shudder to think what would happen with Man City (Navas and Silva), Chelsea (Hazard and Schurle), Bayern (Robben and Ribery), Madrid (Ronaldo and Bale). We will get creamed in those circumstances.

The best team we have requires at least one wide player with pace - be it Theo or Gnabry or the Ox. I'm not sure Podolski has the pace to do this.

As you say, against Man City we will be well and truly screwed on the flanks. And you're right, he will not play Theo on the wing.

January can't come soon enough. We really don't have a plan B if Giroud isn't firing on all cylinders. He's fantastic at bringing our midfielders into play but as has been touched upon on countless occasions we desperately need a player to be able to get in front of Giroud and play off the shoulder of the last defender. Options are seriously slim in January but we've left ourselves terribly exposed by that. I can't think of who we could realistically aim to get. Perhaps that Belgian striker who seems to have pace to burn?

Biggest concern of all our players at the moment is Cazorla. Not sure what is up with him. But he's struggling to create and shoot. Very poor season so far. Needs to sort it out.