Match Reaction vs The 'Ammers (away).

[Power n Glory]

It's a simple point really. For someone to be successful as the focal point of an attack in the EPL (433/451 formation), they can be as skilled as anyone, but it's almost a minimum requirement to possess some degree of power.

Suarez, Rooney, Tevez and Aguero are all absolute pitbulls. They aren't the tallest, but they can more than hold their own physically against any CB in the league. It's for this reason they can really showcase their skill as a focal point.

I'd argue that someone like Hernandez, Vela, Walcott, Soldado and even Eduardo would all really struggle to be the focal point of any EPL attack. They lack the minimum strength requirement to be able to hold up the ball. It's not good enough to rely on skill and be a poacher in the EPL, unless you're as good as someone like Messi for sake of argument! It's been seen for ages.

Suarez, Rooney & Aguero all weigh around 80kg. Reus weighs under 70kg, and is thus nearly 2 stone lighter. He's a classy player, but he simply wouldn't be able to hold up and shake off EPL defenders.

Having said all of this - I'd be absolutely elated if we did sign Reus, but I'd be hoping he'd be signed to play on the left wing, and for no other position. His partner in crime Lewandowski is far more what we need.

Due to everything I've said above, I'd also hate the idea of us signing Pato. No thanks. Diego Costa. Hell yes.

We should have developed Theo into a centre forward earlier in his career so he'd be used to the body contact and know how to hustle up front. His upper body strength would have developed and he'd be used to riding challenges, spinning and skipping away from opponents. That's something you can learn and adapt to. These big lumps we're playing up field, it's where we're going wrong and they'll never be quick or agile enough. We dance around opponents with small technical players in the middle of the park but it all comes to a crashing halt when it falls to the feet of players like Giroud and Chamakh. It's like a brick wall. They just bounce it back to the midfield and try to keep the defenders at bay.

[Özim]

Didn't see the game as was away but expected us to win this so it's no surprise, the tougher one was always going to be Newcastle on Sunday. I see Wenger is blaming our fixture list for our run of 4 games without a win, what a surprise

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

In this case, lets just agree to disagree.

Yup.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

It's a simple point really. For someone to be successful as the focal point of an attack in the EPL (433/451 formation), they can be as skilled as anyone, but it's almost a minimum requirement to possess some degree of power.

Suarez, Rooney, Tevez and Aguero are all absolute pitbulls. They aren't the tallest, but they can more than hold their own physically against any CB in the league. It's for this reason they can really showcase their skill as a focal point.

I'd argue that someone like Hernandez, Vela, Walcott, Soldado and even Eduardo would all really struggle to be the focal point of any EPL attack. They lack the minimum strength requirement to be able to hold up the ball. It's not good enough to rely on skill and be a poacher in the EPL, unless you're as good as someone like Messi for sake of argument! It's been seen for ages.

Suarez, Rooney & Aguero all weigh around 80kg. Reus weighs under 70kg, and is thus nearly 2 stone lighter. He's a classy player, but he simply wouldn't be able to hold up and shake off EPL defenders.

Having said all of this - I'd be absolutely elated if we did sign Reus, but I'd be hoping he'd be signed to play on the left wing, and for no other position. His partner in crime Lewandowski is far more what we need.

Due to everything I've said above, I'd also hate the idea of us signing Pato. No thanks. Diego Costa. Hell yes.

You'd think...

[Letters]

Didn't see the game as was away but expected us to win this so it's no surprise, the tougher one was always going to be Newcastle on Sunday. I see Wenger is blaming our fixture list for our run of 4 games without a win, what a surprise

I see you're still moaning your tits off despite us being top of the league, what a surprise

[milla]

It's not Zimm's fault tbh, blame Wenger.

[GP]

Blame Wenger for what? Being top of the league?

Ok.

[Mr. Lahey]

I thought we played well for the most part and am happy with the away response to the Chelsea snoozefest. One thing I must say is that Sagna has been our best, most consistent player so far. His crossing has improved tremendously. Great to see Podolski back and getting on the score sheet right away, his intro pretty much changed the game, albeit at the the expense of Ramsay. Walcott continued his nice finishing, the only thing he needs to do is start showing up more consistently in the bigger games, other than that he gets far too much criticism. I thought that once Cazorla was operating down the middle we really started to put the pressure on them. I hope Wenger saw this and will consider playing him centrally more often. Giroud had a shocker and it is apparent we need help here, whether short or long term transfer. I didn't like Ozil's body language throughout the match, he was clearly frustrated with the finishing even though he fluffed a point blank chance himself. Our goal scoring options MUST be considered this transfer window if we want to be serious about the title. Newcastle will be a test but still think we can get a result against them. Win this one and our games against Chelsea/City wont seem to harsh.

[milla]

Mr. Lahey

[Ollie the Optimist]

Didn't see the game as was away but expected us to win this so it's no surprise, the tougher one was always going to be Newcastle on Sunday. I see Wenger is blaming our fixture list for our run of 4 games without a win, what a surprise

we could win the league this season and you'd moan that its worthless as we lost to city or something. cheer up ffs, we are top of the league. you hated every minute of thinking top four is a trophy yet now when we are finally challenging for the title you are still pissing moaning