This season is about points more than it is performances. The performances (apart from the shambles against Everton and the joke tonight) have been efficient and have yielded the points. That's what average Utd and chav teams have done in the recent past. It'd be nice to have the performances too, but we're picking up the points at least. Which is why it's such a fuck off to have blown a comparatively straightforward 3 points tonight.
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Ramsey had a setback and is ruled out for another 2 months? WTF was/is wrong with him in the first place? Honestly i am getting so sick of these injuries, we almost always have players out for f*cking months, are they misdiagnosed or something? It just baffles me.
That was definitely the worst performance of the season and we didnt even deserve a point. However, we've been able to pub our way through games and we almost got lucky again when we were 1-2 ahead. Saints completely domanited us, ran more,passed better, created more chances and looked hungrier.
This team is all about containing and although its not pleasing on the eye, you canot say it doesnt work because we are still top of the league. However, i just fele that some of the players are simply not doing enough and only wake up when we are losing. Ozil was fucking terible first half but was a different man 2nd half, running at them, creating chances and looking like the world class player he is. The two DCMs is such a pussy approach, it doesnt get results and basically says to the other team "we're trying to contain you" which is not how the league leaders should approach games.
We missed Theo more than anyone (and Rambo too) for his running and ability to get goals. Noone was making any runs and the amount of times we gave the ball away was embarrassing. Arteta looked tired and slugish, we had an inform Pod on the bench and needed a win, why didnt the manager bring him on?
Anyway, the performance aside, we have done well overall this season and caling for the manager's head is a bit silly and really wide of the mark.
Sad thing is this will probably happen MO.
I dunno, these big games seem to have come at the wrong time, to beat the likes of Bayern, Liverpool and even Man Utd we need our strongest XI out there IMHO, trust us to face the most crucial period when we have players dropping like flies.
I think we can get away with Ramsey being out if one of Jack or Rosicky is available, sure they don't offer Ramsey's goals, but they both offer energy.
Theo is the one we are/will really miss, as it stands we don't currently have a viable replacement for him who can reproduce his numbers.