Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
That's a fundamental problem with our style of play to be honest, we've been doing it all season, opportunities of counters have been wasted as we more often than not insist on checking back and passing sideways allowing the opposition to get back.

I think the problem is the players have this short pass pass football ingrained into their minds by Wenger and counter attacking just doesn't fit into that, that leaves us looking for intricate passing moves like we managed last week against Sunderland which only really ever come off occasionally.

Oxo doesn't seem to have been infected by this pass pass madness yet, but a couple more years and he'll probably end up doing the same.

What a total waste.
To be honest, Zim (and while I don't want to make this à whole "door cause analysis"- this is only à reactionary post to à single match) I believe our play changed with the introduction of Fabregas. Couple to that Mourinho, Allardyce and Pulis pushing back football by 20 years, and it all contributed to Arsenal's trophyless drought.

Fabregas was always dragging counter attacks back. Wenger thinks it's the right way forward (Hence the way Cazorla plays). He's wrong.