Has anyone expressed surprise?
Has anyone expressed surprise?
Not so much surprise as anger - everyone but you & a couple of other deluded soles still hanging in there for Wumger to get it right.Originally Posted by Letters
True. My hopes for the title fell off in January. That transfer window was a total cock-up. We've seen it all before and said it all before. I'm just watching to see what unfolds. I'm not going to get myself worked up over this.
Define 'get it right'? Winning the title? Was that ever a realistic expectation this year?
I fear a textbook Arsenal Collapse but so far I'm fairly content with how things are going this year. Saturday was a bad result but those happen to every team in every season.
We do have a horrible run coming up and I fear for us but I seriously doubt anyone would be calling for Wenger's head had we won on Saturday and were one point off the top. We didn't, fine, but one result going either way shouldn't be the difference.
Let's see where we are in May. Another collapse and I'll join you with the pitchforks.
Just seen this in the 'Official Manger Email' that gets sent around.In the second half we had much more possession and we needed to be patient. In this kind of game you need to avoid any mistakes and then wait for a good chance yourself, but we couldn't do that.
Does this explain why there is a lack of urgency in our play sometimes? I don’t like the idea of staying patient, waiting for an opportunity and being so risk averse. It may also explain why he’s so slow to change things. I’ve seen him say this several times and I think this is where we’re going wrong. The slow paced back and forth passing won’t work if we’re not forcing the opposition to commit to a risky challenge and we’re always looking for the safe pass or clear and clean shot. His faith in a chances presenting themselves seems so flawed against this sort of opposition.
This is the problem. We play the same way no matter who the opposition are and what the occasion is.
Sometimes we force the issue (see first 20 mins vs Bayern) but it doesn't happen nowhere near enough.
Last edited by Marc Overmars; 03-03-2014 at 04:32 PM.
Not sure.
I think the problem is that sometimes we play like absolute turd.
If we could stop playing like absolute turd, think we would do much better.
Indeed. But can Wenger see how bad we’re performing and why isn’t he doing something to change it? I can only link it to that quote. Maybe he thinks a chance will eventually come.Not sure.
I think the problem is that sometimes we play like absolute turd.
If we could stop playing like absolute turd, think we would do much better.
Yeah maybe. That may be a case of feeling that he's picked his best side for the start of the fixture and that it requires time on the pitch for the magic to happen. Tactical changes, even ones that don't involve a change in personnel, tend not to happen during the first 60-70 minutes of a match.
As for the team's on-pitch patience, I'm not sure this is the issue. We have played well with patience and badly with patience. The problems happen when we don't show up at all. Something somewhere in there is not working quite right, but Mental? Physical? Technical? Tactical?
Buggered if I know.
I think the message he conveys to the players is problematic. Shouldn't we be looking for more urgency when we look that flat? Shouldn't he be telling his players that? He advised them to stay patient and chance will come. That's probably the wrong message.
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