
Originally Posted by
Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
The point is the two defenders put us in the position of being two nil down. I think you can blame both those players and Wenger for that without any doubt. Why try and play out from the back when you’ve got a team that is pressing high and will punish sloppy errors.
The point on display is that you can’t fault the performance of most of the players after that point
Yes we’ve seen that kind of result a lot and it is totally tactically naive and I don’t believe anyone thought otherwise
Your contention however seems to be that United were under no pressure, which is just demonstrably false
No I don’t think it was luck, we took an injured defender off and stuck an attacking player on so we always left a risk of being caught on the break. But I don’t buy the idea that the finishing was consistently poor, my contention is simply that we lost ourselves the game in first ten minutes despite doing everything possible to remedy that afterwards