Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Finally watched the highlights of this shitshow on MOTD. Didn't see it at the time, but it's fucking Xhaka AGAIN that lets the guy he's supposed to be covering just waltz past him. What a liability he is and what the hell is Wenger thinking constantly starting him when he's been making the same mistakes all season long?

Cech is getting some stick these days, but without him we'd have come out of that with a good hiding, maybe 4 or 5 goals.

The Lacazette chances were good ones but hardly on a plate as some hysterical fans are claiming. It would have been funny to rob a point, but it also would have been a travesty in terms of how the match went. Our first effort on their goal was from Jack deep into the second half. Totally unacceptable and entirely down to the, now standard, cowardice of Wenger.

15 Games ago in 2015 was the last time we beat one of the current top 5 away from home. How can any manager of a supposed top club survive that? 7 points off 5th place, 8 off the top 4 and you might as well call it 9 when you look at the goal difference. We're done. We'll need the spuds and the chavs to both collapse to stand any chance of stealing a top 4 spot, and even if that happened you just know we'd fuck it up anyway.

We're really starting the experience the pain of a decline that was inevitable and so easily predictable under this has-been of a manager. Can you even blame him for hanging on like a bad stench? That bastard Kroenke made the decision and no wonder he's silent, because how can he possibly justify it?
Yep, the goal happened when Ozil was pressing and missed his tackle but Xhaka should been pressing with Ozil. If this were Liverpool or City you'd see two or three players pressing and covering areas. That's what really pissed me off about Xhaka and Elneny. They stood off the opposition and left them with all the space in the world. Xhaka should have been closing him down. Absolute chaos. What were the instructions? Why was Ozil pressing in that situation and coming infield to leave the flank exposed?