Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
We looked solid until we came up against a powerful striker who was getting a supply. I know that sometimes the striker is going to win. But you have to set up depending on who you are up against. There should have been somebody tasked to their best and only effective striker. I don't necessarily mean somebody to beat him in the air either. Just somebody to get in his way, block his run, obstruct his leap. That's how the chavs do it. It's all well and good Wenger complaining about Kos being beaten in the air, but how did he set us up to make that less likely? In fact how did he set us up at all? Not related to the goal, but Bellerin was getting crucified all match. We managed to make Danny Rose look competent FFS. The players ahead of Bellerin were doing nothing to assist. How does Wenger sit there for 90 minutes and watch that happen over and over again? Everyone else was screaming about it. Then he makes his subs and again ignores the problem. Fuck sake. 8 million quid.
I agree with a lot of that but I'm not sure what Monreal done much wrong. He tracked his man on the back post and I don't recall seeing many fullbacks successfully abandoning the back post run to go try and win a header that their CB should be all over. But that cross should never have happened in the first place. We stood off them. That was probably the biggest fault.

It's worth taking a caption of their first goal. Kane was left unmarked in the box and Ramsey just left him to it. Criminal.