Find it bizarre singling out Guendouzi for criticism. Made a few mistakes but for a 19 year old making his prem debut I thought he did pretty well.
For me it was the established players who didn't deliver, the front three all poor, Xhaka and Ramsey showing the same old flaws.
Defensively better than I expected through, helped by Lichsteiners introduction.
Torreira has to start the next game. Hopefully Monreal is back as well.
They can't all be as great as Moussa Sissoko.Originally Posted by hobson's choice
Emery has a big job on his hands but today was a bit of a free hit. City are superior to us in pretty much every area on the pitch. Not particularly bothered about this result if I’m honest, it was half expected.
On we go.
Mkhitaryan and Ozil down the wing just looked awful. Not enough productivity. All they'll look to do is cut inside to play neat passes. No powerful runs down the flank and neither look to have an eye for goal. They were weak on the counter attacks. Lacazette and Aubameyang have to start.
Ozil just isn't going be of much use in these games, he rarely rises to the occasion and drags us to a result against the odds.
But he'll create 67 chances in one game against teams like Huddersfield and Bournemouth and prove his worth to us.
It's a typical performance from Ozil on this sort of occasion. We'll see what he can do against the lower ranked teams but I'm not holding my breath.
There were many negatives today. Biggest one was Ozil.. man is a fraud. Fuck that turd and sell his arse to anyone paying 23$ for him. Ramsey was clueless as usual.. I wonder what Emery sees in him that he wants to extend the guys contract. Let him leave... yesterday! Xhaka was useless as well.. what is his best position? The bench?
Oh, and Cech is not the keeper to help you play out of the back.. especially against a team like City. I'd have started Leno. Also, why do we have 4 GK's in the squad? Time to offload Cech to China or Japan.
I saw some positives today though. I thought Guendozi (sp?) was brilliant for his first game. Lichsteiner looked really good and showed what experience can do. I was also very impressed with Lacazette and his link up play when he came on... AND the biggest positive for me today was how we didnt look to sideway pass throughout the game. It almost seemed like we wanted to move the ball forward and attack the opposition (even though we failed miserably at it.. intent was there).
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
In all honesty I expected us to lose. We are miles behind clubs like Man City & Liverpool. Heck we are behind the Spuds if we are brutally honest.
All I want from this season is to see some kind of progress, I want to see crappy players sold, a new identity in this team, a team that fights for their badge and manager.
I don’t expect top 4 this season, I think we have way too much work to do but I expect progress!
I thought Ozil was just very oddly on a different wavelength to everybody else for the entire game. Not quite sure why, but I didn't think it was an abject performance from him....more disjointed, but I get that many feels disappointed. He made his bed when he got his wage increase and so get's little leeway.
I thought Lacazette wasn't the issue, but I do wish at times he would calm down in front of goal. Still get the feeling he is going for power too often.
Xhaka's performance was identical to his ridiculous performance(s) this time last season. Passively running around the field without any real purpose or sense of knowing what he's supposed to be doing, ball watching, giving the ball away playing a hospital pass and falling over. I'm aghast that so many people wanted him in the starting lineup for this season.
At this level you can't watch a player in the middle of the park, fail to understand what the fuhk he's actually doing in our favour and want him to remain there doing it. Guendouzi showed him up today, even with his errors, but that is no surprise to me.
It's not much consolation, but I thought Bellerin was good today and thought AMN was too and losing him was a big blow. The game was fairly open which I enjoyed from the point of view of seeing us move the ball from our third to their third much quicker. Scant consolation as we lost, but I prefer to see us move the ball in that way.
Mhki might as well have not been there most of the game. Forgot he was even playing for large portions.
The fact is City are on another level to us, to a man they are better than us and can bring on 60m worth of talent of the bench. However, the problems from Wenger's ear wont disappear overnight, its gonna take at least 2 seasons to see real improvement. Xhaka, Ramsay, the defense etc. were the main culprits and Unai Emery will to act sooner than Wenger did, he needs to start Toreira ahead of Xhaka and play Lacazette from the start. That shot from Laca would have changed the game, it was only 1-0 and we were still in it.
Anyway, this season is all about bedding in the new coaching staff and system, i liked the effort and the energy and i think we will see better performances this season.
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