Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
Not everything is negative but you have to call it like you see it, Guendouzi was positive and actually showed desire, Lacazette looked sharp when he came on, Torreira looked decent and Lichsteiner was decent defensively (all but one are the new players interstingly). But we were outclassed yesterday and for a club like Arsenal that's hard to take and we certainly could have done things better by showing a bit more energy.

Noone expected us to win, but I think people expected the players to be keen and hungry, I personally think the Wenger lot lacked that by in large.
I don’t think it was a case of lack of desire. Not all players. City just managed to keep us pinned back in our own half. Not all teams will take that approach and they won’t all be capable of playing that way. Those that try to replicate may find themselves vulnerable and more open at the back. We still have to see how we cope when we have the ball and what we do with it.

Losing is never great but I’ve seen us lose by a wider margin when pinned back like that with way more individual blunders when defending. Under Wenger, I believe that game would have been over in the first half. Well, it was last season.