Match Reaction v Leicester (away).

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I can’t believe how quickly the Wenger apologists are trying to rewrite history – it was his autonomous setup and rubbish backroom staff, lack of tactics and discipline that put the club into this state in the first place and let’s not forget it.

Three weeks ago we’d have said Emery had done well enough but these last couple of weeks have been awful.

Emery’s made three main mistakes which could have been avoided IMO:

1. Not spotting who was good and bad quickly enough – if he had he’d have shipped Mustafi and one or two others out in January and replaced them with loan plyers – def two CBs at least – we’d have been much better off now
2. He’d was too cautious around Christmas – his defensive sides and tactics against sides we should be wining against definite cost us points
3. His rotation recently has been a big fail and the Palace game was the prime example – he’s supposed to be obsessed with watching football yet didn’t seem to know Palace were one of them most dangerous teams away in the PL, and to put in players like Jenkinson against Zaha is suicide

He’s clearly trusting in his record in the EL, and he’d better pull it off as this is getting embarrassing

The honest truth is that we are all kind of correct, including Wengerites.

Arsenal has big serious PROBLEMS, on and off the pitch and in fact I'd say we are close to making decisions/indecisions that could see us drop out of the top 6 all together and join the likes of the Evertons and so for a considerable length of time.

But anyway focusing on Emery, IMHO even if we end up winning the EL and all our other games in the league, I would give him a below average score for the season. Has he delivered more than Wenger would have this season? Maybe. Is he what we need in this club to get us back to competing for the title? I'm almost certain the answer to that is NO.

You see just like AW, he hasn't solved any of our deep underlying issues, in fact theirs an argument to say he made some decisions that will make the team slightly worse in the not too distant future (i.e. revoking Ramsey's offer a good example).

But really the most important failing I have noticed about him is just like AW he does not know much about defending nor does he seem to recognise it is the one thing that any club that has ambitions of winning this league must be able to get 90% right. That IMO is the main reason we will never win the title with a manager with this kind of mindset no matter how much money is given to him as they would spend it stupidly ( like AW did chasing his dreams of tippy-tappy heaven).

So in short I think we should have our eye out for a better defensive manager and pray serious football people take control of this club before we slip into the abyss.