Match Reaction v Spuds (away).

[Özim]

The same as any game. How people played, whether 'x' should have started instead of 'y'.
Talking points. The ref was shit. We should've had a penalty.
Do you really lack that much imagination that you can't think of a single thing to talk about unless it's to moan about how shit things are after a bad result?

We won, there's not much to say, it's not like this is some great performance or amazing football, it's a win, in a disaster of a season where we currently sit 9th, we've been midtable most of the season in fact and Arteta hasn't changed that, say what you like but if he's done anything you'd think we'd be higher up the table by now, he's had enough games.

Nothing about this club exites me at the moment, I'm not really sure how it's gone this wrong, I think few people get any pleasure out of seeing Arsenal these days, there's something fundamentally wrong with this club that seems to lead to it making error after error and never learning from it, it's actually really odd.

I also can't get my head round managers that seem intent on sticking with players who cost their team points regularly, do they just pick their teams by how friendly they are with them, as they certainy don't seem to pick the team on merit or using logic.

There's just no logic is not playing Martinelli after the restart when he'd been great for us before it, nor picking Luiz and praising him and getting the board to resign him, nor praising Mustafi and suggesting he wants to keep him and it's with the board now, nor playing Xhaka week in week out, or always playing Aubameyang out wide. Stuff like this is really turning me against Arteta, as is his rigid style of play and poor subs. For all the talk about the defence being better, we're still making errors that cost goals left, right and centre and now our attack is blunt to boot.

Arteta seems unable to get the best out of what he has, he's insistent on that one style of play when he doesn't have the players to do it, I mean on isn't it possible to be a bit flexible and adapt to what you have?