So what you’re saying is had we been 5-0 up? Jesus would still have come on?. And what I’m saying is speculative even though, we weren’t creating much in the second half and Bodo were and were coming onto us and Arteta on the sidelines was clearly unhappy about this and gesticulating wildly. Describing the decision making as petulant is an opinion of course. But without actually the power of mind reading, all we are left with is an opinion extracted from empirical evidence.


I like Eddie NKetiah I do, but the amount of glaring misses last night suggest that losing Gabriel for any length of time would be far from desirable, so why take the risk?

In my view and that’s all this is, is that it also erodes the confidence of players we may need in order to shuffle the pack further down the line.