Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
Like others I wasn't too impressed with our performance yesterday or Arteta's, however I am not sure I agree with rotating the squad too much, we simply lack quality depth options, we are still in that stage of upgrading our squad depth. I do agree that Arteta made some strange decisions yesterday with the Tomi continuing at left back and taking off Ode and Martinelli, but it could be worse and we have only dropped points in 2 games, yes 2 games so far this season!!! Our start has been near flawless. That doesn't mean we should now let standards drop, but we have to accept we are not going to get perfect performances every week or even win every week!
I have to say I agree with this, it’s really not like the players not getting a look in are particularly showing that much in the Europa league. Nketiah who I do like was poor in the last two games he started, and he was giving the ball away a lot against Southampton.
The Tomoyasu thing is galaxy brained and I think he didn’t seem to know what he was doing when trying to defend against Elyounoussi for their equaliser.

Whilst I far from agree with all his transfer decisions I do think he is slowly building a squad, I am it’s abundantly clear no fan of Arteta but I’m not going to get too much on his case yesterday…the players needed to be more clinical in front of goal in the first half but equally I’m not heartbroken about dropping points against Southampton.