Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Because we played the German Champions, people are seeing a different performance and praising it, but if we play that way next week against Blackburn, the knives will come out. Dortmund are a good team but our team has serious problems and our performance was more down to us lacking confidence, direction and cohesion. Dortmund should have rolled us over but it's not because they are so good. Credit to them as a team but you can't ignore the sort of performances we've put over the last few games.

We didn't prepare well for that game and if you go back to Wenger's comments about attacking to keep super Mario quiet, you can see that it didn't go according to plan on the night. We could barely string together 3 passes. They pressed us and kept a high tempo but we couldn't do the same. This is why you've got to question Wenger's tactics. When we don't have the ball....what next? Does he have a plan for that? We don't seem to have an effective defensive strategy and are incapable of winning the ball back or dealing with teams that press tight and with numbers. We struggle to put away lower league teams because our attacks are too slow but when we come up against elite teams, we're going to struggle because we have no clue what to do without the ball and judging from Wenger's subs, he has no idea either.
Not at all yesterday was not about perfomace it was about getting the teams confidence up by getting a point and a draw and we achieved it. People are praiing the effort of the players not the tactics. and Wenger had nothing to do with changes or tatcis all down to rice yesterday.