Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
The strength of this team lies within the defence, it’s just missing the ability to counter attack effectively which would make us very good and potential title winners. We’re not an easy team to beat anymore though and that’s great to see.
I agree.. I mean the partnership between the 2 CBs is probably the best we've had since early AW and with White and a fit Timber, we would be a fortress. Lets not forget that Rice started of as a CB so adding him to the mix really makes us look impenetrable.

But I also do agree with HCZ and you that the inability of the fullbacks to really get us countering is a real downer and something we really need to work on. Also it's clear Raya is not an upgrade to Ramsdale when it comes to actually making saves, so thats another self created headache we've made for ourselves.

I am quite happy that Arteta started with 2 DMs but currently IMO only a fit and on form Partey helps deal with a lot of the inadequacies caused by the poor attacking nous of our current fullbacks.

However if we'd signed players like Kudus and others we should've signed to fill that Xhaka role, it could have been a really really special season.