Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
I don't think I I've said once this season we've made progress, of if I have it's been conditional depending on how we do, so stop the WUMming. You are such a toddler sometimes.
Not in so many words but you were saying that this unbeaten run is something we haven’t seen since the Invincible era as if it were an indicator of progress As if this season is somehow different to others we’ve seen before. As most warned, it’s a good run but it’s no indicator of progress and we’ve had plenty of seasons where we’ve gone on unbeaten runs or beaten the very best clubs in the world only to end up with a very disappointing league finish. It’s now impossible for us to top last season’s tally of 79 points and we should be aiming for 80+ for club with title ambitions.

Teams will lose but what really alarms me is the way we lost that one. We’ve seen it before during the Cesc era. Champaign football and looking beautiful but no end product. That’s the outcome of Wengerball when it finally starts to work because teams catch on, sit deep and just counter. We’ve struggled for a few years to dominate possession like we used to under the Cesc era. We dropped off a peg and struggled to get that fluidity in our play. But we shouldn’t aspire to reach a level that was never good enough in the first place. Back to that tippy tappy, narrow football with no end product and every manager has a play by play handbook on how to deal with it.