Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
I have to say the whole Zinchenko thing is one of the biggest examples of a post hoc fallacy I can think of…unless you’re saying he was responsible for us losing to Villa at home as well (and whilst his casual meandering certainly didn’t help, that was a game we needed to win, not just not lose and we created shit). But if you want to attribute the dropped two points in August to us not winning the title, there’s a far more explicit culprit and that’s Arteta. The guy who dicked around with the lineup so we looked second best to Fulham for two thirds of that home game.

And Jesus was missing chances, right, left and centre even before he got injured at the World Cup. Yes his work rate was good but it was Saka, Odegaard and Martinelli creating space for him. I think apart from the fact that Arteta insists on playing him centrally which doesn’t work, he’s a lazy shit. Often just won’t make runs or make himself available for passing

For me you can tell the difference between a player who has lost something as a result of injury and a player who isn’t trying. Eduardo fell into the former category, I always think if you suffer an injury shocker like that it can stay in the back of your mind and it affects your reactions and instincts.

You’ve got to be prepared to do the leg work in the premier league even if things are not going for you. Trossard has been having a stinker at times this season, but what I will say for him is that the effort is always there
Application only gets you so far, a half-trying Messi would still do better than a fully-trying Championship midfielder

As for Zin, the reason he was a fail is actually tied up with the whole inverted LB thing which you regularly call out as BSZin would be fine playing in MF for Palace but he's not Arsenal level. And he cannot defend which is a huge weakness for someone in a defensive role...

So it's both the player and the tactic whoch is a fail, Pep made a laughing stock of it in last season's game (or was it the one before?) at Citeh when he simply got them to play over our midfield and bypass Zin altogether

As for Jesus, you're forgetting he missed quite a bit of that first season and wasn't the same even when he came back

It's only this season he's seemed to lack determination and should have been sold in the summer but that takes us back to the whole we-need-a-striker argument where I think we all agree we've been left weak up front