It was the age old story of not moving the ball up the pitch quick enough and rather concerningly, not having any willing runners.
Brentford and Brighton will try to play so I expect us to be better however there’s no doubt that it’s difficult to see us closing in on Liverpool any time soon.
I don’t think they will, especially not Brentford….they played ten men behind the ball last time we went there and took that Havertz header right at the end to beat themOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
As an after thought, I just want it known how much I hate that awful North London forever song, cringe inducing.
Arteta's approach is to not let any goals in and win lots of games 1-0
he probably preferred the Ipswich game to the 5-1 Palace win because we achieved that
but too often any PL team can just get the one goal
Liverpool's approach meanwhile is basically to win every game 3-1 or 3-2 - i.e. score more goals and if it leads to the opposition getting a goal then so be it.
I think that's a) better football to watch and b) more likley to succeed
we also have the players to do it, as the Palace game showed
I can't get excited about our attacking play or our prospects of a title unless Arteta either changes dramatically or finally is got rid of
I suspect Arteta will never change that much, he seems too stubborn, or at least he won't change in time to help us
and I fear it will be too late by the time the club decides he should go and we'll have wasted good years of some players and will also lose some players altogether - e.g Saliba is good enough to play for any side anywhere - how long will he stay if he's not winning anything?
We can't relay on players being as stupid as Son and sticking with us
We have to win nothing I'm afraid, until the Board decide to act - maybe if we fail to win anything until the end of next season the question wil be seriously asked
We have won more games by a scoreline of 3-1 at home than 1-0 under Arteta, so I think it’s more a case of us not being set up to cope well with the deep block. Palace came out at us and left a lot of space for us to get the goals. I’m not blaming Ipswich for not doing that….why wouldn’t they. But I think there’s an irony in that we set up more to control than win the game but that actually means we have to commit more men forward which makes us vulnerable on the counter.
One thing I’ve noticed (and I don’t like it) is that we stand off too much when the opposition are attacking us
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