Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
It's "radical" to react to an injury crisis and devise suitable tactics for a game against possibly the best team in Europe on their own patch?

It only seems radical because we haven't got a manager who can be bothered doing it. Maureen's a cock but he can do it. His counter attacking tactics against Bayern in the 2010 final allowed his markedly inferior Inter to come away with the trophy. Then there's us versus Utd in the Cup Final a decade ago. Wenger didn't mind mixing it up on that occasion, even though we didn't need to. Was that "radical" enough to answer your question?
I don't think Wenger's a great master tactician, there have been times when we've been caught with our pants down because we've had injuries and just let the replacement players go out and try to play the same way (most embarrassingly the 8-2 at OT, of course *shudder). And maybe there was a touch of that on Wednesday, but I think a lot of it was just getting beaten soundly by a very good side - as I said earlier in the thread they've been hammering pretty much everyone at home, they average more than 4 goals a game there. I'm not sure it deserves much more analysis than that.

We've picked ourselves up after other poor midweek games to win at the weekend, hopefully we'll do the same this time.