He doesn't learn. I remember how NQ was pissed about the way the City game ended because we went defensive in a similar fashion. It would be ok with shut up shop and teams know they'll have a torrid time breaking us down but that's never the case. We've had this happen to us so many times but will Wenger learn from it or put it down to bad luck?
Yes and Ozil looked disappointed at being subbed. We should have let him play on.
Southampton, Bournemouth, Newcastle Ozil plays 90+ minutes. But he gets subbed against City and Liverpool? It really makes no sense.
Last edited by Power n Glory; 14-01-2016 at 10:00 AM.
How many times has it cost us this season?Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
It doesn't matter. Past seasons should have been a lesson and it's not as if this season is over. Frequency of the mistake is one thing but it's whether or not he understands that his subs can put pressure on the team and hand the other team the initiative.
I don't really see what other substitutions we could have made in fairness, it's not like we had control of the game when Ozil came off...if we had than I'd think it was a terrible substitution but given the state of the game I think any manager would have decided to try and hold on to what we had.
Rambo, Bellerin and Flamini would have been my candidates to hit the bench if you’re going to go more defensive. Maybe Bellerin for Chambers and Rambo for Arteta. Fresh legs on in defensive positions rather than taking the sting out of our attack and leaving heavy legs on in defence.
It doesn't matter?
Addendum.
I don't really like us going defensive, for the record, but I'd say past seasons have been a lesson when far too often we've been too gung-ho in tight games and got caught. It seems this a reaction to that. An over-reaction, maybe, but it's very rarely cost us this season.
Well no, I think it would have been ridiculous for us to do anything else other than try and hold on to what we had, our attacking players looked dead and we were finding it difficult to retain possession.
I would have been devestated if we had loads of chances to kill off the game (we didn't) and had liverpools equaliser came out of nowhere (it didn't).
I actually think considering how Liverpool went for the jugular we did well to get a draw, and it highlights that we miss players that can hold onto the ball and I'm hoping Elneny will be something of a solution to that.
‘Has it cost us this season?’
It doesn't matter?I really don’t get the way you think sometimes. That’s like a bad driver that constantly forgets to check his blind spot trying to defend not having an accident this year despite still having that same bad habit. The season isn’t over and even if it hasn’t cost us much this year, it needs correcting. Our subs shouldn’t work in the favour of the opposition.
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