Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Yes I do blame Wenger, in fact I blamed him for today's catastrophe about 6 weeks ago when I said it was beyond comprehension how Mertesacker gets into the team when we have a real defender sat on the bench. Wenger picks the team. He also picked Flamini and Ramsey in the middle having seen that fail badly against Liverpool and Stoke. An absent midfield leaves space and puts added pressure on the back four. You couple those gaping spaces with Mertesacker's total inability to deal with the pace of slow coach Costa and you reach a predictable outcome. For £8mill the manager should be up to speed on these sort of things. His fault.
Well , the combo Flamini-Ramsey is the best we have because of Carzola and Coquelin injuries . So if you were the coach who could you pick instead ? New guy Elneny and the inexperienced Chambers ? Metersacker is a slow defender but he can read the game well and bring stability to our defence .
Koscielny and Gabriel look to be the same type of players . Central defendres must be different to compensate their abilities .