I hate playing Koeman.
I hate playing Koeman.
0-0 and the most boring uneventful match since the last time Fakeyank was over.
4-0
Revenge imo
Us giving out a thrashing.
We only receive them these days.
He'll start Merts and Giroud.Originally Posted by Master Splinter
No doubt he'll start Merts and he'll dig in on this for the remainder of the season. He hates being proved 100% beyond all reasonable shadow of a doubt, definitively, comprehensively wrong.
Doubt he'll start Walnut up top though. Why would he? The guy's in the worst form of his life.
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It's not even that. The Kos and Gabriel partnership wasn't good. Gabriel was getting dominated in the air and we conceded as a result. Kos was all over the shop as well. Based of that recent performance, I can't say it's an easy decision to bench Merts.
As for Walcott, he'd probably play a lot better up front compared to on the left.
Walcott couldn't play better if you let him loose in Toys'r'Us. Giroud, for all his faults, at least has some clue where the goal is.
Kos and Gabriel can't be judged as a pair from that farcical team that was put out against Burnley. If Wenger can swallow his pride and start these two for the remainder of the season we'll be a lot better off. Merts causes most of the problems with the players around him. They are covering for him all the time because he's so immobile. He's not that good in the air himself, so weak for such a big guy. But a pointless discussion, we all know what Wenger will do.
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You say that now about Giroud but if he plays anything like his last couple of performances, I'm sure you'll notice the lack of movement and chances he's getting on goal.
What was farcical about that team and what does that have to do with being out jumped in a one on one situation? Stats say otherwise about Merts in the air also. In fact, it doesn't make sense to blame other players for the Kos and Gabriel performance on Saturday but then also say others have to cover for Merts weaknesses. Who played on Saturday that made Kos and Gabriel look that bad?
It's not a pointless discussion. It boils down to your perspective on what you think he should be doing instead. I've got my problems with some of Wenger's decisions but what your suggesting with the team isn't always right either. Gabriel was sent off against Chelsea when he started and when Merts was sent off, he came on. But we conceded minutes after the sending off. It's not clear cut that we'll do a lot better without Merts because so far we haven't.
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