Match Reaction v Swansea at home (15/16)

[AFC Leveller]

Why are ALL Brazillian CBs dodgy? Gabriel is starting to make those typical rash tackles/mistakes that Brazillian CBS make. Hope its just bad form cos he did look promissing when he first joined.

Koscielny out of the NLD so Gabriel and Merts will need to be solid.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why are ALL Brazillian CBs dodgy? Gabriel is starting to make those typical rash tackles/mistakes that Brazillian CBS make. Hope its just bad form cos he did look promissing when he first joined.

Koscielny out of the NLD so Gabriel and Merts will need to be solid.

Fans have to start looking more closely at what's happening on the pitch. Both Gabriel and Ramsey are coming in for a lot of flak. It's fair enough in one respect because they are making mistakes. But they are also contributing a lot more than people give them credit for. Both has pass accuracy of over 90% last night and both saw a lot of the ball. Gabriel had about 5 times more tackles and interceptions than Merts who essentially spent the night wandering around doing fuck all as the game passed him by. The latter didn't make any major mistakes, but then again he wasn't involved enough to fuck up. Ramsey may not have set the game alight but he was hustling as he always does. I heard a stat last night, our win rate when he's in the team is 60%, 40% when he's not. That's a vague stat but we're giving Santi a lot of credit when the stats are 50%, 50% by comparison. The standout culprits last night were Welbeck and Theo who did pretty much fuck all when they came on - to replace two busy players who gave twice the effort, Alexis and Campbell.

Most of the players are working. Ozil is still creating chances, Monreal and Bellerin are still putting in a shift, Coquelin is running his guts out. But in the absence of planning a lot of the effort is wasted. And we keep on seeing, over and over, the negative impact of relying on second tier strikers up front. If Mr Cheapskate Knowitall had spent some of that money robbed from the fans and put a decent striker up top you'd be looking at something very different now.

Try and dig out the post game Bilic interview from last night. Contrast the difference between that guy and the hapless fool we have running things. Listen as he describes the adjustments he made to the team and the tactics to counter the spuds and the key areas he decided his team needed to dominate if they were to get the result they wanted. Simple really. Manager makes a plan, tells the team, the team go out and execute the plan. Every effort is focused into an objective.

Our old fool? No plan at all. It's on the players to make it up as they go. And even when some of the players rise to the occasion and somehow create something from the chaos, the old goat will pull them off the pitch. He's a massive handicap to have to overcome. Yes certainly the players should be giving more, they should be more focused, making less mistakes, but look at what they have to overcome before they step foot on the pitch. We've set ourselves a huge challenging keeping this guy in charge.

[GP]

Arguably, we currently have the best squad we've had in ages., but right now we are as poor as we've been in recent memory.

Really, really dire.

[selassie]

Arguably, we currently have the best squad we've had in ages., but right now we are as poor as we've been in recent memory.

Really, really dire.

Yeah I agree with this, as NQ has said we lack any kind of organisation or game plan, it's pretty tragic to be honest. For the reasons you have stated I.E our best squad in recent memory it just confirms that Wenger has no idea what he is doing, he's totally lost in all of it. This season is turning into a car crash of epic proportions it's not even funny anymore.

[Marc Overmars]

Arguably, we currently have the best squad we've had in ages., but right now we are as poor as we've been in recent memory.

Really, really dire.

They're all decent enough players but they've been coached to shit by the loon in charge.

We need to start looking over our shoulder now because we're closer to 5th than 1st. An unbelievable collapse.

[Niall_Quinn]

They're all decent enough players but they've been coached to shit by the loon in charge.

We need to start looking over our shoulder now because we're closer to 5th than 1st. A believable collapse.

Fixed.

[AFC Leveller]

Fans have to start looking more closely at what's happening on the pitch. Both Gabriel and Ramsey are coming in for a lot of flak. It's fair enough in one respect because they are making mistakes. But they are also contributing a lot more than people give them credit for. Both has pass accuracy of over 90% last night and both saw a lot of the ball. Gabriel had about 5 times more tackles and interceptions than Merts who essentially spent the night wandering around doing fuck all as the game passed him by. The latter didn't make any major mistakes, but then again he wasn't involved enough to fuck up. Ramsey may not have set the game alight but he was hustling as he always does. I heard a stat last night, our win rate when he's in the team is 60%, 40% when he's not. That's a vague stat but we're giving Santi a lot of credit when the stats are 50%, 50% by comparison. The standout culprits last night were Welbeck and Theo who did pretty much fuck all when they came on - to replace two busy players who gave twice the effort, Alexis and Campbell.

Most of the players are working. Ozil is still creating chances, Monreal and Bellerin are still putting in a shift, Coquelin is running his guts out. But in the absence of planning a lot of the effort is wasted. And we keep on seeing, over and over, the negative impact of relying on second tier strikers up front. If Mr Cheapskate Knowitall had spent some of that money robbed from the fans and put a decent striker up top you'd be looking at something very different now.

Try and dig out the post game Bilic interview from last night. Contrast the difference between that guy and the hapless fool we have running things. Listen as he describes the adjustments he made to the team and the tactics to counter the spuds and the key areas he decided his team needed to dominate if they were to get the result they wanted. Simple really. Manager makes a plan, tells the team, the team go out and execute the plan. Every effort is focused into an objective.

Our old fool? No plan at all. It's on the players to make it up as they go. And even when some of the players rise to the occasion and somehow create something from the chaos, the old goat will pull them off the pitch. He's a massive handicap to have to overcome. Yes certainly the players should be giving more, they should be more focused, making less mistakes, but look at what they have to overcome before they step foot on the pitch. We've set ourselves a huge challenging keeping this guy in charge.

Thats what i was thinking ahead of the NLD at the weekend. We all know there wont be any special plan or formation, he will tell them to the same things they did at Man u and last night hoping for better results.