Match Reaction: Hull City 1 Arsenal 4

[Marc Overmars]

I'm not sure anyone is claiming to know more than Wenger. Sometimes people are right, sometimes they're wrong. That's opinions for you.

[alexander]

I'm not sure anyone is claiming to know more than Wenger. Sometimes people are right, sometimes they're wrong. That's opinions for you.

A fair point

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Iwobi .

Alexis .

Alexis for the pelanty miss.

Coquelin is now Ramsey. Or maybe Song during his last season. It kind of worked though, as Coq played well and broke through the lines quite often. Probably doesn't help us defensively though.

Xhaka's goal .

We have Santi scroting it up around the pitch now, so we're fine.

Evidence is increasingly suggesting that the way Coq is playing is instruction. Santi seems to be quarterbacking the play in front of the defence with Coq further ahead pressing the opposition. When Elneny came on he was defending from the front and quite often does this too. Wenger has basically inverted the triangle in midfield so that it is 1-2 rather than 2-1 when we are attacking and I have to say, it doesn't work too badly. Having Coq's energy in midfield with him getting at the opposition all over the field means we are taking the initiative more, closing the space down wherever it appears and catching the opponents by surprise. Though everybody slaughtered Coq against PSG, I think there was a collective malaise in that game and that we were continually surprised by PSG's intensity.

[Power n Glory]

Evidence is increasingly suggesting that the way Coq is playing is instruction. Santi seems to be quarterbacking the play in front of the defence with Coq further ahead pressing the opposition. When Elneny came on he was defending from the front and quite often does this too. Wenger has basically inverted the triangle in midfield so that it is 1-2 rather than 2-1 when we are attacking and I have to say, it doesn't work too badly. Having Coq's energy in midfield with him getting at the opposition all over the field means we are taking the initiative more, closing the space down wherever it appears and catching the opponents by surprise. Though everybody slaughtered Coq against PSG, I think there was a collective malaise in that game and that we were continually surprised by PSG's intensity.

Caught this on Tim Stillman's Twitter timeline.

Francis Coquelin game by numbers vs. Hull:

98% pass acc.
97 passes
5 blocks
4 interceptions
2 tackles won

Le Coq.

[Letters]

I'm not sure anyone is claiming to know more than Wenger.

Really?!

Have you not been reading this place?

[alexander]

Really?!

Have you not been reading this place?

it feels like they do to me, that's why I said it, but maybe I just misread it...

I stand by my gut feeling that we need a change of manager, but refuse to join the 'Wenger is a massive thicko cock' brigade.

[Letters]

it feels like they do to me, that's why I said it, but maybe I just misread it...

I stand by my gut feeling that we need a change of manager, but refuse to join the 'Wenger is a massive thicko cock' brigade.

That's pretty much where I am. We need to move on but he's not the bumbling idiot ™ some on here make out.
He's a safe pair of hands and will keep us in the top 4 till he moves on but last season showed we won't win the league again with him in charge.

[alexander]

That's pretty much where I am. We need to move on but he's not the bumbling idiot ™ some on here make out.
He's a safe pair of hands and will keep us in the top 4 till he moves on but last season showed we won't win the league again with him in charge.

This is how I feel too. I appreciate what he has done, and is doing, it's not like it's a piece of piss to manage a club, just imagine trying to manage 22+ millionaire egos, before even trying to get them to play together! But he does seem flawed, and a change is needed, some new ideas etc into the club. I believe the team we have now should be challenging for first, I still think 2nd is the very best we will manage in the league under Wenger. As to who could do better, well I don't know, and many on here will know managers from across Europe much better than I.
For now he is here, and we need to live with it, and although flawed,isn't an idiot who is intent on destroying the club (and our sanity)

[Marc Overmars]

Really?!

Have you not been reading this place?

Not sure because for example; you yourself have disagreed with decisions he's made, does that mean you think you know better? You've been right enough times to say you have known better in some instances if that's the case!

[Ernesto]

I was OK with Wenger until yesterday.

He played Walcott after I'd substituted him from my fantasy team! That's 13 points I'd missed out on because Wenger had us believe he wasn't fully fit all week.

(Is there a GW league on the Fantasy Premier league site? What's the code?)