Ozil - Do we need him?

[Niall_Quinn]

You really don't understand the difference, do you?

On attack, we were playing the same tactics as we usually would but our players were just on their A game. I can't speak for Chelsea.

Do you think Wenger told them to play faster or intentionally tells them each game not to make runs and not to pass quickly? I mean, when have we not played with as many forward as possible? That's how we always attack but can get caught out when it goes wrong.

Who can know what Wenger says? All we can do is examine the results of whatever he says when we watch the team on the pitch. We have all speculated why we generally play such a slow and purposeless game. It looks like you are saying that most of the time this is down to the players not being on their A game. This implies we have a very poor collection of players because they therefore only seem to hit their A game once, maybe twice a season. It seems far more likely it is the instructions of the manager that dictate the nature of our performances. This is supported by the final scoreline. We were in a position to annihilate the chavs by scoring several more goals. We didn't. On a one off basis you couldn't read much into that. But we rarely eviscerate the opposition when we get the chance. We'll go 2 or 3 up and then that'll be it, we ease off. This is hardly down to our players suddenly falling off their A game mid-game. Far more likely once again it is the intervention of the manager.