Basically. Wenger had his 70min sub's sorted out, and he was gonna take AOC before the match started. It wasn't tactical...it was already planned. Had to be.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Funny thing is, when the prices went up last time they said it was to service the fans "rightful demand that we compete at the highest level" and promised that "we will continue to do so."
So that's alright then.
As for the substitution, looked like a pre-meditated one to me too. Probably told Ox that he'd play for 75 minutes so to run his guts out for that duration. When time came, took no account of the way the game was playing out (adaptability) and subbed him off.
Thirdly, if Wenger has made 50,000 substitutions, 47,000 were on Fifa.
Overall, disappointing.
one question i have is how come every one is jumping on wenger and calling a cunt and all for taking the ox off yet (not just here btw) loads of fans dont mention taking djourou off. if we had won, the sub would have won it. from what i heard about the ox, was he signalled to the bench, had been throwing up all week hence why he came off.
on the performance itself, i was quite happy with it, thought the lads did well, yenanrris was great in second half, kos proves once again he is best defender in premiership right now, just look at his tackle which led to our goal. simply superb. there are many things we can say about why we lost but it is not just the sub. rvp moaned about the sub, but he missed a golden chance to draw us level early on. that could have lost us the game. also i think the fans played a part, fat fuck was booed before he came on, we just scored and the crowd are booing. by all means boo at the end but what would you think as player if you just scored and want to push on and the crowd boo and scream abuse at the manger.
Are you trippin?
didnt think we were as poor as made out to be. kos and merts were good imo, yarrnis was great in second half. first half wasnt the best from both teams but thought we did ok. second half up to our equaliser i thought we did really well, pressing and pushing on. should have scored two in about five mins, shocking miss from RVP and one from ramsay or rosicky