West Brom 3-1 Arsenal - Mismatch Reaction

[Xhaka Can’t]

So uninterested that I didn't realise we were the early kickoff.

Another loss another nail in his coffin. All we need now is to get our asses handed to us by City and it's all done for another season.

[selassie]

Didn't see it, caught the result earlier. Couldn't care less to be honest, under the current regime I refuse to invest my time & emotions in the club until things change.

[Bumble]

luckily didn't watch the 2nd half as had to take my daughter to her swimming lesson.

[Globalgunner]

luckily didn't watch the 2nd half as had to take my daughter to her swimming lesson.

Sorry man. You took her to the wrong school. Today was all about flying.

[Niall_Quinn]

Our defending

[The Dismantler]

The players are no longer playing for Wenger anymore. I said this beginning of this year and I was heavily slated by some other fans!

You can clearly see wenger has lost the dressing room and players are revolting against him but the French frog is too stubborn to see that he is no longer in charge!

Just like Chelsea players did against Mourinho last season.

Finishing outside any European football and below spurs will be the best thing to happen to Arsenal in decades! !

Wenger goes and the same dead players will start to put in extra shift game in game out! Look at what happened to Leicester

[Ralpheroo72]

Copy paste from usual fuck up at usual time of the year

[Niall_Quinn]

Copy paste from usual fuck up at usual time of the year

Bit unfair. I think we have made a lot of progress towards mid table mediocrity this season.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Finishing outside any European football and below spurs will be the best thing to happen to Arsenal in decades! !

And there's me thinking the doubles and the Invincibles season were the best.

Thanks for helping us all see the light.

[Niall_Quinn]

Our defending

At the time I thought Henry was being a bit of a dick saying he'd never seen anything like this before. But the more I look at it the more I think he might be right. Is this the worst defending in the history of football? It has to be close. It's certainly not a man marking system. It's not a zonal system either unless it's a system with one zone which would be ludicrous. So what sort of a defensive system is this?

Look at Kos and Mustafi. What on earth? They are standing next to each other watching the play. These are our "leaders" in a defensive situation like this. Rancid.

What could Bellerin possibly be doing standing there? He's defending empty space or, if he's supposed to be defending the post look how far he's out of position.

Look at the Brom player standing near the spot, unmarked, waiting for rebounds.

Where is our interference guy protecting the keeper from the attentions of the opponent who is obviously deliberately there to obstruct him?

And we have zero defenders in the air as that ball comes in. Every last one of them is planted on the ground. One of them, Bellerin, appears to be in motion. The others are static.

How have we managed to get to this point? It has to be the most extreme case of neglect by the manager and the coaches. And what really goes on on the training ground? Because even if the manager and coaches are shite, don't these world cup players not have enough sense to organise themselves better than this? It's almost as if they have been hypnotised into forgetting everything then have learned (elsewhere of course) about defending.

Whoever is responsible for defensive coaching needs to go. Immediately. This is outrageous. You can't win football matches at this level when to defend like that. School kids don't defend like that. Who is going to take responsibility for this and who, after all this time, is going to actually fucking do something to fix this?

It can't go on, can it? Wenger must be completely incompetent if he can't see this needs to be fixed immediately, before we next step foot on a pitch. If we play like this against the gypos, it doesn't bear thinking.