Match Reaction: Hull City 1 Arsenal 4

[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]

Down to 3rd

Wenger Out!

He only wants 4th, it's all part of the mad old goats plan

[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)

[Kano]

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.

I disagree

[Power n Glory]

Only just seen the highlights. Iwobi looks to have had a good game. Heck of an assist to Theo. Walcott looked busy. How was Sanchez? Ozil missed a sitter. Sounds like he is still off. What a goal from Xhaka. Well done lad. He didn't start again.....

[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?)

[alexander]

Just watched highlights. Thought Theo did well, Ive been hard on him, but he did well (again) yesterday. Saw him miss a tackle, jump up and sprint after the player the ball had ended up with and put pressure on him. Fair play to him. Iwobi looked good, very confident, Alexis buzzing all over the front line.

Man city look very good though, very very good.

[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.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Only just seen the highlights. Iwobi looks to have had a good game. Heck of an assist to Theo. Walcott looked busy. How was Sanchez? Ozil missed a sitter. Sounds like he is still off. What a goal from Xhaka. Well done lad. He didn't start again.....

Offensively Iwobi was amazing. A step up from the likes of Ox and Theo in terms of intelligence, vision and just footballing ability. Mentioned it in the match thread at the time but you could see how comfortable and trusting the likes of Alexis, Santi and Ozil were with using him as an outlet for attacking moves.

However defensively he left a lot to be desired and he left Monreal exposed too many times by often not tracking the runner. This wasn't a one off either as PSG had a field day last Tuesday down his side.


As for Alexis, scored a goal (or two) and was his usual busy dangerous self but he missed the pelanty and a sitter (by his standards) near the start when Theo cut back to him in the box. Still, he's starting to rack up the goals and assists again so you can't complain too much.