Wenger won't change philosophy

[Niall_Quinn]

what question was he responding to?

Tell your dad to buy some fucking defenders!

[Letters]

Wenger made out as if our defensive record wasn't that bad last season.

Oh and did he? Tbh I read the article quickly and didn't see where he said that?
If he did say that then fine:
But I certainly saw him interviewed after games at the tail end last season and cite the problem as defence.
Whether he'll do anything about it...well, I'm skeptical but we'll see.

[Power n Glory]

Sensational post.

(even if when I read it there was some spacing going)

Sorry dude. Blame the iPod.

[Kano]

Tell your dad to buy some fucking defenders!

http://www.drmventurestrading.co.uk/...10-11867-p.asp

he's more a dunlop guy

[Cripps_orig]

We overplay at times and we do move forward too slowly too often when we need more pace.
But you think the 2nd top scorers in the title are 'shit offensively'? Really? Behave yourself.
We only failed to score in 6 league games last year (Utd failed to in 5, for comparison).

We dont have a problem scoring one goal. We have a problem killing teams off which comes in to the being shit offensively bit.

Overplay at times? At times? Seriously? We do it more often than not. It'd be more accurate to say we shoot at goal at times. I believe we didnt score from outside the area at all last season in our home games. Just another thing to put in an embarrassing season.

Its a problem that can be easily fixed. Just shoot. Simple as that. Lampard has fuck knows how many goals from deflections cos the cunt shoots when he can.

[Niall_Quinn]

Where did he say that? End of last season he was very clear that defence was a problem.
Whether he'll actually DO a anything about it this summer remains to be seen and I'm skeptical (it's not the first time he's cited it as a problem and failed to address it) but I wouldn't expect him to suddenly change our set up to be defensive nor would I want him to.

What about changing our setup so we actually had a defence, that'd be cool you have to admit.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Only Utd scored more goals than us last year. Stop being silly.

This is a prize example exposing how weak arguements based purely on stats can be. We all saw what a disaster our offence was when we needed them most. I think I went to three home games in a row during our 'easy run' when we were supposed to catch and surpass United and saw us score no goals. I'll save some smartass the bother of pointing out Arshavin's disallowed goal during that period. But regardless of stats over the course of the season, we saw an almost totally amaemic attack when we needed it most. The only guy delivering was Van Persie, and as much as I love the guy, I'd hate to have to rely on him.

[Letters]

We dont have a problem scoring one goal. We have a problem killing teams off which comes in to the being shit offensively bit.

Just looked at the scores in league games where we dropped points last season (there were 19, we won the rest).
6 times we conceded 2 goals, 4 times we conceded 3 and once we conceded 4 (no prizes for guessing who that was against!)

Whilst I agree that we have at times failed to kill teams off we really shouldn't need to score 3 or more goals to win a game. In 11 of the 19 games where we dropped points last season we'd have needed to do just that. IMO that points to a problem in defence far more than offence although I agree we are wasteful at times.

[Power n Glory]

Towards the end of last season, we could all see something needed changing. The squad looks the same and Wenger won't adjust his philosophy and still thinks we need a better attack.

Henry once said, the attacking players were nervous and rushing things when up front because they knew the defence could leak a goal at any moment. RVP may have said something similar last season. Unless the defence is rock solid, nobody is comfortable. It's called building a house on sand. The foundations aren't solid and Wenger has to do away with this type of thinking. This is Real Madrid galactico era philosophy. They had the world's most talented attack but couldn't win shit because they couldn't defend.

[Letters]

This is a prize example exposing how weak arguements based purely on stats can be. We all saw what a disaster our offence was when we needed them most. I think I went to three home games in a row during our 'easy run' when we were supposed to catch and surpass United and saw us score no goals. I'll save some smartass the bother of pointing out Arshavin's disallowed goal during that period. But regardless of stats over the course of the season, we saw an almost totally amaemic attack when we needed it most. The only guy delivering was Van Persie, and as much as I love the guy, I'd hate to have to rely on him.

We only failed to score twice in the run in?

Even in the disasterous run in we scored 2 vs West Brom, 3 at Spurs and 2 at Fulham and didn't win any of those games. The far bigger problem is in defence. We do need to be more clinical but it's hardly an irrelevant stat to look at goals scored when talking about offence.