I thought it was a decent performance overall; a sloppy first half followed by an excellent, professional second half performance. I liked what I saw in the second half from Oxlade Chamberlain - he was very positive and he needs to be more direct. And the key to the second-half turnaround was that Giroud and Podolski (who were really awful in the first half) put in a better show.
One irritating thing about Giroud is that again he has this Bendtner thing where he thinks he's a lot better than he is - so when he (finally) manages to control a long ball, he holds on to it far longer than he should. He tries moving the ball one way, realises there's no escape and then turns at snail's pace and it's all just a bit shit...when a simple pass to Wilshere or Cazorla (or anyone who can do something useful with the ball) would save time, effort and would be better for the team.
Wilshere is still very rusty and it looks like it's going to take him time to get back to his best. Luckily Cazorla has put in two solid performances on the bounce.
Professional performance, did what we needed to. Not confident about the knock out stages tho.
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