By 1970’s Gooner
I call it as I see it and what I saw at the San Siro
wasn’t pretty.
Every single player vastly underperformed. From the
goalkeeper to the out and out striker.
Sczesny’s kicking was bad and resulted in the first
goal.
Vermaelen had a shocker. I have never seen him play so
bad. He was at fault for the first and the third goal.
Sagna was outrun by Ibrahimovic for their second.
Koscienly was marking no one when Robinho had a free
header.
Arteta, Ramsey and Rosicky were non existent in midfield.
Ramsey has a good game followed by a bad game. Arteta is average and Rosicky
was played out of position.
This I think was Wenger’s fault in the sense that
Rosicky instead of playing on the wing tended to come in field. This meant
that Song was forced out of the central midfield role he is accustomed to. Thus
there was no significant ball winner in midfield and as a result Milan run riot in this
crucial area of the pitch.
I am not saying that we lost the game because of this
but I do think it was a contributing factor.
Walcott was again non existent and the Ox for some
reason didn’t start!
RVP tried his best but with no support he was rendered
almost superfluous.
It was a team failure rather than due to specific reasons
that you could say if they were corrected this defeat could have been avoided.
Not even if the midfield positions were not messed about as I explained above.
This is why I am not so despondent after this failure
nor am I jumping on the media bandwagon calling for a massive cull of 95 % of
the players and Wenger’s head for good measure.
For just as there was an overall team under performance
in Italy we could well
witness a strong comeback against Sunderland
in the FA Cup.
All that needs to happen is a good kick up the arse
with the players raising their game to their usual level and lo and behold you
could witness a backlash and a massive win shutting everyone’s mouths up!
And then everyone will be saying that the defeat at
the San Siro was a bad day at the office!
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3 comments:
A bad day, that's an understatement it has been a bad five seasons with Wenger's deadwood, his useless tactics, his useless signings, his refusal to accept the obvious, we are a team in serious decline
So you blame the other midfielders for Song's abysmal performance? The guy was non-existent! If he's the best DM that Wenger can come up with then we're in trouble.
This was far more than a single bad performance.
If you couldn't see the gap in class, the gap in motivation, the gap in organisation-you must be blind.
And this to a team that had not won any of its last 4 games and virtually the same team were put out by Spurs last year.
When a whole team under performs as badly as this-its not the fault of individual players. Why was there no evidence of defensive organisation or discipline-or attacking threat?
Its down to Wenger-no one else.
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