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Yeah, perhaps you're right. I just found myself yelling at him a lot today!!
But I'm just surprised that knowing as we do that Wenger likes his players to be nippy, athletic and mobile, in the absence of Gibbs teams are gonna exploit him as the weakest part of the defence
I think his unpredictable style, of which his purposeful forays forward are a major feature, are giving opposition wide-players a hell of a lot more to think about than in the days of Clichy.
The irony with Santos’ style of play is that it fools the opposition into thinking he can be attacked, in turn opening up space for Gervinho and Co to exploit further up the pitch. Chelsea fell into that trap, getting change out of Santos on occasion, but they sacrificed their defensive stability as a result and conceded five.
Spot on...
It's like when Almunia was in goal for us he was just fooling the opposition into thinking anyone could score against him, therefore drawing them all forward so we could expose the space they left at the back.... It's a pity Almunia's not still in goal cos with Santos and Al cleverly drawing the opposition on to us by pretending to be crap the tactic would work twice as good...And just imagine if we could put out a whole defence and midfield pretending to be rubbish, with a couple of decent strikers waiting up front ready to take advantage of the genius ruse...WOW that would be amazing...
Yeah, perhaps you're right. I just found myself yelling at him a lot today!!
But I'm just surprised that knowing as we do that Wenger likes his players to be nippy, athletic and mobile, in the absence of Gibbs teams are gonna exploit him as the weakest part of the defence
I think his unpredictable style, of which his purposeful forays forward are a major feature, are giving opposition wide-players a hell of a lot more to think about than in the days of Clichy.
The irony with Santos’ style of play is that it fools the opposition into thinking he can be attacked, in turn opening up space for Gervinho and Co to exploit further up the pitch. Chelsea fell into that trap, getting change out of Santos on occasion, but they sacrificed their defensive stability as a result and conceded five.
Spot on...
It's like when Almunia was in goal for us he was just fooling the opposition into thinking anyone could score against him, therefore drawing them all forward so we could expose the space they left at the back.... It's a pity Almunia's not still in goal cos with Santos and Al cleverly drawing the opposition on to us by pretending to be crap the tactic would work twice as good...And just imagine if we could put out a whole defence and midfield pretending to be rubbish, with a couple of decent strikers waiting up front ready to take advantage of the genius ruse...WOW that would be amazing...
