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Very good win - made a lot harder than it needed to be by switching off. Although I am one of his biggest critics Szczesny really stood up and took the pressure off us (just a pity about dicking round that time in the first half and his brainless distribution still). We played some very good stuff in the second half and were knocking the ball around whilst they were chasing shadows, but we stopped playing last 20 mins and were nearly punished overall.
Ridiculous that Giroud was kept on even though he was walking at the end - such is the paucity of our striking options that Wenger doesn't even trust any of them to come on to chase down defenders at the death. The first few games this season has shown that the league title really is there for the taking, but with Giroud as our only striking option we are going to fall predictably short. We have one striker and it's not even like he's world class, criminally negligent on behalf of Wenger.
we are winning with a lot of our class players missing,another great win today,may have been dire but its another win,i will take them good or bad.thought flamster was awesome again as was Rambo and giroud ran his pants off!!!
markyp wrote:we are winning with a lot of our class players missing,another great win today,may have been dire but its another win,i will take them good or bad.thought flamster was awesome again as was Rambo and giroud ran his pants off!!!
Wouldn't say Flamini was awesome. I was watching him particularly carefully today and his decision-making in terms of when to press and when to sit is far better than anyone else would do in our squad in that role - but he was slack in possession on a number of occasions and got skinned once or twice when he did make the odd bad decision to chase the ball.
markyp wrote:we are winning with a lot of our class players missing,another great win today,may have been dire but its another win,i will take them good or bad.thought flamster was awesome again as was Rambo and giroud ran his pants off!!!
Wouldn't say Flamini was awesome. I was watching him particularly carefully today and his decision-making in terms of when to press and when to sit is far better than anyone else would do in our squad in that role - but he was slack in possession on a number of occasions and got skinned once or twice when he did make the odd bad decision to chase the ball.
Agree with this, probably his worst game for us since he re-joined.
markyp wrote:we are winning with a lot of our class players missing,another great win today,may have been dire but its another win,i will take them good or bad.thought flamster was awesome again as was Rambo and giroud ran his pants off!!!
Wouldn't say Flamini was awesome. I was watching him particularly carefully today and his decision-making in terms of when to press and when to sit is far better than anyone else would do in our squad in that role - but he was slack in possession on a number of occasions and got skinned once or twice when he did make the odd bad decision to chase the ball.
markyp wrote:we are winning with a lot of our class players missing,another great win today,may have been dire but its another win,i will take them good or bad.thought flamster was awesome again as was Rambo and giroud ran his pants off!!!
Wouldn't say Flamini was awesome. I was watching him particularly carefully today and his decision-making in terms of when to press and when to sit is far better than anyone else would do in our squad in that role - but he was slack in possession on a number of occasions and got skinned once or twice when he did make the odd bad decision to chase the ball.
bit harsh
I don't think so mate - not slamming him or anything but it's just the nature of his role that he's going to get judged by the number of mistakes he makes rather than the number of moments of brilliance like an attacker. His role is a very important one to the team but it's not really the most difficult.