As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
goonertux wrote:Gutless! Yes, Southampton are a fair side, nothing more. But it's more about the complete lack of desire, zip, strength, and quick-thinking. It's slow, predictable, and cautious. That was the worst 1st half this season by a mile!
Agree because we have zero creativity in the middle of the park - no drove from Jack or Rosicky or Ox.
I think Wenkers tactics are the usual " hope they get tired" after their non stop closing down and running.
If other teams can do it, why can't we ?
Reckon Shez has had the most passes from our players
The frustrating thing is we all know Clueless wont be ripping them a new arsehole,He'll be massaging their ego's and telling them its all peachy,while watching his bottle jobs throw away any tiny chance of winning anything they had.
wibble wrote:Yes, Southamptom have some decent enough players and have got some good results at their ground, but we should not be getting totally outplayed by them.
1 shot in the entire first half, and that was from a corner. we've created absolutely nothing from open play.
Maybe the players are deliberately looking as tired as they possibly can in an attempt to force Wenger to buy some reinforcements
We've had the joys of playing Southampton 3 times thus far (with a 4th game to come) and one thing about them is, although they play decent football, they always seem to get a bit sloppy for a period, when they play well they rarely keep it going for 90 minutes. I think you'll get a good few chances second half, might even predict a sneaky 2-1 win for the Arsenal
Thing is our resident Mackem, we played them 12 months ago away from home and couldn't combat their hard pressing and well-organised approach. It was one of the worst performances I can remember us putting in - devoid of creativity or any sort of tactical effort. We've also looked lacklustre playing Flamini and Arteta together this season and had a huge warning about playing Ozil and Cazorla together away from home in the second half at Villa. Lessons have not been learned.
