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Look at where Kolasinac gave away that free kick 2 minutes ago. He is pressing in Man City’s defensive quarter for absolutely no fucking reason. He is meant to be playing centre back FFS. He then takes 20 seconds to gently jog back into the massive hole which he left in our defence.
Cedric then gives away a 100% guaranteed yellow on Grealish for absolutely no point, going nowhere on the halfway line.
This isn’t just about a lack of quality or awful individual errors. Nobody has a fucking clue what formation or system we are playing. Players are doing bizarre things.
It doesn't help that, as usual, there are gaping holes in the midfield, no protection at all. All of them chasing shadows....all except Xhaka who is pointing wildly at things only he can see.
I mean no mitigation for our performance but how is that not a clear and obvious foul on Chambers for the goal?
Anybody with half a brain can see that VAR will never work unless fans can hear the decision-making process. Was that not an obvious foul? Was it because it was too far away/didn’t impact the goal?
It is the usual tactics and selection lottery from Arteta.
He doesn’t fancy any of our CBs. Everybody knows that, them included. It’s why he has signed numerous CBs (Gabriel, Mari, White, Luiz extension) in his relatively short tenure.