Arsenal were just garbage on the ball, Wilshere and Santi couldn't pick a pass to save their lives, Giroud has the touch of a drunken Jimmy Saville and Walcott just didn't do... anything? Despite being the world's 2nd fastest man and Spurs playing an obscenely high line.
Yup, how on earth can people rate Walcott when he's fast but makes such poor runs, is so lazy and pointless and rubbish as an actual winger. Jenkinson offered massively more threat down the right, put in better crosses, moved more, passed better and did some defending, walcott did nothing.
Bale, Lennon, they all made runs in on goal, Walcott, did nothing, he doesn't show himself for the ball, he doesn't make intelligent runs and doesn't get involved.
Giroud, his movement his good, he often starts in the right area but he often makes the wrong choice straight afterwards if he actually keeps the ball, scuffed shots, poor passes, deciding to run into a corner with no support. His run of really good games was against weaker teams, and against better teams he's looked a bit crap.
However he wasn't the biggest problem today, not even slightly. Defensively, well, same old Arsenal, offensively.... Podolski is one of our best players, so drop him obviously, play Santi out wide where he's been a bit rubbish, push Ramsey into the middle so his uselessness is even more harmful to the team.
Wilshire didn't have a great game, but with Arteta having a bad game, Ramsey being rubbish, Giroud screwing everything up and Santi rarely involved centrally he had no one to work with, that isn't the only reason, players have poor games, Messi's had two woeful games recently, that was one of maybe two poorer games Wilshire has had.
Don't forget that he's been barely rested, played for England and coming back from a huge lay off due to injury. Wenger said he'd rest him WHEN he was tired, you're supposed to rest a player to prevent tiredness, when you're tired in terms of as an athlete, you're already run down, more injury prone and performing badly. Instead he came back into the team and Wenger has run him into the ground, he's looking tired, only a matter of time till he's reinjured.
Notice that Diaby got fit and has played till he was reinjured, Sagna, the same, Wenger does this every single time, a "first teamer" gets fit, gets played, doesn't get rested, gets injured and Wenger never, ever learns.
Had we started Podolski and Santi in the middle we'd have been better today, no where near sure about Monreal, honestly I think he was more of a panic buy than people will admit, just because they've looked at him in summer doesn't mean they didn't panic and buy the only person they've looked at before.
that said just like Liverpool are with Suarez Spurs are massively reliant on Bale more so than any other player and one result against Arsenal (in which Bale did score) doesn't change that.
