UEFA Champions League/Europa League ** Spoilers ** [22/23/24 November 2016]

He played brilliantly last night, really deserved a goal but am sure it will come soon enough.

I would actually bring him on for 20 - 30 minutes on Sunday with a view to starting mid-week in the EFL

Fantastic all round performance even if Romero's save with his leg was a tad lucky - could easily have been a completetely different result had that gone in , even if Utd produced chance after chance without scoring
 
Trusty said:
Arsenal have lost once this season and you're still whinging, quite incredible. There's been some excellent performances this season..Watford, Basel, Ludo, Chelsea, Sunderland, Hull, Burnley was a good win as well. I've no idea how we are watching the same team..
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I mentioned Ludo and Chelsea as good performances, forgot about Sunderland. The Burnely game was the worst game of football I've ever seen, Hull and Watford we really rode our luck and did not play well at all. Yes we're unbeaten since Liverpool but some of the football we are playing is really boring and I can't see this season ending well if we continue like this.

We had a really good spell of intensity against PSG in the second half until we got the second goal then went back to training ground tempo. That tempo is how we play most games and it's boring! When we play with high intensity we do well so I have no idea why we do it so sporadically.
 
Because you can't play high tempo football for 90 mins? I enjoy the low tempo possession based football. Burnley was a classic tactical match, personally i enjoyed it, we showed good spirit. It's promising that Arsenal are picking up points when not playing well
 
We managed 5 against PSG. Chelsea was a good example of us playing high tempo. We can do it, even against strong teams for extended periods. We just don't do it enough.

There is that but if we don't improve we won't keep winning and drawing.
 
There was plenty of low tempo football in the Chelsea match, i think Arsenal's best performance was Basel actually, they were were superb. Chelsea is a bit of red herring, Arsenal played very well but it was played under false pretences, Chelsea are a different side now going 3 at the back. I Like seeing the results against Burnley and Utd, 2 away games we were terrible in and managed to get 4 points, not bad. Burnley, we were tired, jaded, not terrible but didnt have enough speed in the final 3rd, they certainly had heart though, i enjoy seeing those type of results..
 
Our level of high tempo football is impossible to keep up for 90 minutes if you want to avoid burning your players out. The trick is knowing when to do it. After the second goal against PSG, we should have kept it up as a third goal was on the cards. PSG were looking very shaky at the back.

Against the weaker teams they should start more at high tempo as that's when they get most of their goals. Early goals are great settlers. Then once they get ahead against the weaker teams, they can relax back a bit. Quite often though we think we've won before we've started and play a low pace passing game, don't score and get bogged down and in the end were panicking for a goal.

I personally think game management is one of Wengers weakest strengths as a manager.
 
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