Thoughts on the Arsenal game? You haven't commented...and they won.
Meh, Ox was completely wasteful, loads of running, but his passes and choices were abysmal one attempted shot aside. Sanchez relatively poor offensively, one great shot and goal but extremely little else going forward.He was actually great defensively but... for Gibbs to have a "good game" our 30million attacking winger and only genuine goal scoring threat spent half the game actually in left back doing a job Gibbs can't do.
It was a decent enough win although it was once again another game with mostly toothless possession. Dortmund were poor all over the pitch, poor touch, woeful passing and 98% of their attacks ended up being a single player making a run and a pretty long distance cross coming in. Zero cutting edge in their play.
It makes me feel weird to echo what Jonnymedonza has said but, I've spent the past 4 years minimum waiting for Wenger to fail badly enough to be fired. One result is irrelevant, at no stage did I think we wouldn't qualify for the next stage of the CL, it doesn't matter. Wenger did nothing new, a game where Dortmund were completely toothless and Campbell gets 2 minutes, which means someone who Wenger uses more played way longer than they needed to... again. Campbell could have come on safely 10 mins into the second half when it was clear Dortmund didn't kick it up a gear, saved Sanchez, protected him a little and given Campbell a chance to improve or be a part of the team.... nope, run Sanchez into the ground, wait for him to get injured and then have to rely on Campbell when he hasn't played in 6 months... the Wenger method.
We beat Sunderland, burnley, villa and Palace... so what, nothing changed, we played poorly in all but one of those games and played the same exact way in the games we drew and lost. We didn't play much differently today, the opposition was the biggest difference. Wenger has shown literally 8 years with absolute refusal to change anything at all for the better, that is the crux if it, I know that Wenger won't change anything. The longer he stays the longer our football is toothless, pointless and have zero shot at the league, a european win or just putting up a genuine fight in most games.
Everyone knows it, we could win 15 games on the bounce, have a lead in the title race, we'd throw it away... but we aren't good enough to go on a 15 game winning streak and everyone knows that as well.
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