Because winning the league is over 38 games. It's not based on one or two poor displays.
11 points behind, lost 4 of 5 against the top half of the table, thats not winning form, not even close to it. The reason people thought we could win is we were doing well having played 2 in the top half, and around 7 in the bottom at that stage, and thrashing the pants off them.
So thats Chelsea, same goals scored as us, harder teams played, more bottom half games left than we have, 11 points ahead(8 IF we win the game in hand), it will take a pretty bad month with Drogba, Mikel, Essien all away for the ACN for them to let us back in it, a slightly less big drop off to let Utd back in it.
Sagna, as per usual for the past season, has been awful, no where, no effort, awful delivery(one game recently with a couple crosses doesn't make him good), no intention to run the overlap, doesn't seem to have the pace he had pre-injury, marking has gone to crap, is just completely useless.
Song was awful, as was Denilson, Fabregas near the end was all of 10 yards away, stupidly easy pass to make and Denilson missed him by 5 yards, you saw all the fight drain out of him that second on(about 5 mins to go), he barely moved after and fouled a bunch. 4-3-3 doesn't work, without question. You can still get a result against crap teams, as we have done, but we rarely stay in a 4-3-3 when we're over running the other side, in a hard game our 4-3-3 is terrible.
I'm not entirely sure Arshavin was all over the place for the first 5 mins of the second half which made me think we'd gone 4-4-2, but he returned to left wing after that and we made nothing from then on. I think their first chance scared Wenger into switching back to a 4-3-3(4-5-1 really).
Vela and Eddie, both have barely played at all, in really two years. Vela got nothing at all last year, not a sniff at first team, he looked great pre-season and the first few games because he'd been first team for 3 years in Spain and Mexico, now he looks like a guy whose not played in 2 years. Eduardo the same well, even worse he barely played his first 6 months, played a few games, broke his leg, barely played for a year, got 3 games, barely played since then either.
Today we had what, Rosicky, Nasri, Eduardo, Vela, Theo, Denilson who have barely touched a ball so far this season all playing, and you wonder why when it came to the crucial final pass there was little to no understanding between them.
THis is what winds me up, we make changes when forced though injury, we don't rotate, Vela and Eduardo should have been playing against the Blackburns and Hulls and getting some form while giving Fabregas and RVP a rest. Instead we overplay the first team, wait for injurys and play cold players under extreme pressure and expect them to perform. No other top manager is that stupid, Fergie uses his whole squad and constantly rests a single player here and there.
No, I don't really think we're good enough to win this game no matter the squad we put out, but Eboue, fit, limitless energy would have helped, as would Gibbs if we hadn't wasted him midweek, Fabregas may have been fresher if we rested him midweek(and against Wolves), same goes for Arshavin. Ramsey is simply better than Song and Denilson, both offensively and defensively. A 4-4-2, with Eboue, Gibbs, Ramsey and maybe even Wilshire would have done better than we did today.
Theo on the wing, horrible, just horrible, he can't run with the ball, he can't pass, dribble or cross, he can shoot, thats it, he's a striker, yet another entirely pointless outting on the wing.
