Biggus wrote:
Brilliant tactics are about reading the game and the opposition correctly they're about maximising your strengths and minimising the oppositions and your weaknesses, the objective is to earn the right to impose your particular style on the game naturally your opposition will try to do the same.
Great teams normally play with a certain swagger and confidence everyone knows how they will play and they leave it up to their rivals to try to stop them- Wenger acts as if we're still a great team and we don't have to earn the right to impose our style, sending us out the exact same way regardless of who is available and who we are playing, he's simply unable to comprehend the changed circumstances it's like a guy of 50 thinking hes the same tough guy he was at 20.
You're normally a little vehement in your points for me to completely agree.
Here though - I'm 100% with you.
Through his earlier years at Arsenal Wenger had the luxury of letting his team "play" as it was full of players far superior to the opposition. That Wenger hasn't adapted tactics in recent years when he should certainly know this is no longer the case is asinine.
Altering tactics not only empowers the team, but can effectively rotate players. This latter point is somewhat separate from this argument but
is certainly another area where we've seen Wenger fail. The bench isn't good enough not only because its full of dross, but because no one on it can realistically expect to play and find form. That Coquelin/Ramsey couldn't start ahead of a barely fit Diaby, and Arshavin can't get a look when we're chasing games highlights Wenger's poor squad rotation efforts.
