Clrnc wrote:
No team is suitable for tactics like this regardless of the squad depleted or not. It was suicidal tactics. It was so dangerous once you lose the ball you almost certainly would concede a goal.
Disagree, it worked fine against Liverpool and City at the Emirates. And yes, I beleive we employed the exact same tactics in those games.
Take Liverpool's first two goals, two conceded from set peieces. What has that go to do with tactics? Not a lot. It's just poor marking. It's individual errors.
Then you're trying to come back into a game with players that can't counter effectively and players who are not great at breaking teams down and scoring goals. So they commit men forward, we lose our shape, goals 3 and 4 fly in.
All this points to poor preparation rather than poor tactics.
There were two or three individual errors against Chelsea for their first goal. Put Ramsey in there for Ox and he doesn't give the ball away, put a bit more common sense in Arteta and he buys us some time to get back instead of leaving even more space behind him, have someone better than Nacho at left back and maybe he doesn't get beaten so easily and once again, buys us a bit more time. But these were the guys Wenger had available and he still persisted with a bold tactic and duly paid for it. He still persisted with the same tactic against City btw, and it worked fine. Why? Because there were no glaring mistakes this time. But the same risk was taken, so if you're going to hammer him for his tactics in the Chelsea game, same applies to the City game.
