Xcdude24 wrote:I really do think we are good enough to win it, which is the most depressing part about it. You can't look at that first half performance and think that we're not. The problem lies in the fact that the squad is playing with a sense of entitlement when push comes to shove.
If everyone is fit and we're firing, clicking going forward, we're brilliant. Utterly brilliant.
That's simply not enough though. We're not robust enough, mature enough, tough enough to put in what's needed when we're not firing, or when we're missing our top class players who enable us to swat teams aside with our brilliance. When it becomes a battle, or we're forced onto the back foot, we simply don't have enough. Maybe for the odd game here and there - Everton and Wolves recently, for example, but not over the course of a long hard season. You can't produce perfection, or close to it, every week - and it takes just a little slip here, a misplaced pass at the wrong moment there, or a succession of free kicks or corners against us, for it all to come crashing down. No matter how well we play, how hard we concentrate, how much we run - disaster is always just around the corner.
I think the way Wenger wants us to play is admirable and beautiful, I love it, but the Premier League is just so physical and direct - so unforgiving, that, I'm not sure it can work. Not sure it can get us 85/90 points a season in the next 5 years, even with all our talent.
That's not just based on today, but it's an opinion I've been forming for a while. I'm worried.
