Wengerball : back again?

flobaba

Looking good, boys. Looking good.

My biggest grouse with le boss was not necessarily him not spending, but us lacking balance and fluidity in attack.

With Walcott in scorching form, Sanchez staying beastly, Ozil sipping on champagne and Gluteus Maximus out, it looks like we have finally found the formula that allows our front players to express themselves and play some good footy

Long may it continue.

*clinks glasses**

Bold Tone

Gluteus Maximus.
Ouch!

Segway

It's looking very good but lets see where we are by the end of November. The fitness of Ozil and Sanchez is key.

Qwiss

Its not the first time we've hit a run of good form and good football in recent years. I'm waiting to see how Wenger handles the inevitable curveballs that will come over the season. Thats usually where he is found lacking.

Irishgunner

Too early to say, don't think we could handle an injury to the front 4 tbh

Qwiss

Irish gunner wrote:
Too early to say, don't think we could handle an injury to the front 4 tbh

We could, its whether we do is the question. We look like we have the squad that could lose Ozil, Theo or Sanchez and still cope if the right changes were made. We might lose some of the style we have but our defence is solid and our midfield has so many options that we should be ok. My fear is that if we did lose a key player Wenger would try to replace them with somone substandard and expect the same fluency. We've seen it before where it can take a month before he realises its not working and by then we are in a slump.

goon

I think this is the most entertaining we've been for a long time and there's plenty of reasons behind it. Having 3 quick players up top has resulted in us attacking much quicker and looking dangerous whenever we win the ball. Our midfield is stronger than it's been in a long time meaning we've got a great base to launch attacks and we have a pacy back 4 which allows us to defend with an aggressive high line.

Mirth

Irish gunner wrote:
Too early to say, don't think we could handle an injury to the front 4 tbh

It depends on who gets injured and for how long and what games they miss. If we lose Sanchez for a few weeks, we'd be able to cope.

But if we, say, face United and Spurs without Ozil and Sanchez we'd be in trouble and there's not much anyone can do about it. We could nick a result but there's no way we'd play like this.

Gazza M

its the nicest football we've played in a while. we'll see how this team copes with adversity.

feels about a year late though

flobaba

Hey, I'll take it regardless of how late.

Past two seasons had totally muted my enthusiasm for Arsenal in particular, and football in general. Found that I couldn't really enjoy the game when we were always so poor.

Feels like I'm breathing fully again.

est

Excatly how I'm feeling, Flo.

The fact that we've had players like Özil, Alexis, Santi etc. for years and still played so much poor football really had a soul-crushing effect on me. So refreshing to see us finally perform close to the level our best players should allow us to play at.

Clrnc

Theo : 10 games 8 goals 2 assists
Alexis: 11 games 6 goals 5 assists
Özil: 10 games 6 goals 1 assist
Lucas: 4 games 2 goals 3 assists

Days without Giroud is good.

goon

I feel bad for Giroud, I like him and he's a good player but I just don't want that kind of striker up top for us anymore. He'd be good to have on the bench but if Alexis gets injured it'd be Lucas who I'd want to see playing up top.

Rohit

I never stopped looking forward to Arsenal games but definitely have more enthusiasm now.

We can survive with an injury to one player but we generally seem to get a raft of injuries at the same time for one position. As long as we avoid that, we will be fine.

We were outstanding against Chelsea but other big teams will tailor their preparation now to be ready for a different Arsenal. Our approach against physical, pressing sides like Tottenham and United in November (our worst month under Wenger) will be very interesting.

Wenger last night spoke about playing an attacking structure and thus always running the risk of conceding. He knows this and if he can just alter tactics slightly in the big games, we will do really well.

Bold Tone

flobaba wrote:
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Feels like I'm breathing fully again.

That's very good.
It should be your custom user tagline.

mohan

It feels a lot lot better these days. Weekends are good, happy days. Long may it continue.

Clrnc

goon wrote:
I feel bad for Giroud, I like him and he's a good player but I just don't want that kind of striker up top for us anymore. He'd be good to have on the bench but if Alexis gets injured it'd be Lucas who I'd want to see playing up top.

The differences is obvious. We really should not persist with Giroud up top anymore, or for the matter of fact that kind of targetman in front. It just doesn't work with Wengerball. The amount of goals we are scoring without him as compared to with him, and the type of goals we are scoring says it all.

Meatwad

Clrnc wrote:
goon wrote:
I feel bad for Giroud, I like him and he's a good player but I just don't want that kind of striker up top for us anymore. He'd be good to have on the bench but if Alexis gets injured it'd be Lucas who I'd want to see playing up top.

The differences is obvious. We really should not persist with Giroud up top anymore, or for the matter of fact that kind of targetman in front. It just doesn't work with Wengerball. The amount of goals we are scoring without him as compared to with him, and the type of goals we are scoring says it all.

i won't go that far because there are many more burnley like tests to come where a player like him would be more than useful.

Gurgen

It's finally fun to watch us play again. Feels like ages.

Meatwad

yeah now i don't snicker when people say we play beautiful football.