Still not having seen the match I really shouldn't weigh into this discussion, but I will of course.
Almunia's a clear #3 at the moment Biggus, so I don't have an issue with Wenger's squad management on that score. There are plenty of #1s in the PL who would've let that one get past them, or have committed worse mistakes this season.
The only issue you could have is a general feeling that Almunia should have gone on principle by now - but again you could say the same about Fabianski.
Biggus wrote:But the whole world knows that even if we're 4-0 up they still have a chance, we can't relax till whistle is blown the players washed changed interviews done and on the bus.
Erm yeah, but that isn't going to stop you sitting back if you're 1-0 up with 10 minutes left, nor should it: it's just that Tehoue was able to execute a nice piece of work to skin a slow old man and an inexperienced teenager and get into a scoring position, at which point he put in a decent finish.
Based on what I've heard about the game I would tend to blame the forwards more in any case, as it sounds like we threw away quite a few reasonable chances. I'm not making excuses, just looking at the bigger picture which is (a) it was a collective failure (b) it was the second string (c) we should still win the replay with the same band of monkeys. Not going to slash my wrists over this one.
