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Rex

If Theo can´t succeed in this formation in his current role - the problem is with him as far as I am concerned.

Gazza M

Just seen the replay of the game. city just had that extra polish that either money or lots of time will get you. the majority of their players are technically complete - aguero, balotelli, silva, nasri, yaya - all have a total range of technique that our players don't have. ramsey, theo, gervinho, song, they all do some things well but fall down in just as many things. we need to spend money to inject some footballers who aren't "good players, but.....". IMO you need a minimum of 3 techincally complete players and a variety of decent hard-working ones in order to have a title winning team. We have 1 in RvP, and 1 potentially in Wilshere. Need at least one more.

banduan

we can't suddenly derive new conclusions from this one match.
Theo just had a bad game- he does blow hot and cold and this was cold. He wasn't the only player to have had a poor game, Ramsey and Gervinho weren't that much great and Shava ffs was worse!

Claudius

Have Citeh had any serious long term injuries this season?

Captain

Missed the first twenty minutes; looked to me like the game swung on the Djourou injury. Wasn't impressed by the match performance of both managers.

banduan

Captain wrote:
Missed the first twenty minutes; looked to me like the game swung on the Djourou injury. Wasn't impressed by the match performance of both managers.

It did.
We know Wenger's tactical flaws but Mancini's a bottler in the face of adversity. Would retreat into a nice defensive shell.

sabret00the

Even before Djourou got injured, he was weak sauce. Our issues largely stemmed from a lack of shape and discipline. George Graham used to say that where quality fails, routine (doing the basics correctly) will prevail. Strangely that's a philosophy that Wenger has believed in, but always done so halfheartedly with his total football and opted for individualism over rigidity. We need to work on having our players hold their ground and simply doing their jobs. Our midfield was unable to play with the discipline and rigidity it required in order to mix up play and instead attempted to over-rely on the wingers that just failed to get into the game effectively.

Gurgen

I thought Wenger's tactics were spot on, they would have ripped us apart even more if we really went for it.

RocktheCasbah

sabret00the wrote:
Even before Djourou got injured, he was weak sauce. Our issues largely stemmed from a lack of shape and discipline. George Graham used to say that where quality fails, routine (doing the basics correctly) will prevail. Strangely that's a philosophy that Wenger has believed in, but always done so halfheartedly with his total football and opted for individualism over rigidity. We need to work on having our players hold their ground and simply doing their jobs. Our midfield was unable to play with the discipline and rigidity it required in order to mix up play and instead attempted to over-rely on the wingers that just failed to get into the game effectively.

Proper fucking mentallist... 😉

Not sure how you can say that, we had Walcott and Gervinho protecting the flanks. Gervinho in particular ran his arse off yesterday. In midfield, Arteta was the epitome of discipline, did you see how much work he got through in protecting the defense?

I don't think saying we had a lack of shape is valid anywhere other than the fifteen minutes that followed their goal. And, whilst it was a little early for panic stations, you have to be fair and also say that we nearly had a couple of goals out of that period.

We could have also conceded a couple, but hey, City are the best team we'll face in the league this season. So I can forgive the boys that.

Klaus

RocktheCasbah wrote:
Not sure how you can say that, we had Walcott and Gervinho protecting the flanks. Gervinho in particular ran his arse off yesterday.

Reacted on that part too. I have some qualms with Gervinho as far as his attacking qualities go but his workrate is absolutely outstanding. His second best attribute after his insane acceleration in my opinion.

Captain

Yep, the boys put a shift in yesterday but we lacked a bit of overall quality compared to City.

RocktheCasbah

And that was the difference.

That and the bounce of a ball that both Hart and Szczesny let slip. One keeper was punished for it, the other wasn't.

Ray

Ramsey was really bad against city i think diaby would actually have done well in this match we needed someone who could keep the ball and was technically sound.

Ricky1985

Great in the first half.

Klaus

We really need to take the opportunity to sort out our fullbacks in the transfer window. Koscielny and Vermaelen should never be moved away from their proper positions. They're too good.

lorddulaarsenal

Indeed. I'd feel much more confident of a top four finish were those two to play in the centre for the remainder of the season

Biggus

Gurgen wrote:
I thought Wenger's tactics were spot on, they would have ripped us apart even more if we really went for it.

😆

They did rip us apart, they just couldn't put away their chances.

y va marquer

They did look at times as if they would destroy us - particularly after we conceded.
Szczesny, Kos and some sub par finishing from Aguero saved us in the first half.

Qwiss

Funny thing is that was the best result anyones had away to City all season in the league.

Rex

Arseblogger mentioned this today. After both Arteta and Song were booked, ENGLISH players Barry and Richards made ridiculous, pathetic dives to try to get them sent off. Why hasn´t that been touched on? I thought only Johnny Foreigner did those things?

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