reggiepaul
Well-Known Member
Andrew said:Cygan - 4/10 - I've been defending him for a long time but that performance was horrible. Constantly caught out of position.
What exactly does "caught out of position" mean? Is that code for "he wasn't standing where "I" wanted him to stand so he was out of position.
A lot of the defending (as you may have noticed Bolton had most possession so logic dictates we had to do a lot of defending) was done by three people. One of whome is a goalkeeper. Cygan and Sol is all we had most of the time.
Arsenal play from central midfield. You may have noticed how we hold position. Clichy wasn't there to defend. Take note how so many people state "ooh he was so fantastic, all those runs he made". Well the point is he should have been defending, not using the game as a personal stage for his first outing. Toure can't seem to keep still and was running up and down the field hoping the rest of the team would beat to his drum. ITS A TEAM GAME!!
If our wing backs had held position AND let our attack do some work instead of HOPING our attack would suck up to there insubstantial runs - we may have got somewhere. YES kolo and clichy made loads of runs up and down the field BUT aren't Arsenal a counter attacking side? We can't counter attack from the wings can we because that would leave us prone to being dominated in the midfield which, oh, shiver me timbers - WE WERE!!
Logic? Either of our center halves or Lehmann should be the man of the match.
N.B. Aaaw bless I see some fans have tried to suck up to Kolo as some idol.
I would too. He's great as a center half but that's because you can stick a center half in a position and HE MUST remain there because the logic of the center half will over ride Kolo's wanderings if he was elsewhere. When Ashley was around he would work his socks of back and forth in defence and further up field - this itself saved Kolo when he was a right back in previous games. Since bother our wingbacks went wandering - we were stuck.
They are all amazing players BUT it's a TEAM game. There is no I in team. There is Thierry Henry (the greatest player in the world - at ARSENAL) waiting for delivery from his midfield but can't get it because our wing backs are hogging the ball.