FA Cup 4th Round: Arsenal v Manchester United | January 25, 2019 19:55 GMT | BBC One

[blaze_of_glory]

How bad is Mustafi though? Everything literally falls apart as soon as he comes on.

 

[dashsnow17]

Where in my post did I say he would do that? I said he is the profile we should be looking for. i.e a central midfielder with pace who can tackle, dribble , shoot and pass. Not a midfielder who can only pass, or only make runs forward, but can never get back.

You also have no idea what Nkunku would do in our team also.

You also adamantly think that AMN should be a CM for us, whereas I cannot for the life of me see a CM in him. I suspect that Nkunku is a good theory that won't be so good in practice, although of course I stand to be corrected. He looks like a lightweight.

 

[ptrcopp]

What I don’t understand with many of our games this season is the changes that happen every match.
We beat Chelsea with a certain set up with certain players, yet we come into this game with different players in a different system.

It makes no sense.

 

[Marmaduke]

What the hell was Özil supposed to do in the last 30 min when the whole team was playing absolute rubbish with a totally ad-hoc CB pairing?

Regardless of your views on the whole Özil thing how on earth does it make sense to shoehorn this into discussion?

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

How bad is Mustafi though? Everything literally falls apart as soon as he comes on.

He is like Van Djik, that is if you take the good defending out of Van Djik.

 

[Jury]

Yeah fair. Though I will admit I miss how we (at least tried) to play under Wenger. If Unai can be successful with his approach then good, but it's not as inspiring for me so far.

Pragmatism is for real life. This is football.

Its funny, coz I always had you down as someone who appreciated that approach in football.

 

[Sniper Mik]

 

[Furious]

Of course he’s done some stupid stuff, I’ve criticised him for his decision making for the entire month from Southampton to West Ham. People are rewriting history though and making it seem like he did nothing good in the months before that.

I wasn't posting prior to the Christmas holidays so I've not had the chance to applaud some of the good work he's done, given we've mainly been **** for almost 2 months now.

However looking at the bigger picture he obviously needs more time. But looking at the results and performances atm it's hard to find anything worth praising.

 

[9jagooner]

He already got sacked lol.

Exactly my point.
Hopefully those people would have seen how poor a manager he is.

 

[lamby22]

How bad is Mustafi though? Everything literally falls apart as soon as he comes on.

Wenger had the right idea in offering him to West Brom. Can't understand why Tony Pulis didn't want him

 

[field442]

How bad is Mustafi though? Everything literally falls apart as soon as he comes on.

He wasn't completely at fault for the first goal but trying to play offside when you're near your own penalty spot is ****ing idiotic.

 

[OnlyOne]

Wheres the Mustafi thread? I want to batter him.

 

[Marmaduke]

We beat Chelsea with a certain set up with certain players, yet we come into this game with different players in a different system.

We were playing positively before Sokratis (who has been immense recently) had to go off. Football has a healthy dose of luck and at the moment everything is going well for United while we are stumbling over ourselves.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Not sure what Emery is supposed to have done wrong tonight?

Nothing. We lost the game after Sokratis injury and not being clinical

 

[krengon]

As close to a realistic worse case scenario as you can get.. Losing to Manu at home, Sanchez and Lingard scores and on top of that we lose 2 more defenders. ****ing hell

 

[rich 1990]

How bad is Mustafi though? Everything literally falls apart as soon as he comes on.

One of the worst sub performances you'll ever see. They didn't get behind us once before he came on.

 

[2Smokeyy]

How bad is Mustafi though? Everything literally falls apart as soon as he comes on.

Remember during the summer when there were fans that said the new manager will improve Mustafi?



Trash will always be trash.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

What I don’t understand with many of our games this season is the changes that happen every match.
We beat Chelsea with a certain set up with certain players, yet we come into this game with different players in a different system.

It makes no sense.

This is my biggest criticism of Emery as well. The line up today on paper was fine, but why change from what was easily our best perfomance in almost two months? The players need to be able to get into some sort of rhythm.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Would like to see a different approach in the PL game against them. This was a carbon copy of last season's game at the Emirates.

 

[MutableEarth]

This is exactly why we're looking at Suarez and Nkunku.

But are they gonna play centrally? Chances are, Emery wants to play them as wide players. Which IMO won't really add much more dimension than what we already have as neither of them offer that extra level of dynamism and incision we need - they are slightly better dribblers I guess. Not much final product either. If we were gonna play one of them central then I'd be all for it.