alboots101
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something has really bugged me since sunday....
why did he take Alex Song off and leave Denny on?
why did he take Alex Song off and leave Denny on?
Captain said:In my opinion, Song was struggling.
Accomplished said:Wenger will have his reasons.
We can speculate all we like but if that question was ever put to him he'd have an excellent reason for taking Song off.
Anzac said:Accomplished said:Wenger will have his reasons.
We can speculate all we like but if that question was ever put to him he'd have an excellent reason for taking Song off.
He wanted to see how the midfield would perform without Song during the ACN.
General said:It was a typical Song performance - Passed well and physically competent but caught on the wrong side of play several times, positionally atrocious, not mobile enough and inevitably allowed the game to pass him by. I am a big fan and he has made significant improvements in his game but it is clear he is quite some way from being the answer to our problems. The point was made by a few on this board that the lack of credible alternatives meant perspective too often went out of the window, prompting too many people to overrate him.
True.Mbaki Mutahaba said:General said:It was a typical Song performance - Passed well and physically competent but caught on the wrong side of play several times, positionally atrocious, not mobile enough and inevitably allowed the game to pass him by. I am a big fan and he has made significant improvements in his game but it is clear he is quite some way from being the answer to our problems. The point was made by a few on this board that the lack of credible alternatives meant perspective too often went out of the window, prompting too many people to overrate him.
I remember Song from the early days..if there is one player who has earned his spot its him. There was just way too much going against him. I really doubt he is overrated. He is good at what he does for that age and there is more to come from him. He is the type(rightly or wrongly) that gives Wenger the confidence to stick it out with youth cause boy did he get stick when he started... We dont have an "answer" to our problem. I doubt there is one player who can really make us the champion. It will be a collective effort or a collective failure.
progman07 said:But what he does is more than good for us, and he has been certainly one of our best performers this season.
Well, I have my own opinion about Song's performances (and it's not related to his improvements, and not to the lack of backups for Song either). Maybe I'm wrong, who knows.General said:progman07 said:But what he does is more than good for us, and he has been certainly one of our best performers this season.
That is just the problem because Song is not upper echelon material yet. The tendency to equate significant improvement to 'good enough' is far too rife on this board.