TheLoneFalcon
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Their first goal was a mixture of luck (clearance and first pass) and skill. Of course, there's almost always more than one at fault for the goal. In both cases, however, he has to take most of the blame. No, he's not 'FINISHED', in terms of the level he can still achieve as a defender, but at Arsenal he should be. There's a great many players who could also be mentioned in that same breath, to be fair.Yeah but he's not FINISHED is he? If you're finished you don't play flawlessly for 70 minutes against the best team on earth do you? Arteta is FINISHED. Per had a couple of bad moments and he's at an age where you'd expect a bit of decline. He's never been truly world class, just a good solid defender. The whole team is to blame for that first goal. You can't play into Barca's hands like that. If you commit the numbers we did then you'd better damn well score. Someone should have been covering for Mertesacker there. That's not to absolve him of blame but it wasn't just him at fault.