PL: West Brom vs Arsenal | December 31, 2017 | 16:30 GMT | Sky Sports

[Rain Dance]

just a reminder

 

[nick gould]

This was West Brom not Bayern Munich. Why do we need 3 centre halves against a side that's bottom of the league?

When Koscielny went off, we had an opportunity to bring on an attacking player or extra midfielder and switch to a back 4. What we were doing was clearly not working as we had 2 attempts at goal and 1 shot on target in the first half against the worst team in the league who were shot of confidence.

Alexis kept doing that thing where he dribbles back into midfield to run in a semi circle across the pitch instead of staying high, wide and trusting his teammates to find him with the ball.

Iwobi was moving inside way too early and congesting space whilst simultaneously blunting the right side of our attack. Xhaka was again playing ahead of Wilshere and taking 4,5 touches to release a pass. Everything was to feet or sideways and backwards.

It was the same turgid away performance with the same issues as Southampton, West Ham, Burnley & Stoke. Their keepers are finishing games against with their gloves in pristine condition.

Mike Dean is not the reason we are 21 points behind City or have a GD of only 12 from 21 games. It doesn't make his officiating acceptable however.

My sentiments exactly. Wenger lost us the game. We didn’t need Per in this game blad. At nil nil after 70 minutes against West (worst) Brom.

 

[kopzilla]

Was it the reverse fixture at home when West Brom were denied a stone wall penalty...looks like it evened itself out..

 

[karl]

Was it the reverse fixture at home when West Brom were denied a stone wall penalty...looks like it evened itself out..

What we need are black and white rules in handball and VAR. Take the possibility for creative thinking away from the referee.

 

[say yes]

www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/live-match-centre/championship/mike-dean-penalty-leeds-barnsley-hand-ball-demoted-championship-premier-league-a7540251.html%3famp

What a difference a year makes.