Mkhitaryan back in the team will be a huge plus in terms of creativity, movement and output. We should've scored more and not conceded, but it's still a ****ing draw. Can definitely win this tie, just have to go for it and score one.
Mate, you don't need build up play if our entire defence gets done by a long ball over the top. No matter how Atleti set up, or how well they express themselves, we will be the masters of our undoing. Atleti will get the first.. we will look even more shaky and they will put a beating on us.
We have seen it so many times it's amazing that people can expect anything different.
We lack aggressiveness in front of goal and we're gonna have to find it somehow if we want to make them hurt. Play direct and force them to make fouls like tonight, although that bum ref was playing catch up after sending Vrsaljko off and blew the whistle for all their dives.Can definitely win this tie, just have to go for it and score one.
That's why I'd play Per instead of one of those clowns. At least he's cool headed and can try to organize the defense a bit. Last season I was sweating bullets when I heard he was playing the FA Cup final and he bossed it all game long.Costa will try everything to get someone sent off next week he will annoy Kosh mustafi xhaka so much dive a lot
They’re not gonna carve us up that much.
Yeah I’m so p*ssed off. 1-0 would’ve been a great score but really it should be 4 or 5-1 and that mistake wouldn’t matter. We have a decent I just wish the board would invest in 2-3 world class players.So angry right now... Gonna go out on the sea tomorrow and shoot some birds.
It's a stupid rule and I'm not just saying it due to these circumstances. It makes the home teams afraid to go for it in front of their own fans, and encourages away teams to just sit once they get a goal. Get rid, everyone likes extra time anyway.I hate home games in European knock out games, the away rule messes me up.
Fish. Those are fish.So angry right now... Gonna go out on the sea tomorrow and shoot some birds.
Nope we didn’t win because of squad cost.Just got home from the game. What can I say, typical Arsenal.
I didn't think we'd score against them to be fair. When they went down to 10 men I thought it was a bad thing because that's their food and drink. Absolute masters at the dark arts. Godin was a warrior. I don't mind that. They did what they had to do to get through the game. Night and day between the teams mentalities. If they go up 1-0 at home against 10 men, no way are they conceding. We are just very naive.
I don't think we hurt them enough in the final third. We lacked the ability to get at their full backs one on one but we did move the ball well, just a little slow and horizontally at times. Even though I posted earlier we are poor on the counter and I've sat in the North Bank and witnessed goals against us on the counter (more than I can remember) time and time again, I didn't expect them to create anything. They were happy with the 1-0, but boom, one long ball and a goal. West Ham got in a few times that way as well. If I was facing this Arsenal defence, I'd just say stick it over the top of them a few times and see what happens....Mustafi/Kos will always end up giving you a chance. I fail to see how you don't blame Wenger at least partly for this. The issue isn't not scoring chances. You aren't going to win every game by three or four goals. That's why you need to be solid and alert at the back. Godin had his arms out to his side all game, pushing his back line up and pulling them back when needed. Monreal shouldn't be allowed be that far back. Kos or Mustafi (can just about tie his laces so probably not him), but someone should be in control of the line.
When the same thing happens once or twice let alone over and over again, as a coach you sit down and assess what the issue is, and then work on it in training or/and in the video room. You pull players into positions, you drill them, you work on the team's structure and shape in and out of possession. It always falls on the manager. If Mustafi isn't concentrating and isn't covering around the back of Koscielny, like Koscielny used to do for Per, when that ball goes long, and Monreal is too deep...these are individuals errors in a sense that each player is in control of his own actions, but the shape and structure of the team is the managers responsibility. Nobody can blame Wenger for missing chances, but you can certainly blame him for the team's vulnerability in defence, especially on the counter. If Koscielny clears that ball we get away with it, but it doesn't change the fact the defence were in awful positions.
I'd be very surprised, in fact shocked, if we get through this tie.