squallman
Still Pining for Wenger
picked out some good points here and i believe this is half the problem that Emery is having, He cant get players to stay focused enough. Iwobi, Mkhi, Özil all are very slack when it comes to defending and taking up the right space. Randomly and you see it every week Mustafi will randomly charge off across the back of teh defence to get involved in something that is already covered off. Its not just about the quality of the player, Its about the players being responsible which a lot of these players are not.
That isn't just a Mustafi problem. I watch our games and can't tell half the time what our players are doing. The next time Torreira/Xhaka get on the ball look up the field. Usually, we'll have 5/6 players ahead of the ball and 4 of them will be standing in no mans land. Not contributing to the attack because they're in a poor position to receive the pass and they aren't contributing to the defence because they are out of position.
Its like we're begging teams to hit us on the counter. Pushing players up is fine but far too often those players aren't doing anything and it leaves us vulnerable. Usually, when teams break on us we're lucky if we have 3 of our players near the halfway line and I'm including the center backs in that. Then when we do try to get back I'm still not sure what everyone's role is. Some of our players run back but completely ignore the opposition player running back next to them. At both ends of the pitch it appears to me that our strategy is to just throw bodies at it.
I have always been befuddled at how when we attack there is very little space for us to do so but when teams are attacking us, it seems like they have the freedom of the pitch. We just aren't efficient in anything we do. Yes this problem existed under Wenger but I'd like to see it rectified