One who, so far, can motivate players like Ozil and Xhaka to show the club may have not completely wasted their investment. Even Luiz looks decent.
Mustafi continues to prove there are limits. :-\
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One who, so far, can motivate players like Ozil and Xhaka to show the club may have not completely wasted their investment. Even Luiz looks decent.
Mustafi continues to prove there are limits. :-\
That was excellent, last night.
Run out of steam again, as per the Chelsea game, but you can see what we are trying to do.
A high press and trying to take the puff out of the opposition when we have the ball...
Luiz was excellent, as was Torreira. In fact they all were - although AMN gave the ball away a few times, being the only (slight) complaint.
wd MA8 and The Arsenal imo
Agreed but I would point out that we were good early in Emery's tenure as well and he seemed to have solved many of the problems we had been seeing for years before it all went wrong. I'm betting that Arteta will not lose the dressing room the way I think Emery did, however.
Outstanding performance, best we've seen in years. Ozil, Luiz, Kolasinac and especially Torreria. Only downside for me was Nelson, who was awful when he came on.
No we weren’t good early in Emery’s tenure. We had a run of results that was Liverpool like in its fortune and scored some lovely Wenger inspired goals. They soon dried up.
What Emery did have in the first few weeks was a plan to press high, which at times worked well, but he could never make consistent and a plan to play from the back that never worked well.
Emery never appeared to solve deep rooted problems and he never got performances like last night from Ozil, Aubemayang and Xhaka.
Arteta still may fail, but let’s be honest. Emery was thought to be a mistake by many from day one. It was clear he was a mistake from most others as soon as he gave up on a plan, which was about 3 months in.
Well, Emery solved some of the problems. We were still very weak at the back and that 22 game unberaten run had alarming number of occasions where team s were getting through the middle of the team or in behind us much too easily.
At least in these 3 games, we look like a team with a defined shape and good starting positions, when we don't have the ball.
ffs not this again. New Manager rejuvenation effect (see Ole at United and Lampard at Chelsea) combined with a lot of luck (we were terrible in first halves and scored a lot of last gasp goals) and also the team still had the Wenger ball style in them (see Ramsey's GOTS goal - That type of goal was never repeated once things started going south)
Never once could you see an immediate footballing philosophy come into play like the almost immediate style change Arteta has implemented. Never once did I see Emery give Ozil the encouragement and love he needs to thrive that I have seen Arteta already give. In fact, the ****er just vilified Ozil and made the fans attack Ozil to mask how much of an incompetent idiot Emery was.