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Progress so tentative it's barely worth pointing out other than to say "Well, at least we've not got worse".
In fact, that's arguably the biggest positive so far. We don't appear to be suffering an identity crisis, which could have been expected after Wenger left. The players looked energised pretty much from Emery's first match.
One thing I have 100% noticed is the energy and tempo appears to have increased.
We also seem to keep our heads up when we concede.
I think it was Kolosinac laying on the floor after the Liverpool goal. somebody picked him up immediately.
What nonsense is this? What 'progress' could one reasonably expect? It was clear that he was going to have to dismantle the tacts, the training, the preparation - everything that Wenger instigated over 20 years, and rebuild it. We could reasonably have expected to have struggled at least for a season while he tried to build something new. Instead, we've played some decent stuff, beaten teams we might expect to beat, and played extremely well against one of the best two sides in the country and earnt a creditable draw.
I'd call that a remarkable beginning. Arsene doesn't need defending here. Arsene's gone.
I think the fact that Wenger left under a pretty heavy and long-standing cloud means that us not imploding under the new fella is not quite as impressive as it would have been for, say, David Moyes, who took over a title winning team.
But I don't think we're in fierce disagreement here.
:nod: You also have to factor in that the Wengerahti have quite a lot of capital invested in talking the new guy up, having been baying for AW's blood for the best part of a decade. That's meant that in effect, Josef Goebbels could have turned up and he'd have got a positive reception from them.
:nod:
Wenger played Reiss-Nelson there instead