Excellent result and performance, Team on a bit of a run and awimb celebrates by... not turning up!!!
No comments throughout the match. Is that a first?
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Excellent result and performance, Team on a bit of a run and awimb celebrates by... not turning up!!!
No comments throughout the match. Is that a first?
I had been warning we shouldn't be complacent. We weren't. Killed the game off in the first half-hour, although I would have liked more goals so the substitutions could have been to rest key players rather than tactical. But it would be curmudgeonly to criticise anything.
More of the same. We have seven very winnable games coming up next. Let's make it 11 wins on the trot.
Keeper made four or five good saves. Alexis missed a sitter, Mesut missed one too. A couple of bad choices in crossing which should have left to open goals.
There was no pressure on the result, our pressing high up and ball recovery was superb. We do need to increase our shot to goal ratio. We're not always going to have as many chances as tonight and Saturday. And our corners are again very poor.
Mustafi loooks like a real find.
I watched the match at a neighbour's place (he watched Bayern on another telly). Sausages, cheese, bread, nibbles and a couple of small barrels of some mysterious, unnamed Bière d'Alsace.
A most agreeable evening all round. Sehr gemütlich, gentlemanly.
When I see Iwobi I think Alex Hleb. Anyone else? Anyone?
I have a feeling in order to win the Champions League we'd need an Aubemyang or someone up front whose conversion rate for chances is higher than what we've got.
If you put Alexis on the left he's still going to get you loots of goals. But someone like Wrighty in his prime will get more shots on target and score tap-ins and stuff. The old fox in the box.
Add a fifty million pound striker to most teams and they'd begin to fancy their chances, wouldn't they. Even my daughter's school netball team would and they are completely *useless*.
Wenger's question, since Thierry*, has been How To Win It Without One Of These. Currently Alexis is giving it a good go.
*I know he didn't cost us that much but he played like he did.
We wouldn't have had a prayer before because there were other areas of weakness. For example centre-half. Kos is our best centre-half since Sol and if Mustafi turns out to be as good as he seems at the moment we could have our best centre-half pairing since the famous back four.
Our squad has improved to the stage where we could afford to shed a couple of players (eg Mertesacker) without a need for a replacement. We don't need to buy anyone else only splash the cash if a top man is available.
None of our squad (except Per) looks like needing to move on next summer either.
That's how it goes though, ain't it. You solve one area of concern and a couple of others appear. The reserve you thought was adequate turns out to be rubbish when actually called upon. You sort the fullback position out and then he decides he wants to go home to Birmingham or Barcelona or wherever.
The whole thing is all so very sad and blithering and futile :cry:
Accepted. And neither had Henry until he did. We have a new mix and maybe the missing pieces of the jigsaw are falling into place.
And no, I think Iwobi is potentially a far better player than Hleb.
Iwobi goes forward, Hleb mostly went sideways.