Loads of possession and we were still lucky to scrape a draw. Still can't beat a top 4 side.
Same old shìt, different wrapper.
Emery OUT.
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Loads of possession and we were still lucky to scrape a draw. Still can't beat a top 4 side.
Same old shìt, different wrapper.
Emery OUT.
Like Almunia? :nono:
http://www.awimb.com/showthread.php?606500
We played pretty well, I thought. There were definite signs of what he's trying to do. There is definitely potential in this midfield pairing of Torreira and Xhaka.
Given what might have happened, I think Emery's start has been hugely encouraging.
You would do well top offer him some respect, b, for that is The Arsenal way.
:shrug: would you have been happier if we had lost just to prove a point? Given that everybody is salivating over Liverpool especially this season and their undoubted forward line, I do think that result is progress for us. Don't get me wrong - I still think we'll find it difficult to get top 4 given the quality of the other sides but we are heading in the 'right' direction surely?
I don't disagree with a word of that :shrug:
Just pointing out how ridiculous it is to compare him to Wenger at this point, especially when Wenger's recent record in big games was arguably better.
Last season we drew at home with Liverpool towards the end of the year in game that saw us play some scintilating football only to be undone by defensive ****tness, and finished the game in 5th place, some way off the top. If there has been progress, it's been very, very tentative :shrug:
I don't know on here if people are actually annoyed or taking the piss. :shrug:
Well I can't speak for anyone else, f, but I'm taking the pìss in a somewhat annoyed fashion.
My take is simply that while Emery is demonstrating a decent level of competence and there are encouraging signs, the hype about him is unwarranted given that our overall position so far is no better this season than it was for years under Wenger.
It's all honeymoon period bóllocks, basically and we should judge him in May.
That speaks for me too. I think there's plenty to be optimistic about - even if it is simply the placebo of removing Wenger and much of the negativity that followed him towards the end. I'm more than ready to start looking forwards rather than backwards, but when people start absurdly comparing him with Wenger at this point I'll point it out :shrug:
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