Originally Posted by
WES
Midfield passing was shocking, Partey, Sami and Odegaard.
At one point Partey had the ball in the middle with Pepe in acres of space on the right with one man to beat, Boomerang in a good position at the opposite side. I was screaming for him to ping it to him and instead we got a lazy looping ball that meant the chance went begging as the defenders recovered. That was a common theme, we just didn't pass the ball well enough in midfield. Would also liked us to have used Tierney more, that left sided obsession seems to have disappeared.
Not too sure how we blame Arteta for the fact that the midfield players had on off night on the ball.