Maybe White refuses to share his fake tan stuff with Zinny.
Quite right, of course, what with Zinny being at war and everything.
Maybe White refuses to share his fake tan stuff with Zinny.
Quite right, of course, what with Zinny being at war and everything.
Eddie left the guy with ages to play the pass, Zinchenko reacts far too slowly to the ball and the centre backs are stood on top of each other, again.
But yeah, also a tad unlucky. Just shows though.... we can control an entire game and still find a way of allowing a sloppy goal.
I thought Saliba looked a bit iffy all night. He made two or three mistakes that are totally unlike him.
Apologies for going on about Pep all the time but back in his Bayern days he admitted motivating your players when they know they're so far ahead of their opposition, so dominant that it's ridiculous, was his toughest challenge.
He said players naturally switch off and take a step back when they believe the game is won. Getting them to keep playing forward as a team and as individuals; pushing for more goals, more assists, to be even better than last season was practically impossible, in the short term. It requires a complete change of mindset and given the traditional, essential, ebb and flow of the game, it's essentially ANTI-football.
But it was really the only way to be sure, defenders being what they are and defending, indeed Football Fortune being what it is.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."