"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."
No surprise but then Ivan promised us change etc.
As it stands change seems to be the appointment of Lehmann in a background role and a rather dapper looking third kit which is worn as an away kit.
I expect Sanchez to be sold in the next 10 days which will lead to **** being lost all throughout the Arsenal family.
Every time we lost the ball (and we decided to do that a lot) everybody was out of position. This was very nearly a problem several times in the first half that you watched. In the second half we managed to combine that with about three mistakes at once to gift them a goal.
All the chances we created either fell to Wellbeck (say no more) or found a referee/linesman who was blind to a foul but managed to spot offsides that were not there.
Its no disaster. Just a standard defeat we have seen many, many times before over the last 12 years. Another to come next weekend.
Two more years to go…..
Our approach to going 1 down was to begin attacks at the speed of a Per
Wait until the opposition were in four banks of four and then pass the ball back to them
10 characters? Pile of cund.