A problem which started before Emirates era LEHMANN: The big difference was when Cesc Fabregas came in — he played two or three touches. With Vieira and the others they only had one or two touches. But when Cesc came in, Freddie Ljungberg barely scored again because his runs were timed on one or two-touch football. Cesc was a fantastic player but it changed our game and our rhythm. The fewer touches you need the better. We dont use ultra pace in our attack from both wings anymore. The Invincibles were masters of pace and Strength. But it all changed with the arrival of cesc. Ljungerg was the first to suffer because Cesc did not release him with one touch. It messed up his timing and finally saw his departure. Wenger then built the entire system around short passing midfielders -- Cesc, Nasri, Arshavin, Santi But last season that old movement came back. Ozil is a master of one or two touches. And all Ramsey goals came as there was great movement in the team and Rambo was able to make those deep runs in the space created by Ozil who played in front of him as a number 10. Cesc is clearly a fantastic passer of the ball. The main issue was that he he so physically incapable and it was such a massive culture shock when we went from having one of the most physically dominant midfields in the league to a suddenly soft underbelly. Our perennially imbalanced midfield has been the number 1 root cause of our failures since Highbury.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:29:10 +0000
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