Smash & Grab, 2 words that can best define Manchester Uniteds stolen victory at Arsenal. Fingers pointing at the clueless Arsene Wenger. Certainly it was dumb and dumber on the pitch, seeing the naive tactics of sending the whole team to attack when we were one nil down, leaving the poor Monreal with his slow pace to defend the Man U counter attacks of Di Maria and Rooney. In one of those counter attacks they scored the second goal out of nothing. Manchester United claimed an unlikely victory through some calamitous Arsenal defending and help from the ever poor referee Mike Dean, the man who hates Arsenal like hell. 80% to 20% ball possession and lose a match! Thats travesty of a result. The better side clearly lost but then again from the beginning, it was clear that Arsenal wanted to lose that game. The build up to the first goal was offside and the second was a smash and grab. Exposed on the counter throughout the game, the manager should have seen that LVG was using Maureens tactics of parking buses and waiting to steal points. The inept manager couldnt even recognise Young and Valencia were on the flanks and possibly could be gotten at. He played right into Utds hands by playing so narrow, there were no gaps to exploit that suspect back 3 of this poor Red Devils team. Get out on the flanks and open them up in the middle seems so elementary but the dumb manager couldnt read the game. This manager buys flankers every year it seems and the one game where you think it might well pay off he plays narrow and cant expose the weaknesses of the awful opponent. I think its high time we Gunners supporters come to grips with the fact the game has gone past Wengers knowledge of it. Arsenal players play with the mentality of children, instilled by their managers lack of competence and understanding of the game. Dear Wenger, we now have an impression that there arent any goal posts on the Arsenal training ground. Does anyone ever tell the players the idea is to get the ball between those two posts, past the goal keeper into the back of the net? Do they ever practice that? What they seem to practice is having six players stand in an area five yards square and bounce the ball between them until it bounces away (at which point in the real game the opposing team runs away and scores). Do Arsenal even consider what the opposing team will do? When will you ever change your rigid tactics and failing formation because what you are doing is not working? Having said that, I thought we played better than we have done all season admittedly against a very poor opposition which played atrocious football. Arsenal typically became impatient once United got the lead from an own goal by unlucky Gibbs, holding a suicidally high backline that was inevitability caught out as we surged forward in search of the equaliser. This impatience is a catastrophic systematic failure for Arsenal over the last decade. Can it be arrested under the present regime? l dont think so, since the board is making millions every season by just qualifying for top 4. Enough is enough #wengerout please, he is an arrogant and out of touch football manager. All too familiar a display week in, week out, with glimpses of potential, no real conviction and then the inevitable collapse. Soft mentally, laughable tactically. No more chances. When will Wenger leave and put us AFC fans out of our misery? That Man U side is the worst I can remember in decades yet they beat us with one shot on target. When a manager is regularly bemoaning the same old weaknesses year after year, no matter the personnel, he better look at the mirror rather than the players. Once a breath of fresh air, he is now become an inflexible dinosaur in a flexible changing game. He is now a liability to Arsenal FC and should simple Go!!!
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 01:13:38 +0000
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