i am a Gunners fan but i have to say that i have lost confidence
in Arsene Wenger's tactics as well as his overly-optimistic and not
realistic attitude. Up till this point of time, where Arsenal's big
guns are out and they are relying on their reserves, Arsene Wenger
is still reluctant to sign big players, and even if he does so, he
is only signing Alonso. He also keeps denying that the title race
is over. When have a team that was 5th place at Christmas gone on
to win the title? Although there are only 10 points difference,
even if Man Utd drop 10 points, Chelsea or Liverpool would still be
ahead of Arsenal.
also, after watching the match yesterday and a few other similar
matches, i am really disheartened at arsene leading arsenal
anymore.
when arsenal unveiled their lineup against villa, i was shocked,
there were so many defensive players and so few attacking players.
that is why we are not scoring goals. and even with so many
defensive players, we are conceding more than teams like fulham. 22
goals in 19 matches is such a bad record.let's look at the lineup:
excluding almunia, the defensive players fielded were sagna,
silvestre, gallas, toure, denilson, eboue, diaby, song. that makes
it 8 out of 10 defensive players! you might say that diaby was
playing attacking midfield but look at his size and heigh 1.9m, he
is better off being a defensive midfield as his speed and skill are
below par. also look at his goals to match ratio. 4 goals in 49
matches, even players like patrick vieira and gilberto did better
than that. surely few attacking midfielders are so incompetant. in
the 82nd minute, Arsene even had the guts to take out Nasri and put
in yet ANOTHER defensive player, clichy. that makes it 9
defensive players out of 10 players. this is
utterly ridiculous, ,meaning that all the resonsibility
lies on robin van persie, the only one to have a decent
scoring record. normally teams like man utd, chelsea etc., and
even the Arsenal invincibles have only 5 defensive players, (4
defenders and 1 defensive midfield). but arsenal have set a record
of fielding 9 defensive players. i wonder what will happen in the
next match. would arsene wenger now replace van persie with
djorou. that would be nice. they could have a 10-0-0 formation.
