re: Arsenal 2016/2017 Season Long Thread: 13 time FA Cup Champs

What a shite week...lose twice and draw Bayern..same shite, different year..I didn't watch the 2nd half, but was hoping they'd manage to keep them scoreless...I wasn't surprised to see them frick up the 2nd half

This team can't win these big games..Cheslea is the only win..loss to Liverpool and city, draw to united and the spurs...if they want to win the league they have got to get 3 pts against their competition..I have zero confidence they can pull it off

Welp, it's that annual time for Arsenal fans to start worrying.

It's not even THAT we lost, but how--back to the pattern of going up early, Arsene trying to sit on a lead, then collapsing late.

We are capable of and need to run the table on these weakies we have coming up until Chelsea on February 4.

But yeah Cwil, you beat me to it. It sure looks like another being happy with finishing top four and getting knocked out of CL in the round of 16.

Rinse and repeat.

I'm fully on the side of Alexis if we had to pick between the two. Ozil frustrates me to no end on nights like this. When it was 1-1 I said, okay, we have Alexis and Ozil, they will make something happen. And Ozil was just invisible. He also pigeonholes us into 4-2-3-1/4-4-1-1 whereas Alexis can play in any attacking position.

Hopefully Ozil takes this as a wake up call. I've kept my hopes very moderate all year, as I'm convinced we can't win a title with Wenger anymore. I'm not Wenger Out or anything but I think the modern game demands hands on tactical instruction and he's not willing to do that.

But it's still a damn shame to watch this team repeat itself every year.

I'm a huge Ozil fan but his last two performances are inexcusable. That said it was his 4th game in 12 days. He was visibly fatigued for the last two matches. If we're down a goal and a player isn't putting in the effort then sub him out. That's on Wenger. Not rotating for Everton was another huge mistake. We go up a goal both games looking good for most of the first half then proceed to let off the gas and try to soak up pressure. Firstly we aren't the type of team to soak up pressure defensively. Secondly we were poised to kill off City and Everton but instead we don't attack, which is what we are good at. Teams have been killing City with the high press yet we just sat off and let them find a rhythm. The last two matches have exposed Wenger's tactical inability.

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Pulled hamstring with only 12 minutes. Announcers were blaming it on him not starting and coming in cold.

I guess because of his power it could happen going to hard too soon. But players all over the world come off the bench and don't pull hamstrings.

Mustafi has been great, for sure, but I'm not even sure he could have saved Arsenal from that terrible second half.

There's also the fact that we haven't kept a clean sheet since October in the league while Chelsea are rolling up 1-0 wins all over the place.

I feel like every single time it looks like Wenger is going to adapt to the circumstances around him, he's like "nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

The biggest reason Chelsea have been so successful is that Conte saw major deficiencies and he adapted the system to get the best out of the players. We never thought Pedro or Moses would play big roles in the squad this year, but Conte is utilizing them in a way where they're able to play at a high level.

I feel like Wenger just does what Wenger wants and hopes it works out.