I was equally as unimpressed at the inability of Arsenal - the pioneers of total football (as Arsenal fans would have you believe) to score despite the huge amount of possession you had. What’s wrong? A team had the cheek to come and frustrate you with a view to nicking one on the break as apposed to opening up and allowing the possibility of a drumming? That’s why we’re second and you’re third, Mancini knows when to change it and has the players at his disposal – Wenger doesn’t. Bless.
As for the lack of a recognised striker near the closing stages of the game, if memory serves Arsenal didn’t have a recognised striker on the pitch until the goal scoring powers of Niklas Bendtner took to the pitch. “We did, we had Robin van Persie on you silly Manc twat” – Ahh, yes, the Robin van Persie who is chasing the massive target of his 50th league goal in 6 years, 7 years in 4 months.
With regards to the zapping of our confidence with that type of performance, far from it I would suspect. Confidence isn’t derived from attempting to play total football week in, week out. That is now three games we have played in 9 days – each with a clean sheet, not to mention a total of 7 points.
You were proud of your players were you? What in particular was it that made you proud? The petulance of your captain? the elbow from RvP on Kompany? or was it the childish reaction from whatever that thing is you play at right back?
Keep playing your free flowing and entertaining football because against the lesser teams it’s a joy to watch, honestly it is. Where you fall down is you have no plan B and it’s sure to be another season without so much as a sniff of silver for the ‘Gooners’. x