Bluemoon dan
Well-Known Member
Yes, sums up Arteta the Bottle-merchant.
The media have ignored the fact he had no player outside the box when City had the ball.
There was no Plan B to counter attack City - yet, this has been ignored...
I actually said to a mate last night that the real turning point in the game wasnt the red card, it was how Arteta reacted to it. Why take Saka off? Surely you keep your pace man on, even if he's just stood on the half way line with his hands on his hips it would have meant at least 1, probably 2 City players having to stay back to cover him. That would have meant we didn't have the constant overloads of players around their box and would have given them half a chance to at least try to counter. It was such a cowardly bottle-job of a substitution that sums them and Arteta up.