Chippy_boy said:
He had a very poor game by his standards as well.
Even this isn't true from a real technical standpoint, if you were to really drill down into the fundamental issue in the team.
Demichelis gifted possession away five times in the opening 20 minutes.
He was trying to take the responsibility to play passes which would actually have some form of offensive intent behind them.
Arsenal knew we had no ball retention in the team outside of the Silva.
All the top teams and in Europe are happy to gift up possession to our central defenders because, at the end of the day, this is what they are.
Yaya is usually the one who comes and collects and is able to turn (note how Chelsea and teams in Europe don't let him do this and how effective they are combating him)
Fernando and Fernandinho are in incapable of doing this, always having their backs to the opposition when we come out.
Take Nasri out of the team, when Yaya is also missing and you get what happened yesterday.
Hart being forced to kick long or the central defenders feeling the weight of responsibility to become an additional midfielder.
Demichelis was fine, certainly no worse then Kompany.
Milner, on the other hand, was a combination of bad tactical discipline and technical paucity.
The worst by a country mile, unless one of the many who felt the need to get out of their seats and clap Milner trying to close down Ospina, despite it being more of a lost cause than waking Tommy Cooper from the dead...and also resulting in an offside position as we returned the ball upfield.