Great win?? They were nothing more than Championship cloggers, We were terrible but ever so slightly better. If that is the definition of success then thank goodness we've got Pep.
No disrespect to Sunderland; they scrapped and fought like fuck. But we shouldn't really be hanging on at the end (which we were) against a team in their position in the table. Whatever happened to imposing our will on the opposition, instead of it being the other way around. And I wouldn't mind, but we got off to a decent start with the early goal. Very frustrating, but three points is three points at the end of the day. We'll need to up the performance by several notches at the weekend though.might already been asked but will they fight like that against other top teams erm I think not
why oh why do we pussy foot around passing when speed and through balls will kill them
As long as players knows how shit pisss poor they were, i can live with this. But we will not win one more game with performances like this.
Awful. Decision to take off Nacho basically meant that we were likely to spend the next 45 minutes defending. Totally handed them the initiative with that substitution. Back four were good and Hart made two great stops. Nacho was bright and was easily one of the better attacking performers. Entire midfield was shocking. Unfair to single out Yaya, but also very easy to do so because he is the one who does the very visual things, such as try a forward/incisive pass or a forward run with the ball. He's quite clearly judged differently to everyone else on here and i'm unsure why because he was no more expensive than anyone else. Fernandinho was again anonymous when we had the ball. Fernando didn't help us solve any of the problems Sunderland caused us. Silva had some good touches but constantly ran out of steam with the ball. He was also wasteful and awful out of possession. Navas did nothing other than track back and pull his hamstring.
Overall, very poor but a good 3 points considering Arsenal dropped two.
Awful. Decision to take off Nacho basically meant that we were likely to spend the next 45 minutes defending. Totally handed them the initiative with that substitution. Back four were good and Hart made two great stops. Nacho was bright and was easily one of the better attacking performers. Entire midfield was shocking. Unfair to single out Yaya, but also very easy to do so because he is the one who does the very visual things, such as try a forward/incisive pass or a forward run with the ball. He's quite clearly judged differently to everyone else on here and i'm unsure why because he was no more expensive than anyone else. Fernandinho was again anonymous when we had the ball. Fernando didn't help us solve any of the problems Sunderland caused us. Silva had some good touches but constantly ran out of steam with the ball. He was also wasteful and awful out of possession. Navas did nothing other than track back and pull his hamstring.
Overall, very poor but a good 3 points considering Arsenal dropped two.
Take it you wanted us to lose then FFS