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The Fox

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Can't wait for Saturday.

 

Intense Spurs pressing, high up the pitch.

 

Got a big guy at centre forward. Need to go long to alleviate some pressure.

 

Ball goes back to Ospina. He runs up. Lets fly with all he's got, aiming for Giroud.

 

Ball lands 10 yards inside our half.

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The Fox

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We've essentially got one (1!) technical, ball-playing central midfielder in the squad, and he's injured for at least another month, so I don't see that happening.

 

Look back over the years and Wenger has always had several midfielders of this type in the XI:

 

2013/14: Arteta, Ramsey; Wilshere, Ozil, Cazorla

2010/11: Song, Wilshere; Nasri, Fabregas, Arshavin

2007/08: Rosicky, Flamini, Fabregas, Hleb

 

It's not the only problem, but this squad is clearly lacking if you take Arteta, Rosicky and Wilshere as all being dead. Maybe that's the issue: Wenger thought he could rely on those three to play a significant part this season (lol).

 

Without these type of guys in the team to play free-flowing Wengerball, you're much more reliant on coaching, tactics, and a more rigid system to make you effective. We currently have neither.

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I think that pretty much covers it really.

 

I've had this rant before, but I've got no idea at what point we stopped investing in the youth teams. We've not had many permanent first 11 players out of them, but having a kid with potential to cover every position seems so basic simple. Sure, Arteta and Cazorla would be hard to replace as their role relies very heavily on experience as well as talent, but strikers, wingers, attacking players. He used to be so good at it and now we literally use them to make sure seats aren't left empty on the bench, he'd rather play a first 11 player completely out of position than risk someone. It was taking those sort of risks that gave Man Utd the win on the weekend, after all. Players who want to prove themselves rather than the ones that know they can sit on the pitch and know they'll still be in the squad next match.

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"Cech will be out for three-to-four weeks. “It’s a serious calf injury,” said Wenger. “He had a groin alert on the first goal. Maybe he compensated a bit too much and provoked another muscular injury. We had to make the decision before the game because he had a little groin problem but he declared himself 100 per cent fit. Then you have to trust the player."

 

NO YOU DON'T. YOU REST HIM BECAUSE YOU'RE PLAYING SWANSEA AND YOU'VE GOT A MORE IMPORTANT GAME ON THE WEEKEND.

 

I'm getting mildly annoyed. I suspect no-one has noticed, so I thought I ought to mention it.

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1 hour ago, Rocafella said:

The irony in Wenger calling Henry 'out of touch' with the fans, about a week after he said our ticket prices were reasonable.

 

I don't think he used those words did he? The quotes I have seen are about Henry not necessarily being in a position to comment on negative crowd atmosphere (having already done so in his Sun column) because he's watching from a box.

 

 

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1 hour ago, The Fox said:

 

I don't think he used those words did he? The quotes I have seen are about Henry not necessarily being in a position to comment on negative crowd atmosphere (having already done so in his Sun column) because he's watching from a box.

 

 

 

You're right. It was implied as opposed to exact quotes, but I just thought it was a strange dig for Wenger to make, considering Henry didn't really say much. 

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Yeah I agree, I'm not sure what Henry said that was so bad to be honest. That said, I doubt Wenger read the original column, so Henry's quotes will have been put to him by a journo who's looking to fire up some drama and probably twisted the words accordingly.

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I don't know if I can watch it. If there is any logic we'll lose in an 8-2 kinda way, but knowing Arsenal we'll win and that makes everything else seem so much more pathetic. 

 

Not fun.

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this is the part of the season though when we've chucked the towel in and blown it in most competitions, have injuries, but pull a genuinely amazing result out of the hat to give us all the faint whiff of hope for next season.

 

I suspect its a don't lose derby for both us so suspect it will be a draw.

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On 03/03/2016 at 2:15 PM, The Fox said:

Can't wait for Saturday.

 

Intense Spurs pressing, high up the pitch.

 

Got a big guy at centre forward. Need to go long to alleviate some pressure.

 

Ball goes back to Ospina. He runs up. Lets fly with all he's got, aiming for Giroud.

 

Ball lands 10 yards inside our half.

 

This keeps happening.  His first clearance was just awful. 

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in the context of the game though, Bellerin going so late would be of lesser significance than Dier with 15 minutes to go.

 

Great point for Leicester, ok point for Tottenham, pretty useless point for you guys and I am on board with the general mood in the thread that your title challenge is over now.

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Well, I did watch it. After Coquelin pulled a full Flamini they really Spursed up to drop two points there. 

 

Probably the right result despite the mess of decisions and stupidity to get there.

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