Arsenal~Fanatic wrote:You know for the entire match we had Gibbs fighting a lone battle on the left hand side. Both Rosicky and Ramsey were no were near the flanks. Gibbs had a very good game especially in light of nobody present ahead of him.
I think that was entirely deliberate though. They were trying to cut Drenthe's options down by narrowing the midfield and forcing him to stay out wide and try to take on gibbs rather than cutting inside. Gibbs had a pretty decent handle on him all evening and then, when we had the ball was able to overlap quite easily.
Ramsey as a wide player isn't a winger type. But he did reasonably well coming off the wing to support RVP for knock downs and the like. Okay, so he fluffed his shots when he got there, but at least he was trying to. Compare that to Theo, who just wasn't gambling enough on making runs into the box.