by friedslice » Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:29 am
reason we play so slowly is because we don't have the players with the ability to play quickly. no more vieira's, bergkamps', pires' and henrys'. aaron ramsey and olivier giroud!
it was the same all of last season, the only time we ever had spark and played with fluidity was during that season defining run of form we had early this year. that was mainly down to rosicky finding great form, he showed what a genuine top class attacking player can do, he and RVP helped us greatly. we also showed the same sort of form early this season, when we had diaby controlling the midfield and providing a box to box link, santi was on great form - ala rosicky proving the importance of genuine class - and gervinho/podolski were looking top class.
we've lacked all that since then and it's back to the issue patchy, uninspired form. we need more quality in the squad, 2-3 top class players and we'd see us playing much better, as it is we're simply not good enough, everyone should accept that and not keep expecting next week to be the week "the old arsenal" comes to life.
what's all this "arsenal have always played great attacking football" lark too? they most certainly haven't. 8 years of high class stuff, in hindsight, doesn't constitute much amongst the 126 years.