gooney wrote:DiamondGooner wrote:That was really bad.
Again like last week this team refuses to step up a gear and punish teams, our WF's are not doing enough either, Laca doing all the work up front, Pepe and Auba not doing enough.
Mids were decent today carried and sprayed the ball around but our WF's just weren't aggressive enough.
Bellerin did ok but I think we needed more crosses from the right side.
In summary this team just refuses to try and break teams hence the game ends up going against us.
They are playing fake football. We are hiding with possession to make it look like we are doing much and as soon as we get pressured we play backwards to keep possession
Well that's not untrue, but both Arteta and Emery insist that we do this "Play out from the back" thing and you've seen how we look playing 2 CB's and doing that, we can barely get it out of our half and crumble under pressure.
Tbf its not the system, we're dominating enough and keeping possession, its this teams lack of killer instinct to put it on teams while we're having good patches, this allows teams to capitalise on our mistakes and get in the game.
Spurs just waited us out in the end, idiot moves like Kola's back pass and we're in a fight all of a sudden, fkin stupid.