Pudpop wrote:Rhume91 wrote:Pudpop wrote:Myrmedus wrote:Pudpop wrote:Myrmedus wrote:Taking Giroud off was another example of bad judgement, and that pretty much lost us the game combined with the sending off.
I genuinely felt bad for Giroud when I saw his reaction on tv. Bigger slap in the face than the one AW gave Chambers a couple of weeks ago when Arteta came on
It was just stupid. You basically just castrate your team's attack by doing that. When we did get forward we lacked penetration AND presence...at least with Giroud we would've had presence. With him on the field I could've seen us equalizing.
My dad made a good point while we were watching the game: Imagine the effect that sub had on the team? You go a man down and now your leading man, who scored our last 2 league goals, and is 12 goals ahead of anyone else in our team, comes off. One of our only slightly in form players and he's taken off. Instantly demoralize the rest of the team
I agree to an extent. Only other option for me was Campbell but after 18 minutes Wenger was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Giroud apparently had a slight knock so maybe influenced the decision.
Bullshit he had a slight knock. He wouldn't have reacted that way. And take off THEO ffs. He's been in piss poor form for months
Not trying to defend Wenger btw lol!
Take Walcott off (as shit as hes been) and who do we play on the wings?
Wenger plays 1 formation, 2 wingers and someone in the hold behind the striker. If Campbell came off then ramsey could have moved forward but as I said when we go to 10 men, we are completely ruined.
Far too many players have been on poor form since the just before xmas