Callum wrote:Arsenal~Fanatic wrote:No need to bust the gasket. We were due one off performance. We should have been much more clinical not just in our wing play but as i alluded at the start of the game thr midfield combination of Elneny and Coquelin was toothless offensively. Today showed how important the little Spanish Maestro is to our team. Cazorla is the heartbeat of this team.
We are not going to win every game at home. Yes Middlesbrough were beatable and we should have found a way to break them but they pretty much played with two banks of five all game long. Sanchez isn't cut out against teams which sit deep as this cuts out any space for him to operate. Six wins on the trot and one draw doesn't warrant slitting wrists imho. Too many players had an off day to win today. Ozil and Sanchez were anonymous.
Well said.
Things like this are said every season.
We got lucky against Southampton , Burnley was lucky, we played well against Chelsea but we were gifted a goal that changed everything, got lucky against a drunk Leicester in our only hard away game so far.
The warning signs that we will fail are there, if teams like Burnley and Middlesbrough are stifling us, what will the better teams with actual offensive quality do.