Yago wrote:Pudpop wrote:Yago wrote:Rockape wrote:Yeah that’s certainly not the line up I was expecting. You do feel though that even if we start well that Emery will start the changes early in the second half.
But why not start with the right lineup for once?
I'll stay patient, but Emery has to start learning from his mistakes and make our team tick, because we're still a far way off.
What mistakes has he not learned from here? His defence is obviously without any alternative (we have no senior defenders on the bench). Xhaka and Torreira have been effective together, so there is no mistake there. Ramsey and Auba have both not been in as good form as Mkhi and Iwobi.
The only 'mistake' he could have learned from is to play Laca and Auba together, but it's hardly a mistake since the player he's chosen instead is Ozil.
I mean that apart from those last 30 mins against Fulham (the worst defence in the league), we've looked shit. You can say all you want, we have been lucky. Our defence looks shaky at best, our midfield can't control a game and our attack is relying on flashes of individual brilliance once or twice a game but hasn't looked impressive either. I'm happy with the result, but anyone pretending we've been playing great football has to come from the Theresa May school of delusion.
And yes, there have been good signs too: morale looks decent, the subs are on point, Torreira has been good (I think he has been effective whoever he's paired with, nothing to do with Xhaka) and both Laca & Iwobi improved greatly compared to last season. But despite all this, we hardly look like a top 4 contender most of the time.
What does any of that have to do with Emery's lineup