Zedie wrote:casual69 wrote:jayramfootball wrote:..oh and once again our forwards were pants.
Aubamayang has 2 games to score a goal and get to 20 for the season. 20 is not a great haul.. it's a marker for a decent return. Given he does eff all else, he remains a liability.
Lacazette? He worked again today, but ineffective.
Iwobi - well total shite. he had a chance to score and when he was about to shoot I knew (as did all Arsenal fans) that he would would not get clean contact and would mess it up. 100% predictability.
We badly need a top striker.
Least of our concerns atm. Before the sending off, stats showed 20 odd% possession, passed completed 20 to Leicester's 140odd and 2 shot to their 10...crap defense and no creativity. Without Leno, could have 5 or 6
Yup, midfield was providing hopeful balls. Iwobi and mkhi were trash, they couldnt keep hold as were torriera and xhaka.
However, Leicester had all the possession and no threat to speak of until we went a man down.
The scoreline is flattering because they got a huge bonus with the sending off. It just shows we simply couldn't keep shape defensively.
Their 2nd goal was down to a huge error and the third was us giving up physically.
Worst part is we all know we need a significant overhaul to the squad but we can only do it with 40m so we are f***ked.
Wage bill will decrease but we've been starved of EL money so long we apparently cant afford a bigger budget especially with no input from our owner.
In short, prep yourselves for more of the same for a long while
No threat to speak of? 9 shots, 4 on target, Vardy clear through and should have scored, decent save for Ndidi's header, all before the sending off.
I never thought i'd see the day that an Arsenal team came to ours and tried to sit back and just contain us. I'd had a begrudging respect over the years for a team that always came and played wonderful football. Even if you weren't at your best you knew you'd have a torrid time and the slick football would annoy the hell out of you, but you'd hold your hands up to a team that played in the right manner.
That was possibly the worst away team performance at ours all season, about on par with Huddersfield, and I'm genuinely sorry that such a wonderful footballing team has regressed to that. It must break the heart of your fans to watch that.