Power n Glory wrote:Özim wrote:
I wouldn't say any manager. We had Freddie in the job and we drew to Norwich, lost to Brighton and drew against Everton and Liege but the loss to Man City was expected. In terms of xG on attack, we were worse but statistically there was an improvement over Emery looking at the oppositions xG but Arteta has still done better than Freddie against tougher opponents and during the Christmas period.
It's really early to judge and there are good and bad things with Arteta. He's not as bad as a Freddie and I'm still annoyed at Freddie's team selection, openly blaming Kolasinac for a mistake that should fall on Freddie for not getting his player ready quick enough for a sub and airing out stuff that should have stayed in house because he just added to the toxic environment with that approach.
On man management, I think Arteta has came in with the right approach. I'm happy with what he's doing tactically, he's handled himself in the press well....my main criticism comes back to picking Xhaka all the time and his subs. Other than that it's just the results that are disappointing. Chelsea will be a hard game but I think the next 6 games are winnable. Bournemouth(FA Cup), Burnley, Newcastle, Olympiacos (UL) Everton and Olympiacos at home. If we don't start picking up wins in these games we can start to panic.
If it turns out that we've made a blunder with Arteta, the attention has to turn to Raul Sanhelli.
Yeah Freddie was terrible, but he was part of the Emery coaching staff so learnt from him, his lineups were also shocking I agree.
Yes there's been some positives, I'm just not sure that as a rookie he's been able to have the desired impact, certainly results wise he hasn't. Agree about Xhaka, he seems to have a blind spot when it comes to him, which worries me, as do his subs which have been questionnable both in terms of timing and personnel.
in truth though playing players in their correct positions has obviously had an impact, Torreira being the obvious example, to some extent his job has been done for him due to injuries, I'd be interested to see who he picks if everyone is fit, that for me wil give us a greater insight as to whether he knows what he's doing or not.
You say those games are winnable but to be honest we've been unconvincing, you just feel we can drop points in any game as we never look ruthless and able to put games to bed, we drew with Bournemouth last time round away and have 3 consecutive away matches now, I'm not confident on us getting any of the results and nothing Arteta has done has changed that, just like when Emery arrived we only play for 45 minutes and against Sheff Utd we were outworked.
and a epic one too.
