Santi wrote:Power n Glory wrote:Santi wrote:Power n Glory wrote:.Tbh the more I’ve thought about it, the more I do blame the players. They are the ones who are once again spitting their dummies out and seemingly downing tools, Arteta hasn’t suddenly changed his ways albeit slightly tweaking the formation to try and attack more but the principles remain the same as they were when we won the FA cup
The principles aren't the same. We're trying to dominate possession and play higher up the pitch. We're kicking it long more instead of playing it from the back and drawing in our opponents. Xhaka is also being used to press high up the pitch as seen with that second goal where he got done by Traore. When Arteta first arrived, when he played Xhaka in a 4-2-3-1, Xhaka would rotate to cover the left flank and sit in that space left by Saka/Tierney. That hasn't been happening recently and it seems as though Tierney is way more conservative and isn't getting forward as much.
Only really in the last 2-3 games though because the 3-4-3 got boring and wasn’t working either. Prior to that it was exactly the same, hence DG and sims were banging on about formations and zones so much.
Why did the same not work from game 1-7? They were shit then and even shitter now were looking to have more of the ball. Were these players not decent when having the ball under Wenger? I ask again, why have they continually gotten worse over 3-4 years? Because they can’t be arsed and we’ve overpaid aging players.
Arteta will get the chop because the football has been atrocious but I do fear for any manager who comes in tbh. Maybe a honeymoon period again but the players attitudes are all wrong.
It's the last few games where we've dropped points against teams we should be beating and why things have just gotten worse and we're starting to ship goals. It's a clear difference in style and principle just by the way we're trying to play higher up the pitch and getting weak players like Xhaka to press high when he never use him for that role previously.
We've played shit all season, it's nothing new because of the shift to move higher up. It's just more obvious because we've got 1 less defender and actually let the goals in.
If we'd played 3-4-3 at home to Villa and sat back, everyone would crucify him as well. Many on here wanted us to go more attacking in formation, now it's the problem?
Many on here also wanted Auba up front centrally, now it's the problem?
Mental this forum. He's to blame for his shit authoritarianism and his shit subs, outside of that I lay more blame with these players not trying anymore and just being shit, particularly in their attitude.
We're more vulnerable defensively by trying to play a possession based game. I was never in favour of that but what's worse is that we're failing to hold possession or play higher up the pitch. It's all round failure.
Rather than talk in circles, I would advise tuning into Arsenal Vision Podcast more often to get a better understanding of our tactics. You're looking at things at a very surface level and rather than me attempting to explain some of our issues, it's worth tuning into a different source that goes into much greater depth. These conversations turn into a point scoring exercise with no real intent to understand the issues we're having under Arteta. It just constant trolling and I don't have the time for it.
