jayramfootball wrote:DiamondGooner wrote:Honestly thought he and ESR were poor.
They saw Burnley's two banks of 4 and looked like deer in the headlights.
We barely had possession or anything, Auba was left hanging.
We had the majority of possession and almost twice as much possession in the final third than Burnely did.
Odegaard had more possession than any other player on the pitch.
ESR was on the average for possession despite only playing part of the game and had 2 good chances to score.
Auba just didn't get in the game. He wasn't good enough on the day, but I don't entirely blame him as he was playing out of position.
Our players were playing a flatter system and it was pretty ugly watching them squirming for a back passing possession game when a flat 4-1-4-1 mean't they should of been pushing forward quicker between the lines.
Burnley were doing it just fine with an even flatter 4-4-2.
It was like seeing our players exposed.
I appreciate Arteta trying it but he reverted back to 4-2-3-1 after half time because it wasn't working.
I still think a 3-4-3 would be best, our soft players need that protection at the back and our playing out from the back benefits from having 3 CB's to play it out.
