thebish wrote:bergie4ever wrote:WHAT a QUESTION who won't leave my head: why our Gunners can't play with all their heart,like yesterday,against teams like Stoke or Hull ?? There's still some mysteries unsolved in the Arsenal Football Club...
for exactly the same reason that Hull can't play like that when they play Bolton... did I mention - we just beat them?
all players raise their game for what they percive to be big games - Hull think you're big - and they they think we're crap (and they are largely right!!) so they up their game - like you up your game to play manU but take hull and stoke for granted......
That's very true but it's also because of the difference in the style of play.
Teams like Stoke would be delighted with a 0-0 draw and without Delap that's what they would've got so they spend most of the game with the bus parked in front of goal whilst Manure would almost never play like that.
They're an attacking team and they come at you every chance they get which leaves space for us to get at them on the counter.
We still struggle to break down teams who come to us looking for a 0-0 and put 11 men behind the ball but if a team tries to score against us then we've got a chance.