Leody wrote:Inch, I respect your opinion greatly... however, saying we never had time on the ball is a BS excuse.
If that's the case then we need to make space and move better. Simple fact is, we're not that good, we weren't that good today... However you want to look at it the onus is on US to get it done. Simple fact is the players have shown us time and time again they are not capable of doing so. Things need to change. Period.
You can sugar coat any way you want it, but at the end of the day it's our job to show up and get it done. This squad have shown us they can't.
edit: and I along with many other Arsenal supporters am sick of waiting and not seeing any improvement year after year.
I'm not really disagreeing with you here dude.
I was at the game and had a fabulous view and all I saw was Villa all over our players like a rash.
That doesn't mean that we just shrug our shoulders and say 'hey ho they were the better team' but it does mean that singling out individual players on our team or saying things like 'we need a new CB' in this thread are utterly pointless imo.
It wasn't really about the personnel on the pitch and it wasn't about who we could or should buy in January because Villa's attitude and tactics were spot on and ours weren't.
From where I was sitting the off-the-ball movement was terrible and there were countless times when Cesc or Denilson had the ball in the midfield with no-one available to pass to. It was as if no-one wanted the ball.
So ultimately yes we were bad but they were also very good.