jayramfootball wrote:What a really poor second half, but the only real talking point is the utterly ridiculous substitutions by Emery. Shocking.
Of the two strikers, Lacazette actually started the second half ok - holding the ball a couple of times and linking play. Auba did nothing at all and continued to do nothing (but make errors) for the entire match.
Torreira was excellent and gets taken off for Elneny?
Ozil was running the midfield and gets taken off for Mikha - when that happened we dropped our level.
Not sure WTF Emery was doing.
Let's pray 2-0 is enough.
Torreira came off as a precaution due to an injury
Didn't matter which striker came off as they were both horrible.
Ozil for Mkhi was a defensive switch which still gave us creativity going forward and it worked exactly as intended. Mkhi had fresh legs defensively and set up 2 good chances going forward.
Only criticism I have of Emery tonight is not recognizing that Nacho was a liability in defence and switching to 4231 by taking him off.