A 'lifelong Arsenal fan' has gone in on 'bottle job' Arteta, the 'choker' Mertesacker and the 'specialists in failure', including Bukayo Saka. The mailbox also includes reasonable opinions.
Look the players in the eye and tell them it was always on them to beat City on Wednesday. There were gonna be no oddly-placed doors leadings to secret passageways on the way the title.So reality is fully set in, and we can now absolutely state that Arsenal won’t win the PL . Arteta has done a great job this season overall, no doubt. However there’s a few things that should concern Arsenal fans:
* Rob Holding. The last of the Wenger sores. It isn’t a coincidence Arsenal’s defence has completely imploded the minute Saliba got injured. Granted Saliba is excellent and Holding “is a squad player”. But that’s the exact problem: Holding isn’t even as good as Southampton’s reserve CB, so what is he doing at Arsenal? Shocking at Anfield , useless distribution, unsettles the entire defence.
With Cancelo out of the team/club we did try Walker in a RB-MF role, but he looked terrible in that hybrid role, especially at Newcastle away. We also tried Rico Lewis, but although he has great potential and played well in some games, he got physically bullied, especially against Spurs. Then we also tried an inverted LB-MF role, with Bernardo starting in MF and then dropping into to cover at LB, which wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t great either.
Maguire is not a dreadful defender. In fact he’s a good defender. What Maguire is not is a player worthy of “most expensive defender ever”. He’s nowhere near that good. But that’s outside his control – he didn’t set the price. Leicester did. United were extremely foolish to pay it. Give up. Now I appreciate not many candidates tick those boxes at Utd but it was far too soon and far too much pressure for Maguire to have to deal with.
Yesterday confirmed what we already knew. We have a very good first team of perhaps 10-12 players who when lined up could beat most teams on their day , but aren’t quite ready to challenge for league titles. But, we also know that there is a drop in quality in the other half of the squad. All good players but not quite good enough to play the way Ten Hag wants us to play. Which means if we’ve got too many of those players who can play his way out, we will always struggle.
However, let’s not suddenly start to pretend that United haven’t improved this season because that’s bollocks quite frankly. In Europe we’ve won every game but four. We were cruising against Sevilla until some cautious subs and disastrous injuries to both our centre backs. No surprise that Maguire was on the pitch for every Sevilla goal in that tie.
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