Think we need a killer DM (Lars Bender) and a more mobile striker (Balotelli?) and to focus on keeping our star players fit. Thise games we lost we all lacked pace and the other teams pressed us up deep in our half. With a killer DM and a fit Theo I doubt they'd push that high and risk being slayed by pace. If we can replicate our home form to our away from then it'd be amazing. Also like A87 we need to adapt our tactics more. We did it against Dortmund, Bayern, Pool, and City today. Imagine a team of: Chez (New GK) Sagna/New RB (Jenkinson) BFG (New CB) Kos (Verm) Gibbs (Monreal) Bender (Flamini/Arteta) Ramsey (Wilshere/Oxo/Rosicky) Ozil (Rosizky/Cazorla) Theo (Oxo) Ballotelli (Giroud/Sanogo) New LW (Podolski/Cazorla)
Keep it tight in the first half hour and then start to work openings with our passing and positioning. Instead of starting slowly and timidly and leaving huge gaps in our MF.
What we saw today was that against good defences you create chances from keeping the ball wide, you can;t just pass through the middle of them. Along with a striker and DM we need to buy a natural left wide player in the summer
I'll admit i was supporting Citeh for the final 15 minutes, because the idea of the mugsmashers winning the league makes me sick.
That's the main area we need to improve as a team. We have been very good at home this season and very consistent against the mid to low level teams and good in Europe. It's away from home against the top prem teams that we struggle (and oddly usually games that kick off at lunch time!). If we can improve in these away games we will look very strong.
Probably sums you up. Your hate for another team is greater than the love you have for the team you 'support'.
We're coming 4th, even if we lost today. Everton have a tougher schedule than us, we'd still get 4th, and we'd be able to not have to put up with the world's worst fanbase gloating endlessly.
Hull and Norwich away at this point of the season are anything but easy. Every year we see relegation teams beating the big boys at this stage
Very harsh on A87. He is passionate about Arsenal and bit too emotional, but he clearly loves Arsenal. Kyle is in a class of his own.