We’re completely abandoning the middle of the pitch on the ball. Just Partey standing in the center circle
says more that we’re relying on luiz hitting a 40 yard diagonal as our only source of creativity saka didn’t do much today for me to say him being taken off had much of an impact imo
this team is just rigid in possession and has no creativity whatsoever it’s what we’ve seen for years
Welp, not sure what the fix for this is. Laca absolutely killed us, not playing him seems like a start I guess. But we got 0 ideas aside from balls over the top
Brendan Rogers at least knows how to get his best forward in position to score goals. Arteta should try being a little less clever.
Still have zero creativity through the middle. Thomas sits too far back, it’s the miles of space between him and Laca that’s just a barren wasteland. Pinging balls to the sideline all day long. Also in relation to the rest of the Prem I feel like we’re a horribly slow team. I think half of Laca problem is he lacks pace, which would work if we had nothing but burners outside our CBs.
I was actually wondering if we should move Partey into that role, somehow. mustafi is who we thought he was.
The problem besides his 2 left feet today was Ceballos’ positioning Did absolutely nothing to support the front 3. Using Liverpool’s style but with worse players/pressing and no Wjinaldum popping up in attack
I might feel better if Arteta had just come out and say I royally fucked up that 2nd half. Really don’t want to watch many more of those......
He had a couple players put in completely nothing then the 2 best players in the game picked up injuries. Leicester isn't shit and we have major holes, we blew it by not going up 2-0 in the first half and had no legs and had to keep our shit players on/bring in Mustafi in the 2nd. Fuck his faith in Mustafi though
Probably a short term deal with reduced wages. Gives the player some injury insurance, cuts the wage bill and provides some sell on value for the club this summer.
Listening to the arsecast extra really hammering home some bizarre team selections. why did we not sell AMN if we’re never gonna use him? If Mustafi is gonna shit the bed like that why not just give Saliba minutes?