It's been so boring to watch Arsenal's game nowadays. We don't look like we turn up for the game at all, all those back passing at the back has costed us dearly. Every single time it happens it's because that we pass the ball around at the back and when the pass isn't completed, we get intercepted and opponent strikers will take their chance against our third choice.

We were very lucky to go to 2 nil up as we finished off the only two chances we created, however I really don't like the style we're playing now, like come on we are no Stoke, we don't just bombard the box with crosses and hope Giroud will score all of them. That kind of play style is nothing but pain to the eyes. Then come the second half we will usually up the tempo slightly but by then we have conceded too much it's impossible to attack anymore as the other team will just park the bus to kill the game.

Once again Podolski was never in the game yesterday, never provided any threat going forward and was lazy to defend. His only contribution was getting in the right position to tap the second goal in. Walcott on the other flank was much brighter as he foray forward with pace and always threaten their defense. Walcott is the only joy to watch in Arsenal nowadays as he always looks dangerous when he receives the ball.

I can't help but to say that Everton has a stronger fighting spirit than us, 1 nil down and in the dying minutes they always fought and fought in opponent's half until they reclaim the lead and win the game. The partnership and the players in their team is much more joyful to watch nowadays, sad to say. Piss poor performance and really negative game style, I have to say I see no hope in staying as top 4. It will probably be Spurs or Everton that will claim the 4th spot this year. The mentality of the game now is so poor as Wenger has repeatedly saying that we only want to qualify for CL. Fair enough, no trophy and likely no CL qualification this year, now what say you?

Nowadays I derive more joy in watching Wenger's frustrated face when I watch the game.

This post has been edited by JustForFun: Nov 11 2012, 12:35 PM

Actually, Yaya has all the traits to be DM and he's been played there a lot of times before, heck he even played as CB back then in Barcelona. The only thing that's making him seem less like a DM is his shooting and passing ability, very versatile player.

This post has been edited by JustForFun: Nov 13 2012, 08:43 PM

These stats hardly mean anything, the problem with Giroud is he doesn't have the pace and nor he can shoot with right leg, if you're not a complete striker it will be hard to play as a lone striker up front.

He needs to toughen up, run faster and learn to shoot with right leg if he wants to qualify as lone striker.

Giroud isn't starting tonight right?

Quite funny to see Kompany appear for MOTD then comment on their performance against Villa there... Did he rush to BBC studio in London?

Why would we swap Walcott for Sterling? Walcott is inconsistent at times but I can see he's slowly getting there compared to last season where every touch was a mistake.

He seems to have get himself into goal scoring positions and always there in the box the convert, like the goal against Schalke. His crosses have been better as he has fed Giroud with good crosses to score and nowadays he's even taking set pieces.

He's a much more developed player than Sterling is and we don't need another developing player, we have Chamberlain for that, who IMO is better than Sterling as he has the killer instinct in the box and can score good goals while Sterling is still lacking end product in front of goal.

After all, this is thesun, whose fidelity to truth is close to zero.

Gervinho can't fit into our system right now, he never crosses.

Been some time, wanna watch Chambo play

The game itself was very poor even though we won, Montpellier has nothing to play for and that's the only reason why we won... No one seems to be hungry except Giroud.

White background red wording looks surprisingly good

Podolski piss poor

Another boring game to watch. Our defense just don't sync with our offense. We will always only play well on one side of the game, either we defend well or we attack well. Szczesny definitely man of the match today, we didn't even trouble Guzan for god sake and Szczesny has to make a few good saves to keep us in the game.

Podolski was poor as hell too. His touches were always too heavy and make us concede cheap possession in final third and he missed a sitter in front of goal. Gibbs outshone him by a far stretch on the same flank.

Arteta is also still in slump. I don't think that's a very good role for him. What he does all the time is receiving passes then passing back to defenders passing sideway, which is really bad. Way too often I see them passing around at the back line and concede possession, leading to dangerous situations. He has to understand that even playing as a holding midfielder, you have to move forward, can't just pass the ball backward forever. Sat too deep and starved Cazorla and Ramsey off service and make our midfield look ridiculously thin. It's like he sits deep forever but he doesn't really help protect the back line in any means, tackles are all made by Koscielny and Metersacker.

The few games Diaby played, he showed that moving forward is extremely important. Keeping the ball in your own third is always dangerous and you need to move the ball to opponent's half. Another example would be Yaya Toure, who always bombard forward the moment he regain possession to keep the ball away from own third. Arteta at the moment sits too deep and is not helping the midfield out, which is greatly shackling the other midfielders.

I always wondered why Giroud likes to go for overhead kick/volley, he was always too slow to reach the ball that it moved miles away before he can touch it.

It's quite a waste to play Arteta there. It's better for him play CM but he's trying too hard to adapt to the DM role, where he hasn's quite learnt how to be one. When Song was here, he'll always bring the ball forward too, which end up creating many crosses to feed Van Persie.

With Arteta playing there this year, we have seen way too much backpassing. I also realised that Arteta playing there ball movements are too slow. Our passings to the front was always two steps slower which ended up giving opponents a lot of time to park the bus in front of goal. When you give too much time for opponents to park the bus, they become incredibly hard to break down that even teams like Villa, QPR and Norwich can defend well against us. Just look at the shots we have on target when we lose or draw, it's pretty embarrasing for a team like Arsenal.

Of course to work as a team another player will cover up the space left behind when a player moves forward. When Arteta plays there, he offers close to zero attacking dimensions to the team, which is bad and as I mentioned before, even a holding midfielder will need to join in the attack.

And it's proven once again that Walcott is the game changer for us. The game history clearly proves that when Walcott starts we are more likely to do well or score and when he doesn't, we hardly muster a shot on target.

Surprisingly Ramsey was the best player in the midfield as he doesn't lose the ball as often. Wenger should seriously consider playing Cazorla on the left as we've been lacking in that position and Podolski's overall performance recently has been quite poor. We have players who can play the role of trequartista, Arshavin/Rosicky for example.

Wenger's persistence with Gervinho has also been frustrating. This is not the quality of a striker Arsenal deserves, one who can only dribble straight with pace.

This post has been edited by JustForFun: Nov 25 2012, 04:48 PM

We need striker, DM and LB.

Sounds like us

We've beaten Everton 4 out of 5 visits to the Merseyside, so it shouldn't be big problem, particularly if Walcott starts.

Astro not broadcasting the Everton match?

Astro have this channel? I can't see it on their website.

Haven't checked it out but if there's such channel, probably opened to cater for the multiple matches running at the same time.