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 Arsenal Street Talk - 2013/14 FA Cup Winner, ARS 2-1 WHU | S.Cazorla & D.Welbeck

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post Jan 5 2015, 05:07 AM

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QUOTE(LordDenning @ Jan 5 2015, 04:42 AM)
I know the situation was called for the choices of the subs that were made. I am not criticising those subs that Wenger made btw. He's the manager, I am not.

But in some games as you mentioned, we went defensive but we still conceded. In fact I noticed this season that we became worst when we changed to a defensive set up to protect our 1 goal or so lead (because our defending has been ridiculous esp in the closing stages of the game). When we went defensive, we couldn't push up front at all, we were constantly barraged at our goal. So my thought was if we brought on Campbell, the worse that could happen would have happen any way.

and as for Sanogo, I will take Campbell any day. I just cant stand Sanogo. IF Campbell was on, I would push Alexis or some one else to be the striker.
On that note, who would you prefer? Sanogo or Campbell? hmm.

and Campbell did pretty well against Galatasaray what. But it's also true that Galatasaray was absolute rubbish, but I'm not going to take credit away from him.

What I would take note of as well is that, remember at the start of this season when Cazorla wasn't played often in the centre he was so very terrible? Many here was putting Cazorla on the chopping board. But as he played more and more with the injury to Ozil and Wilshere, he found back his form from previous seasons.
Hence which brings me to what I said earlier, I hope that Campbell gets more game time. Only when he is given the chance to play more games would I dare rate him as an Arsenal player.

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Yeap but look at how many points has his poor finishing, mistimed passes, loose balls have cost us? I can't quite recall which game but there were a couple of his misplaced passes and lost balls in dangerous areas that cost us goals hence points. I'll need to to look back and find out which game already. Can't remember exactly which matches.

Main question here is, are you willing to sacrifice more points just for the sake of seeing whether Campbell will cut it or not in the BPL?

Don't forget Santi is a proven international and we know what he is capable of. Hence the saying form is temporary but class is permanent. The same can't be said for Campbell.

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post Jan 5 2015, 05:48 AM

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QUOTE(LordDenning @ Jan 5 2015, 05:29 AM)
I know. I watched the same games as you. That's why I said a lot here were too quick to call for Santi's head at that time. For me, I knew Santi would bounce back because it would take time to familiarise back playing in the centre.

My example on Santi was meant to be taken at face value. Of course comparing Campbell to Santi who is a proven class player would be absurd. Just giving an example of how a player when given more games to play helps that player's performances.

and to answer your question, right now given our current situation since we are struggling to even get 4th spot, no. But in games that we are winning comfortably I definitely would prefer Campbell to come on, which never happen so far. But heck, even Podolski doesn't even get the chance to come on when we were winning comfortably so for Campbell it would take a miracle.
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There you have answered your own questions on how you cannot brain Campbell not being given more game time.

But just to clear things up I am in no way saying Campbell is a sh*t player. I quite like him TBH, looks decent, gets into good positions and has the knack of scoring some well taken goals, just that at the moment he represents a gamble which we cannot afford to fail and so far in his limited appearances, not one worth taking IMO.

Haha Poldi is another matter. A real conundrum that one which probably only Arsene himself knows the answer.



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