This_is_The_Year
Active Member
If we have a midfield 2 of Cazorla and Ramsey (who lacks discipline) who will prevent the inevitable counter attacks when they occur?
thats always a consideration with us and sakho, Payet + amalfitano are surely capable of causing trouble for Mertesacker and Monreal due to their pace on the counters.
its a case of give and take - I am confident we will dominate and since any counters will come from Amalfitano or Payet we have enough defensive strength to cover those two and Sakho.
and for the last few years - in our opening games its usually not defensively we struggle - its with the scoring ! (the villa game aside where the ref somehow chose to give them two penalties)
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