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In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Tbf, after the poor start he needs to grind out results. This will be a fair statement if we get our season back on track results wise and are still producing underwhelming performances.
Today I think, like I said, tactically we were fine, there were so many situations where we had so much space to work with in the final third with Pepe, Saka, and Auba and managed absolutely nothing, it was really rather surreal. That shouldn’t happen too often, if it does then we can say it has something to do with the manager but under Arteta the problem has more been that we haven’t created those spaces / found those spaces and situations in the first place. So of course that makes me think it’s more of a one of and Auba, Saka, and Pepe all happened to have a horrid day on the same day, + perhaps some pitch factors.
We did look pretty good defensively today, to be fair to Arteta.
Just not sure he can balance being solid, with also playing the kind of attacking football I like to see...he has lost a lot of my faith in him, these past 12 months.