Hleb's Sirush
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This is correct. I'm fully backing him, this team is unsaveable as it stands unless you put Klopp or Simeone in charge.
However it is difficult not to be a bit pissed off at Mikel for his persistence with some of the utter dross, and the super late substitutions when things aren't working.
At least he's started dropping Lacazette for Eddie.
That is perfectly reasonable. You can back the manager while still criticising some aspect of his managing.
I totally back Arteta as I believe any mamager deserves to get adequate time to show what he can do. Just like you there are some things that I didn't like. For example in our last game why did he switch to a 3 at the back late in the game? It just seemed to confuse our players. If you look at the last goal, when the cross comes in, only the 3 CB's are stationed in our box. There is no one stationed at the right side of our defence. That is where the RB should have been. Im guessing whoever was meant to play RWB forgot their position. It just created confusion. Why did we only have 3 players defending a cross in the last minute? Also the organisation at set pieces was abysmal. That surely is the responsibility of the manager.
I'm sure Arteta will learn from this and hopefully the organisation will be much better in the future.