Flying Okapis
Most Well-Known Member
These are coaching and tactics issue. That’s what Freddie was hinting at in his commentary.
To some extent yes but I'm not fully having that, look at relegation battling sides at the end of the season who have been coached poorly and also been tactically poor all season but still understand and accept the pressure they are under and just turn up the heat as they are that desperate for the points.
There is coaching and tactics but I think its a bit of a cop out to put all the empathise on Arteta, again hes ****, we know that but does he really need to explain to the players that they just need to go gung ho at a certain stage in the game, does he need to hold up a huge clock showing time is running out..
At 0-0 we were going out but its like none of the players really cared to step it up and fight to go through, for me that is not all on Arteta.
Villarreal werent even good yesterday, they werent even challenged.
That is the biggest disappointment for me.
Last night is exactly why clubs have called Arsenal a soft touch for years and a bunch of pussies.