Wrighty4eva
Established Member
The own goal was a miscommunication between him and Ramsdale, this is only their second competitive match together, the understanding will come, Saliba is easily the best defender at the club.
He was just making sure that big-chinned c*nt, vardy didn’t get on the score sheet.Best og ever. Was in the right place at the right time to extinguish the fire but the header went marginally wide. Players with less awareness would have been picking their nose on the 18 yard line.
My favorite part about it was his response. Ben, Gabriel, or Xhaka would've sulked the rest of the match and caused a penalty but not Wilo.Best thing is he didn't let it get to him. Mustafi would've put his hands on his hips, complain about every other defender and crumble right afterwards. Would've probably post after the match as well.
Oops, meant VVD.Who’s VDV?
Mustafi never had that. If Mustafi made the mistake everyone blames him
Anyone got this?Need a video of the fans clapping his tackles etc after the own goal.
My stream went down so I missed it all.
The reason he was **** was because he didn’t get support in the bad times. Besides, didn’t he do well at first? I remember Mustafi and Mertesacker going unbeaten for over 20 games, something like that.Normally I would agree, but...
...no, he 100% needed to know how **** he was.
You can see the full game and fast forward to post the error on Arsenal.comAnyone got this?
The support he got from the crowd and the team helped him massively and he reacted really well to it.
Mustafi never had that. If Mustafi made the mistake everyone blames him, including moaning and groaning from the crowd, such was the toxicity in the fanbase at the time. This would’ve damaged his confidence and would’ve damaged Saliba’s if the same happened yesterday.
It shows the importance of supporting your players when they make a mistake, no matter who they are or how old they are. Like Arteta says in all or nothing, he puts every mistake in the bin, it’s just something that happens.
I'm all for backing the players and having a positive attitude as a fan.
All that said Mustafi was a ticking time bomb. He didn't have the concentration to not drop clangers on the regular.
If Saliba is frequently making errors over the next 3-4 years ( which I don't believe he will be) fans will start getting on his back too. You can only have so much patience with underperforming players after all.