Playing a high line against Chelsea was stupid when we have Mertesacker in defense. I thought we stopped doing that in 2012.
Also Flamini offers more in attack than defense which is saying something. Could have done with Coquelin the last few games but surely Elneny is at least better than...
Do the pundits really think Mertesacker is looking for the linesman there? I thought it was pretty obvious he's looking to see where the next defender is.
Would have won that with Sanchez and Özil. Walcott nowhere near good enough today, Iwobi looked better than him in his little cameo. Needs to start earning his paycheck. Obviously Ox is also some way off Özil, I would have rather seen Ramsey pushed forward today but we didn't have any other...
Should have killed that off but our subs did nothing for us when they came on. Ox just runs into defenders and Arteta is invisible, would have rather seen Chambers for either of them. Still, not a terrible result and on balance the past few weeks haven't been too bad given the players we are...
He was decent, excellent dribbling and willing to shoot, just lacked a little on decision making. I thought Campbell was the real bright spot though, the right side with Bellerin caused Sunderland all kinds of problems. Ox looked better today than he has the past few games too.
Very very lucky win, but these are the games we've been dropping points in this season.
I agree the ref was shite, as was most of our team bar Cech, Koscielny and the subs.
Sounds like a bit of a Christmas hangover, that one. Oh well, first goal was ace to be fair, Roberto Carlos eat your heart out. Not enamoured to be playing again so soon after, especially as we still can't rotate too many of our players, but at least we've got a couple of home games coming up...
Pathetic 'holier than thou' newspaper. None of their journalists had the balls to say this yesterday when they all sat around LVG like scared schoolchildren. The cowards won't even put their name to it now (Apollo Gees...come on?). That's not journalism, it's the sort of thing an angsty teenager...