Two? Harsh. You rank a bad performance at least 4.
By a bitter Parisian newspaper? A 2 doesnât surprise me.
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I like it.
Whatâs the point of 1-10 scale if you never use all the digits?
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I donât believe itâs the nerves or it happened because we didnât play our best line-up (we did play 8/11 guys who normally should play). Simply because Emery picked us apart like others managers have done over the past several years.
F.e. he let the CBâs run up with the ball, but as soon as they would play the midfielders in; run them of the pitch and counterattack (which they did very good by playing Krychowiak as an extra midfielder). Fill in the middle with bodies so we have no room to combine and thus canât create anything. Cazorla is essential in our build-up and he was nullified. Play long balls over our midfield in order too pressure our high line back four, which worked quite often seeing how often Cavani got a lot one-on-one opportunites with Ospina.
They exploited every single one of our vulnerabilities.
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Course you do, they gave Wenger a 6.
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You quoted @Ronniec when he said,
and then,
I donât see what is so difficult to understand about what he said.
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Well of course you donât see. Youâre as busy doing nothing but looking for errors as he is. Iâd be genuinely surprised if you could pick out whatâs wrong with that thing there lol
We missed a trick not singing Serge Aurier when he was keen.
Atleast we got Bellerin out of Debuchy misfortune.
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Great trip to Paris, amazing city and recommended for anyone who (inexplicably) hasnât been there yet.
Parc des Princes is such a shit ground though, awful haha. One of the worst Iâve seen to date. Not sure what their excuse is either, itâs been renovated enough times, including for the Euros.
As for the game, in a nutshell I think some of the criticism has gone overboard. I heard Dixon nailed us on the ITV punditry. Weâre talking about an away game to one of the competition favourites. I thought we came back into it (to a degree) as the 2nd half wore on. Yes we shouldâve lost, but consider their home record. A decent point and with my new bae Xhaka playing weâd have had more of a control in midfield.
Next stop Sofia.
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If you would look at it just like that, sure, it could be a one-off/special situation (European away game etc.). But these kind of performances are structural. Liverpool also ran us off the pitch. That is the problem.
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I donât know when PSG became a CL favorite and I donât know when poor defending became acceptable. That was our typical ro16 first game performance (this time in the group stage) that would usually have us trailing by 3 goals. Any criticism is more than deserved.
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Tbh Dixon highlighted it with good video evidence. Keane just dismissed us in a general way.
Unfortunatley I had to agree with both of them.