Watford Vs Arsenal

They act like it was an amazing turnaround but in truth we should have been out of sight before they even won the penalty. Neither team were good on the day, but Ozil missing the 1v1 to make it 2-0 and the Richarilson dive happened within seconds of each other.

Granted, it's the reaction after the goal that gets people. A lot of the cliches come out because, actually, they happened to be accurate that time. We didn't work harder after conceding, we didn't fight to regain control of the match and, overall, the team didn't pull together the way it needed when it came under pressure.

More worrying for me though was the distinct lack of quality and intelligence during that period. Guys like Elneny and Xhaka needed to get on the ball but didn't, and the team couldn't counter attack at all, sometimes because of Giroud, but other times because of constantly making the wrong pass.

Sri wrote:

Sina wrote:out of top 4 race by December?

December 2012?

Per-kos and Ramsey-Arteta were reliable partnerships to count on that time around
nothing like that now ;(

Arteta was a godsend.