not at all. Not a huge fan of Elneny typically but I have to admit he was spot on in the first half.
Weāve went top of the league 
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And still above Tottenumb :ozil2:
I could make the argument this is our worst performance in the league this year. We actually dominated Liverpool but were undone by inexperience there, Leicester was just a stalemate, but we should have lost by a couple goals today. Not sure if Iām happy with the point considering the circumstances. Elneny is OK as a holding midfielder but he was our main issue imo today. He just stood around and didnāt push the tempo, it was irritating to say the least.
Garbage performance matched with a garbage result, looked totally bereft of ideas. All in all its 2 points dropped at home against a side that has every chance of getting relegated.
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We could have lost and we could have won at the same time. Itās not like we didnāt have the chances.
This one or Burnley.
But still 6 clean sheets in 7 games canāt be ignored, even if a few of those were lucky. No-oneās running away with the league this year, it will be close at the top all the way through to May, so i wouldāve thought a 6 game win streak in this league is about as good as we could wish for.
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No wonder they give those irritating commentators to you in America, you talk the exact same crap.
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Got on top of them in first half but were wasteful with poor passing and lack of clinical edge. Then Boro got confidence and saw they could hurt us with Traore (frankly, we could easily have been down at HT) and then they just ground it out and rode their luckā¦ frustrating game and you feel we would rue that first half and we did.
2 points dropped and worryingly giving away too many very good chances.
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Exactly, plus Boro have only lost once by two goals this season. Am i right?
It was good performance in some respects, but if you look at the chances we conceded in the first half and our lack of real creation of great chances for most of the game, it is a bit selective to say this was anything but a frustrating and largely ineffective performance against a team that really shouldnāt be troubling us.
We had lots of possession and for a while dominated them, pinning them deep in their half and but we created f*ck all and then boom they had 2 awesome chances and hit the woodwork on FK. We were horrible against the counter and suddenly Boro raised their game with confidenceā¦ a very old Arsenal-like performance against far inferior opponent.
Blunt performance. duller than a plastic butter knife.
Ozil,Walcott and Sanchez were all quite poor. They need to be rotated and rested more or they will succumb to injury soon enough
Yeah well excuse me Iāve not been watching soccer my whole life so I donāt know the ins and outs of the media punta position as Iām sure you do. What were your thoughts on the match?
Iād say these games are a good reason why we need more creativity from our right wing too. If one of Cazorla or Ozil is absent weāre fucked.
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Yeah, definitely true, this game was begging for a right winger with a bit more quality and dribbling.
Wouldāve been nice to have a player like Gnabry in a game like this. (Not to mention Fekir of course) Ramsey too couldāve been a big help (if heād not be a cunt and accept that his position is on the right as an āinteriorā).
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From what I saw Walcott beat his man time and time again; what we lack was the cutting edge in the final third, I think giroud would have been the better option in this sort of game.
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Ox should have started this game in CM, no joke.
Weāve been a little lucky this season anyway, we didnāt deserve any more than we got from Liverpool/Leicester and should have probably drawn with Southampton and Burnley, no arguments from me, plain shit today.
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Nahhh, canāt agree there, one thing we did do really well was win the ball high up the pitch, in fact what danger we created before the late siege was usually when we did this. Ox isnāt really capable of that and heās not really going to even offer much more creativity or quality of passing than Coquelin when they are organised and set and it isnāt a situation where weāre winning the ball back.
Heās useful in the siege phase, though. Actually I was hoping weād see him out wide for Walcott, because we couldāve used with a bit of dribbling and directness during that phase. I wouldāve taken Elneny off for Reine Adelaide and Walcott for Ox.
Yup, what about it?
Wenger did take Sanchez, Walcott and Santi off vs Ludo, probably (for them) to save some juice for this game. Still kept thinking we looked like heavy legs, especially Sanchez and Ćzil. But Wenger assesses the squad every morning, maybe they just let him down from complacency as well. Even our defensive players slacked.