We were playing quite well again. Some players building up their confidence, gaining some momentum, looking towards a rout and easy qualification.
Then they get an offside goal.
Rather than respond by continuing to create chances and finish them off, we instead lose all composure and start playing like clowns.
Flamini is a threat to our team every time he plays. But it's Wenger's fault for playing a never-was continually instead of playing to our strengths by attacking or adapting the midfield slightly so we can maintain some semblance of flow to our game.
You can't blame Monreal either for not convincing at centre-back because it's an alien position to him. Mertesacker though is losing too many headers and needs to sharpen his game up.
Instead of praising more electric play and two superb goals by Sanchez and Oxlade and enjoying a simple win, we are somehow reduced to complaining about idiocy from the manager and a lack of smarts from easily-shaken players.
Just completely unnecessary.
And Flamini will be starting our next game too, in which Monreal will continue to be deployed in a role completely unsuited to him. Wenger is beyond doubt a psychopath.
Still, to finish on a positive note, we have Alexis Sanchez. Oxlade is playing well. Chambers is really good. And Theo is kind of back.
Which is still negated by the negativity of WUMger. So I'll have to end on a negative after all. FFS. FML.![]()