Not exact matches
While I agree that our
defence is fragile, the more important problem is that Arsenal have horrible organisation and tactics off the ball, which
exposes our CBs way more than a top
team should.
Those players you highlighted do not play in a
team that goes gung - ho in attack, if you consider Arsenal set - up we play so high up the pitch that we leave our
defence exposed, there are even times when our defenders also play a very high line and all this is Wenger's instruction...
Last year the
defence was solid and thats the only reason we remotley competed for the title and they got
exposed very the best
teams.
He just plays at a
team where everything is so focused on attacking football, the
defence frequently gets
exposed.
He has left the squad deficient in
defence this season, and his excuse that his
team was tired v Leicester
exposes his reluctance to rotate.
In come Jack Wilshere, Walcott and Giroud and we also have the combative Coquelin in the holding midfield position so the young Gunners in the
team can express themselves without worrying too much about leaving the
defence exposed.
Arsenal were also careful not to
expose the
defence but were the
team trying to go forward more in the first half, esopeciall after the opening 15 minutes as we began to dominate possession and force Chelsea to sit deeper.
Monreal is not a CB and will never be one.He's just a consistent performer who will be
exposed against good
teams and good wingers because he's not a CB.Per is slow and needs a player with decent pace around him.All this means our
defence is weak.
You have to remember that we actually had a relatively good
defence which was only
exposed against the bigger
teams.
Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board's promises of big spending have been
exposed once again and all the other clubs have been buying players, so once again we start badly with a makeshift
defence shipping goals and the whole
team looking anything but world beaters.
We are bossed by other
teams in the midfield which puts heavy pressure on the
defence who are then
exposed.
To press high up the pitch means to collectively move up as a
team, where the chance of
exposing either the space in behind the
defence or the space between the backline and midfield is high.
This often meant Alex Song had or Mikel Arteta had to drop back, in the advent of more space being created for the other
team, leaving the
defence thoroughly
exposed.
The general defensive qualities of this formation though are a downside, especially if a non-specialist CDM is deployed at the base of the diamond, the
defence can often be left
exposed — as seen in 2013/14 — but on the other hand the players that were in the
defence in 2013/14 (Johnson, Skrtel, Agger / Toure and Cissokho) were not great players, nor did they play particularly well during the season, and perhaps Klopp and his
team will introduce specific defensive training to bolster the strength of the
defence.
The fans were audibly frustrated at their
team's poor form and the home
defence was
exposed horribly by Hector Bellerin's well - flighted pass for Iwobi's goal.