Not exact matches
Interestingly he has played as a left midfielder as well in the centre
of defence, and could well relish a role in the 3 -4-2-1
formation which Wenger
tried out on Monday night against Middlesbrough.
We have new players coming in Sanchez, Welbeck, Debuchy, Chambers — all need time to gel with the team and the manager are
trying to find the
formation and tactics that can get the best
out of his star players Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey, Carzola and at the same time
try to bring up the likes
of Wilshere and Chamberlain.
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety
of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style
of play has become a shadow
of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play
out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid
of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly
out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs
out wide, we've seen pace from the likes
of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play
of Monreal, but none
of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio
of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part
of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part
of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature
of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player
of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played
out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front
of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would
try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that,
of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one
of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that
formation... in Sanchez, we get one
of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already
of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs
of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack
of mobility is an albatross around the necks
of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because
of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits
Is wenger not bored
of trying out systems to fit ozil in the team
formation and selection is a mess and buy players that don't fit the system we play coz wenger takes the cheapest option or third choice target!
Welbeck together with Giroud is always a joke and always looks painful on the eye, the
formations becomes robotic and mechanical where Danny just runs
out of position time and time again
trying to chase every ball blindly, after 25 minutes he is knocked
out tired in his feet.
The Number 1 thing we
tried to do was get in and
out of formations.
I'd like to see us
try out a different
formation which could allow us to shore up the midfield but don't expect wenger knows any other
formations so look forward to a run
of mediocre results... ah I see, its already started.
If we start getting cute and
trying to make centre backs
out of midfielders or, generally putting
out a half hearted team in odd
formations where gonna get hammered, not just per game but for another season.
I am all for
trying things
out, in fact a lot
of Arsenal fans have been urging Arsene Wenger for years now to be a bit more adventurous or experimental when it comes to playing
formations, making substitutions and various other aspects
of the game.
changing to 3 at the back was a fluke that he took very late, we had a row
of bad matches, if he was that good and had any clue, he would have at least
tried the
formation to
try grind
out some points..
But Arsenal have Mesut Özil, and playing Özil
out wide has never really worked, and Arsenal can't really afford to leave Özil
out of the side in big games, and so short
of a radical solution, such as perhaps
trying Özil as a false nine or a change
of formation, Arsenal must have a double pivot.
He was the focal point
of everything Spurs sought to
try and do, playing from back - to - front to feed him as he won the Premier League golden boot; the spearhead
of the same 4 -2-3-1
formation his manager stuck with week in, week
out.
She is also
trying to figure
out how the T. rex fossil, unearthed from the Hell Creek
Formation in Montana, could have retained a semblance
of its original texture and chemistry.
«We're not clear yet on what components
of these emissions are the biggest contributors to ozone
formation or aerosol
formation,» says Coggon, «so that's what we'll be
trying to figure
out.»
For the past few years, Marvel Studios has been
trying to re-acquire the rights to various characters they had licensed
out before the
formation of Marvel Studios, with characters like Blade, Ghost Rider and Daredevil coming back to Marvel, with the studio even coming up with a joint deal to share the rights to Spider - Man with Sony Pictures.
Urinary tract infections and crystal
formation can lead to litter box problems, leaving you to deal cat urine problems like
trying to get the odor
out of your carpet.
«Harmonic Distortion» has worldwide environmental scope: marble clouds intricately patterned by wave
formations; cyanotypes making apparent abstraction
out of fifteen years
of data showing that our cloud cover is reducing; a performance in which one woman is bound by another, Kinbakushi style, in state
of the art fibre optic cable even as she
tries to draw circles using the oldest
of means — ochre pigment... So whether you wanted academic analysis, obsessive drawing burrowing into the psyche or the wide sweep
of science and its consequent politics, you had them.