The combination of the compressed post-London schedule and the mental / emotional toll of playing these every - possession - has - to - matter basketball games is leading to
an understandable lack of sharpness and execution against good teams.
i have to admit at 1 nil up it was painful to watch this arsenal team, toothless, no fluency, no penetration and you could sense how tense and nervous the team was, the only players pushing to go forwards were santi & wilshere sadly both them were recently back from long term injuries and
lacking match fitness /
sharpness which was
understandable, on a different day they both would have scored, jack had a couple
of good chances and santi had one, anyway we sorely missed both that, s for sure, santi, s linking play and their fighting spirit jack was not afraid to have a go at alexis in fairness he deserved it!!