benitez would be good, dont know if they would give him the time, o'niell and hughes would make them defend better but they would make the team boring to watch too.
Mertesacker didn't do jack, Ramsey is play out of Position, Santos played blackburn onside, Koscienly is having a nightmare, so = Blackburn scored 2 and Arsenal scored 5 great match for the neutral, but a poor game for Arsenal
mertesacker was never good enough for arsenal i dont know why wenger bought hims hes poor technically and has no pace.. yeas hes tall but he had an easy header on goal in the last min and was wayy of target.. so what does he bring to the team.
inability to land samba and cahill will cost them dearly this season
on contrary im kinda impressed with per last nite. yes its not his top performance but good enough. its just the other defenders dont do their task very well.
you could get away with him if he was partnered with vermaelen or a cahill/samba type but when back line all depends on him i dont think hes good enough
To be fair it was Mertesacker's third game for Arsenal and Santos's first, you can't judge players squarely on such a short amount of time. They both looked way off the pace, but at least give them a chance to settle in. It's not like they had a pre-season to get to know their new colleagues.
Because they have never replaces those who left the team from Adam to Henry, and Viera and even Seaman, but at least the GK is good, but players like, Vermaelen always injured, Koscienly errors prone, Walcott and Arshavin always up and down nothing like Pires or Ljungberg, Viera, RVP (more time in the treatment room than on the pitch) they're just all over the places
Problem with arsenal is not replacements, but having strength in depth.
Arsenal outplayed blackburn for most of the match, but the defence of arsenal is the worst it's ever been.
Just like i said for the utd game.
Arsenal scored 2 against utd, but poor defence killed us.
Same thing again today.
They don't have a problem scoring goals, but they do have a problem letting stupid goals in, and 2 own goals in a match, plus 1 offside goal for blackburn.
Once wenger buys much better defenders, we will be hard to beat.
On the subject of utd, they were very lucky to draw 1-1. They were outplayed all match against benfica.
what a match!
great game to watch lots of goals but Arsenal's defence is just not good enough you can't concede so many goals
Oh that was disgusting... Koscielny and Djourou are rubbish and Santos and Mertesacker weren't good either
I hope Wenger's proud of himself
Does anyone take Arsenal seriously anymore?
looks like arsenal are going to be a mid table team. :( oh well com'on United :)