Sunday 18 September 2011

Wenger? or Lack of leadership?

After the saturday's match against Blackburn, there went a series of tweets and facebook status updates to kick the manager out. Justifiable, yes but what then after we fire him? could we revive our glory days? Wenger already under a lot of pressure and continuous bad performances by the team is just building up more pressure on him. There were also many updates with people saying that it is not Wenger's fault instead it is the club's officials responsible for all the mundane performances by the team.

What we see after every game is a lot of blaming and in that process we could never ponder over the fact that what is actually going wrong with the team and where does the problem lies. At the post match conference Wenger admitted the defensive break down in the second half.But there is a difference between accepting the flaw and mending the flaw.

The Defense Analysis: If you watch our defense closely you will agree with me on following points:
1. They are very inconsistent.
2. Lack leadership- This is the main reason we are performing poor.
3. No confidence at all. They get panic and sloppy when it comes to vision and man covering.
4. They are basically afraid of the attack as we saw Samba bulling them around at set pieces.

After Vierra left the club has been in constant search of a leader which could lead the team with example. RVP is our striker a great one too but he is not a leader. Same was the case with Fabregas. He was one of the best players in the world but he was never a leader. The new faces like Arteta and Mertesacker don't look like of a sort that they can lead and more over they are new and settling in. So, what we need is someone who can lead. Who can actually grab the players by neck and tell them on their face that don't play like a fool. That was what needed when Song and Kocielny did silly own goals.
The lack of concentration is hurting us. If you watch the own goals you'll feel as if the defenders were sleeping when the ball came in. In both set pieces the defenders went on back foot no one attacked the ball. This happened in the Kocielny own goal as well. First miss time tackle by Djourou then the BB player kept on running in and right when he reached the goal post he kicked to Kocielny who was not even aware enough to kick the ball away.
The question is why the hell is defense not responding to anything? why are they extremely sloppy in one game and perform really well in the other as we saw against Dortmund. Its because of the fact that no one is there to question the players. It is time Wenger start charging at the players at what the hell they do despite training and all why can't they play like Arsenal men, like Gunners! Its not about the talent now its about maintaining a strict atmosphere.
If you can attack well, you have to defend well. If you can't defend then you are not a champion club and right now we are not. Later today we will be finding ourselves in the bottom three relegation zone. Firing Wenger is not the solution. You can get all the new managers but all they would do is disrupt the club and team even more. What you have to do is work on the club's officials. Especially the finance department. Every body is just being a miser sort and who are suffering , the fans. Every game comes out to be a heart shattering result for us gunners.
Now the time has got so bad that we are fighting to get out of the relegation zone. We are destroying every thing we created. Wenger must kick Kocielny out get in Squillaci. If he don't perform kick him out too and get  some muscle. January window is all the more important now. If the club don't buy Cahill or Samba, the fans should take action against the club!
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