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"Let's target Mertesacker. He's too slow."

How many times have you heard opposition fans come out with that one? Only for Mertesacker to place their attacker in his pocket?

The German has been rock, rock solid this season.

I can't believe Arsenal went from that comedy show of a defence to the best in the league.
And it's primarily down to Mertesacker and his partnership with Koscielny.

Will the media and fans give him his just credit?

posted on 16/1/14

apart from koscielny who is our most overrated centre back in a very long time
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how is he overrated, he's top defender who hasn't lost for nearly 2 years with Merts. He's shackled most of the attackers he has come across.

posted on 16/1/14

cause he keeps finding himself out of position so either he makes a rash decision to recover or hope mertesacker rescues him (which he does a lot of)

cant believe people see these two things as gd things, its a danger to the team

posted on 16/1/14

Still think Mert and Kos have doe a better job against SAS then anyone else this season.

oh i do agree, just the support from midfield was non existent

comment by Saggy8 (U19042)

posted on 16/1/14

Kos and Mert's defending styles really compliment each other well. There isn't one thing missing between the two. Pace, Aerial ability, intelligence, good tackling. And then you have Kos who is good with the ball to play it out.

posted on 16/1/14

Mertesacker has the physical ability, power, aerial ability, tackling, marking, Set Pieces side to his game.

Whereas Koscielny makes up for his pace and ball playing skills, marking, dropping deeper and playing our from the back which Wenger likes to play.

It's a partnership that works and I don't know who that dimwit who said Koscielny is overrated but he certainly needs to earn more on Arsenal.

posted on 16/1/14

learn *

posted on 16/1/14

comment by HUNTING FOR GLORY (U16317)
posted 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
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Or worse still there are some Spurs fans who still believe Theo is better than Lennon.
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Theo IS better than Lemon

posted on 16/1/14

Quite a lot of Arsenal fans used to say the same thing about Mert. I knew nothing about him when he first joined, and immediately thought what is this huge, clumsy, dangly mess? But hes gone from strength to strength and turned many critics into fans. A majority of people see his class now, a great leader too.

On a side not, im pretty sure there was an identical article to this yesterday? Plagiarism!

posted on 16/1/14

U9880 trying to be controversial again

Not long until another "Wenger is a paedo" article I wager.

posted on 16/1/14

I've proved i didn't say he was a paedo and the admins are aware of that as they provided the proof. I have nothing to be ashamed of

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