I'm normally Wenger's biggest critic...

Not sure ....we looked all over the place in the first half. Gave the ball cheaply away and we scored out of nothing.

by Herbie (U7136) 5 March 2016
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...but fair play to him today for doing the right thing and moving Ramsey the feck away from the central midfield area; after a bit of a dodgy opening 10 minutes, we were very comfortable thereafter with the set up of the team spot on for dealing with the opposition we were playing today.

We'd have won the game but for Coquelin's complete brain fart. Fecking fool cost us dearly.
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It could have been worse.

" Gave the ball away cheaply",we've be doing that all season.

Ramsey has to stay on the right, his finishing is still generally mediocre overall but he has a great engine and adding a 2nd DM means he's getting into the box and causing havoc.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 8 minutes ago
Not sure ....we looked all over the place in the first half. Gave the ball cheaply away and we scored out of nothing.
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Yeah, I didn't think we looked great (we rarely do under Wenger any more), but we did look comfortable and Spurs were crap thanks 1) to their cack play and 2) us being able to nullify them. We should have taken advantage of that and won fairly comfortably today.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 11 minutes ago
Not sure ....we looked all over the place in the first half. Gave the ball cheaply away and we scored out of nothing.
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For 25-30 mins we were all over the place which was understandable however after that and until the sending off we were on top. Even the final 15 mins we were on top and Ramsey could have won it.

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 12 minutes ago
Ramsey on the right is the way forward. So much better.
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Absolutely. He could do a lot worse than model his game and his role to the side on that of Ray Parlour. Has to accept that he isn't Xavi and never will be and just work on accentuating his positives i.e. his engine and his energy which help give us a lot more balance.

comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 21 minutes ago
Elneny and Coq looked solid

We actually outplayed Spurs but the sending of killed us
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Sorry mate but you didn't outplay se

We were dominant for the first 30 mins but after you scored I was worried

I'm annoyed we didn't see it out at 2-1 but after lloris's clanger you looked just as likely to score

Great game though. The NLD shiiite over any other Derby

Wenger identified the problem at the start of the season against West Ham!

Basically he said that Coq's passing is not good enough to balance with Ramsey. So he decided to play Santi in the middle to make up for Coq's issue. However Santi was not strong enough on the ball so he played Ramsey on the right. That balanced the midfield.

So we went back to it today and add a striker who is willing to run behind the opposition and suddenly we look much better as a team. This is what we were doing earlier in the season with the counter attack game.

Its not rocket science. Play with faster players who work for each other and we look like a good team.

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 5 hours, 31 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 11 minutes ago
Not sure ....we looked all over the place in the first half. Gave the ball cheaply away and we scored out of nothing.
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For 25-30 mins we were all over the place which was understandable however after that and until the sending off we were on top. Even the final 15 mins we were on top and Ramsey could have won it.
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We scored out of nothing. Until that we looked like doing a United again.

After we scored we were better in the game.

Lost it again when le Coq made that mistake.

Showed character with 10 men and looked fresher in the end and could have scored the winner. A draw is a fair result all in all.