Arteta played really well against United. People give him a hard time but he gave us a couple of good years. His legs are gone now, but he was a good player for us.
I think we have moments where we play attractive football, but we are unable to sustain it for 90 minutes. First 30 minutes of Napoli home and Bayern home come to mind.
Against United we played well, opened up several chances and then went south because, has become the issue since RVP left, we cannot score enough goals and are not clinical in our chances.
My biggest issue? Defence. It's always been about the defence. It's not only that we concede goals from oppositions only chances but how soft and stupid the goals are. Too many examples of these individual errors costing us matches.
Mertesacker against Hull.
Chambers the entire game against Swansea
Self destruction against Anderlecht
Inept defending from a corner AGAIN against City.
The United goals were a joke, both of them.
That is the biggest problem. Until we stop conceding stupid goals and start making teams earn their goals we cannot win games. Arteta is not the reason this is happening, he's not helping, but unfair to leave this mess at his doorstep when it's the entire back 6 (Szczesny, Gibbs, Koscielny/Monreal, Mertesacker, Chambers and Arteta/Flamini)
Not fair to blame Monreal as unfamiliar position doing his best and we weren't stable even when Koscielny was there. The defence is a joke and until we sort it out our season will continue to be a disaster.
Wenger is to blame for this as there seems to be a coaching problem why the same mistakes happen over and over again. Our numbers are too short yet we have too many wingers (Rosciky, Podolski, Campbell) can't get a game and we've yet to really see Theo as well yet we have no defenders? How does one justify this? It's ridiculous.
