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Originally Posted by all_funkt_up
Take Wednesday night for example, Phillipe Senderos was responsible for 2 of our goals - Torres' turn and shot and the Hyypia header. In my opinion, playing him was a mistake. He should have gone Toure/Gallas at the back and Eboue right back, with Walcott right midfield. Toure is ten times the defender Senderos is and had he been at the back, I cant see us getting those vital goals.
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I am obviously not a football manager but I wonder if someone can explain to me what Wenger thinks he is doing in the point made by AFU above.
One of the most important parts of your team is surely the centre of defence. Be pish there and you will leak goals (look at Newcastle for years, soft as shit central defence).
So a couple of years ago Wenger bins his favoured right back, Lauren, for Eboue. A good player IMO, a wee bit hot headed but he fits in lovely to the Arsenal style of play. Eboue does the job for a couple of seasons and then he goes and buys Sagna in the summer. Competition for the right back slot you think as Justin Hoyte is possibly more a Carling Cup player.
He then slots Sagna in at right back and then bumps Eboue forward into the right side of midfield. Except he isn't a right sided midfield player. Look at any of Arenals recent big games. Time and time again the moves break down on Eboue because he simply doesn't have the awareness to play as a right winger. He gets in decent positions but his end product is pish, whether it be crosses or attempts on goal.
But to me its not a huge surprise as no matter how good he is as an attacking player, he is not going to be a top quality player in the final third of the pitch all the time.....which is what you would expect from a player playing for a big club in big games.
Anyway, Eboue isn't a right winger. But then Sagna gets crocked. Simple you think, Eboue back to his natural position, Arsenal two great attacking full backs, him and Clichy, life goes on. Except the tactical genius that is Wenger decides that he would rather rip his central defence too bits and stick Toure, who incidentally isn't a bad right back, at right back.....and bring in the Swiss Pascal Cygan.
Why?
Why when you have a natural right back do you take your central defence to bits and play your centre half at right back....and continue to play your right back at right wing?
And then, Senderos surprises no one when he is taken to bits at Anfield. So now the genius that is Wenger finally sees the light and he does what we all think he should.............he plays a young inexperienced central midfield player at centre half away to Man Utd??!! I mean WTF.
Song did a decent job for Charlton last season in midfield. He got rave reviews for his displays in the ANC earlier this year for Cameroon, where with little international experience, he shone as a holding midfield player.
Now I know Arsene sees these players train every day and knows more about them than me but surely surely your weakening your team by playing an out of depth right back at right wing, your best central defender at right back and a holding midfield player at centre half for a game away at Man Utd.
Maybe its just me but the words tactical genius don't spring to my mind when I think of Wenger at the current time.