Santos has to be the most useless left back in the EPL, he is the MAIN reason why we lost against Schalke. For the second game in a row he played the opposition forward onside when the other three defenders had stepped out as Huntelaar was played onside to score his goal. He also made minimal effort for the second goal we conceded last night, he could have dealt with Farfan's cross. I really wonder why Bould didn't replace him with Koscielny at the break, TV5 is a natural left back he would have solved all our problems. Instead he made probably the biggest mistake of the game by taking out Jenkinson who has been flawless so far.
There's was also a tactical mistake by Wenger, Gervinho and Ramsey should not have been played out of position. Giroud should have started the game at the front with Gervinho & Podolski on the left/right flank, we needed someone with physical presence at the front especially against a german defense. We posed no threat on the flanks in the absence of Chamberlain and Walcott which made it possible for Schalke to deploy more players at the centre of the field to deal with the threat of Carzola and Arteta. The two Spaniards kept possession very well especially in the first half but simply didn't have options infront of them because Gervinho kept moving towards the left flank.....his natural position. We always struggle when we lose players through injury, thank God we'll get Sagna, Rosicky, Wilshere, Diaby, Gibbs and Szczesny back next week. What we need urgently is to get our attacking players back because the defense (which has been good so far) might suffer if we don't sort out that part of our squad. At the moment we are not in any threat of being knocked out of the CL group stages but we just cannot afford to drop more points especially at home.
This run of poor form couldn't have come at a worse time for Wenger and the Board, they face the Arsenal shareholders today at the AGM!
@ Mwenza.....Like i said enjoy your one week of bliss!