Swansea vs Arsenal

I am so pissed off and disappointed, i don't know if i should start with the positives first, just to get in a better mood. The only positives from this game were a few players who played really well unlike the rest of the team. Ignasi Miquel had a great game. I have been saying for a long time that this kid looks like a very good player and today he absolutely proved it. Considering the awful fucking defending in all of Swansea's goals, Miquel actually played very well. He was very active on the left and did not stop playing hard until the end of the game. He had some great long passes and also some very good through balls. He was one of the few bright spots for us today. Koscielny is another one that played his heart out. The third goal was a little bit his fault because he slowed down and allowed Graham to shoot, but considering that the whole defense was asleep for that goal, i can't really blame him. The rest of the game he was very solid and active, his work rate was unreal - he even got close to scoring at the end.

Now to the negatives. I have been bitching at Wenger to play Benayoun more but today he didn't show with anything that he deserves to start. He had one great pass to RVP who should have scored but other than that i was very disappointed with his performance. Arshavin doesn't even deserve me wasting my time talking about him. He had a great pass for the first goal and after that one big ZERO. You can't be a player of his quality and be so poor at giving effort. Fucking horrible. Theo Walcott who is one of my favorite players was also really bad the whole game. Scored a great goal but other than that was very poor. Every time he got the ball he would end up running around and look predictable. No creativity whatsoever. Ramsey is also one of my favorites but he had a bad game as well. Gave away the penalty and lost the ball for Swansea's second goal. Those are two very big mistakes in a game like this, when we are not playing well and never really looked threatening going forward.

 Swansea completely outplayed us when it comes down to pressing on the ball, those guys were all over our center backs in our own half of the pitch. And that was all game long. And we on the other hand, never really pressed them hard enough until the last 20 min of the game. I am so tired of talking about our inability to press properly that i am not going to talk about it today. Our midfield was so sloppy with passing today i was losing my mind. Both of Swansea's 2nd and 3rd goals came after our mistakes in midfield.

Mertesacker had a tough game. I know he was sick all week that's why i give him props for trying to tough it out but he didn't play well. Djourou was up and down. Started not very convincingly but got much better as the game progressed. Gave a great ball to Walcott for the 2nd goal and made some good defensive stops in the second half. Song was another player besides Miquel and Koscielny who played well. He had very few mistakes in his passing and was trying hard to create something offensively. Rosicky and Oxlade-Chamberlain gave us a bit of a spark but not much more. Henry didn't do much but you can't expect him to turn around the game. Everyone else needs to play good and he can just complement the rest of the team. Van Persie scored a great goal but missed a good chance a bit later and didn't do much the rest of the game.

Mertesacker had a tough game. I know he was sick all week that's why i give him props for trying to tough it out but he didn't play well. Djourou was up and down. Started not very convincingly but got much better as the game progressed. Gave a great ball to Walcott for the 2nd goal and made some good defensive stops in the second half. Song was another player besides Miquel and Koscielny who played well. He had very few mistakes in his passing and was trying hard to create something offensively. Rosicky and Oxlade-Chamberlain gave us a bit of a spark but not much more. Henry didn't do much but you can't expect him to turn around the game. Everyone else needs to play good and he can just complement the rest of the team. Van Persie scored a great goal but missed a good chance a bit later and didn't do much the rest of the game.

The bottom line is that Swansea outplayed us in every aspect of the game. We didn't look motivated, didn't look hungry. Guys who had a chance to step up and make a claim that they should be starting, played really poorly. If we keep this up, Europa League is our destination for next season and even that might be stretching it. Wenger better learn quickly how to get his team motivated for a game because Man U next week could get embarrassing.