We knew it would happen… « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
By Walter Broeckx
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | Pts |
| 1 | Manchester United | 31 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 68 | 32 | 36 | 66 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 59 | 29 | 30 | 59 |
This is the way the table stands for the moment. And this is what many gooners call total failure. They start again with the name calling of our players and the managers.
I can understand supporters are frustrated. And disappointed. Because that is what I feel also for the moment. Because now we don’t have things in our own hands. We depend on slips of United to come closer. Not the ideal situation.
But for all those who now proclaim that they knew it would happen at the start of the season I cannot understand that they are angry. Because they knew it would happen. And it is more for us believers in our manager and team a moment to be disappointed.
For some reason we just can’t seem to score a goal for the moment. And this is a bad time to have such a moment. We had almost all our players back who we have when it comes to attacking and it didn’t work out. Is it to still being a bit rusty in some cases? Is it because Cesc and Walcott haven’t played in around 5-6 weeks that they still are not as sharp as they can be? Well if that is the case they will get better.
Is it that Van Persie got a knock in midweek why he didn’t look as good as he can be? Well he will get back to his best and start scoring again.
Was it the knock and big bruise on the head of Nasri that made him play a flat game? Well I sure wouldn’t want to wake up next to him tomorrow morning because it looked a nasty bump on his head.
So the frustrating thing is that with all our players on the field we couldn’t create the opening. And we have again a game at the Emirates in which we couldn’t score. We had the early chances and if we score one of them we would have won the game. But we just didn’t and then it is hard to take at the end of the game.
But now to say that we are a total failure and speaking about foreign mercenaries looks a bit strange if you look at the league table. We still are in second place. And at the start of the season the pundits and those who now say they knew this would happen never predicted us to be there. United would be there, Chelsea would be there, Manchester City would be there. Liverpool would be there. Even Tottenham would be there. They all would be there and we would be nowhere to be seen. But we still are second in the league. So how can you be disappointed if some of you predicted we would be happy if we would qualify for the CL.
Yes things could have been better. In fact things should have been better. We could have won all our games if you just look at the chances we had. But that is part of football. Creating chances is fine but you must score them and if you don’t you end up with games like this.
But to see our team in second place at this stage of the season is not the ideal situation but still better than others. You could be supporting a team that has spend 80M in the last transfer window and are in third place, 4 points behind us. And that team has spend a lot of money on players even before this transfer window. Or you could be supporting a team that has spent an obscene amount of money in the last two seasons and are only in fourth place like City. Or you could support a team that tells its fans each year they will end in front of us and who are still far behind us in fifth place. You know all those teams that would overtake us. Well they are behind us in the league table.
So if we are useless, how useless are they? For the moment United look like they have the upper hand. If they win it, of which I still am not that sure, they will have deserved it. And then we have to see at the things that went wrong. And take measures. And see how we can improve things. And to answer the mercenaries name calling we then have two options: use what we have coming through our youth system or… bring in more mercenaries.
I still support my Gunners! Till the final whistle. Some of you have deserted our Gunners today. How disappointed I am for the moment I still will back them and support them.
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