Lukas Podolski had scored in three games in a row against Liverpool. Southampton and Montpelier. Since then he has had two quiet games against Manchester City and now Chelsea. Difficult games granted but I do get the sense that we are not getting the very best out of him. It almost feels as if we are playing two left backs on the left hand side. Podolski gives everything he has for the team
Arsenal right now, with Arteta, we have someone who does all of that, in one role, and does it very well. This facilitates our playing a 4-3-3, like Barcelona, with an extra midfielder to do both defensive and attacking roles (Diaby or Ramsey or, when fit, Wilshere) rather
Arsenal sides may have felt a little sorry for themselves and struggled to impose their game on a team with their tails up but this Arsenal side full of players such as Arteta, Podolski, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Giroud and Cazorla are all experienced fighters who will play with their heads held up. We
It took me back down memory lane, I remember being frustrated at our manager for dropping an aging but quality Davor Suker who had scored roughly a goal in every 2.5 games for his new club but instead moving a left winger into center forward, a left winger who didn't exactly look like a goalscorer. I didn't follow the rest of that guy's career so I'm not quite sure how that move turned out for him.