I know these kind of statements. The fact remains that, there have been many other matches recently where he could have employed this same method, but he didn't and it worked well.
My blog is out now, there is a reason I titled it, OLD HABITS, because this was Arteta behaving like his first 2 seasons in charge of Arsenal.
Pressing is part of this team's defending. There were tired legs amongst our front players. It's as simple as that. There's no gamble in the matter. I said more in my blog above.
What is more a gamble is bringing in ONLY a defender, something that Arteta hasn't been doing recently. That's why I said it's just a bad day in the office.
Cheers
It was really a sad one, considering their next two matches; Tottenham at home and Chelsea away, tricky matches.Well,like you said we had no reason drawing the match.I hope they bounce back.
Both teams don't really scare me though, with the quality in this Arsenal squad right now.
Infact let me do another blog here abd now on the beauty of this squad, using just one recent match.
So I just see the draw as a blip, I expect the Arsenal I know against Tottenham.