Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35289216)

I was at the match and the defence was not all over the place. That's why Udinese only had 2 decent chances - one where the defence did make a mistake and a player ran though the gap - and the other from a free kick. Both incidents were well saved by Szcesney. Otherwise the defence was decent. Koscielny incepted a lot of dangerous passes, Vermaelen was solid, Sagna as good as he usually is and Jenkinson, looking like a steal at £1 million, was winning every ball in the air. All in all the defence ensured that Udinese were restricted to speculative long-range, off-target, shots.

What did happen was a lack of control and successful passing in midfield putting a lot of pressure on the defence. There was a lack of creativity and a lack of chances created, the only reason we broke though at all was because of Walcott's pace. They gave the ball away cheaply and that was discouraging. We need new midfielders and probably a new striker and left back. We'll see what happens.

Originally Posted by adzii_nufc (Post 35289264)

A new striker? Like Chelsea then 4 strikers is not enough?

V.Persie
Chamakh
Gervinho
Walcott (Wants to be upfront)

Fancy swapping one of them for Ameobi?

Originally Posted by DocDutch (Post 35289524)

Don't know much about gervinho yet and chamakh hasn't done much last season but have to say that van persie and walcott are both more supplying then scorers so we need a goal poacher

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35289537)

Yes someone in the Henry/Wright class.

Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35289688)

Who's Henry Wright?..is that one of the Wright brothers? :D

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35289693)

Thierry Henry and Ian Wright.:D

Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35289702)

lol..I couldn't resist.

But I agree with you..Arsenal is badly lacking a decent striker...van persie is injured too much...and the others don't know how to poach goals..they want to dance through the defence....if it was "come dancing "premiership..i would fancy arsenal to win hands down :D

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35289758)

The theory and hope is that Walcott will be pushed toward and play striker down the center ala Henry.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35289759)

But has Walcott got the physical strength of Henry and that would be my worry about employing him in that position.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35289773)

Spurs have took the lead at Hearts with Van Der Vaart scoring