The Man City midfielder Patrick Vieira, who was a legend for Arsenal fans in the glory days of the first half of the last decade, has been talking about the difference between today’s team and the team that he played in, and basically he said that Wenger’s Young Gunners of today have no idea of how to “win ugly” when the pressure is on.
“They play the best football in the last few years,” he said. “But playing the best football and not winning, that must be so frustrating.”
“When they are in trouble, they always concede a goal. A big team when it’s under pressure, it pulls together, it makes the trouble go away,”
“Sometimes you know you have diffcult periods, even the best teams. You accept the opponent is stronger, you defend, you stay strong, more compact. You accept you have to suffer.”
“We did it in that Cup final against United (in 2005). I’ve no idea how we won. United were all over us for 90 minutes. We knew the only way to win was penalties. Some days are like this. It’s not your day.
“Accept it and find a different way to win. Fight for each other. It’s not the way you want, but what’s important is to win.”
Nowadays it seems that Wenger thinks that it is more important to play “beautiful football” then to fight for every point. Perhaps he should employ someone like Vieira next season to sort out the defence?
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