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Arsenal: 5 Questions For Arsene Wenger Following PSG Draw
By Josh Sippie
Arsenal scraped out a draw that they should be proud of, but the questions are abounding. Here are five things we’d love to ask Arsene Wenger.
Arsenal went down incredibly quickly against PSG, forcing all the optimism to get sucked out of the Gunners minds incredibly quickly. 44 seconds in and already down one goal? That did not pair well with all of the questions that supporters had regarding Arsene Wenger and his squad choices.
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Still, we should be happy with the draw. Thrilled even, given how the game went, but that doesn’t exempt Wenger from some serious questioning.
So we’ve piled up five questions we would love to ask Wenger following the Paris excursion. We start at No. 5.
5. What did you expect them to do?
It’s hard to make a team look bad in less than a minute. Yet PSG managed to accomplish that feat against Arsenal. From the moment the whistle blew until the 45th second, PSG made Arsenal look like middle-schoolers. The Gunners were clearly not prepared for what was coming at them and it continued for most of the match.
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My question for Wenger is what exactly he expected? Unai Emery is a proven magician in European competitions and PSG were obviously going to be a bit tightly wound from their recent struggles. Did Wenger actually expect them to play it cool and chill with the ball?
There is no way he could have expected that, especially with how slow Arsenal are out of the box historically. The Gunners never seem to come to life until they’ve had a metaphorical slap to the face and even this one against PSG didn’t fully wake them up.
It’s like Wenger expected PSG to be nervous and tense against ‘big bad Arsenal’ but nothing could be further from what happened. So, follow-up question, will Wenger learn?
On to No. 4.
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