Arsenal: Kieran Gibbs Vindicates Negativity Following Hull City

Arsenal’s win over Hull City helped them gain points on Chelsea, but it was ugly, and finally a Gunner has pointed that out. Thanks, Kieran Gibbs!

I have never written such a slew of negative articles after an Arsenal win in all my years here. Seeing the Gunners get knocked around by Watford and Chelsea, I expected a resurgent team performances against Hull City.

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On score alone, we got that. But what we really got was a scrappy effort that took a handball goal and a penalty to see the Gunners through.

Again, I am by no means complaining, just merely concerned. Mainly because guys like Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott, Francis Coquelin and Alex Iwobi were all terrible for the umpteenth time this year. Yet, as the “team of no consequences” will remember, it doesn’t matter, because they will be back out to do it all again.

Bad performances never yield any consequences. And this is a shame.

My negativity has finally, at long last (two days later) been vindicated by Kieran Gibbs.

“It was a good chance to show a response and we certainly did that. But still at times I thought we could play a lot better. We’ve got a squad that can cause a lot of damage, so we will tie up those ends – defensively and in the final third – sharpen up and look even stronger,” he said, via Arsenal.com.

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This was refreshing to hear. I don’t know what good it would do, but at least it wasn’t just the usual “great win today, guys!” because honestly, it wasn’t. The individual performances were lacking and it’s concerning going forward, especially with the standard that Wenger has set of unlimited faith for everyone.

As far as Gibbs’s own performance was, it wasn’t anything to write home about. Lazar Markovic turned him into burnt toast, but to be fair, Markovic was toasting Koscielny too. It was just a good day to be toasted, I suppose.

Plus, a little rust was to be expected.

Still, I see his honesty with the team as a contributing point to his continued inclusion in the first team. Even if Gibbs doesn’t have the most respected, or loudest, or most convincing voice on the team, at least he is being realistic here, which someone has to do.

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That being said, I’m sure he will be pushed to the side by Wenger. After all, seeing as how Monreal was the only casualty of the Chelsea match, I don’t want to even pretend like I understand Wenger’s mindset.