Puncturing the feel-good spirit at Arsenal



ARSENAL: MY RESPONSE TO THE MISPLACED FEEL-GOOD SPIRIT OF SOME OF THEIR FANS

You see when we make our analysis, it should be contextualised. Last season we rode on the crest of surprise element, everyone was banking on our pedigree after the Wenger era of being fancy participants or put brazenly a contraption of "also ran", we were spineless and always capitulate at crucial moment with our kindergarten squad. So other teams were taken aback with our purposeful resolve, so we held sway up to a point that is

Now that the surprise element is gone and we are now seen as title contenders  and expected to live up to that billing, playing purposeful and definitive football, not strutting and stumbling all over the place, sometimes seeking benovalence to win games or see them through... no we are not playing well, let's couch it as it is please. See what Man City is doing, despite not playing at their very best themselves, they remain clinical.

The problem with pundits and analysts stems from their over reliance on statistics which can be rubbished in a flash! In the build up to the Champions League Finals between Man City and Tuchel's Chelsea, Pep and Man City paraded imposing stats but it took a solitary goal from Havertz to send them furlong- faced back to the Etihad. If stats are the sole key to performance then we shouldn't even play or try to compete as some teams are glittering and shining in that field of data compilation. Statistics cannot be the sole drivers and basis of accessment and believe, for they are not sacrosanct, that "myth" is a ruse and height of make believe. We have had situations that boxers come into the ring with scary and imposing stats only to succumb to one sucker punch or a lightening hook and gbam... the bell, and it's all over! Remember.. Ali - Foreman, Foreman-Moorer, Sugar Ray-Marvin Hagler. Even in our much trumpeted game against Man U, we were just lucky, they could have easily taken that game.Same for the Spurs game. 

Forget all those statistics driven and reliant argument and conjectures, Arsenal is not playing well...who says its difficult to beat us, other teams are closely watching our haphazard display and might have humiliation in stock for us soon, except we really put our acts together, the optics are not good at all.


Lumi Igun

A Sports Enthusiast, Commentator and PR Consultant writes from Lagos

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