MY THOUGHTS ON IRELAND VS POLAND GAME .

now yesterday ireland poland in their home and this fixture was crucial for both as win for both teams  . it would had meant automatic qualification for both teams . now i am trying to do analysis in terms of ireland here . the reason being that i dont certain polish players so  i couldnt track their movements so i cannot form an accurate picture of the game but will try my best .
now yesterday ireland started the game with a 4-3-3 formation with poland doing the same . now there had been  some differences with ireland  in the game with germany and poland but the approach was the same . the reason i am writing  is that martin o niel is  incharge of this team for the last 20 games and he  cannot instill a style in this team . nor did i find any particular approach with which they were going to open up the opposition . the question with his team is always been whats next . who ever has the ball then he is faced with the dilema as to what to do next who is he going to pass the ball . yes they are playing long ball but it too requires some ball playing quality . yes the forward holds the ball or wins the first header and gets the ball for your team but what after that . whether you take it wide and whip a cross inside the box or do you pass the ball and combine to open opposition up . i certainly found ireland wanting . the only positives were some players who were comfortable over the ball and with their individual quality  but are unable to do the whole job unless they get the proper support from their team  .
now yesterday's game was very fast with teams trying to press each other very aggresively and trying to win the ball early and hit the opposition . both the teams approach was the same they were trying to find their forwards early . poland were trying to find lewandowski while ireland were trying to find long and continue from their on . for ireland walters was trying to get beyond long while for poland both wingers were getting beyond lewandowski depending upon the zone . both lewandowski and long were tightly marked by their opposite numbers . but the difference here was the balls that were passed to these forwards while long was contesting for all aerial duels . lewandowski on the other hand was passed floor balls and they were from some considerable less distance which too is a factor . the difference had been the supporting cast and the midfield and the forward line and its quality . poland's midfield were able to play some very good floor football and pass the ball in tight situations and were work out the zones . while for ireland as i had said earlier the questions was always there of whats next . lack of approach play was irelands weakest link .
poland started with a bit of a stutter but after 10 started to put the ball down and started to play with confidence . the reason was because of some individual were able to stamp their authority on the game . lewandowski and Krychowiak were able to stamp their authority on the game . just as leawandowski was getting influential in the final third Krychowiak was the reason for that . he was breaking all ireland's offense and starting the offense most importantly he was making very smart decisions on the ball . his passing was accurate and his support to the play was also very good . this is the kind of player that are wanted by premier league teams .
now as i had said that i had watched both ireland's game i was amazed at the players selection . why was wesley hoolahan dropped . he was the sole reason that ireland any kind of offense in the german game . i really dont understand what is the role of the midfielders in the team . first off atleast in this game oshea and keogh were coming out of the defense and marking lewandowski but in the german game they were not ready to come out of the defense . the midfield were chasing and were leaving a considerable space for the germans to explore . i would only find fault in the germans game that they were not able to explore that space between the lines . i was finding it hard to find what role jeff hendrick has in this team or is he just making numbers . clearly the irsih needs a better coach than matin o niel . 

BAYERN MUNICH 5 - DORTMUND 1 MY TAKE .

now yesterday bayern played dortmund at home . bayern started with the 3-3-1-3  or you can say 3-4-3 formation while dortmund started with the 4-3-3 formation . bayern had martinez,boetang and alaba in the back three while alonso played in front of the back three . while thiago and lahm played on the left and right of alonso respectively . now why said 3-3-1-3 is because leawandowski was playing in more withdrawn role . muller was playing as the furtherst forward man while lewandowski was playing just behind muller . it has its own advantagous . the front three of bayern were muller with costa on left and gotze on the right .
dortmund started with the 4-3-3 formation with hummels and bender in the centre back role with sokratis on the right and Piszczek on the left . while the middle thee consist of gundogan,weigl and castro . the front three consist of mikhitarian,kagawa and abumeyang .
now bayern started the game with playing high line and pressing dortmund . now the first scarce of the game was to bayern when they survived the diagonal run from abumenyang who was released by mikhitarin behind the bayern back three . now both the teams played a high line to try and squeeze the game and press the opposition but the effectiveness that was there in bayern pressing was not there in dortmunds pressing . the reason being dortmund waited for bayern to bring the ball into midfield and then press . instead bayern ball got the ball quickly to costa and gotze and push dortmund back .now dortmund were playing a high line but as soon as gotze or costa got the ball they dropped back in the box and denied the space between back four and the goal keeper ( atleast they did this good . ) dortmunds shape to defend was actually very good where there was little space between the lines for munich to exploit . weigl and gundogan held very good position ahead of the back four so that there was little space for munich to work . there was space for munich on flanks for costa and gotze but dortmund didnt go chasing instead they let gotze and costa and come onto them and let them cross and defend rather than played around .
while dortmund had their own offense. they tried to play out from the back which is why bender was played in the back four with hummels because of his ball playing ability since bayern are doing the same as dortmund on defense . dortmund were trying to get the ball quickly to mikhitarian or abumeyang . either of them will try to release them behind the back three through diagonal balls .dortmund were nearly successfull  in that and alaba took the card to stop abumeyang . now the trouble with dortmund was that while bayern were able to bring all the elements into play dortmund were unable to bring castro and kagawas into play . whenever dortmund used to work the ball to abumeyang and mikhitarian who would get press eventually . they would pass the ball back but then dortmund were not able to work the ball to them and would eventually loosed possession . i had an obvious difficulty to work out as to what was castro's role in the team . i thought that the space that bayern offered in front of the back three will be exploited since it was only guarded by alonso and dortmund could drop somebody into that space and exploit .

now its very easy to criticize touchel but i think he has got a plan and now i think he has seen the flaws in it . mikhitarian and abumeyang are the two main players in his system and two were responsible in destroying leverkusen . touchel could be seen gesturing to the team to play diagonal ball and make diagonal runs . dortmund goal was the perfect example of the thing that was supposed to be done by dortmund and the way they passed the exploited the narrowness of bayern defense by stretching it and exploiting the space behind back three . now he obviously has to figure out as to how he fixes his flaws . dortmund suffered because they were not pressing that aggressively as bayern
were doing and touchel still has to work out as how his players will work out when  pressed and take their positons . the first goal came because dortmund played a high line and didnt press bayern that faster and dortmund were all over the place . muller first went wide for a decoy and made the diagonal run and the dortmund were open . two of the five goals came from balls from the back . the third goal came from a counter when dortmund lost possession and bayern turned it into a counter . to be honest dortmund were in the game till the half time but as soon as the third goal was scored i think dortmund just dropped the fight and accepted the fate and you could see them just giving up in the last 15 min .
the second half did showed as to how much gaurdiola thinks the game like chess just as dortmund the score and the space between the lines and mikhitarian come over there . he changed the system by dropping lahm as the right back and changing the system from 3-4-3 to 4-3-3 and giving ample protection at the back while getting more bodies in the middle by shifting thiago with alonso . thiago had a good personal duel with gundogan in the game and he was the one responsible largely to keep gundogan quite . this season bayern had become more direct with costa and gotze in recent matches . he has stopped tryning to outplay the oppisiton out of the game . instead it is much more direct now for bayern now . 

SEVILLA 2 - BARCELONA 1 MY TAKE .

now yesterday sevilla played barcelona at home . sevilla started with a 4-3-3 or even can say a 4-4-2 while barca started with their familiar with their familiar 4-3-3 formation . now thing with sevilla's formation is that vitolo played very high up the pitch but kept coming back to defend against his opposite number alaba so their can be flotation between 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 . either way who ever wants to take which formation is on his discretion .
now for sevilla Kolodzieczak and andronelli started as centrebacks with koke and Trémoulinas as the fullbacks . while nzonzi and Krychowiak were central midfield duo krohndelhi was on the left while vitolo was on the right . the forwards were iborra and grameiro . barca made changes following injuries . pique was joined by mathieu as the central defensive pair while alaba and roberto were the fullbacks . mascherano played in the midfield in front of the back four with busquestus on his left and rakitic on the right . while the front three consist of neymar,suarez and munir .
now the game started with a very good tempo and it continued till the end . now there had some change in the barca stratergy lately where on they seem to have turn the page and gone to take a leaf out of gaurdiola's era and start pressing . now there were some characteristics to barca's offense . whenever the ball was moved from right flank of barca then neymar would come inside and try to collect the ball in the middle while suarez will drop on the left trying to stretch the defense and in turn keep right back busy who's opposite number was neymar . what would do this was when suarez was moving in neymar's zone was that the right back couldnot move out of the defense to go with neymar and that would meant neymar was virtually free to collect the ball with no opposite number to mark him . suarez was trying to stretch the defense and which gave space for neymar to run into so that he  can create trouble which could be exploited. they did that very good in the first with barca having very good chances being created by neymar for suarez . on the 14 th min he tuened very nicely on nzonzi and Krychowiak and slip the ball who should had finished it . neymar was the total influence in the first half for barca . barca was having ample space to play because sevilla's front three were not coming back to defend so barca could stretch sevilla and they did that with space on both flanks . the middle line was getting too stretched and barca were taking full advantage of it . only their finishing was lacking .
now while barca were doing this sevilla were trying to hit barca on every counter and they were having quite the success in  it to cause problem's and the reason for that was gamiero and his hard running . now barca were playing high line which was leaving too much space behind to run . iborra was coming slightly deep and releasing gamiero in the space he would run the ball on either flanks and bring the midfield and wing backs into play who would come and join them on offense . secondly even though on defense krohn-delhi was playing as a left sided played on offense he was moving inside and playing behind the front three. he was quite effective and made very correct decision's on the ball and choosing correct player to pass the ball . him moving inside was confusing barca since they didnt know as to whether he would stay inside or again go wide in his natural positon to join Trémoulinas. vitolo remaining high up the pitch means alaba was kept on his toes and was very cautious of his movement not let vitolo slip .
the main problem had been gamiero who was with running causing all sort of problems to barcelona . both of the sevilla's goal came on the counter and because of gamiero's running . now as soon sevilla scored the goal they started to play deep compared to what they had been playing . vitoloa who was moving high up the pitch joined his middle three to defend  the lead they had against barca .
in the second half barca tried to change things with maschrano went to his positon in the back four and barca went on the offensive and that was helped by sevilla's changes . sevilla bought llorente in place of iborra and reyes in place of gamiero and it handed the advantage to barca because they didnt had to worry about gamiero's running behind the defense anymore . plus llorente was very well handeled by pique who took upon himself to guard llorente . just as the minutes passed by sevilla became more and more compact and tried to defend the one goal lead .
barca lost the game not because they defended poorly but because they were unable to finish what was created . last but not the least but the ref was  stupid and i dont know how but how can he give Trémoulinas penalty when he didnt even move the hand towards the ball . all a very good and open game . 

PORTO VS CHELSEA 2-1 MY TAKE .

now yesterday porto played chelsea at home and chelsea lost . it was very well said by miguel delaney on soccernet that chelsea were wrong . chelsea lacked any creativity nor did they had any foothold on the game . the formation and the players that were chosen by mouriniho at times looks like to chosen for loss .
now chelsea played with a 4-2-1-3 formation with cahill and zouma at the back with ivanovic and Azpilicueta as fullbacks . mikel and ramires were in front of the back four with ramires while fabregas was ahead of them . willian ,costa and pedro made the front three . while porto started with 4-3-3 formation with maicon and marcano at the back with pereira and indi as the fullbacks . the middle  three consist of  neves,danillo and imbulla as the middle three . now danillo was sitting in front of the back four while neves was slight on the right side while imbula was on the left . while the front three consist of brahimi ,Aboubakar and andre .
now porto started the game by playing direct balls to Aboubakar who coming slightly deep ( about one or two yards) to collect the ball and then pass it on the brahimi who was out wide for the whole match . he would then try to run on ivanovic but keeping him guessing as to whether he was running down or cutting inside and at the same time combining very well with imbula and Aboubakar . porto would show that they are going to try and open  the left side and them pass the from left to right and stretch chelsea play . now the trouble with chelsea was that Aboubakar was getting slightly inside to collect ball but zouma wasnt coming out of the defense to close him . it left Aboubakar with pretty much time on the ball to collect the ball and pass it whoever that he desired off . secondly if you had looked closely then brahimi was hugging the touchline and stretching the play . now everybody knew that ivanovic knew was going to struggle against the brahimi who is a good dribbler . so it was imperative that zouma should had moved closer to ivanovic( i had shown the space between ivanovic and zouma in the chelsea  diagram)  so that he could double him down or close him even when he could give slip to ivanovic . the warning signs were already there when before the goal brahimi had cut inside once and had a shot scuffed . chelsea should kept a tight leash on him just as willian was doing a great job on left side where he was helping his fullback  .mikel or ramires should had done a better job over here .
now chelsea were playing on a counter here . to be honest costa was very good yesterday he was coming deep to collect ball and bring the midfield into attack . while marcano showed the willingness to come out of defense to close him down maicon stayed deep and maintained the shape and let costa scott free . now costa played majorly on left side where on he combined very nicely with fabregas and willian but he never got the support from the midfield from mikel and ramires who were poor yesterday . ramires is also very technically poor . he has a poor touch and doesnt understand the game. to be honest the support that porto front three got from danillo and neves was never there from ramires and mikel who were very poor . now chelsea's best came when pedro was put through on goal with good pass from costa . now i had described pedro earlier he likes to at the end of things rather than be a creator

. now chelsea were very poor and lacked support for costa . to be honest porto were trying to stop fabregas and try to press chelsea and i thought two or three time ramires got the ball between the lines which he could not use properly . porto's midfield were trying to press chelsea while thebackline were not ready to come high and playing deep enough not to let have too much space behind as pedro had slipped earlier on goal .
now let me describe to two situations in the first half where on costa was drifting on the left side he worked maicon very well to give him a slip but there was nobody in the box to whom costa could atleast  cross .secondly when he drifted on the right he again worked marcano very well . fabreagas to support him and when these two worked the ball none of the chelsea players came to continue that play and use that advantage and use the positon of the ball . so out of sheer frustration fabreagas crossed the ball knowing he had nobody in there to target since costa was there with him wide . chelsea were poor on their offense . chelsea need from their midfield to support their front players and it was not there while porto's midfield supported very well to the front line chelsea's middle line was very poor . what can fabregas do when he has no confidence in mikel and ramires that they can bring the ball and keep the play rolling and not loose the ball . ramires had some beautiful positons in the game where he got some space and time on the ball in the hole but was not able to use it properly although his run led to the goal .
most importantly chelsea's playes were sleeping in the game and and the second goal was an evidence of that . although mouriniho made changes in the second half but untill then imbula had come into his element in his element and had started imposing himself on the game . he was good  as was neves the kid was very good on the ball .his game reading was very good and also his ability to release players in the space was very good . there were some individual battles in the match notably with willian against peraira and brahimi against ivanovic .

SPURS VS MAN CITY 4-1 MY TAKE .

now spurs played city at home . spurs started with a 4-4-1-1 combination while city started with 4-2-1-3 combination . spurs started with a very young lineup . they had dier and alli in the middle while city had fernanado who was first time starting this season along with fernandiniho. toure started behind aguero while for spurs kane started upfront with sun behind him . spurs had eriksen and lamela on the wide while city had sterling and de bruyne on the wide . spurs had Alderweireld  and vertoghen with davies and walker in the back four . city had Demichelis and otamendi with kolarov and sagna in the back four .
now the first started with spurs started with spurs trying to press but quickly settled to sit back and hold shape and discipline . now in the first half spurs were trying to play out from the back and try to open city with their passing and ball movement . majority of their offense was from right side with lamela ,sun and eriksen involved who was coming inside of the left and getting involved in the play. for the first half eriksen was the player . to be honest spurs could had opened city properly had they been a little patient with their play and their deliveries . if you had seen city's back four could had been kept occupied with kane or sun and if you could see then their was a considerable space between city's back four the middle two . it was because fernandiniho was worried about eriksen as he was told to keep a tab on him and he was doing a decent job on him . fernando didnt had the discipline to quickly drop deep and close the space between back four and middle . had one of the spurs player dropped into that space then it was their for the taking . but spurs couldnt capitalize on that .
now for city in the first half for city de bruyne was the best player for them . he knew when to switch the play and when to come inside and when to stay wide . his vision was very good . now city had toure behind aguero but he wasnt very close to aguero instead their was a  lot of space between him and aguero . it was because he was stretching spurs vertically trying to get the space between back four and midfield so that he can play de bruyne and sterling in the space . spurs CB's very afraid of aguero's pace and very reluctant to go and close him . he was getting all kind of space between the lines where on he could collect the ball and run on the defenders . vertroghen and Alderweireld were very just backtracking and letting him have all the fun. to be honest spurs were fortunate not to go down early in the first half . now dier was trying to mark toure and at time he and alli lacked the organisational discipline to take their proper positions in front of the back four . to be honest toure was playing behind aguero and but he was not making run in the box but was staying just off the box rather trying to come inside the box and provide the aerial threat or provide an alternative for cross .
now for the city goal spurs made two mistakes . first that they gave the ball away cheaply . secondly eriksen should had taken a card and clipped toure so that he could had prevented the goal . this point was very well pointed out by the commetator
jim crawford .
now the second half was very different to the first half . now city were playing with a high line just as they did in the juventus game where on the back four tries to stand just off the box and tries to catch the other side offside . now in the second half spurs changed the approach . they started to play traditional english football with trying to find kane with long balls . now city's centre backs were not any match for kane in the running game and most importantly kane was getting wide to collect the ball where on he would move into space left by the full backs . he would collect the ball and spurs attack would be on. now this approach started to pay dividends for spurs as they could fine kane and then move forward and then eriksen and lamela would come and join the attack . spurs were able to score three more goals because city were all over the space in the second half and simple defending errors  cost city . city made the changes but they could not affect the outcome of the game . spurs played deep and then had more players so there was no space for city to work with .he shifted de bruyne in the middle but by that time the game was more than over . had it been earlier then we could had seen a better game .

now in the match alli started the match in the middle along side dier . i think both need to learn the trade and make decisions on and off the ball and should choose better options where on the play continues on . his work is just not to pass the ball but need to give the option to pass back and continue the play . they both need to stamp their authority on the game .
to be honest i would really like some comment as to what did i missed during the game and your takes on the game .
THANK YOU

BAYERN VS WOLFSBURG WITH 5 FROM LEWANDOWSKI

now yesterday bayern played wolfsburg . it can be said a game of two half's one half where wolfsburg got everything right and while the other one was the one where bayern got everything correct .
now bayern started with bit of a lopsided formation with 3-4-3 with lahm,boetang and alaba in the back three while alonso,thiago and vidal and bernat made the middle four . muller played upfront with gotze and costa on left and right respectively . while wolfsburg started with the 4-4-1-1 combination with  Träsch,naldo,dante and rodriguez in the back four while gustavo and Guilavogui in front of the back four . draxler and caliguiri were wide while kruse played behind dost .  the yellow square shown in the figure is the space that draxler got in the first half .

now bayern started the game with long diagonal balls from boetang to gotze . this season bayern had been direct they havent been outplaying opponents outpassing them and testing opposition's patience moving the ball around instead they had been direct especially with costa . now wolfsburg were always going to be disciplined they had two banks of four with kruse making the additional number in the middle . now bayern tried to overload the left flank with bernat,gotze and thiago . but bayern had little joy in that . first thing was that they were not able to bring muller into game that much . he was only involved once in the first half and didnt had any role in the first half . wolfsburg were sitting back and always going to hit on the counter trying to find dost with the long balls .now dost was  getting wide and setting himself up against alaba for a  aerial duel and winning it . to be honest in the first half bayern team looked a team from the english league who were trying to maintain their shape and discipline and not  pressing enough . but the most interesting thing was the fact the space that was offered to draxler by bayern . now costa was high up and lahm was in the back three and he was not ready to come out of the back three so draxler had too much of space to explore on the counter and he made good use of it . he threatned with a good cross and on one such cross he found caliguiri whose superb strike gave wolfsburg the advantage . now even though wolfsburg were able to stop bayern in their tracks there was a problem which was going to explored by bayern in the second half and which was bayern was not able to milk in the first half . now gustavo and Guilavogui were in front of the defense but Guilavogui had the lisence to move forward and join the attack but at time i felt he left the space to explore for bayern leaving gustavo alone to mark up that space in the front of the back four . now this was the space that was explored by bayern in the second half . the other notable battles in the first half rodrigueuz on costa with rodrigueuz trying to shut costa with close marking . the other was gustavo on vidal . in their own half wolfsburg were playing man on man and were very compact . Guilavogui had a very good strike from half line on one counter and that would had been a highlight of the game and would had given some breathing space for wolfsburg . but the second half changed all that .
now wolfsburg had advantage in the first half so bayern had to respond and bayern responded by making to two changes he changed the formation and personal he switched to 4-3-3 with lewandowski in place of thiago and martinez in place of bernat .he bought vidal to play alongside alonso with costa switched to left instead of left and gotze on the right with muller behind lowendowski . he got players playing in their favoured position and the thing i talked about in the first half was explored in the second half that is the space between the back four and the middle and if you observe then all of those lewandowski's goal came from there and at time there was nobody for their to cover that space with both gustavo and Guilavogui getting caught out of position and lewandowski scoring from there . this term bayern had been too direct and that is one of the new facet that has been added to the bayern's offense this term by guardiola . they had been very direct somebody would say that they were playing on counters but bayern had been that this season . they
try to get the ball very quickly to wide players like costa and gotze and then try to work from there or try to spread it when opposition gets compact in one half of the pitch . it has worked
now even though wolfsburg were beaten by  bayern i think that they are a very good team with good players with veirihinia ,caliguiri,Guilavogui and draxler . i am surprised that PSG let Guilavogui on loan because he is superb player and if they cant have him then next year he will have big teams bidding for him . i think wolfsburg will be team to take notice and none will want them in the second round of the UCL as their opponents . but they must drop naldo and play klose who is  much better defender than naldo .

CHELSEA VS ARSENAL

now chelsea played arsenal at stamford bridge . i am going to describe the game till arsenal were with 10 players on the pitch . the contest closed out as soon as arsenal were reduced to 9 players .
now  chelsea started with a very positive lineup and i think this is the line up that jose will prefer and should prefer if has to show that he is just not a defensive coach but also can be good offensive ball playing coach as well . now chelsea started with a 4-2-3-1 formation with costa upfront and osacar,hazard and pedro behind him . matic and fabregas were in front of the back four which consisted of ivanovic ,zouma,cahill and  Azpilicueta. while arsenal started with walcott uptop with ozil,sanchez and ramsey behind him . coquelin and cazorla were in the middle in front of the back four while the back four consisted of bellerin,gabriel,koscielny and monreal .
now the game started with a good pace chelsea were playing with a high line they were trying to play close arsenal and hit them on the counter . the player that were selected by mouriniho were just for that . now when chelsea press arsenal mouriniho makes sure that sanchez is the one who is kept quite and tight . he was guarded very tight by ivanovic . now walcott played at the top and i think in the first 5 min arsenal attempted they tried to release walcott with ball over the top . now my theory about walcott is that he isnt a proper forward he cannot dribble much .he needs a good player around him who can release him in space to chase balls and in turn walcott should just pass the fall faster rather than holding the ball trying to get past people . so when walcott needs to make sure that he has good player around him . although there were three good players around him arsenal failed to use him in the first half .
now chelsea were sitting back and hitting on the counter but at times i feel with the players they have they should be more patient with the ball . now in the match chelsea were bit keen to open the arsenal's right side than the left side because i think mouriniho would had thought that they could out muscle bellerin and ramsey doesnt like to defend that  much . pedro was playing on the right but came inside and tried to overload the left side which left space for ivanovic to go forward . now this is the problem when ivanovic had the ball he would just cross the ball with not many players or not a proper cross . instead if he had hold the ball and tried to work the ball since arsenal were getting stretched with pedro's movement . now chelsea could had worked the ball better and carved out a better opening something which the germans do they just dont rush to cross the ball when it getts near the box or the byline instead of crossing  they keep working the ball till they carve out a proper opening and chelsea had players for that . chelsea did tried that on 25th min where on they passed the ball very well and looked as if they could carve out a proper opening but again ivanovic hurried with cross instead of being patient with ball .
the second thing that i noticed that when chelsea where on offense they had not more that two players involved in opening the opposition . now let me explain when costa has the ball he would pass the ball to oscar or hazard and who would pass back and costa would shoot . now i  would like to see more that two players involved in the attack chelsea have that . mouriniho should try to make them play better and make them pass more and ask them for more penetration or take more attacking drills and sessions .
now with pedro's inclusion in the team hazard has seen his ball touches and time on the ball reduced . i think chelsea needs to have hazard more on the ball . pedro is good at running into space on other's pass while hazard is the one who creates that . in the game hazard had a good chance when he ran on a good ball by fabregas over the top breaking the offside trap . now that is what pedro is good at . he is not good at creating but at making runs behind defense or in space . so i think hazard should see more of the ball and should get more involved in offense .
now another thing about arsenal is that at times i had seen coqueling trying to to be too cute and should try to keep the game simple rather than holding the ball and trying to play it forward . instead should pass it quickly and keep the rolling and slow the game . he is good ball player but at time he tries to be cute which can back fire . he was under pressure twice or thrice in the match and he got out of it but other times it can prove costly .
to be honest i think the ref's made a bad decision with gabriel . he was already booked . yes he did swing the leg but it wasnt malicious and should had been cautioned with a hard talk . secondly the game was very proper when the game was 11 against 11 but you finish a game when you sent a man . its a stupidity which the ref should had avoided .