Dwight1970 wrote:
We were not set up to be offensive, we put on more attacking players and went offensive to get an equaliser but once that objective was achieved we went back to being more defensive but now with fewer natural defensive players, once it was clear we were settling for a point Arsenal brought on Aubameyang to go more on the front foot and with some of our fitness levels looking poor they eventually overrun us and without Hart they could have won even more convincingly whereas Ospina was pretty much untroubled by us.
Had we been more offensive in the first half against an under strength Arsenal and fallen apart then you might have a point but not when we made changes to chase the game against opponents who had woken up from their first half coma.
We were definitely watching the same game. Just because a manager brings on an attacking player, it doesn't automatically mean we will then play more offensively. If anything, we were more offensive before the equaliser happened, then he tried to hang on as per usual rather than instructing his players to keep attacking putting them on the back foot more. And no that doesn't have to mean be reckless either. We went right into our shells and they predictably ended up blowing us away even though we had more than enough forwards on the pitch at the time. That's down to the managers tactics and direction, not personnel.