It was a game that was massively winnable. For all of our busy performances and battling we missed the urgency that West Brom showed at ManYoo.
For me thats worrying.
I'm not a doom and gloom merchant, the league isnt finished and we're still in the race. I'll also not be fooled by Wenger's rant about the pitch, it was atrocious, but its the same for both teams and they looked a lot more dangerous than we did.
ManYoo did what a lot of teams did last season, defended their box and let us play outside. We should have got wise to how to deal with that, get a lot of bodies in there and pump balls in. Magic and fortune go hand in hand with the brave.
As I said last night, we weren't prepared to gamble on that and thats why we lost. We lost to a header in our box from a midfielder that gambled and got in there.
Thats the lesson, gamble, make a few runs ahead of the ball. It pays off sometimes, especially when other avenues are being blocked.
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