I know these kind of statements. The fact remains that, there have been many other matches recently where he could have employed this same method, but he didn't and it worked well.

My blog is out now, there is a reason I titled it, OLD HABITS, because this was Arteta behaving like his first 2 seasons in charge of Arsenal.

Pressing is part of this team's defending. There were tired legs amongst our front players. It's as simple as that. There's no gamble in the matter. I said more in my blog above.

What is more a gamble is bringing in ONLY a defender, something that Arteta hasn't been doing recently. That's why I said it's just a bad day in the office.

Cheers