Arsenal vs Man United - 22/11/14

I am so happy, win yesterday

The thing that pisses me off about VG is he doesn't want to learn from his mistakes. We tried the 3-5-2 system at the start of the season and it was plain for all to see it just didn't work. So what does VG do? Plays a 3-5-2 with 2 very inexperienced players and Smalling although who had a good game is always prone to mistakes.
The first half hour Arsenil were picking us off at will because our wing backs weren't offering any protection. If Giroud had of played from the start we would of been 2-3 goals behind but luckily they were more toothless than us.
In CM we were outplayed for a majority of the game. Why Herrera didn't play as a 3 man CM is beyond me. Our only other creative player, Di Maria was playing way too far forward to have any influence on the game. We had one shot on target in almost 100 minutes of the game which is becoming home and away, a very bad habit of ours.
For me the only credit VG deserves was in taking off RVP because for me his tactics were awful in the first half. The second half changed because we got more bodies behind the ball and hit them on the break which was successful because Arsenil were suicidal playing with their CBs in our own half.
Nope, VG definitely won't be on my Xmas card list until his team plays with some shape and fluidity about it because at the minute we just seem to be running around like headless chickens without having any real idea of how to play as a team. But that is difficult to do when we have our most creative players sitting on the bench and only getting cameo performances now and again.

But wouldn't it be boring if everyone said we didn't play that well but a great 3 points?
Starting with a 3-5-2 really did surprise me. We have never played well with this system so i don't know why VG thought this time would be any different. The first half hour we were ripped to shreds basically because players didn't know the role they had to play. Valencia and Shaw were caught too many times out of position, Blackett had a stinker because he didn't know what he had to do, McNair didn't look any where near as assured as he has done and surprisingly it was Smalling who kept it all together.
Arsenil on their day (luckily their days are getting fewer) are one of the best attacking sides in England. It would of made more sense to play a more solid formation like a 4-3-3. That way the defense know their job, we would be more solid and creative in CM, which in turn means our forwards would get better service.
VG seems to be tinkering too much. I agree that in any team the first priority should be not to concede goals but he seems to have taken it to a new level by stopping all our creative play. One shot on target in nearly 100 minutes just isn't good enough. The game yesterday was once again crying out for Herrera. A situation that is starting to worry me. Bringing on Young only to take him off again. Who does that?
3 points? Great. Smalling surprisingly good, De Gea another good performance, Rooney looked up for it and played a captains role but until VG stops faffing about and sticks with a formation everyone understands then we could just turn into George Grahams 1-0 to the Arsenil and with the attacking, creative talent he has at his disposal that really would be a sin.