Tactics Was All Wrong! (Belgium) | Fleetwood 1-1 (5-3 Pens) Arsenal

Hi everyone and welcome back to AFTV. I've got with me my guy Belgium's in the building. Now Belgium, credit to you, you took time out of your busy schedule to come down to the studio tonight and watch Arsenal put in an absolute horror show. We're out of the Carabao Cup to Fleetwood, a League Two team, 18th in that league by the way. Yeah, very disappointing night. Belgium, your initial thoughts on that game? Let me be a little bit controversial. well listen this is a cup game and sometimes again to play against those lower teams if you are not careful you'll be shocked and that's literally what happened tonight maybe they took Arsenal we just thought we would just stroll over there and just do you think that some people are suggesting that do you agree that were we overconfident were we arrogant were we complacent what do you put it down to maybe complacency because I think for me when I go back to the game plan of the coach. The line-up, I thought that, oh, if he's trying to play Joković and Kai up front, asking Kai to have it dropped as a number 10 is like asking him too much. So, and it didn't work out. Then again, for the supply, you've got youngsters, you know, Max Darmann, you know. It was, I mean, it wasn't great, but it wasn't bad. And again, to Oney, and literally, you know, it's like, there's no way that they will get enjoyed you know by doing well up front so do you think the manager got the team wrong for tonight some people are suggesting that that decision to play Havertz and Jokeres in the same team didn't really create the right balance for the team and that maybe he should have stuck with the usual format and just put different players in that format the 4-3-3 that we're used to no the the intention I mean the intent was okay but just like we didn't have the personnel to support those two two boys you know those two players Joko was in and can have it up front so and possibly maybe I mean obviously before he came out he literally looked at his game plan and thought do you know what yeah I could do this with these guys you know so and it would have been easy game and as I said we just thought we just go to the seaside and you know forgetting that so it seems to me that you you think that maybe the team were complacent and they were overconfident going into this game not overconfident but a little bit of complacency but hey i think i just got to look at the start and analyze the data and see where we went wrong today because uh when you look at we recorded 27 total shots and only seven on target and one was a goal and again to everyone was talking about oh can i have a shulabinov can i have a shulabinov because he wasn't offering much of bond but again to the coach decided to keep him on so he kept him on to the end so why again to he's got to look at that you know one of the major talking points coming out this game was the sending off of Max Dowman late in the second half now you saw the incident um what's your thoughts on that incident and the sending off it was a shame that he got sent off and he's got to understand that sometimes in those kind of tricky games some of these players i'm not saying that they're trying to hurt him or trying to do him bad but again to sometimes you know you come up across all those kind of situation and he's got to learn how to deal with it you know not to react i know the referee was poor tonight it was poor i've got to be i've got to be honest he was poor fair play to with uh uh Fleetwood they uh they literally came out with a good game plan and you know stick to that when you say the ref was poor are you suggesting that that might have been the reason why Arsenal went out tonight no no no it's just like we were not kind of we didn't execute causing him I think that's game plan and so that's why we were poor tonight I just got to put that one back in and one final question I think it's fair to say that the attack were misfiring tonight as it was against Everton at the weekend okay we won that game we played well but the two goals came from central defenders are you concerned at the lack of goals coming from Arsenal's attack at the moment no not at all because at the end of the day that's the problem with Arsenal any goal can come from anywhere you know defence midfield you know on a good day if Teclaras had played tonight we don't know maybe he would have scored so you're happy with Arsenal's attack at the moment well not really much but at the end of the day in terms of goals as he said you know I believe that we can score from anywhere And that's the Arsenal. You can score from anywhere. So any player can score.