Clearly Wenger read my rant yesterday morning about the need to score and used it to fire up the troops.

While I recognize that “defense wins Championships” as the old saw goes, you have to take a look at this Arsenal team and recognize that they are not built for a 1-nil to the Arsenal style of play. With the type of play they are built for, holding opponents to roughly a goal a game should be enough to keep us in the Top 3, easily.

Here’s my point played out: Right now ManU are in second place, but they have given up one more goal than us. We’re in 6th, nine points behind them. How is that possible? Because they have scored nine more goals than us. Chelsea have scored 14 more than us. In fact, of the five teams above Arsenal, more than half (3) have allowed more goals.

For those out there that still insist are defense is pants, please note that only three teams in the league have allowed fewer goals – Chelase, Liverpool and Bolton. I’m not saying our defense is fantastic, but it isn’t bad at all, statistically speaking.

For Arsenal it has to be about scoring goals, that’s the way the team has been built.

We need a better keeper. Lauren’s no good. Cygan is the worst. We need more depth in defense. I’ve heard it all and none of it really addresses Arsenal’s problem, which is that they aren’t scoring enough goals.

Arsenal’s problem is not that they are allowing too many goals, it’s that they aren’t scoring enough of their own.
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