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Why can’t the Premier League big boys see off bottom-table opposition?

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Other aspects to the teams’ mentality are equally important, such as confidence and mental strength. I’m not even necessarily talking about confidence generated through recent form either. More the mental strength required to close out games. If you watched Arsenal ten years ago: if they took the lead there was pretty much no going back.

The Newcastle game up north last season was one of the biggest capitulations I have ever seen. Why? Because despite what Wenger says he has one of the mentally weakest teams I have ever seen. The consequences of this are not only that their play gets worse but that the opposition’s play improves.

Improvement of lower teams

To say this is only down to the failures of the top teams however would be a gross injustice to the ‘lower’ clubs. If you consider that before Arsene Wenger arrived in England a Scottish manager was considered quite exotic. Therefore because of the high level of foreign managers around the British managers who would have been in charge of the top teams perhaps are now forced to coach smaller clubs. The result? The smaller Premier League teams have better managers, and the better managers make the best out of the players they’ve got.

Ultimately football wouldn’t be football if the top clubs won every game but the nature and frequency of the below par performances from the supposed top teams is something that draws attention. Whether it’s physical fragility like that of Arsenal, the questionable tactics of teams like Spurs or the lack of creativity in teams like Liverpool, the managers are accountable and for some fans certain, unforgivable results seem to be happening slightly too often to be accepted.

Written by Hamish McKay for FootballFancast.com.

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  • Mike says:

    Who are you? You seem to have come up with a broad headline as an excuse to have a go at Arsenal. Such a shame when you don’t actually seem to have a clue what you are talking about.

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