Vela was lost out on the left. I’d sooner have him front and centre than Bentdner. Nicklas is the personification of Arsenal’s lousy start to the season — he can be a gamechanger in both respects. I’ve always found people unjustifiably harsh on the guy as he has saved our asses on many an occasion from a disappointing loss/draw, but I just had to look at a performance like last night to understand completely the negative press too at times. The few times he got the ball he didn’t do anything with it except lob it into empty space or in front of the oppositions feet. Complete lack of concentration.

And Gallas seemed intent on avoiding any kind of contact when defending. And that horrific backpass to Almunia in the first half where Almunia had to make the block and Denilson had to put the ball out for a corner – i had to hold myself back saying to give him a break, but, he didn’t improve very much from there at all. Awful display once again. He doesn’t give a flying f*ck.

I would have been much happier with just the young squad SOLELY out there to be honest.

And then there’s the issue of the captain’s armband — does anyone else not agree it’s lost on a goalkeeper. How on earth is he meant to rally the troops from the 6 yard box eh? Its completely and entirely defeatist!

Ah well that was fucking disastrous… Wenger needs to do some serious rethinking. These lacklustre performances are no flash in the pan incidents. Our depth of squad is undoubtedly wafer-thin. A couple of people get injured and we’re royally crushed.

Everyone seemed extraordinarily sluggish tonight though. Porto were beating them for everything. And don’t ask me why Ramsey was playing out on the wing again. Everyone can see he’s out of his depth and drifts back in… i could go on about all the other problems but… pfft…