That wasn't an Arsenal team full of world beaters ,but the line up Rodgers sent out at the Emirates helped them to look like they were... If you know through experience
that a player has struggled in a WB position, you simply don't utilise him there again,and you certainly don't compound the problem by starting with two holding DM's
and stagnate the energy of that middle by keeping your best source of supply and completely remove the threat of a player that links the play to Coutinho and co by
playing him at WB.
Wenger didn't have to find tactics to negate the proposed threat from Henderson because Rodgers done it for him,I think it was Yakka who said that was the ideal game
to integrate Lovren back into that defence ,Toure was at least a yard off the pace in that encounter ,in the first six minutes alone the writing was on the wall as his
positioning was woeful ,and if it wasn't for Mignolet we could have been two goals down.
Once again much like the United game Rodgers tactics made us look static ,once again pushed back making the offensive side of our game practically non existent ,and
severing any link up play to our attack , then just to mystify us further he removes the only player that was causing Arsenal to deviate from their comfortable shape by running in behind their defence.
Seriously, Rodgers inadequacies as a manager pertaining to his lack of tactical acumen are slowly poking their ugly heads above the parapet ,how anyone can fail to see
this and then defend him as a bright innovative manager really need to revisit and sift through the wreckage from our last two performances.