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It's strange because I don't think we played badly and I don't think Hull deserved to win, but since we did lose my post is going to be critical and negative. First of all, we should have made it 2-0. That's a problem we seem to always have, we just don't have the same intensity when we're winning. Another thing that worries me is that we weren't able to equalize with 25 minutes left, it's unlike us. I would say what can you do Hull defended well, but we might have just seen the real impact of losing Hleb. He was always the guy that could put his foot on the ball and create chances for us when we were losing. Yes we created chances, but with 25 minutes you can't really have any excuses.
Lastly, Hull's two goal pointed out perfectly imo our two biggest weaknesses on the field. I don't mean to take anything away from Geovanni, but I think that goal summed up why the Denilson Fabregas partnership doesn't work. They're both too attacking minded to be a great partnership, and it wasn't just that goal, there was too much space in that area of the field all day. And the second weakness is obvious, corners. But imo the root cause of our poor defense on corners is that the Gallas Toure partnership also doesn't work that well. They're both good defenders and we could get by with them playing together, I just think they're lacking when they defend a big, decent forward.
I don't mean to sound like one of those annoying negative Arsenal fans and I'm not at all about to hit the panic button, but like I said this post was so negative because in the end we did lose.