Wages of Incompetence a replay Player Ratings
By Matty Sadler
February 20 2016
I might be being too generous with those ratings, because that was awful. We dominated throughout, attacked well at times and created more than enough chances to win the game comfortable. Hull hardly had a sniff.
We should've blown Hull away in the first half alone as Walcott had about three chances, Welbeck had two, Iwobi had one and he had a penalty claim turned away, but Hull's Jakupovic was in fine form. The second half was very much the same with Campbell, Iwobi and Welbeck all having good chances. We bought on the big guns late on but still couldn't find a breakthrough. We now face a replay that nobody wanted. Scoring consistently is still proving beyond us.
I bet Barcelona are quaking in their boots...
Ospina - 6. One pathetic attempt to come for a cross in the first half. Otherwise had nothing to do.
Chambers - 7. Bar the silly booking I thought he played well.
Mertesacker - 6. Okay, didn't have loads to do.
Koscielny - 7. Swept up really well.
Gibbs - 6. Okay, didn't have a great deal to do defensively but didn't offer as much going forward as he did against Burnley.
Flamini - 5. Turned up, didn't do very much.
Elneny - 7. Passed and moved well and covered a lot of ground. Shoved off the ball too easily twice in the first half if I'm being picky.
Campbell - 5. Had only played 60 minutes of football this month before today and it showed. Looked rusty on the ball, bar one excellent free kick that was just pushed on to the post.
Iwobi - 7. Another good performance from the youngster. Took more responsibility in trying to make things happen than in his last two starts, and linked up well. Came close to scoring twice.
Welbeck - 6. Looked lively and came close to scoring two or three times. Should've done better with that header in the first half though, which was straight at the keeper.
Walcott - 6. Good off-the-ball movement in the first off and had a couple of efforts well saved. Quiet second half.
Subs:
Giroud - 6. Made an impact.
Alexis - 4. Awful. Not happening for him at the moment.
Oxlade-Chamberlain - 5. A few wasteful passes.