You could see with Gervinho's movement into central areas that criticism towards Theo Walcott for drifting inside has been a little unfair as it seems apparent that it is an instruction given from the manager. Gervinho's starting position was from the right but continuously ran inside to join Oliver
What's going on people, thanks for joining me as we take a look back at a cracking 3 points at The Emirates Stadium against Reading's newly appointed masseur, Nigel Adkins. We discuss the use of Aaron Ramsey in his preffered role, Santi Cazorla's silky Spanish Smurdom, and a whole bunch more. Joining me from Sardinia is Jonny Gould, and we celebrate the man that was
Our front line will be interesting. I am guessing that our left hand side will be between Podolski, Gervinho and Cazorla. With Wilshere out, I suspect Santi will be needed centrally so I am going to cross off Santi from that wide list and I guess the rest depends on Podolski's fitness. As he was on the bench for the Germans you have to guess that he is fit enough to start the game. Gervinho could
In 2010 Abou Diaby was offered a new contract and you may want to know why this is after such a dreadful spell out through injuries. Well Abou Diaby had played 43 games that year (including French team matches) and alongside Alex Song, just behind Cesc Fabregas we looked bloody strong. I remember sitting in at the Emirates watching us tear apart Porto 5-0 thinking that our midfield looked world class, Diaby was a big part of that. After sticking by Diaby, he had repaid the manager with many strong performances and his 'best' years ahead of him. Would you have not offered Robin van Persie a new contract at the end of last season because he had a terrible previous history? Didn't
The football gods had been listening to our conversation and had granted the Arsenal youngsters a fixture at the Emirates stadium against CSKA Moscow. This was the perfect oppourtinity to introduce the Arsenal to my son who is still very much trying to understand the game. It was a little too late in the evening for my youngest daughter who is still recovering from a cold so I bought tickets for my
Santi Cazorla was fantastic throughout, his ability to evade challenges under pressure is a joy to watch. If I was to be critical then I would go back to my early season moan and suggest that he stops shooting every time he is within sight of the goal. Often we had better placed players in the box but instead went for the blast. That aside he made the team tick going forward and it was his skipping driving run that opened up Swansea for our first goal. Giroud denied Ramsey a chance of a clear shot before setting up Monreal
Hugh Wizzy is back with his weekly Vlog review. This time he talks about our professional and solid victory in Wales against the passing Swansea City.
As the center backs do not need to put in a great deal of running, I expect that partnership to remain and to be honest, it is amazing that our best center back has had to make do with a place on the bench. Koscielny was outstanding in Germany, his speed and reading of forwards makes a huge difference to this team. Talk of Koscielny losing form this season is ridiculous and ignores the bigger
Back in the day when Arsenal Vision was in it's infancy, I used to have my own vlog section called AV Chat. It was god awful but I thought of returning to it one day and improving it. Anyway, I have been watching @HughWizzy's videos after every game and decided that I couldn't do a better job so I thought it would be just better to make a mid season swoop and get him on board. Lukily he agreed