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I like many had not given us much of a chance before the game had kicked off but the dream had flashed in my head a number of times during the last few days. In those day dreams, we had scored an early goal so when Santi and Rosicky combined outside of the penalty area to free Walcott down

I would have loved to have seen us rip out the handbrake and throw it out the window then sprint after Bayern Munich players from the first whistle to the last, crunching into tackles, playing high up the pitch and move the ball quickly. It would have been a great test but the reality is that to put that much input into a game you are going to pay for it. We know how much attention Arsene

Bacary Sagna had spoken out against the clubs deals and Arsene was questioned on this in a press conference. I can't find the exact quotes but I remember Arsene telling the press that Sagna should not be speaking out about the club and just get on with his job. We know that Arsene defends his players and keeps matters in-house as best he can. Anyone who has followed Arsenal for the last 16 years will already know this but Arsene has also been giving us more and more as time has gone on

So Tottenham's long run finally halted, so has Bale's scoring run Let us hope that it has some psychological impact as we have seen in our own garden in the past. I am thinking that they need to make a slip up in one of their easier looking fixtures as well as stumbling in the difficult challenges ahead. Still a lot to do in a relatively short time and that result at Anfield means very little if we do

It is not fashionable to critique Jack Wilshere, that is saved for his Welsh team mate but Jack Wilshere does not have enough quality in his final ball as yet and it was this reason mainly as to why we were toothless for our first 36 minutes of domination. We had pressed high up the pitch and won the ball back in some great areas, making the Tottenham defence back pedal only for Jack's pass to be

Bacary Sagna out injured, much of the attention has been on Gareth Bale coming up against Carl Jenkinson but I do not see that being the case, unless Villas-Boas, purposefully switches Bale to the left because in recent matches he has adopted a central role which has all

Jack Wilshere has been in a few fantastic positions this season jinking his way through defence's only to be up against his enemy, his right foot and the trigger was not pulled, chances have disintegrated

In our side we have shared the goals around between many players and when we are on our game it makes us very difficult to stop. Think of the first half at Sunderland recently and the first half against West Ham. There is no obvious way to stop the team. That is all well and good when the team is purring but when things go wrong as was the case against Blackburn in the FA cup, we do not have a 

Rosicky will not get the most amount of goals or assists over the course of a season but what he will do is make the team better by making other players more effective. Jack Wilshere's driving runs from midfield have often been our plan b from our passing plan a so adding another player who can do this will help open up spaces but above that, what I like about Rosicky in the team is that he keeps everything so simple and speeds up our football. Often on the move looking for pockets of space to receive the ball and then

Arteta, Mertesacker, Chamberlain, Jenkinson and Gervinho were all bought in 2011. Podolski, Cazorla, Giroud were all bought this summer with new boy Monreal coming in the winter of 2013. This is not to mention young players who are establishing themselves into this new team, the likes of Szczesny, Wilshere and Walcott are all works in progress to varying degrees. It is little wonder that Bayern Munich have higher confidence in themselves in their team mates, it is little wonder why they are more organised and it is