Arsenal sides may have felt a little sorry for themselves and struggled to impose their game on a team with their tails up but this Arsenal side full of players such as Arteta, Podolski, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Giroud and Cazorla are all experienced fighters who will play with their heads held up. We
It took me back down memory lane, I remember being frustrated at our manager for dropping an aging but quality Davor Suker who had scored roughly a goal in every 2.5 games for his new club but instead moving a left winger into center forward, a left winger who didn't exactly look like a goalscorer. I didn't follow the rest of that guy's career so I'm not quite sure how that move turned out for him.
Arsenal one of the most feared footballing institutions in the world, and certainly the most feared in the English Premier League. That I am still kinda stuck in that time alone says I am missing something- & it ain’t just trophies!! You see, back in the days when Arsenal run the Premier League (may those days return tenfold), there were individuals who made sure that the status quo was well
However, over the next few seasons Arsenal will become a lot more competitive in a commercial sense and with that, Arsene will have greater freedom to implement his plans whether that be through investment directly into the first team or adding to the talented crop of youth, or indeed .
Diaby has been the subject of much adulation after his towering performance at Anfield in September. And all of it is justified: the lanky Frenchman was linkman-incarnate against Liverpool, snapping at Sahin’s heels to win the ball, galloping past Gerrard with one telling touch, being a willing body both in attack and defense. Whether it was his hip-swivel and fake to make Suarez look silly, or the wonderfully nonchalant heel-flick to Cazorla when surrounded by the opposition; he was everywhere that Sunday, prompting a Twitter-wide volte-face of opinion among Arsenal fans and doubters. But one of those
If you were told in pre season that we would start at Liverpool with our 3rd choice goalkeeper, inexperienced right back who spent large parts of last season injured and our best center back on the substitutes bench after missing the first two games with injury then you would have been given permission to go back home to fetch a change of underwear at the prospect of Gerrard, Suarez and
The strongest part of our team was clearly the midfield area. Not only Abou Diaby but Mikel Arteta was amazing as the deepest midfielder. While we lose Alex Song's physical presence, we gain Arteta's distribution. He plays the game so simply but so effectively. He is always an option when we have the ball but for me, his winning of the ball was top class. I have read the view that he is wasted as the deepest player, I completely disagree and believe his game is perfect for that role. Barcelona and Spain have proved that you do not
He may be stubborn, he may have the complete courage of his convictions and he may have put way too much trust in players who subsequently turned out to be c#nts, but there is no better manager at finding talent and playing football in a breath taking fashion......it is sad that we may not have the finances or a manager who is comfortable paying huge sums for household names, but if you truly are a Arsenal supporter, then you should demonstrate that support, stop the poison and TRUST
I re-watched the Stoke game again last night and it is incredible how a game looks once you remove the adrenaline and fear. We were in control for most of the game and while the chemistry isn't yet set between the players, it struck me that our issue was more to do with our sharpness, especially in front