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Is Post Cesc Team 50% Completed? / Theo / Reina
The ‘3 Ps’ – Part 2 (Penetration)
It is clear that over the last year or so Wenger has been looking to add more fleet-footed players to the squad in the hope of producing a team more proficient at the counter-attack. This can be seen in the signings of Ryo Miyaichi, Wellington Silva, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Gervinho who are more suited to being played out wide on the flanks. It is commonly stated that there is no replacement for raw pace. Yes, defenders can compensate by anticipating play well or using expert positioning. Managers
The List of Lost Leads – a comparative analysis with our rivals
The other most evident factor is our ability to lose two-goal leads (or more). Tellingly, if we look at the full list we see that the first eighteen games were all one-goal leads. However since that fateful night at the Emirates versus Spurs in October 2008 where we somehow contrived to concede two goals in injury time to our deadliest rivals, this has become increasingly – and
‘Technical risk’ hinders CL place but Gazidis confident we can cope
Disastrous Start To The Season – Whose Fault ?
We should have made a Cesc replacement ready way before we sanctioned his sale. Mata looked all but a done deal, reports suggests we had agreed a deal with Valencia and Cesc had even spoken to him telling him where and where to live. Valencia waited for us to table the agreed fee but we weren't forth coming because we were waiting
Is Wenger portrayed like this boardroom story?
Why ‘failure’ Wenger is irreplaceable
Tottenham (a) Post Match Thoughts: Mistakes and lack of link gift points to neighbours
Typically it was moments later where Tottenham opened the scoring. The defence had shifted towards their left. Alex Song went out to meet Adebayor while both Gibbs and Mertesacker drifted towards Defoe, Sagna usually so good at spotting danger did not react to van der Vaart pealing off at the back unattended. Mertesacker should have also left Gibbs to deal with Defoe. Once again our defence were
Tottenham (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Players need to fight to reestablish dominance
Theo Walcott has been passed fit but we are still waiting to hear if Gervinho will be passed fit, I am hoping that it is mind games from Arsene Wenger just to keep Redknapp thinking. If we are to do well then I truly expect Gervinho to be the player to cause them the most amount of damage. If we have to start the game without Song in midfield and Arshavin on the left then I would worry about our