Ilove the Nasri finish because it is often a position where we attempt one pass too many, instead of working the keeper and perhaps Nasri of last season may have tried a return to Song but with his form sky high, the goals are
Reviews
Fulham (h) Post Match Thoughts: Super Samir adds new dimension to top Gunners
Wigan (h) Post Match Thoughts: Is Wenger altering template for RVP & Chamakh?
Our second and final goal of the game was a lovely passage of play and it resulted in another good cross from Vela, first time left foot cross from the left in between goalkeeper and defence and perfectly to the sliding foot of Nicklas Bendtner to bundle
Aston Villa (a) Post Match Thoughts: Fab-less trio pass Gunners to victory
Braga (a) Post Match Thoughts: No spark, flair and no imagination
Firstly too many changes were made to the team from the weekend. I have said many times, we need our players to have a run of games together to build continuity. Our game is based on continuity more
Tottenham Hotspur (h) Post Match Thoughts: Suicidal Gunners lost in footballing limbo
van der Vaart slotted wide and high past Fabianski for 2-2. With twenty minutes to go, my half time nerves were incorrect, we could most certainly lose this unless we grow some balls and impose ourselves on a game that we had grasped in both hands in the first 45 minutes
Everton (a) Post Match Thoughts: Arsenal’s second goal was a thing of intelligence and beauty
Chamakh's little dink in between both Pienaar and Distin to Cesc was subtle and very cute, Cesc's hit first time flew into the bottom corner away from Howard's outstretched hand. Wenger always talks of intelligence, that move was made through intelligence. Positional intelligence from Denilson, awareness intelligence of Cesc and then Chamakh having the presence of mind to lift the ball back
Wolves (a) Post Match Thoughts: Fabianski, Sagna & Chamakh contribute to grinding victory
We have heard of the need to bring in a keeper who can earn a team x amount of points over the course of a season well saves at Manchester City and at Wolves will have his personal point collection ticking over rather nicely I would say. He wasn't finished yet
Newcastle United (h) Post Match Thoughts: Rotation wreck at the Emirates
I can understand why Wenger kept Cesc on the pitch even though he was well below his usual high standards. Wenger knows that one moment of vision or timing of run into the box could lead to a goal but it just did not happen
Shakhtar Donetsk (a) Complacency is a real Ukraine in the Arsenal
What Clichy was thinking about, I will never know. Gael Clichy is a player who I admire greatly, I seem to be in the minority these days. I love his energy, his commitment and his dynamic all action displays but his lapses of concentration like our complacency problems seem to be happening too frequently for my liking