Reviews

Cash-strapped, debt-ridden, relegation-threatened selling club Arsenal suffered yet another blow in their summer of turmoil after conceding two late goals in their pre-season friendly against Burgenland XI last night

Ramsay, Vela and Wilshere all starting! Wow, I thought to myself. Wilshere has forced his way into the bigger picture in this pre season. Arsene wanted to have a look at him alongside more established players.

Like Ramsey in the first-half, the star of the show in the second period was Jack Wilshere. Seriously, the guy is so small and elusive that he will knock the ball past you and run through your legs to retrieve it. Cutting in from the right onto his favoured left-foot with a slippery style of dribbling, it was almost Messi-like

Theo Walcott obviously full of self confidence after a recent goalscoring run had a couple of shots early on, one where he had Adebayor to his left but he turned the defender and got his shot away which was well saved. It is nice to see Theo taking on responsibility

I hate to say "I told you so", but...well...I told you so! Like I mentioned back then, given his youth and inexperience and the fact that Clichy is such an accomplished left-back

It wasn't very long until Arsenal got back infront once again and Van Persie made up for his earlier miss. On 39 minutes Kolo Toure played a wonderfully weighted pass to Van Persie

The final chance of the game fell to Cesc as he got on the end of Eboue’s square pass. Clean through on goal, the little Spaniard opened his body a placed it to the keeper’s left

I hate to highlight Ade’s misses today because he has led the line on his own for most of the season, but I can only call it as I see it. A warrior he is. Clinical he is not

it was reminiscent of Michael Owen’s wonder goal against Argentina a decade ago. Looking back on it, I feel it more resembled Michael Thomas in 1989. The game was truly was up for grabs now

I prayed this would not be the case this time round, and those prayers were answered ten minutes into the half. In fact they could have been answered just prior to this as Kolo missed a gilt-edged free header from a corner