Home Tag "Podolski"

Tottenham (h) – Adebayor pulls Spurs pants down for Arsenal to spank

Santi Cazorla who had lost a bit in recent weeks was back to his best yesterday. I just love watching him play and the way he makes everything look so simple. Wilshere mentioned it recently but he doesn't just pass the ball to his team mates, he serves every pass up with its own unique identity. He plays with his own built in x button, passes are nearly always weighted to perfection regardless of the

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

False 9? Podolski should simply emulate Ljungberg

Lukas Podolski may well be a little limited in his play but he is a hard worker. He currently reminds me of Freddie Ljungberg in his latter Arsenal career. A worker out wide that didn't really give the team very much apart from endeavour. Now the Freddie at his prime was still pretty limited and hard working but, a huge round juicy but he gave his team mates runs into the box, he was at the far post when Henry missed the ball in the middle, he was on hand to poke a ball in during a penalty box scramble. He did all this as well as his great

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)

Chelsea (h) – Trigger happy Santi, Extracting the best from Lukas & More

Lukas Podolski had scored in three games in a row against Liverpool. Southampton and Montpelier. Since then he has had two quiet games against Manchester City and now Chelsea. Difficult games granted but I do get the sense that we are not getting the very best out of him. It almost feels as if we are playing two left backs on the left hand side. Podolski gives everything he has for the team

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

In praise of proactive Arsenal

If signing a striker to combine with Robin and share his goalscoring burden isn’t enough to show ambition to the captain, then not much will. And if Giroud does end up as a replacement, at least we avoid a repeat of last summer’s Cesc/Mata situation. Huge credit to the Club for acting quickly and decisively. And that’s without mentioning Podolski, another player I am hugely excited about. I’ve watched his performances in the group stages very and reckon he’ll fit like a dream into our current

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)

Walcott needs some zig in his zag, Bad day for Arsenal & A Legend calls it a day

Stoke City away needs to be our Sunderland FA Cup game or our Tottenham away match. Basically we need to show some backbone and produce our best under pressure because make no mistake about it, we are under pressure and the only way to relieve that pressure is to win against Norwich at lunchtime on Saturday. I am already cacking myself about that game so I don't know how I am going to survive on Saturday. Theo Walcott has spoken about the need to vary his game and not

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)

The Podolski & Benayoun contradiction / Vertonghen / Squad Continuity

Look at the teams that have improved from last season. Tottenham for example did not lose any players, brought in good players for their standard and improved. The difference between them and us in August and September was huge, not because of the quality of player as we see today but for the continuity and momentum that they had and we had completely lost after having to rebuild the squad. Fans often say that transition is an excuse but you can see the difference an

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Why Arsenal need to continue ‘rewarding failure’ / Denilson / M’Villa / Vertonghen

We have seen what happens when it goes the other way, Mathieu Flamini was deemed as surplus to requirements before his one super charged season where he found his best form. That is the margin the manager has to play with. A player close to joining Birmingham City and not being able to force his way into the team to a player who dominates AC Milan at the San Siro. We could have offered Flamini a large pay rise before he got to the last season of his existing contract and he could

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)