MAN CITY 4 ARSENAL 2

2009/09/14 19:21:59 網誌分類: 波經

14 Sep

2 trips to manchester in 2 weeks and 2 lost .

When i woke up on sunday morning , i just wished it's a nightmare but it never was , and the feeling was not the exactly same as what i felt 2 weeks ago . Last time I thought Arsenal just blew their match away by themselves ( Almunia's rushness and Diaby's own goal) . This time it's totally outclassed and outplayed by Man City , it never should have been liked this !!!!

Not even Man City have spent 200 million pounds for expanding their squad since takeover by Arabian...!!!

Well , next match away to Belgium and lets hope they can wake up in time and pick up their momentum again ..

I don't want to blame Clichy for last 3 goals they conceded but obviously my favourite author has same opinion ...

Clichy's flank concedes three goals to Man City

By Myles Palmer

Manchester City 4 Arsenal 2

Almunia og 20, Van Persie 62, Bellamy 74, Adebayor 80, SWP 84. Rosicky 88

The Arsenal defence does not depend on organisation.
It depends on pace.

At Eastlands, Arsenal were outpaced.

Four counter-attacks, four goals.
Very naive.

Arsenal foolishly played to City's strengths and lost to opponents who were more efficient.

City made six chances and scored four goals.

1-0 When the play was compressed into a 30-yard zone around the halfway line, and when there was only 20 yards between Bridge and Sagna, Bellamy sprinted forward for Bridge's ball over the top and Sagna bodychecked him. Bridge put the free-kick into the box, Richards’s header hit the post and went in off Almunia’s head.

2-1 Fabregas's sloppy pass towards Clichy was won by Lescott for Shaun Wright-Phillips, who released his mate Micah Richards, Song panicked in the left back position and allowed Richards to cruise inside his feeble challenge and give Bellamy a free hit from 13 yards.

3-1 Clichy again. His clipped forward ball found Richards, not Eduardo, and then Clichy dived in on SWP and pushed him over. With both players on the floor, ref Clattenburg allowed advantage, SWP jumped up and crossed for the unmarked Adebayor to head in from 8 yards.

As Andy Gray pointed out, Gallas switched off when he saw Clichy’s foul, expecting a free-kick. He allowed Ade to run into the box on his own and have a free header.

4-1 Arsenal had FOUR players standing still in the box as Rosicky played a ball square to Clichy. But speed merchant Craig Bellamy pinched it fairly off Clichy and then ran 60 yards with the ball, faster than Clichy could run without it. His pass released SWP for 4-1.

Pace had scored four goals for Citeh.

VAN PERSIE had made it 1-1 by improvising his way past Lescott’s lunge. He evaded the challenge and buried a low, right-foot shot across Given. He can improvise for himself. That’s what Robin Bang! Persie does, as I’ve said here for 4 years.

Arsenal’s second goal, to make it 4-2 came after a 12-pass move. A tasty Fabregas pass played in Rosicky whose finish was sweet and neat.

Some Gooners think Arsenal could have won this game but I can’t really go along with that view, even though Arsenal missed chances in every phase of the match.

What did Diaby or Bendtner do in that game? Why have raiding full backs who cannot cross the ball? Who cannot pick out a man? Ever! Clichy and Sagna cannot pick out a man, ever. What is the point?

Can any of the 200 readers who send me abusive emails please explain why Arsenal have an overlapping left back and an overlapping right back who never pick out a team-mate with a cross?

Let's hope Standard Liege don't have City's pace.

More later about Adebayor.

MANCHESTER CITY (4-3-3) Given; Richards, Touré, Lescott, Bridge; Ireland (Petrov, 73), De Jong, Barry; Wright-Phillips, Adebayor, Bellamy. Subs not used: Taylor (gk), Onuoha, Zabaleta, Sylvinho, Vidal, Weiss.

ARSENAL (4-3-3): Almunia; Sagna (Eboué, 77), Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy; Fabregas, Song (Eduardo, 77), Denilson (Rosicky, 52); Bendtner, Van Persie, Diaby. Subst not used: Mannone (gk), Ramsey, Silvestre, Gibbs.

Referee Mark Clattenburg
Booked: Lescott, Adebayor, De Jong, Sagna, Song.
Crowd: 47,339.

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Wilshere and Szczesny give Arsenal far more authority and guts

By Myles Palmer

Arsenal 2 Barcelona 1

Villa 26, Van Persie 78, Arshavin 83

____________________________

The key player in the Nou Camp will be Szczesny.

So pray that nothing happens to Arsenal’s goalkeeper between now and Tuesday, March 8th.

Barcelona’s style is cleverly-timed runs onto sharp little passes, which ｃｒｅａｔｅs a lot of one-on-one chances with the keeper.

Wojciech Szczesny’s fine positional judgement makes him a master of making opponents shoot into the side-netting or just past the post.

On the goal, he was a bit unlucky because David Villa, a razor finisher in these situations, slotted between his legs.

By contrast, he got lucky on the loose ball after his save, when the scrambling Messi headed in but was flagged offside. Messi wasn't offside.

For me, Szczesny was Arsenal’s best player last night for that reason. Making Messi miss was the name of the game.

Yes, Koscielny played his finest game in an Arsenal shirt.

Yes, Jack Wilshere played with remarkable authority at the heart of the team. England need to play Jack football, Fabio - not Capello football.

Yes, of course, CL knock-out ties are a game of four halves.

Arsenal lost the first half 1-0 and won the second half 2-0 and halves three and four will roll round 20 days from now.

Arsenal raised their tempo after half-time and the game turned on 68 when Keita and Arshavin came on.

Keita replaced Villa to stiffen Barca's midfield, which was running out of steam, and allowed young Busquets to go ball-hunting further up the field.

Arshavin’s arrival (for Song) allowed him to link in a cool manner with Clichy, who played a killer ball forward into the box with his right-foot and gave Van Persie a chance to hit a mighty left-foot shot on the half- volley inside the near post of Victor Valdes for 1-1.

Valdes has always had flaky moments. That blunder by allowed Arsenal back into a game that Barcelona were still playing mostly in Arsenal's half.

Still, defending deeper can be good. You can only counter-attack if your opponents are in your half of the field. You can attack too much in a game. If you attack less, you often score more.

Frankly, Fabregas, Eboue and Walcott had been crap.

All three played crap. Only a blinkered, badge-kissing nincompoop would say any of those three played well last night.

Arsenal had nothing on the right flank but now, suddenly, that was where the winning goal came from after a fabulous move.

The cool Koscielny picked up the ball in his penalty area, passed to Bendtner, who passed infield to Wilshere, then quickly forward to Fabregas, who instantly released Nasri with a superb ball down the right flank.

Nasri could have tried the obvious with a low cross to the far post but chose instead to play a lovely pass which allowed Arshavin to curl his sidefoot shot behind Abidal and into the net from 15 yards.

That quality goal gave Arsenal their first victory against Barcelona and it set the seal on the pulsating, rocking, thrilling night that the Emirates has needed since 2006.

Sporting Gijon was a factor last night because game was much harder than the Wolves game was for Arsenal .

After two and half years of staggering success, and intensifying pressure, Barcelona are showing signs of burn-out, so Pep has to husband his resources very carefully.

Coming back off an international break, which is mostly where Barcelona ｄｒｏｐ their points, he conceded an early goal at Gijon in a game that was very passionate, intense and physical, since Gijon are fighting for their lives just above the drop-zone.

I was really enjoying the game but as the second half went on I was thinking : This is taking a lot out of Barcelona !

Indeed, it was a helluva battle that was taking a lot out of both sides.

Just as the commentators began to say that David Villa was about to be taken off, he glided onto a wonder-pass from Messi and chipped the keeper from the edge of the box and it finished 1-1.

Success brings a heavy schedule.

The more games you win, the more the pressure is on you. To handle that you need character and guts. Wilshere and Szczesny have given the team a lot more personality and authority than it had last year.

Big characters, big difference.

As Rufus Thomas said, age ain’t nothin’ but a number.

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ARSENAL (4-2-3-1): Szczesny; Eboue, Djourou, Koscielny, Clichy; Song (Arshavin, 67), Wilshere; Walcott (Bendtner, 77), Fabregas, Nasri; Van Persie. Subs not used Almunia (gk), Rosicky, Denilson, Squillaci, Gibbs. Booked Song, Nasri, Van Persie

BARCELONA (4-3-3): Valdes; Alves, Pique, Abidal, Maxwell; Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta (Adriano, 88); Pedro, Messi, Villa (Keita, 67). Subs not used Pinto (gk), Bojan, Mascherano, Milito, Afellay. Booked Iniesta, Pique (misses second leg)

Possession :Arsenal 47% Barcelona 53%

Shots on target Arsenal 8 Barcelona 7

Man of the match: Szczesny.

Referee Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

Crowd 59,927.

MAN CITY 4 ARSENAL 2

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