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2009/09/28 16:48:58 網誌分類: 波經

28 Sep

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Biggest Arsenal news is, in fact, 6'3" and Italian

By Myles Palmer

Fulham 0 Arsenal 1
Van Persie 52

Fulham were unlucky, third-choice keeper Vito Mannone played a blinder, and Arsenal grabbed the only goal of a patchy game that featured some nice football.

Four weeks ago Wenger complained about anti-football because Darren Ferguson was not booked after six fouls.

In my book, playing Diaby is anti-football. And Song isn’t good enough to give Arshavin a pass. That's anti-football. Sticking Arshavin on the left touchline is anti-football. Marginalising one of the world's finest footballers is anti-football. Having a brainless left back who can't read Arshavin's passes is anti-football.

At Craven Cottage, Diaby wasn't good enough to give Arshavin a pass. He kept losing the ball to.......Danny Murphy !

After half an hour, Arsene, your team was being outplayed and you were coaching Diaby from the technical area, telling him what he should be doing.

With Diaby in your team, Fabregas doesn’t know where to run because he is doing 1.5 jobs.

Yes, Fabregas made the only goal of the game with a typical pass to Van Persie .

Fulham's left back Paul Konchesky gave the ball away - four quick passes, a killer finish: Song, Bendtner, Fabregas, RVP, one touch and bang and 1-0.

Fulham don’t score many goals and Clint Dempsey, a striker now playing in left midfield, had more shots without scoring (16) than any other Premier League player, before Saturday. His best effort was deflected off the toe of Sagna, Arsenal’s most natural defender, and clipped the outside of the post. That deflection didn't have to hit the outside of the post. It might have hit the inside and made it 1-1.

Andy Johnson has also lost his scoring touch, while Bobby Zamora never had it. So Fulham, really, are the ideal team to play a new goalkeeper into form and Vito Mannone responded with four very good saves. He played superbly and may have ended Fabianski’s Arsenal career. Maybe the 21-year old Italian will end Almunia’s Arsenal career as well.

A friend who was at the game said that most of the Gooners at Craven Cottage are amazed that the wider public, and the media, can’t see what they see, and don’t ask the questions they ask each other.

Why has Arshavin been marginalised by the manager? Why is our best centre forward playing on the right wing? Why is Diaby in our team?

It always looked to me as if this team would empty corporate boxes and stop fans renewing their season-tickets and that is already happening. Boxes are now being sold on a match-by-match basis. Companies are not proud to take their clients to see Almunia, Song, Diaby and Eboue. And some flats at Highbury Square are now being rented with an option to buy.

Most discerning Arsenal fans feel sorry for Arshavin, who doesn't even bother to hide his frustration any more.After a month out, the Russian wizard lacked sharpness but would have scored but for a nasty bobble after Fabregas played him in. Arshavin was about to jab the ball past Shwarzer when the ball hit a divot and bounced up seven inches and hit his shin and the shot went just over the bar.

FULHAM (4-4-2): Schwarzer; Pantsil, Hughes, Hangeland, Konchesky; Duff (Gera, 9), Murphy, Etuhu (Greening, 83), Dempsey; A Johnson, Zamora. Subs not used: Zuberbühler (gk), Baird, Kamara, Riise, Smalling.

ARSENAL (4-3-3): Mannone; Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy; Fabregas, Song, Diaby; Bendtner, Van Persie (Eboué, 83), Arshavin (Roskicky, 69) Subst not used: Szczesny (gk), Vela, Ramsey, Silvestre, Gibbs.

Referee:: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire).

Will it be the same Top Four this season ? Who knows?

Chelsea and Manchester United might finish one and two. Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City seem to be competing for the other two Champions League places.

City have more firepower than Arsenal but Mark Hughes has never been down the home straight with big expectations on his shoulders. Not as a manager anyway.

Man City are the team neutrals watch because they took two players from Arsenal, one from Man United (Tevez), one from Everton (Lescott) and one from Aston Villa (Barry).

Will City beat West Ham in the ESPN game tonight?

Well, the stats say it won't be a draw. Man City have not drawn any of their last 25 home games.

One the Big Four teams could easily ｄｒｏｐ out of the top four places.

It could be Liverpool, or even Chelsea. Both have wobbly defences and the pattern of no draws will be significant if it continues. When the heat is on, a draw is only a slip-up but a defeat is damaging.

None of the top 11 teams has drawn a game yet.

Has that ever happened before?

Premier League table on 27/09/2009

		P	W	D	L	Pts
1	ManUnited	7	6	0	1	18
2	Chelsea	7	6	0	1	18
3	Liverpool	7	5	0	2	15
4	Spurs	7	5	0	2	15
5	Arsenal	6	4	0	2	12
6	Man City	5	4	0	1	12
7	Aston Villa	6	4	0	2	12
8	Sunderland	7	4	0	3	12
9	Everton	6	3	0	3	9
10	Wigan	7	3	0	4	9
11	Burnley	7	3	0	4	9

Sep 27, 2009

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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

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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)

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