birmingham 1 arsenal 1

2010/03/28 12:44:38 網誌分類: 波經

28 Mar

It's frustrating to see such kind of result especially Birmingham levelled in the injury time like that .. But how can we complain when Man united have Van Der SAR (who made a brilliant save last night against bolton to deny an equaliser , which could be a save of the season !) , Chelsea have Cesc but we only have Almunia !!

For me it's Almunia own goal which made 1-1 and David Seaman could have saved it , Lehman could have saved it.. I even don't rule out Fabianski or Mannone can save it .

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/tv-online-birmingham-city-v-arsenal

Yes there is high flying tackle and physical and referee Webb did not have a good game as well but we should have ability to kill off the game or at least run out the clock..

I still believe the title is not over yet but only if we must win the remaining 6 league games .. we don't have room to ｄｒｏｐ any more points .. why ? chelsea still have to play away tough games like Man united, tottenham and liverpool , but Man united only need to play away at Man city and Blackburn , and play tottenham at home.

While arsenal have to play away at tottenham , blackburn and Man city at home .. so the peformance and results of tottenham , blackburn and man city against Top 3 can influence directly to position of league table.

question is : can we win 18 out of 18 ?

can Arshavin play his best from now on ?

when will Robin van Persie play again ? my personal guess is the earliest one he can play is 24 april against Man city so it will be a lift if we can beat Wolves at home ( i think we can) , away at Tottenham ( we have one whole week to prepare after Barcelona away games , while Tottenham have to play FA cup semi final against Portsmouth 3 days before - so lets hope it will help) and away at Wigan ( lets hope the pitch surface can be much better in april date)

when will Gallas play again ? hopefully next weekend against Wolves.

can Fabregas stay injury-free ? Lets pray his injury is not serious last night.

Of course we need to see how's the opponent peform but something like Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa was a joke or Bolton gave away own goal to Man united was a suscide !

anything positive ? man united will play against chelsea next weekend so either side will lose 3 points or both sides will lose 2 points each..

Man united must play CL in between and Chelsea have to play against Aston Villa again two week later , which will be approached more defensively by Martin O'Neill. Then chelsea will play Bolton at home 3 days later.

Tottenham will play Portsmouth before playing Arsenal and the only target of Portsmouth now is FA cup , while Tottenham and Man city have to fight with each other to get the 4th spot ..

I can only say too early to write off Arsenal but the only target of Arsenal right now is very simple.. win all the remaining league games and score as much as they can.

At the same time we need other teams' up and down performance at the right time , it's not impossible but now we all know that no more room to drop even one point for Wenger and his babies .. just simple like that.

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chanreborn 2011/02/17

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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