Arsenal 4 Bolton 1

2010/09/13 20:29:26 網誌分類: 波經

13 Sep

Arsenal 4 Bolton Wanderers 1

Koscielny 23, Elmander 44
Chamakh 60,
Song 78,
Vela 83

Koscielny tapped his 1st goal with Fabregas' assist but his weaker backpass to Almunia just before half time rewarded Bolton to level. Fabregas' another cross which helped Chamakh's header into Arsenal's lead again , Song (the unusual scorer) scored Arsenal's 1,000th premier league goal under Wenger's reign , and Vela brokethrough the off-side trap and received the good pass by Fabregas again summed up the contribution of Cesc Fabregas.

next coming up , at home vs Braga of Portugal in CL.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/tv-online-arsenal-v-bolton-highlights

In-form Arsenal face Braga after Spurs play Bremen

By Myles Palmer

Champions League time !

Matchday One is on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Who will win club football's most coveted trophy at Wembley on May 28th?

As you know, these Group games allow most of the big boys to be protected from each other by sensible seeding.

FC Twente are at home to European champions Inter, Barcelona play Panathinaikos, Slovakians MSK Zilina host Chelsea, and Real Madrid play Ajax.

Arsenal and Chelsea are in the best form right now.

Unbeaten after four league games, with 10 and 12 points respectively, the London teams would love to win the biggest prize in their home town in nine months time.

The surprise in La Liga was that Barcelona lost at home to Hercules.

Real Madrid's only goal was scored by Ricardo Carvalo after the Osasuna keeper saved a Cristiano Ronaldo shot and CR shoved the rebound square to his Portuguese pal.

A 4-1 win over Bolton kept Arsenal in second place.

Two league games at home with 10 goals scored, an impressive haul by a team that's usually pretty sharp and fluent in August-September.

Kosciely scrambled his first goal for Arsenal in 24 minutes after a Jack Wilshire chip was guided back across the goalmouth by Fabregas, then Koscielny mis-headed a Kevin Davies flick-on to Lee, who went round Almunia and crossed for Elmander to head in at the far post 1-1 in 44.

A left-footed cross by Fabregas gave Chamakh an easy header for 2-1. Ref Stuart Attwell then allowed Song to foul Lee just outside the Arsenal box. Song clearly kicked the Korean, then ran away with the ball ! Attwell then sent off Gary Cahill for a silly tackle on Chamakh, having pulled back the breaking Arshavin. Attwell should have allowed advantage and booked Cahill later.

Then Song took a nice little ball form Arshavin, waltzed round Zat Knight and nicked his shot past advancing deputy keeper Adam Bognan for 3-1. After a move of 23 passes, Fabregas opened up the Bolton defence again and sub Vela made it 4-1.When you're 3-1 up at home, and it's the 83rd minute, it's good to keep possession and even better to make it 4-1 after a 24-pass move.

On this showing, Fabregas is the complete footballer. If he plays like this in away games, Arsenal should have a good season.

Why do referees favour the big clubs? Arsenal would probably have won anyway. They don't need help from refs.

Apart from the splendid form of Fabregas, the main significance of the game was that Arsenal won 4-1 without Thomas Vermaelen.

Arsenal v Braga is another home game and if Braga keep the ball as well as a good Portuguese side often does, it could be close. Striker Lima is an interesting little player who can score goals, But he needs service. If Arsenal score early and dominate, Lima might be invisible. But Braga defend well.

Promoted Hercules produced a shock at the Nou Camp by winning 2-0.

Hercules didn't spend 28 hours on a plane to Buenos Aires and back - and it showed! Their attacks were incisive, their defending rugged, their keeper solid.

Their first goal by Paraguayan World Cup striker Nelson Valdez was a scrappy one and they led by that 27th minute goal at half-time.

Last season Barcelona played 19 league games at home and won 18 and drew with Villarreal. We expected Messi to lead a comeback but the magic man was tackled and shackled and Valdez sidefooted a sweet second goal from 14 yards in 58 minutes.

When Pedro came on for Bojan at half-time, David Villa went into the middle.Yes, Barcelona are the best team in the world. But not on last Saturday night. Hercules were tremendous. They shut Barca out and deserved three points. They can't play well as this every week but I'll be keeping an eye on them.

Werder Bremen v Spurs is on Tuesday night.

Rafael van der Vaart looked very good in the 1-1 draw at West Brom. His passing is superb. He played for Hamburg for three years and scored 29 goals there, so the Dutchman knows quite a bit about Werder Bremen. They know everything about him. When I saw Bremen at Fulham on August 7, both centrebacks were six foot five. I hope Peter Crouch plays and I fancy Robbie Keane to score. William Gallas is not fully match fit but they need his vast experience of games like this.

Manchester United drew 3-3 at Everton after they were winning 3-1 in 90. Arteta and Tim Cahill scored in stoppage time.

On Match of the Day, Lee Dixon's analysis of Cahill v Johnny Evans was educational.

In the end, Wayne Rooney did not travel to Goodison to play against his old club, as Sir Alex told him to spend a few days with Coleen in an attempt to repair their traumatised marriage. Since 2004, Rooney has had the world at his feet. Let's hope he doesn't kick it away.

Sep 13, 2010

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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)

Crowd 59,927.

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