Birmingham 2 Arsenal 1

2011/02/28 18:46:34 網誌分類: 波經

28 Feb

Wenger has lost his last 3 Cup Finals consecutively (2006/2007/2011) .

On the contrary , Alex McLeish has won 6 out of 6 cups final.. Unfortuately I only know that now..

Poor poor Wenger ! Poor poor me !!!

Why Arsene's Arsenal have a trophy problem

By Myles Palmer

ANR reply from Toby Robinson

Hi Myles.

I will never forget a couple of years ago Arsene said "This team deserves to win something."

Arsene is bringing all these young players into the football world to believe they deserve to win things because they play beautiful football without actually having achieved it.

The ONLY time you can say you deserve something is when you have actually achieved it, not a moment before.

This current Arsenal squad are a mirror of Arsene's personality.

I can say this because Arsene built this whole team and squad from scratch, almost every squad members football personality has been ｃｒｅａｔｅd and shaped by Arsene, this is the problem the squad expect to win things without having the experience of how to win things.

Myles, has Arsene ever won a trophy at Arsenal without players he inherited?

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Reply :

He's always won his trophies with experienced players.

Lee Dixon and Lauren, Seaman and Lehmann and Sol Campbell, all were winners before Wenger got hold of them

The baby of the Invincibles was Ashley Cole and he was 24.

Which is the average age of the team that has just contested the Carling Cup Final and lost 2-1 to Birmingham in 94 minutes.

Bad mistake by Djourou, Zigic scored.

Bad mistake by Koscielny, Obafemi Martins scored a tap in.

Alex McLeish is a good tactician who has managed six cup finals and won six cup finals.

Seeing that Zigic could not run at all after about 65 minutes, and not fancying extra time, McLeish brought on two sprinters. And one of them them scored.

Wenger would never take an experienced striker on loan from Rubin Kazan.

He is too fanatical, too ideological, too much of an ayatollah to do that.

He would never make a pragmatic or imaginative loan signing because it might disrupt the pecking order among the precious babies behind the 16-foot electric gates of their Colney Crech

He would say, "That would kill my kids. If I did that, I couldn't have Bendtner on the bench."

Yet again, Arsene Wenger has proved me right.

It's very sad and annoying for my friends because they're all Gooners.

Everything I've said for the last four years was clear at Wembley yesterday. He's lost his last three finals. He was very lucky that Lee Bowyer wasn't given a penalty after 2 minutes and very lucky that Szczesny wasn't sent off for bringing him down.

The linesman got it wrong : Lee Bowyer was onside.

Wenger was 1/4 favourite to beat Birmingham. He failed again. His centrebacks failed.Djourou and Koscielny made two stupid decisons which lost that game.

I REST MY CASE. And my uppercase.

Feb 27, 2011

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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.

Birmingham 2 Arsenal 1

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