Two Games=Three Cesc Assists +Three Adebayor Goals

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Again I miss two games and we go and get good results in them both

Ill start with the Man City Game which we won 2-0 thanks to our returning heroes hero and Emmanuel Adebayor.  Cesc game back into the team and looked like he had never been out of it, like Arseblogger said, you really do forget what a good player Cesc is when he hasn’t played for a while.  He may not be the fastest of players or the most skillful, but he makes up for with with the quickness of he’s Spanish brain.  Getting two assists in ur first game back after being out for what seemed like years, is pretty damn impressive. 

As for Adebayor, he came back into the team on Sat and showed the form that he showed us when he first joined the club.  Chasing defenders, passing a ball simply and ultimately scoring goals.  Before his recent injury he was not showing any passion for Arsenal and he didn’t seem to think his place was under threat.   On Saturday he obviously thought that Nicklas Bendtner was playing alright and that he would show him what competition he has to get back in the team.  Which is what our team needs, competition from the senior players making the young players improve, by learning and the old players show their experience in the first team and hopefully get us earning results.

The two goals were pretty simple in the end, well Cesc made them both look very easy. Adebayor’s first goal came from us earning a freekick, which I didn’t think was one. When Robinho, some how out muscled the stocky Sagna with a shoulder barge. Therefore it must have been a foul.  From the freekick Cesc delivered a outswinging freekick to the penalty spot.  Which coaches tell you put corners when you are 10 years old.  Adebayor simply stood still bent down a little bit and headered past a player on the line and it into the near corner. 1-0

Before half time saw some Man City chances, one for Micah Richards (Good save from Almunia) and one for Gelson Fernandes (which he should have scored).  Alas they didn’t.

2-0 came in the second half, which we bossed for whole 45 mins.  I dont think Man City had a chance in the second half, if they did it was forgettable.  We scored when Cesc played a loping through ball over Richard Dunne’s head, to which I thought Dunne was going to head away.  But it didn’t and it went straight to the feet of Adebayor, who took a poor first touch and turned it into a good one by rounding Shay Given in the Newcastle Man City goal and passing it into the back of the net. That was it really from the City Game, a good competent performance.

Then Sunday, then Monday, then Tuesday Villarreal away.

News was that Nasri had got over his flu, Walcott had got over his knee injury that he recieved against City but Robin and Diaby hadn’t recovered.  So it was our new trusted 4-2-3-1 formation that has been serving us well recenty. With Denilson and Song holding in midfield, Nasri and Walcott flanking Cesc and Adebayor up front on his own. 

Now Adebayor, you know you annoy me when you don’t play well/make an effort and playing that well against City gave me false hope..well in the first half it did.  He started the game not making one decent pass, not making one header his touch back to Clichy from a throwin went past Clichy faster than he threw it.  His touch sometimes can be so bad. It annoys me.  He doesn’t know when to make the simple pass, instead he tries to take on one more player and by then the pass has gone.  Watching it with my mate who gets equally annoyed by him, I said ‘He does all this shite link up play but he knows how to finish’. 

So after a great start to the game by Villarreal, who were certainly bossing the game like we did against City.  They showed some great passing and ball retention, it looked like we were never getting the ball off of them.  So come the 10th minute the ball gets played around on the edge of our box and it lands at the feet of Senna and he launches a shot into the top right of the goal.  A fantastic strike.  People say Song should have closed him down quicker, but Alex was running between about 3 Villarreal players at that time so you can’t blame solely him.

1-0 down they could have increased their lead through a corner which seemed to hit one of their players on the waist and then hit Clichy on the line and be scrambled upon by Almunia.  The same Almunia who had recieved an injury whilst playing right back to clear a ball.  He soon had to be replaced by Fabianski, who had a good game and it is looking like he will have to for the next coming weeks.  Gallas also got injured in the first half with a Medial ligament injury after Alex Song took down a Villarreal player who flew into the knee of Gallas. He went off injured only to come back on a few minutes later, then to be taken off and replaced by Djourou.  Through out the end of the first half and the begining of the second half we started to get more and more into the game. 

On the 66 minute Cesc done what he has been doing all weekend by passing a ball to Adebayor, who controlled it on his chest and then manufactured a overhead kick to bring it to 1-1.   

Senna had another chance of  scoring a beauty from the edge of the box with a shot that went narrowly wide, but lightening doesnt strike twice ‘n’ all that.

So we go into the second leg with an away goal and us on top, hopefully we can keep it at 0-0 until around the 60th minute mark and then score a goal or two to make it comfortable for us. 

From a Tuesday evening in Spain to a Saturday afternoon in Wigan, bring on the Latics.

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