So I’ve been gone a while…
Sorry for the lack of posting readers, it is purely down to Uni work as it I am coming to the end of handing my final year project in. Oh the joys.
In my absents we have beat Hull in the FA Cup (up yours Phil Brown, you Cock), and we beat Blackburn 4-0 in the Premier League. I watched the Hull game and with the game coming to an end I was becoming very fustrated at the prospect of us not getting to Wembley. But we pulled the game around with a Van Persie goal after a cut back from Arshavin, and Gallas scored a header from an offside position to set up a Semi Final tie against Chelsea.
The Blackburn game was a rout, as so should it be against a poor poor Sam Alladyce side and we have never heard of one of those have we? Andrei Arshavin’s goal was the highlight of the game with him scoring a sensational individual goal (similar to one he scored for Russia) where he jinxed down the left wing with the defender expecting him to cut inside on his right foot but he continued to go down the left along the touchline and being one on one he lifted it over fatty Paul Robinson. The other 3 goals were an own goal which Arshavin almost took credit for and the other two were scored by the goal machine Emmanuel Eboue.
Now to yesterdays game.
We played Newcastle at St James Park and won 3-1. The game did not get started to the second half , I only remember a Van Persie shot blocked by Steven Taylor and a disgraceful forehand in the face of Arshavin from S.Taylor. Oh yeh and some bloke called Martin missed a penalty for them.
We started the second half like we were the only team that was going to win the game. When we earnt a free kick on the left wing when Ryan Taylor twice pulled back Gael Clichy. Arshavin whipped in the freekick and Nicklas Bendtner stetched all his 6ft 4inches and headered a lovely header.
Before I realised and got my stream back working, they had scored an equaliser after a defensive mix up by Gallas. It wasn’t the best defending, but we will let Gallas have that one because he is actually playing very well at the moment.
Five minutes later and Diaby played a ball to Van Persie, who then saw Diaby running into space left by S.Taylor who left the field to recieve some treatment and Van Persie passed the ball back to Diaby who ran directly into the box and suberbly finished high into Steven Harpers goal.
Three minutes later Van Persie set up Samir Nasri who hit a clean strike past Harpers left hand.
All round it was a good performance. We are scoring goals again and not just one a game. Bendtner played well again, he is showing good form and showing maturity older than his 21 years with good team play and a good work rate. Its good to think that Adebayor will have a bit of competition when he comes back into the squad. Which is what Adebayor needs because before his injury he showed little effort in his game and it was like he wasn’t worried that his place could be taken in the team at any point and showed that he really didn’t care about Arsenal FC (as you can tell I am not the biggest fan of Adebayor).
Another positive from the game was how Diaby played. He was always thought of being the next Vieira for obvious reasons. But to me, he draws more comparisons Alexandre Hleb with his footwork. However, he is much stronger and can tackle pretty damn well. We do have some good competition in centre midfield with Fabregas coming back, Denilson playing well, Song showing quality in that holding midfield role, Diaby and Ramsey who is young and learning his trade as a centre midfielder. I know people will say they are all young and inexperienced but hopefully they can all what to better each other and develop as players.
Finally, Im going to vent my anger at my game today. We played one of the teams that could over take us as at the top of the league. They have about 7 games in hand on us and can overtake us if they win their remaining games. So today we had to win if we wanted to scumper their chances of overtaking us. We went 1-0 down in the first half when they broke from our corner and beat our two defenders to score past our keeper. For the rest of the half we were on top and scored when a free kick floated over their keeper hit the angle of the goal and one of our players followed up to blast it into an empty net. For the rest of the game we continued to play the better of the two teams and create a few half chances. Then…in the last min they won a corner the ball floated over the back post and their player to knock it over the line. Then game the feeling of FOR GODS SAKE I was absolutely gutted. We did not deserve to lose to a bunch or ego filled twats. Apparently we have a month off for the other teams to catch up with us. What will I do with my Sunday mornings now?
Anyway that is my post over. Good night
First of all a lovely new top picture of Arshavin,
what a great new signing that guy has turned out to be seeing as people reckoned he wouldnt fit in this season due to the fact he has only played in Russia, i reckon he is our real chance to finish in the top 4 this season, i am also thinking we may get to 3.
Lets hope that our weds night 6 a side team has a strong surge like arsenal in the beginning of the new season starting wednesday!
lets hope i score a couple of goals lol!