Six Two

With the Ramsey Saga over and the ‘Do it for Rambo’ posters up.  Everyone was expecting us to win the game against Burnley, and comfortably.

We took to the pitch with an attacking team, no Song due to suspension so Denilson took his place with Cesc and Samir Narsi operating infront of him.  Bendtner who was coming off of a 3 goals in 3 games record, was being flanked by  Rosicky and Walcott.

Theo who after his midweek showing for England, wanted to show his worth in a team was on top form.  Unlike his normal run past a ball whilst running with it, he was actually being effective and terrorising Burnley’s left back Fox.

Our first goal came at a time when our captain was struggling with a hamstring injury.  We played some neat football on the edge of the box (usual Arsenal), Cesc layed it off to Nasri who kept the ball twisting and turning, and saw Cesc making a piercing run behind the oppos backline.  Sam played a beautiful chip for Cesc to catch on the bounce and nutmeg the keeper.

They scored a goal which we should have defended better, from England one goal getter Nugent scored.

10 minutes later, Theo Walcott cut inside with the ball on the left wing, beating Fox and drilling a low left footed shot into the bottom left corner.  Finally, an end product from out young Englishman.  Will he make the England squad in the summer?  Who cares if he is playing like that for us every week.

Bendtner was missing chances all day, headers, six foot tap ins and long range efforts.  Now people are going to have a go at him for missing these chances, but I find it positive that he is getting in the places which could hurt the opposition.  He and Rosicky were replaced into the second half by Arshavin and Eduardo.  Walcott continued to terrorise the opposition and layed on attempts for them both.

Into injury time Eduardo miscontrolled a ball, which our little Russian collected the ball and drove a low shot into the near post.

3-1, a great result and would have been more if it was not for our young Dane’s missfiring.

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Now for the most recent match against Porto.  It was crucial we overturned our 2-1 defeat in Porto.

AND DID WE?!

Nasri and Arshavin started well, and I was always thinking we need an early goal.  Arshavin was on hand to win a header from a goal kick which found Nasri who layed it back to the Russian, who turned and lost his marker took a shot which was blocked by the keeper and our Burnley Badboy Bendtner (BBB) was on hand to knock in the pieces into the empty net.

15 minutes later Arshavin was on hand to assist Bendtner again, this time BBB had an easier task of knocking it in from about 3 yards.

Nasri was on form all night long and his consistency paid off in the second half. On the corner of the Porto box, he dribbled into the box twisting and turning inbetween the Porto players and drill the ball into the corner of the net. Goal of the night.

180 seconds later from their kick off we allowed them to enter our half for about 175  of the 180 seconds and from their corner Arshavin collected the ball and had two players to deal with whilst running into their half.  Eboue had made a run from the corner down the center of the pitch and soon started to overtake Arshavin and as he was about to overtake the Porto players, Arshavin played a perfectly timed pass Eboue latched on to it and rounded the keeper and knocked the ball into the net with his left foot.  A 2003-4 typical counter attacking goal.

Our players soon took the foot of the pedal, and the Porto players knew the game was over.

Bendtner got the chance to get a hattrick when Eboue was brought down in the 90th minute for an Arsenal penalty.  Bendtner confidently side footed the ball into the bottom left.  A fine performance after his unlucky one at the weekend. 6-2 on aggregate

Two great performances after the International break and what happened in Stoke.

Hull away on Saturday, lets beat the Orange man Brown.

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