0-1 Van Persie (42)
1-1 Some cunt (88)
Match report here.
Sorry for the late post, but the internet has been a bitch. Now, before the game I could have settled for a point, but after watching the game, I think we squandered a great opportunity to get all three points. Indeed Dortmund are a good team, but on the day, it was a combination of us being very poor and them being very good. We were quite pathetic at times really.
Gervinho had 2 chances against the keeper which he missed. The second one in particular, he could have passed it to his left were Theo was waiting to tap into an open net. Instead he give it to Dortmund. After We scored the first goal, all we had to do was sit back and hit them on the counter attack. We failed dismally. We were giving the ball away cheaply in dangerous areas. Our midfielders, Benayoun and Arteta were poor. Only Song, my man of the match by a country mile, did himself proud.
I said before the game that Song has been a big miss. Not only does he defend well, he helps set up attacks. Yesterday he was strong in the tackle, in dangerous areas, winning the ball cleanly but unfortunately there was no outlet to send the ball to.
Theo was neither here nor there. Gervinho did ok, he tried to work the ball along the line, but he was getting crowded out as there was no support from his team mates. I have said before that very often we lack forward runners when we are in possession. We really have lost our counter-attacking prowess that we had in the days of the Henrys and Ljungbergs. Gervinho, Theo, Van Persie and Benayounn could have been the 4 counter-attacking players with the rest of the team sitting back. Those four have enough pace and skill to make a counter-attack strategy work. But no, it was not to be.
Gibbs did very well. I had thought that Santos would start, but on yesterday's showing, I understand why Wenger is going with Gibbs at the moment. The guy looks shot of match fitness. When he came on, all he did was fall down a couple of times.
Metersacker was assured in defence, but great credit to Koscielny. This guy had a tough start to the game, losing possession and making several errors but he kept going, in the end he made several blocks and interceptions.
Reading around the Arsenal website today, everybody is talking of the team getting confidence from the game. Well, i'd prefer not to talk about confidence but rather improving quality. Quality. Quality of play. Quality of passing. Quality of attack. Quality of controlling the game. We are failing to play keep ball. Keeping the ball better yesterday would have reduced our opponents' threat and also demoralised them. Perpetually handing them the ball simply enourages them to attack more. Lets get back to playing keep ball.
Overall, a draw from Dortmund is not a bad result at all. But when it comes as a result of a late goal against a team whom we could have scored a second goal and sealed all three points, you have to be very disapointed.
However, i'll take the 3 points and head to Blackburn, hoping we can inflict some pain on them and compound their misery. Lets do unto them worse than what United did to us. we really need to claw back that goal difference deficit...
We have some work to do on the training ground so lets get on with it. We are barely crawling right now, soon we'll be walking, then running and eventually flying. In a month's time from now, things will be different at Arsenal.
Upwards crawls the Arsenal!!
1-1 Some cunt (88)
Match report here.
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| Van Persie- man on fire |
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| Gervinho- lacking a little bit the sharpness |
I said before the game that Song has been a big miss. Not only does he defend well, he helps set up attacks. Yesterday he was strong in the tackle, in dangerous areas, winning the ball cleanly but unfortunately there was no outlet to send the ball to.
Theo was neither here nor there. Gervinho did ok, he tried to work the ball along the line, but he was getting crowded out as there was no support from his team mates. I have said before that very often we lack forward runners when we are in possession. We really have lost our counter-attacking prowess that we had in the days of the Henrys and Ljungbergs. Gervinho, Theo, Van Persie and Benayounn could have been the 4 counter-attacking players with the rest of the team sitting back. Those four have enough pace and skill to make a counter-attack strategy work. But no, it was not to be.
Gibbs did very well. I had thought that Santos would start, but on yesterday's showing, I understand why Wenger is going with Gibbs at the moment. The guy looks shot of match fitness. When he came on, all he did was fall down a couple of times.
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| Koscielny- Underated but very good defender |
Reading around the Arsenal website today, everybody is talking of the team getting confidence from the game. Well, i'd prefer not to talk about confidence but rather improving quality. Quality. Quality of play. Quality of passing. Quality of attack. Quality of controlling the game. We are failing to play keep ball. Keeping the ball better yesterday would have reduced our opponents' threat and also demoralised them. Perpetually handing them the ball simply enourages them to attack more. Lets get back to playing keep ball.
Overall, a draw from Dortmund is not a bad result at all. But when it comes as a result of a late goal against a team whom we could have scored a second goal and sealed all three points, you have to be very disapointed.
However, i'll take the 3 points and head to Blackburn, hoping we can inflict some pain on them and compound their misery. Lets do unto them worse than what United did to us. we really need to claw back that goal difference deficit...
We have some work to do on the training ground so lets get on with it. We are barely crawling right now, soon we'll be walking, then running and eventually flying. In a month's time from now, things will be different at Arsenal.
Upwards crawls the Arsenal!!
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