Blackburn Rovers vs Arsenal Preview

Can Blackburn stop THE MAN?

Steve Kean, The Blackburn manager is fucked! Arsene Wenger has given him the kiss of death, just as Ferguson did to Wenger before the thumping at United. Arsene says

 I have a lot of sympathy for Steve Kean. He is a young manager and you want to give him time to do his job.


What Wenger is actually saying is;
Steve kean and Blackburn Rovers are fucked. Keep him in the job long enough for us to get 6 points off his team.

Ferguson also had sympathy for Wenger and look what happened. sympathy between managers comes when one knows that the other possesses no threat to his team. The last time I heard Wenger say something similar I think was for Juande Ramos when he was at Tottenham. Look what happened there.

Our Opponents for tomorrow?
 I know its early days in the league yet, but if Arsenal are fucked in terms of form, then Blackburn are double fucked and pissed upon. For all their efforts thus far, they firmly remain the foundation of the league table. They have brought in a couple of cunts into their team who are yet to piss straight into the pan. like us, they have only managed to score 3 league goals. If they don't do something soon, they are going to be relegated come end of the season.

What of Arsenal?
Aaron Ramsey, I suspect, was rested during the week and he will be back tomorrow. I don't buy the story about an ankle injury in one article then a knee injury in another.

There is no new injury news, so we should see an Arsenal team of;

                            Chezny
Sagna   Mertesacker   Koscielny Gibbs
                             Song
                Ramsey          Arteta
      Gervinho                          Arshavin
                          The Man 

This is the league so there is no time to talk about going to Blackburn to get confidence. Bullshit. We should be going there to get 3 points and nothing less. Anything less than 3 points will be a big disapointment in my book and one that will come back to poke-a-haunt us at the end of the season.

We need to be more clinical with our free kicks. We need to attack with more forward runners. If Gervinho or Theo is running on the wing towards goal, I'd like to see 4 players busting a gut to get in and around the box to attack any cross that might be delivered from the wing.

When we defend corners, I would like to see the ball released fast out on the wing with 3 players sprinting towards the Blackburn goal on the counter attack. I would like us to keep the ball better and make those angles for triangular passes.

I would like us to pass and move quickly between the Blackburn players in the final third with one-touch football. We tend to be too slow in the final third, often taking an extra touch when a 1-2 pass would have seen a player through on goal.

I would like to see more shots taken from outside the box!!

Yes, its a long way till the end, but results compile into league position. We need to take each game as if it were a cup final. Let's give 100%. Lets kill off opponents. This allows the manager to rest key players for future games and also bring in some fringe players to gain some much needed game time.

I would like us to wrap the game up with 30 minutes to go and then bring on the young players Ryo, Chamberlain and even Ju and let them run riot. But we cannot get to enjoy such players' talents when we are under the cosh for 90 minutes and barely holding on.

So, come on Arsenal, lets talk less about confidence etc and act. Like Wenger said.

So, lets claw back our rightful place in the upper echelons of the league and fix that negative goal difference. It really makes for painful reading.

Upwards crawls the Arsenal!!