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Congratulations to Robin Van Persie for his sublime match and tournament winning goal. I'll not bang on about the match or tournament as you'll find descriptions on the Arsenal site. However if you've not seen Van Persie's goal yet, check it out on below...sick!
Another young player came on to real aplomb in the match. Keiran Gibbs - probably drafted in late to replace the services of injured Theo Walcott on the wing, made a really mature début. The young 17 year old certainly did himself proud and was certainly one of our best performers in the first half. In a nice touch, Arsene substituted him before the break to a rapturous standing ovation from the Emirates crowd.
On Gallas at center-back, NO NO NO, not going to work I'm afraid. I'd have Senderos or Djourou any day ahead of him.
On this Wenger said:
"We have to work on that. In the air we have to be more efficient because in England that’s an important way to stop goals. For me Senderos played very, very well yesterday and he is good in the air. We have Djourou, who is injured at the moment, as well. So I feel we don’t want to buy a centre back."
For the first goal, it was just simply poor defending. When I saw the cross coming in, I instantly knew Inter were going to score a header, and it would be Gallas not putting enough pressure on the player at fault. This is getting far too repetitive for it to be a chance occurrence. When Gallas played effectively for Chelsea, he had Terry providing aerial cover and even then he usually played left-back - now you know why. I think this is our real Achilles heal at the moment, ironically while everyone is worried about the source of our goals, I'm fretting about the state of our defence. Remember Chelsea only scored one more goal than us last season but came 2nd in the league....
I'd like to conclude on the real story today which was Iraq's Mesopotamian Lion's wining the Asia Cup... the little fancied team, made up of Kurds, Sunni's and Shia players, united to lift their country. The thing about football, and I know, people will bring up all the old hyperbole here.. but the thing about football, is people just love it....whether the footballers are paid in peanuts or bars of gold...it has a strangle hold over our emotions.
5 comments:
nice touch bringing up the fact that sport and football in general has absolutely no bearing on the religion of a player ... i love that Iraq won the trophy some smiles at last for their people... Van Persie is gonna set the premiership alight ... and for all you Hleb haters out there ... shut it!!!
WHAT A FINISH FROM ROBIN !!!!
as soon as i saw him cut back in i knew that without a doubt he was gonna curl with his heavenly left for far left but he dazzled me with that brilliant roll back and what surprised me most was ...
HE FINISHED WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT !!!!
anyone remember the game against everton a few seasons back when he completely fluffed his shot by completely missing the ball???hmmmmm
guess ol' Wenger has been working on it since than and OMG what a session it has proven to be !!!
and as for Iraq just love to say i love how people always think high paid players can only win silverware...
just goes to show that with team spirit you can do anything !!!
Watch out Chelsea we dont need to buy players for Trillions of pounds ... why when we got 17year olds who can run rings around legends like Figo ;)
Yeah, Cheers Guys, I've popped a GIF of the VAN PERSIE GOAL ON THE POST NOW.
Sublime football. It doesn't look as though we are going to miss Thierry after all. And although I don't think Arsene wanted him to go, it surprises me that no-one has commented on how Thierry wishing to go sorted out the captaincy problem: i.e Thierry was not cut out to be captain and it would have been real hard to keep him happy and take the armband away!
I always saymake your best player captain at your peril... doubly so if that player is a striker. Strikers don't make good captains 1) because the usually are under pressure themselves to produce goals in the game, 2) they can't have a good awareness of the passage of the game because they are stuck upfront often with their back to play, and 3) they are isolated for much of the game so they can't influence things...
Just my view, but I would never have made him captain. Defender or central midfielder...or even goalie. Never a striker.
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