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Discussion and Prediction:Arsenal vs. Portsmouth

December 15th, 2006

Gunners will face Portsmouth to strengthen their 3rd place position.

Recently,especially last week our kids starts to give good result to us with a drew with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and a late win at JJB Stadium.However,our defence sometimes worries me as I had see the game against Chelsea and Wigan where our defender makes decisive mistake and Arsenal could have conceded goal if Arsenal is in bad luck.However the luck seems to be in our hands.

Portsmouth on the other hand is improving tremendously compared to their last season when they were almost eliminated to Division 1 but they just collected enough points for them to stay in Premiership.This season they have shocked us with such a great performance and win most their Premiership game.

However,I don’t think Portsmouth with beat Arsenal in Emirates Stadium,maximum will be draw again if Arsenal isn’t playing seriously.

I don’t think Arsenal skill loses to the other team especially M.United,Liverpool and Chelsea,it just Arsenal loses on the consistency.Liverpool at the beginning of the season was also performed badly,but now they started to keeping their good performance on every match.

In Premiership,each team compete for consistency,not about performance.Of course if their performance is bad then they will lose point.We saw Arsenal can beat M.United at Old Trafford,becoming the second team to draw with Chelsea after Aston Villa but what Arsenal loses to them is consistency.Why Arsenal could lose point to team like West Ham,Middlesbrough,Manchester City when they could thrash the best team ever on Premiership 3-0.

I think Arsenal must take every Premiership game like the way they take on the game against the Devils and The Blues.Even you win Manchester United it is also 3 points and if you win Watford it is also 3 points.I wonder if the smaller team beat the bigger team they could get 4 points for that,the Premiership will be much more interesting to watch.

Ok,lets see the other fixtures in Premiership this weekend;

Charton vs. Liverpool
Newcastle vs. Watford
Wigan vs. Sheffield United
Reading vs. Blackburn
Aston Villa vs. Bolton
Everton vs. Chelsea
Manchester City vs. Tottenham
Fulham vs. Middlesbrough
West Ham vs. Manchester United

The most interesting game to me to watch is the game Villa vs. Bolton.Why?It involve Arsenal as their points are extremely close to Arsenal.If they could draw them it will be good.The second wil be the game West Ham vs. Manchester United.Why?because I want to see how West Ham perform now after Alan Pardew were sacked.

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Ade made it 3 point and 3rd for Arsenal

December 14th, 2006

Arsenal regained back their 3rd place after Adebayor scored a late winning goal for all three point at JJB Stadium.

Although Arsenal was defending at first-half,but Arsenal start took control of the game starting from the 60th minute.Kolo Toure was defending well.Although Senderos made some mistakes,I think he will learn with this mistake.

The goal is quite controversial actually,not about the goal is about the tackle which caused a free-kick for Gunners where the goal comes from.Paul Jewell was quite frustrated actually because Wigan had a lot of attack(although it was not dangerous enough),and then when they made a mistake they were punished heavily.

Arsene Wenger hailed Arsenal fighting spirit and said if it was last season Arsenal could lost 1-0.

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Discussion and Prediction:Wigan vs. Arsenal

December 13th, 2006

Arsenal will face Wigan to regain their one game in hand.If Arsenal could win this match,Gunners will regain their third place.

Wigan poor performance recently had really something to concern as Arsenal could take advantage from that.Another good news for us is our full-back leader Kolo Toure could feature for this match after being suspended for one match before.However,as I said before Henry and Gallas will only return on early next year so of course they could not play in this game.

After I saw our kids performance last Sunday,I have confidence that Arsenal could beat Wigan this Wednesday.The team who Arsenal thrash 3-0,Liverpool could also thrash them 4-0,why we cannot?

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Premiership analysis

December 12th, 2006

Here’s the last week Premiership result

Man Utd 3 Manchester City 1
Blackburn 1 Newcastle 3
Liverpool 4 Fulham 0
Middlesbrough 1 Wigan 1
Portsmouth 2 Everton 0
Tottenham 5 Charlton 1
Watford 0 Reading 0
Bolton 4 West Ham United 0
Chelsea 1 Arsenal 1
Sheffield United 2 Aston Villa 2

Here’s the current Premiership table;

Pos.TeamPWDLFAGDPts
1Man Utd1714213892944
2Chelsea1611322691736
3Portsmouth178452314928
4Liverpool178452315828
5Bolton178361915427
6Arsenal1675426131326
7Reading178271921-226
8Aston Villa1751022117425
9Tottenham177462021-125
10Everton176652017324
11Wigan166462021-122
12Man City175571420-620
13Fulham175571627-1120
14Newcastle165471518-319
15Middlesbro174581422-817
16Sheff Utd174581322-917
17Blackburn164481421-716
18West Ham1742111024-1414
19Charlton1733111328-1512
20Watford161871020-1011

Arsenal dropped to 6th place as Arsenal made a point at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge.Arsenal could take back their 3rd place if Gunners can beat Wigan tomorrow.Fortunately Sheffield struck a draw with Aston Villa or otherwise Arsenal could drop to 7th place.

Chelsea task to to win again Premiership Title for this season become even harder as they are now 8 points distance with the current Leaders Manchester United.

Liverpool seems to find back their soul as they beat Fulham 4-0 after thrashing Wigan 4-0 which means they are now getting 6 points and 8 more positive goal difference.

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‘Lamps post’ is lighted for Arsenal

December 11th, 2006

Arsenal had a lucky drew with Chelsea yesterday as Blues launched a lot of ‘Lamp’s post attack’ to Arsenal defence.

In first-half,things are looking duller as no goals are produced by neither side.However,Chelsea launched quite a lot of attack,and the most dangerous is when Lampard shot into the post and the Essien’s shot which was cleared by Fabregas.

In the second -half,things are looking more exciting as Chelsea take most of the possesion but however our kids were defending well and luck was at our side.The presence of Arjen Robben even more dangerous as he always took a dangerous run at Arsenal’s right side and made a mess in Arsenal’s defence.

However,thing’s are turned up as Flamini’s shot into the net at 78th minute stunned the ‘Special One’ and made all Arsenal fans including me shouted”GOAL”.

Chelsea mounted up the pressure and Drogba kept attacking but it did not suceed,the worst is Drogba had slight injury(I see him walk like an injured man) and the Blues had to wait until 84th minute when Essien made a curved attack into the net and Lehmann could do nothing.

Arsenal’s best chance came when Ljungberg made a cross into Chelsea’s penalty box but Hleb just too nervous and didn’t take the chance well.

At last minute,Chelsea try to take all the three points.But Gunners held on until the final whistle.

Great footballing from Arsenal.I never think Arsenal could take points from this game as a lot of our regular player are injured,this games is played at Stamford Bridge and Chelsea loads of quality footballer.

To Arsenal player especially our kids,I salute you as you could drew with a team who has a lot of galaticos.

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