Arsenal For Fans – Gunn them down

Source:Arsenal.com

“West tried to lift the ball and go for the direct way. We were a little bit cautious. We had a little apprehension because we lost last year. At the start we played with the handbrake a little bit. Then we scored the goal and in the second half we put the ball down.

I think the game yesterday was balanced,with both teams have equal chances and attacking opportunities.And yes,if we lost to a team sometime ago,you tend to be scared when we play against the same team sometime later.Persie’s goal was because Persie was clever enough to be suddenly came from behind and headed for Gunners lead.

In second-half on the other hand,I think that West Ham dominate more for first 20 minutes of 2nd half.I don’t think Gunners had any domination in that game.As I said before,both teams had same possession and chances to score.But Gunners have been more stable for attacks as well as defense.This is the 2nd time I saw how Gunners defend this season;but it’s quite the same with the way we defend against Blackburn but we made more counter-attacking now than the game against Rovers.

“We had a lot to deal with in the air with the long ball and with the second ball, so it was important for us to keep the pace of the game high. It is natural to slow the game down when the ball goes in the air. At half time we had to say ‘Ok let’s up the pace and play more than we did in the first half’. I think that shows the team is maturing tactically.”

In EPL,we must deal with that.Physical play,high balls and long balls,referees errors etc.The latter one must be dealt by all teams in this world;not only EPL teams.To be great we must overcome problems opposed to us.Same goes to us in our life,we must overcome problems to be great.

The pace in second-half was getting higher really,with more dangerous attacks from both teams.Thats make the game more interesting to watch for.

“I don’t think Hleb will play on Tuesday because he cannot walk properly at the moment.”

This is very bad news to us;this means he could not feature in UCL game against Steaua.He had just injured before and now he will have to miss more games.

I will post my EPL analysis tomorrow.

Uncategorized arsenal, gunners

Arsenal beat Hammers just enough to get the three points.

But I’m glad with it.

Away games are always dangerous to us and this game applies hardness to Gunners as well.Arsenal could be just winning the possession by 60-40,55-45 etc.

Anyhow,Gunners broke the dead-lock in just 13 minutes after the game started,thanks to Persie’s header which is resulted from Hleb’s cross(if I’m not mistaken).

West Ham reacted quite aggressively after that,with quite a lot of shots from Ashton as well as our senior,Ljungberg.They also reacted quite physically and as a result,I think Hleb could miss the next game against Steaua Bucharest.

In second-half,Hammers kept hammering around Gunners goal until 63rd minute when Gunners started to take control of the game.Persie gunned a shot to make his second goal of the game but the goalkeeper was just good enough to keep it to just went to post.

Then,it’s a controversial time when Ljungberg’s goal was considered off-side.I didn’t care whether the goal was actually off-side or not,it’s useless since West Ham can’t appeal for it actually.Referee do make mistake too but their mistake was usually does not cost the referee a big cost,though it may cost teams a lot.

Anyhow,we can still stand on top of the table,at least for now.

Uncategorized arsenal, gunners

First,I’m sorry for not posting yesterday because I didn’t find anything interesting to talk about Gunners yesterday.

Now,it’s of course interesting since we can see our beloved team play again:)

But it’s against our bogey team,West Ham.Talking about our record against them last season was simply terrible for us.Actually it’s nothing if we lost 1-0 away but the worst is Wenger suddenly over-reacted with over-reacted Alan Pardew(he’s current Charton’s manager now) and that made a bad image for Wenger.But anyway I don’t think anyone who could look down at him now.

Let’s see EPL’s top 7 team’s statistics;

Hammers are doing quite well this season,they could even rival Chelsea if they win their one match in hand but we would not allow that since this will cause us to lose our precious 3 points isn’t it.

While quite a lot of Gunners are injured and could not feature in this game including Gallas,Lehmann,Sond,Rosicky,and now Eduardo ,a lot of West Ham’s player are fully recovered.This means we must be prepared to face Hammer’s full-forced players with our players.This will really test our team’s performance and is really Arsenal has really improved or Gunners are just taking advantage of their last EPL schedule.

I’m confident that Gunners could win the game 3-1,although lots had been saying that West Ham is our bogey team,but think again Gunners are still have superiority over them.When you said West Ham has good start in EPL,Arsenal is even better start than them obviously.

Uncategorized arsenal, gunners

I’m not watching the match actually but let’s look at the highlight below;

I think if we really watch the game we will really be worried for 80 minutes of the game.Arsenal’s goal came at a very late time,83 and 89th minute.

Given had done well to cope with our bullets from all direction and of course,our new goalkeeper Fabianski wasn’t bad too;he too saved some dangerous attacks from full-forced Newcastle.Credits should be given to Senderos too,if not because of his quick response to kick the ball away from out goal I think Arsenal will have to replay the game at St. James Park.

If you ask me about how well Gunners perform in this game,I will say they perform quite well but we are not really tested fullt yet but I think Magpies test is quite tough too to pass,and I’m glad that we are able to pass this “test”.Newcastle has improved considerably and they stand on 5th place in EPL,which means they are quite a tough team to play with.

Wenger is very glad with that and even quoted that all our players can play in the first team.
Source:Arsenal.com

“Yes, you [the press] accused us of over-playing, now we score headers and long distance goals – we listen to your advice!”

That’s the main change in Gunners style of playing that enables us to improve this season.Gunners is more flexible now,they could pass well and they can shoot well too.If there are too much defender packed in our opponent’s defense,we could shoot the ball from some distance.Our opponent now has to guard more against us.

“He’s(Diarra) ready to play at that level without any problem. We got him, yes [from Chelsea], and I must say for much less than was announced in the papers. Just two-million.”

Oh,I see that.

Liverpool on the other hand win too on two goals margin,but it’s 4-2 against Reading.I think they did well too to score 4 goals away from Anfield.

Let’s see how Man U and Blues progress in Carling Cup.

Uncategorized arsenal, gunners

I will begin with Sam Allardyce’s quote that he know the way to “rattle” Gunners.
Source:FansFC

“We must make sure that the players are aware of how we managed to beat them at Bolton. If they take that on board, they’ll have a chance.”

Yes,I admit that Bolton,under Big Sam’s guidance had a good record against us.But wait,I think Arsenal’s record against Sam’s tactics have been improving.I don’t think he could use the same tactics and strategy last season to beat us.But well,maybe he analyzed our game and he managed to find some flaws in our game.

But I think this is a suitable time to unleash our younger players and of course,we must play too some more experienced player to assist them and to save the game in case our kids fare poorly against full-forced Magpies.But fortunately Owen will not feature in this game because of injury.Weird isn’t it,Owen spent most of his time with injury.

Some rotation will be necessary as our schedule is very tight,using the same players for all the time will KOed the players and the results?Just like last season when we lost all the three championship is just 11 days.But I really hope that Arsenal could at least draw with them;we don’t want to lose at Emirates.

Uncategorized arsenal, fans, gunners