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Arsenal keep their pay nearlyy perfect,beating Sevilla 3-0

September 20th, 2007

Before we talk further about that let’s see the game’s highlight;

Although Arsenal won with a quite a big margin,but they only score at 27th minute when Fabregas again shot from some distance but it got some difference with his goal against Tottenham last week,his goal this time were resulted by deflection,which means Gunners had quite good luck at that time.

Then it’s van Persie’d turn to score this time.At 57th minute he easily kicked the ball from Fabregas’s free-kick into Sevilla’s goal,making it 2-0 for Arsenal.

Gunners again scored at extra-time when Eduardo easily deflected the ball again into the net,and of course I think this is the best goal in this game,which I think Arsenal’s goal should be like.

Not forgetting about Sevilla,they too had a dangerous attack against us,but Almunia did a good job to keep Arsenal’s goal clean.

The main thing I see Arsenal today compared to last year is the finishing;I have to admit that Arsenal has better finishing this season.

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Arsenal vs. Sevilla match preview

September 19th, 2007

We had achieved quite a strong performance in EPL,and let’s see if we can perform the same in UCL.

Some said Sevilla has a same playing style with Gunners,and I think it could be true because we play like Spanish teams.

And of course Sevilla is a very good team in Spain as well in Europe.We had seem them winning UEFA Cup consecutively for 2 years and recently they won their first 2 games in Spanish Primera Liga,and could rival Real Madrid if they win with more than 2 goals margin in their one game in hand.

But when we said they are very good,we aren’t bad as well.Though we haven’t win any European Cup yet,but at least we can play every year in Champions League.Sevilla could be considered a new-comer to UCL,while Arsenal can be considered a big teams as well in UCL.

I’m sorry if my statement above has offended anyone,but sometimes I feel that fans need to motivate ourselves.We didn’t need to fear them.And I think Gunners has a bigger chance to win because they are playing at home,and our players has high confidence to win the game.We can beat Real Madrid at Bernabeu,why can’t we win Sevilla at Emirates?

About Gunners,I think we need to seriously strengthen our defense.We can’t make anymore careless mistake.Even we play against Spurs,we had exposed a lot of defending mistakes and I think Sevilla will punish us if we defend like we did at last weekend.

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Rusian billionaire increases stake in Gunners

September 18th, 2007

Source:Guardian Unlimited

I thought the takeover issue is over,but it doesn’t.

Actually we didn’t know what is Usmanov’s purpose of taking over Arsenal.If it’s for good for Arsenal then it is good.

But if it’s for his main profit only,then Gunners could be in big trouble,they could lose their wealth instead.If Usmanov buy lots of players,spends a lot of money and then suddenly leaves the club,the club will be burdened by lots of debts.

Let’s say if Roman suddenly leaves Chelsea,Chelsea will be in big trouble because the club will have to pay a lot of debts,the money spent on players etc.

And I don’t think we need someone to boost our financial wealth,as Gunners are second-richest club now in Europe.Source:Boom Time

Ok,yesterday I promised my elaboration of the 3rd point and I’m going to elaborate it now.

Why the win is easier in the early of the season?It’s because most of the teams are not “warmed-up” yet.Especially if they just invested in lots of players,they will need some time to get their coordination right.But at the end of the season they had already “warmed-up” and it’s harder to win against them.

Second,the new-comers are still not motivated enough.I don’t think they have really targeted for the EPL title.They just want to stay in EPL,enjoying broadcasting fees from the Sports company etc.

But when the end of the season approaches,some of the teams that stand in the bottom of the table are begin to worry about their relegation if they finish at 18th,19th and 20th place in EPL.Therefore they will play harder,in order to say in EPL and they will do anything to win,and they will try their best to win all the remaining games,even though they are going to play against the big teams.

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Fabregas:We must keep winning

September 17th, 2007

Source:Goal.com

I would like to comment on his quotes;

“Last season I had chances and never scored. But this year I’ve had even less and scored more,”

In football,there are very less or no exact count about how much chance is given to a player to score goal.THe only exact count is how many chances you can convert into goals.There are very less or no such things such as”Player A has 20 chances to score goals” in match reports,reviews but there are such things like “Player A score 2 goals in the game”.So it doesn’t matter how much chance you have but how you are going to change the chances into goals,which can help you to win the game.

Tottenham,in last few games including the recent ones against Arsenal,they had a lot of chances to score goals,even though they are playing against two of the Big Four,Gunners and Red Devils.Manchester United did not dominate completely in the match against Spurs,Spurs had a lot of counter-attacking chances but they can’t finish well.And finally Nani give a deadly shot punishment to them.Same goes to their game against us,they too had a lot of attacking chances.I thought that they deserve to beat us if they finish well enough.

And I think Arsenal have to find a way to counter some team’s strategy which tends to be “sticky” with us because it could greatly affect Gunners type of playing.If not,Arsenal success will not for long.

I’m sorry,because I think most of my comments have nothing to do with Fabregas’s above quote.

“We need to keep winning, which was what we were missing the last two seasons.

“We lost a lot of points at the beginning, had to come back, and it was too difficult as the teams at the top did not lose any points.

But I think I would like to give a talk about “Why we should head for a earlier win?”

1.Better head start,we have less pressure than we have to “chase” teams.
2.Give more pressure to our opponent.
3.Win is easier in early of EPL season.

Actually about 1. and 2.,it goes about the same.If we maintain our position in EPL and have distance of 4 points from runner-up,we have less pressure than the runner-up because we can still drop some points and can still compete with the runner-up but the runner-up can’t drop points;their point distance will be bigger if we continue winning.

About 3.,why I think win is easier at the beginning of the season?I think I will elaborate about this tomorrow.If you disagree with the third statement,go ahead and let me know.Let’s debate about this.

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Premiership analysis

September 16th, 2007

Let’s look at current Premiership Table now,although there are two matches that are not played yet.

Source:Arsenal.com

Pos.TeamPWDLFAGDPts
1Arsenal5410104613
2Liverpool5320112911
3Man Utd632142211
4Chelsea632176111
5West Ham531183510
6Everton631286210
7Blackburn52305329
8Man City53024229
9Newcastle42206338
10Wigan62227528
11Aston Villa42115327
12Birmingham621379-27
13Middlesbro621379-27
14Sunderland621359-47
15Portsmouth613278-16
16Fulham6123911-25
17Tottenham6114911-24
18Reading6114310-74
19Bolton6105711-43
20Derby5014315-121

This is the first time when I done a Premiership analysis when Arsenal is at 1st place in the Premiership table.With 13 points and 1 game in hand,Gunners definitely have the best of both worlds.

But I’m still worried with Gunners defense.Based on the match against Tottenham yesterday,I think we need to improve our defense.If only Tottenham took their chance yesterday,Arsenal could not come back with all the 3 points.I can conclude that Gunners beat Tottenham because they are bad,especially in finishing and not because of our great play.Yes,Fabregas and Adebayor scored fabulous goal but our defense is quite bad and we could been easily conceded goals if only our opponent is better.We can’t let Sevilla gets the same chance like Tottenham;we have to improve more especially in defense.

Next,Liverpool drew with Portsmouth and the worst is Portsmouth’s evil journey hasn’t ended yet with a away match against Blackburn.Manchester United get back on fire again after beating Everton 1-0.But Man. United can’t win with bigger margin(eg: 2-0,3-0) and I think this is not Man United expected performance.

Chelsea had a frustrating draw with Blackburn at Stamford Bridge and I’m sure Jose will be deeply disappointed with the result.Fortunately Roman wasn’t went back before the match ends or otherwise the media will take a shot about this.

West Ham,despite playing without Tevez,are doing quite well actually with 10 points in 5 games,and if they can win the game in hand they could overtake Man United and The Blues.

One more,if Man City can win the match against Aston Villa then they could stand at 2nd place in EPL table.

Bolton still cover the bottom of the table and with 1-0 lost to Birmingham,they have to wait for at least a week to get into the middle of the table.

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