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Arsenal top of the league again,beating Everton 4-1

December 29th, 2007

Everton 1-4 Arsenal

  • Everton:Cahill 20
  • Arsenal:Eduardo 47,58 Adebayor 80 Rosicky 94

Arsenal didn’t play their best actually,but I’m very glad that Everton made such a lot of decisive mistake,and of course the fact that we could exploit them profitably makes us top of the table again.

Everton played a good game actually,they have a quite strong midfield and strikers but their defense was absolutely rubbish.Same goes to them when playing Devils last weekend when they lost to a penalty that was caused by a silly tackle.

First half

It’s nothing wrong with our team until the 10th minute onwards.We started to lose out possession and that’s where the nightmare started for Gooners.

Jim Cahill’s goal at 20th minute was resulted from placement of Bendtner.If he wasn’t there then the ball will went wide.

Then,it’s downhill for us.We passed the ball weakly,our ball control was bad and we can’t harm them.Everton was good in air so they could easily gain possession from a long ball pass.

Second-half

It’s Everton fans nightmare now.Eduardo equalized just 2 minutes after 2nd-half started.Clichy’s long ball had succeeded to fall on Eduardo’s control.No doubt,he is the best finisher in our squad.I don’t sure whether Ade could score in such circumstances.

At 58th minute,he made it again.It was about the same goal except it was not from a long ball.

Bendtner was out at 73rd minute following a harsh tackle to Johnson.

About the red card awarded to Bendtner,I think I will accept it since it’s not a red-card anyway;it was the second yellow card that sends him out.Why Bendtner made such a silly tackle?If he didn’t made it we could play him and Adebayor together,that’s the best time to do such an experiment.

Another stupid mistake by Everton’s defender made Ade score finally.It’s hard to miss such a chance.I think David Moyes should look back on their team’s mistake now.

Rosicky took advantage again from Everton’s demoralized play to score Gunners 4th goal in this game.

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Everton vs. Arsenal match preview

December 27th, 2007

Arsenal must forget their last game and head on to Goodison Park to beat Everton in order to maintain the hope for EPL title.

In our last game,I think we had played with a team with more closed game but I think Toffees would not play like that.While it’s good for our playing style,their counter-attacks are always deadly for their opponent’s.A team that could make Devils struggling in Old Trafford and only lost on penalty is a tough team of course.

I came across an article;
Wenger slams Portsmouth defending tactics

Yes,their tactics was somehow unethical,but it’s legal and we should blame ourselves for the game.As we progress more,our EPL opponent could be just want to draw against us and not lose the game.It’s better than playing their usual game and lose 4-0 to us.

The key to win the title,aside from consistency;and the key for consistency is flexibility in our style of playing.

Technical details of the game

But I could not understand why Wenger refused to play 4-4-2,and always use 4-4-1-1.We know that Ade sucks being alone as strikers.

We should be more flexible with our opponent.If Everton plays an open game,then we could play our usual passing but if they play closed game like Portsmouth did,we could try to shoot more and play more to Liverpool’s style.

We can try too the combination of Ade and Bendtner.I think it’s better like that.

Players

Persie is out for this game and I’m not sure of Gallas’s presence in this game.Other than this two players,we could play our other players as usual.

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Arsenal 0-0 Portsmouth

December 26th, 2007

Gunners stumbled to 2nd place after facing a colorless draw at Fratton Park.

It’s pretty hard to play our usual football against a very closed-team;a team that tend to defend more than attack.It can be concluded that Portsmouth just want a draw from this game,and they got it.

I think we should shoot more in this game,rather than playing our usual passing game because just as I said before,it’s very hard to play Wengerball against a solid-defending team.Yes,I mentioned before in my previous post that Pompey’s defense isn’t strong enough,but the problem is their main task today is just to defend,so it isn’t that hard anyway to defend with 11 players,against 10 opponent’s player.

SO the main problem is actually we didn’t play a freer game this time,most of our passes were blocked efficiently by ex-Gunners Campbell and other defenders.Again,we were slightly “outphysicalled” by our opponent’s defender.

We did let them have some counter-attack to open up the game,but they still scared to counter-attack more bravely.

Now it’s time for us to trail Devils now.

We did had some chances through,but not a lot as usual.

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Arsenal vs. Portsmouth match preview,live streaming

December 25th, 2007

Merry Christmas to all,and let’s hope Gunners could win another game in Boxing Day.

Live Streaming

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Match preview

The very good thing for us is no one is injured I think,so we could play them with full team,if Wenger wanted anyway.

But playing Pompey away from home could be a tricky game for us,and with their full of pace strikers like Benjani,we could out-physicalled by them.But I’m sure we can break their defense as I don’t think their defense is strong;I mean they could make mistakes easily and of course I hope they will make more in this game.It’s up to us to exploit that.

I’m still think that we should use Ade for this game,despite the rise of Bendtner recently.Though his finishing is somehow quite poor,but he has more shooting power.We could substitute him with Bendtner,if he performed badly.

Or we could use both together,and Persie will not play in this game.Sometimes we have to do some experiment.However,I don’t think we should risk our valuable three points for this combination.

We will have to stay in 2nd place for a while,if Devils beat Black Cats in Boxing Day.

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Arsenal vs. Spurs match report

December 22nd, 2007
Arsenal 2-1 Tottenham




Arsenal:Adebayor 47,Bendtner 75
Tottenham:Berbatov 66

Robbie’s Keane missed penalty kick proved costly to the team as Bendtner quickly came in to punish them.

But it’s Arsenal who got the header just 2 minutes after 2nd-half started.This goal is really typical Gunners goal;it was produced by great passing,and the best of all the finishing was Theirry Henry-like.

Gunners continued to control the game.But somehow Spurs managed to equalize,thanks to Keane’s great back-heel kick to Berbatov.We can’t blame our defense on this goal.

But Toure’s tackle on Berbatov nearly costs us the game,and it could be EPL title as well.I didn’t see the need to foul someone in that time.Berbatov can’t do anything dangerous there.

Bendtner’s goal just after he came in was absolutely fantastic.He really took the opportunity by himself.This is the first-time I saw a Gunners jumps that high to head the ball into the net.

And again,we had the same weaknesses;we tend to relax a little bit after scoring.But luckily it was not on defending,it’s on out attacks.I think we should try our best to gain as many goals as possible,especially in this match we had plenty of chances to score.

But glad the three point falls to our hand again.Luck was on our side.

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