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Arsenal vs. Chelsea match preview

December 15th, 2007

Tomorrow all people will focus into the top of the table clash,which only happens once per season.

Live streaming:Refer here

Players

Again,Persie could play but presence of Fabregas and Hleb remains uncertain and I think we could only know it tomorrow.

Diaby could also play actually.

Technical details

I think Gunners should use 4-4-2,as we have all strikers of course and we are playing at home,so I think we should have the attacking initiative or otherwise we seems “useless” in this game.But it’s OK if Wenger decides to play counter-attacking game against Blues,just as Manchester United did to us last time.

But of course,we will be more careful with our defending and with absence of Drogba,hopefully it would be slightly easier.

If Fabregas and Hleb are absent,we can use back our present midfielder and we could replace one of them with Gilberto if we have one goal lead.

EPL table

The current EPL table makes tomorrow matches very interesting to watch than before.

If all the Big Four draws,we will stand on top of table
If Arsenal wins,Manchester United wins,then we and Devils will have some two-horse race.Not to reglect other team,but the two teams will have some gap between their follower.
If Arsenal draw,Manchester United wins then Devils will stand on top of table.
If Arsenal lose more than two goals difference,Manchester United wins then Arsenal will drop to 3rd place.
If Gunners lose less than three goals margin,Manchester United loses then Arsenal and Blues will have point difference tension for rest of the game,until one of the teams drop points.

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Arsenal beat Steaua,but failed to top Group H

December 12th, 2007

Arsenal 2-1 Steaua Bucharest
Arsenal:Diaby 8,Bendtner 42 Steaua:Zaharia 69

Despite winning this match,this win is meaningless in terms of points to top Group H.But it certainly boost our confidence to gain another 3 points next weekend against Chelsea.

Thankfully that we could play Wengerball again,I saw Gunners could passed properly and this time,Arsenal has a stronger midfield and this contributes to domination of this game.

Both Arsenal goals are similar,both of the goals were scored from Gunner’s right-side,just the first goal was scored by Diaby and second goal was scored by Bendtner.

Steaua tried to make it better for them by scoring a header goal,but they failed to gain one point from Emirates Stadium.

Overall,Gunners had improved a lot from their previous game,but they will have to play a lot better to let Grant grant them a win this weekend.

So Arsenal finished 2nd in the table,and this means they will have higher chances to face tougher teams in knock-out stage.The knock-out stage draw is this Sunday if I’m not mistaken.

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Arsenal vs. Steaua Bucharest match preview

December 12th, 2007

1.Live Streaming for this match.

.My p2p

2.Match preview.

After our EPL’s unbeaten record was ended by Boro,it’s time to forget them and do our best to get back first place in Group H in U.C.League.

a)Players

Lehmann could play in this game,after being suspended by Wenger for almost 4 months.Persie could also feature in this game after being injured for almost 6 weeks.But Fabregas,Hleb and Diaby are still recovering from injuries,and Hleb and Fabregas could also miss Chelsea’s game next weekend.

b)Technical details

Since Persie is here,I think 4-4-2 is definitely the best choice.Adebayor would not feel lonely now with another strikers with him.But midfield will be major concern now,since Fabregas and Hleb aren’t back yet and we will have to make best from our midfielder now.

This will be a good chance for Persie to warm up before breaking into England’s captain defense team.We could also see hoe Ade perform with Persie.If he remains sluggish for this game I suggest him to be replaced with Bendtner next weekend.

c)Group H table

As Sevilla are two points ahead of us,we can just pray for Sevilla to drop points against Slavia Prague and what we can do now is to win this match.

But it isn’t too important anyway to finish 2nd or 1st,since both teams can qualify to knock-out stage.But we will be likely to face tougher teams in 2nd-round if we finish second.

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Post update 10/12/07

December 10th, 2007

1.Wenger:Absent players is out our reason of defeat.
Source:Arsenal.com

How I agree with this statement.We can’t blame absent players for our defeat.All teams,no matter in EPL,Europe,Asia,Africa must have injury crisis.But how they handled them makes the difference.

I admit that absent players derives us from our best,but it should be good enough to beat our opponents,at least our weaker opponents.

Anyway,Arsenal lost to Boro because of weak midfield.I admit that this is also cause by injuries,but the main problems here are the strategies and players psychology.

2.Hleb and Fabregas could miss Chelsea’s game.
Source:Arsenal.com

But they still have chance to feature in the game,right?

But if they haven’t really recovered,I think we should not play them.We don’t want a player to play one game and miss 10 games.

And one more thing is Arsenal get the consolation fact that Persie and Diaby could play in next weekend’s game.

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Boro ended Gunner’s EPL unbeaten record

December 9th, 2007

Middlesbrough:Downing 4,Sanli 74
Arsenal:Rosicky 94

A well deserved defeat for us I would say.Again we are weak at our midfield.We tried to build strong midfield during 65th minute but then we realized that we need another man to put the ball into the net.

Our game in first 15 minutes isjust not Wengerball.A long balls with no direction is just not our way of playing football,and with determined opponent to beat us,we were surely finished if we didn’t change the way we play.

Gunners started to play better then,but it was just not good enough to wrest the possession from Southgate’s gang.

Since I had not commented on Wenger’s quote,I would like to do so now.

Here’s the article

Just as I said just now,we didn’t have strong midfield position.Then we made our opponent’s midfield stronger.Then we can’t have the possessions when we can’t control our midfield.

But we have some small consolation fact that Liverpool too lost 3-1 to Reading.And EPL will be extremely interesting from this point.

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