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Arsenal vs. Aston Villa match preview

February 29th, 2008

Arsenal vs. Aston Villa match preview

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Players

The good news for us is Persie is back to full training today.But Wenger will not rush him back and I think he’s going to play in Milan’s game next week.

Toure,Rosicky, however is out for the game and I don’t think we will see them in nearest fortnight.

Technical Details

Again and again,we need to be more creative in our play.I expect some counter-attacks from Villa and we need to be very,very careful against them.No more silly mistake like last week’s game.

Don’t give mercy to our opponent;score as much as we can,score when we can score.

We need to use lots of ways to break into Villa’s defence,should they play 10 players in front of their goal.Long passes,our infamous slick passing and even counter-attacks could be applied to this game.

Overall

I admit this game could be a tough game for us.I still remembered our last game against Villa at Villa Park.We did beat them but we didn’t deserve all the three points.

Devils have almost 100% probability to beat Fulham tomorrow,and we must fight for the title ourselves and not by hoping other teams will do us a favour.

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Should Gallas get his captain band off?

February 25th, 2008

Before I elaborate further on the above topic,I would like to say that we should see Eduardo playing on next year,if everything goes well.Source:Arsenal.com

I refer to here.

Like usual,I would like to refer to some interesting comments by Tony Cascarino;the narrator of this article.

“The defender’s becoming a liability, a laughing stock. He’s 30 years old, not 3. I don’t know what the players will make of his antics within the camp, but they can’t feel good about it. Gallas has developed the habit of berating his teammates when they make a mistake, waving his arms theatrically, pulling all sorts of faces. Players hate it when they are shown up publicly like that,”

Of course the players would show some frustration when they meet such a situation when they just can’t beat a team because of careless mistake.

I’m of course agree with his statement that Gallas made some silly actions in front of millions of people(including those who watched the game live from TV).But stripping off his captain band could be too cruel to him.

Players,being stars nowadays don’t like to get scolded but that’s the punishment you get when you’re playing badly.

“It’s not like Saturday was a one-off. His behaviour was poor at Old Trafford the week before, at White Hart Lane in the Carling Cup and he messed around in the centre circle for a while after the final whistle when West Ham United scored a late goal to beat Arsenal at Upton Park last term. ,”

I absolutely agree with the comments I quoted from the article.Kicking Nani was a silly move and it would embarrass us even more;don’t you think at 3-0 behind against our bitter rivals Manchester United(at time Gallas kicked Nani) and Eboue’s challenge that led to his red card wasn’t bad enough?

Let Ferguson kick him if he wants to.Who we are to educate our opponent?

I laughed about the bold statement.Gallas wasn’t at Arsenal yet when we lost 1-0 to Hammers.That’s the match which I did my first match report in this site.My site was just founded at that time.

Final say,I did not agree to have Gallas’ captaincy off,since he’s the only one who can be a leader to a team.But I don’t hope for another Vierra in our team.

Stop your silly action,Gallas and same to Eboue.Or otherwise we will really kick you off from Gunners.

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Birmingham vs. Arsenal match report

February 23rd, 2008
Birmingham 2-2 Arsenal

Birmingham:McFadden 29,90+4(pen)
Arsenal:Walcott 49,55

Match report

1st half

We were shocked by a violent challenge on Eduardo,and the game had to be “stopped” for about 8-9 minutes.Taylor wad awarded straight red card though.

We could be probably distracted by this incident.We controlled the game but we lacked sharpness and some creativity.As expected,Blues played their entire players to defend against us.

When you fail to score,we get punished.And this time,there in no exception.McFadden skillfully curved the free-kick to make Birmingham fans thrilled with 1-0 lead against EPL leader.

Then,we still control the game and had lots of attacks but it seems Birmingham who had quality of attack.

So it could be summed up that,we lacked creativity to score.Our attack weren’t sharp enough.

2nd half

In second-half,we still dominated the game.

Our equaliser came when Ade’s header made the goalkeeper lost the ball and Walcott scored his ever first EPL goal in this game.This made me thinking about Adebayor’s first goal,which were also scored at St Andrews stadium.

5 minutes later,Walcott again took advantage that there weren’t many Blues defender surrounding him and he scored again to make us lead by 1-0.

There were lots of chances where we could score but somehow,we lacked confidence and cold-blooded touch in this game.

Again,when you fail to score,you get punished.

At 92nd minute,Clichy careless mistake again costs us two points in EPL.Birmingham were awarded a penalty kick from Clichy’s challenge at penalty box.

McFadden again just easily denied our 3 points at their home with his penalty score.

Comments on this game

What to say?I’m of course frustrated with this result.Hopefully it would teach us to be more cold-blooded in our play.

If Adebayor was more sharp and focussed in his finishing,no one will give a look on that penalty kick.We didn’t score when we could,we think that 2-1 win is enough for us.

In fact,there were many times when we just let go our chance with finishing half-heartedly.And I hope we know to score when we can to.

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Birmingham vs. Arsenal match preview

February 22nd, 2008

Birmingham City vs. Arsenal match preview

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1.Match Preview-Birmingham vs. Arsenal
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Players

Ade,Hleb and Almunia are set to return for this game.Rosicky and Persie are still injured for at least 1-2 weeks time.Toure and Eboue are out for injury and suspension.

Techincal Details

Away games are always tricky for us,and this game is no different.We should be more creative in our attacking as I think Birmingham will play 9-10 players in front of their goal,and if possible they will try to exploit our defending mistake by counter-attacks.

So we must sometimes be more creative.We could give them some sort of possession for a while,make them confident that they could win this game and we’re ready to show real Gunners when they’re making mistakes.But our defence could not make mistake if we decide to play like this.

I still remember last time when Arsenal drew 1-1 with Birmingham at home,I was very frustrated and it were caused by our over dominance and lack of creativity.Over dominance is okay of course,but our lack of attacking creativity costs us two points in EPL.

Overall

As we are the first team playing this weekend,a win could pressure MU more by having 8 points gap before they play Magpies.A lost or stalemate would stimulate their game more.

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Arsenal vs. AC Milan match report

February 20th, 2008
Arsenal 0-0 AC Milan

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2.2nd half

Comments on this game

I can’t complain much on our players’ performance,but Milan really defended well and we lacked a little bit of luck in this game.

I admit we could be in serious problem now as we will go to San Siro without any advantage from here.But we have to be optimistic and we have to only draw with goal(s) to qualify into quarter-finals.

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