Arsenal : Diaby 18, 22, Gallas 51, Ramsey 69
Portsmouth : Kaboul 37
Another convincing performance from our squad; our play is quite solid although the same could not be said on Almunia in 37th minute. Gunners tore through Pompey’s defense with passes that cut through Pompey’s defense, dangerous headers and some scary shot.
In 70th minute after Gunners found their fourth, Wenger started to rest some of his players.Arshavin was substituted with Bendtner; Persie was replaced by Merida.After that, Portsmouth’s goal were bombarded with some dangerous shots that came and went ,but none of them went into their goal until the final whistle.
Match Reports
Celtic:-
Arsenal:Gallas 43, Caldwell 71 (og)
To sum out the result, this is a very good start for us.Is there any injuries??No I would gladly say…
In this game, we showed another type of quality;that was being tough and we could held the initiative from the host.We controlled the game although Celtic gave a good defense and they were good in counter-attack too.
But as usual, we made some mistakes near the end of the game, especially on defense side.We were lucky Celtic did not exploit that profitably.
Overall, all the squad played very well and there were some comments that Bendtner and Walcott did not defend well.But who cares as long as they attacked well.
Match Reports
Since I can’t think yet of what I’m going to write in this post, I will break up my post into three sections;just like I used to do before,and hopefully it will help me better to write this preview.
Players
Again, and again our squad always get injured easily.Diaby, Rosicky, and Walcott is sure to miss this game.Our captain,Fabregas is more than 50% chance to play this game.Come on, this is just our second competitive game and we got so many injuries already.
But fortunately, the rest of our squad is fit and I hope for victory in this game, and no more injuries as well.
Technical Tactics
Since this is an away game, and this is a Champions League match, it’s always good to focus a little bit more on defensive duties and of course try to control the midfield.Control of midfield means control of the game so midfield is very important.
Perhaps 4-5-1 is viable choice, but our last game against Everton showed that 4-3-3 is good too for us.
Overall
Since this game is 1st leg, we can still afford to recover should we draw or lose this game.And with big matches coming ahead in this few weekends, it could be possible Wenger will rest some players in this game.Whatever it is, we trust Wenger to control our squad.
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Source:Arsenal.com
Although le Boss’s comments are sometimes too optismistic, who cares if we like them.Here’s some of his interesting quotes:
Well it was a good team performance. I feel overall there is still room for improvement, not on the scoreline but in what we did today. But overall I am very happy with the team attitude basically, and we look like we have matured. And it’s a good basis to continue to improve and to work on what we want to do
I can’t comment much on team performance but from my point of view when I watched the highlights,we took our chances well (that could be caused by Adebayor’s departure) and we have a surprise fact that we scored three times from header,which was our weakness last season.Everton could be playing very badly,and that made we looked very good.Anyway, a win is a win and it’s good to have victory rather than defeat,three points rather than none.At least we now have a good start and a good start is half-way to silverware,hopefully.
on getting a good result ahead of the Celtic tie..
It is important. It lifted our confidence and that is good. But we are on alert as well. We know that every game is different. That is the way we can show we have matured. People are surprised, but you know that we were last year the team that scored more goals than anyone away from home. And we had a long unbeaten run in the Premiership away from home. Of course it is a surprise to win with such a score. But we know we can do it away from home
I’m really surprised Arsenal will play Celtic in such an early stage in Champions League.That’s the drawback of being the fourth last season.Celtic is another big challenge and hopefully Gunners could hold their ground against them.
Talking about scores, it’s always good to score more, but it’s always better too if we conceded less.There’s no point scoring six, if you concede seven goals.I hope Wenger will focus too on defending side instead of only concerned in attacking forces.I’m worried about this because he seems to brag about our scores.Haha!!!
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6-1 opener is really a shock for me;what’s more,it’s an away game so I didn’t really expect that score line.
But too bad,I didn’t watch them live.I really regretted that.
On the other hand,Chelsea narrowly escaped draw with last minute goal by Drogba(as usual);Adebayor scored just after three minutes to give Man. City 1-0 lead against Blackburn.Man. City won 2-0.
And with this victory,Arsenal is currently on the top of the table!!!
And actually,I’m still can’t accept that Gunners beat Toffees 6-1;I need some time to accept that.See you soon.
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