In the event of the humiliating defeat inflicted by Manchester United on Arsenal at Emirates stadium on 31st january 2010, Arsene wenger by now should have understood these fallacies in our beloved Arsenal team.
1. Manuel Alumnia doesnt know how to stop the ball. Hes a useless keeper. He shouldnt have replaced Jens Lehmann at the first instance. Hes really woeful this season. Even teams fighting for relegation score easy goals against him. Vito manonne is a better keeper than him. Either buy a new keeper or give Vito a chance.
2. Our defence still has to improve. Gallas and vermaelen are good in patches. Gael Clichy, his comeback from injury hasnt been good. His marking is faulty, his defensive skills were horrible last night.
3. We need to have a tall and strong striker like Adebayor, though a little mellowed down version of him cud help. Eduardo looks out of place everytime and arshavin even being a good player, hes easily out muscled in the box. One thing is sure, Arshavin cannot survive in a lone striker role. Please for god sakes Arsene wenger buy some good striker atleast in the summer.
4. Players like denilson, walcott and ramsey are only good in patches. We need more consistency from them. Or thats the best they could do? as we all say Arsene knows best. Whatever get them playing.
5. Manchester United were very good. They outclassed us totally. We need to have full proof plan against them, against each player. I guess we missed that part and they did their homework. Though i hate and probably choking myself for praising Man U, but they actually deserve it.
6. Cesc fabregas is not god. Don't expect him to do magic, when other team mates are just standing like a fool. Even though he wasnt at his best yest. He was better than everyone wearing the Arsenal jersey in the emirates stadium.
7. Thers still a lot of difference between the top 3 teams in the premier league. I hate to admit, Arsenal really struggle against Manyoo and Chelski, and both of them have comprehensively defeated us at emirates. Thers a conspicuous difference between their skills and ours.
8. Our weakness to counter counter attacks was very much evident yesterday. we failed miserably.
9. We need to convert the chances which we get. Time and again we fail to capitalise on the chances. In such big games, u can't expect 10-20 chances, u have to take what u get.
10. Finally it was a woeful game, and our emotions and expectations are all brought down to ground. And i know it must have hurt Arsene Wenger more than any other arsenal fan to suffer a humiliating defeat. But I would like to positive coz the season is still not over. I don't know whether we will win against Chelsea, but we will not stop trying. And we are so in the title race even after the loss.
So My fellow gooners, cheer up, thers so much more to look forward to. So put on ur Arsenal Jerseys and shout "ARSENAL ARSENAL "
Nice article.. i hope arsenal beat chelsea this weekend.. go gunners..
ReplyDeletetoday we play the chelshits. n u made me look back at the game against manures.
ReplyDeletelet me jes see wy we ended up being defeted comprehensively by the manures and that too at our home.
they outplayed us, yes. but why. because we didnt take our initial chances. otherwise we wud have been 2-0 leading and tables would have turned. but that didnt happen. whom to blame:-
we didnt capitalize because arshavin's fininshing was non clinical. and arshavin wanted to be a hero himself. blame AW for that. he came out in public before match to say that arshavin will score. arshavin tried the same. but ! but ! thats what costed us. and once we go 0-2 down in first half, all we can think of is, the game's not over yet. lets attack. and that exposed our defensive immaturity.
i usualy hate to criticiz almunia for his uncertain decisions. but what gets me goin on him for this particular match is, apart from conceding an own goal he was so demoralized. i mean c'mon he's the one who wears captains armband in absence of our captain Fantastique. c'mon ffs exude some confidence in our back four.
i wont suggest Buy! Buy! Buy! no...
because our most prized asset, Arsene Knows.we have come this far with our policy. he aint breaking that for one sour defeat.
so i didn't agree when u emphasized on him buying somebody. thats not arsenal. arsenal is a way of life... selfsufficient, beautiful and successful. lets not make it an excuse that we didnt buy Mr. Somebody.
lets talk of prospects of making that Mr. Somebody from Mr. Anybody. thats how it works at Arsenal. and thats what i m proud of. and bigger the Dream greater will be the setbacks. So lets Sing Our Arsenal Dream.