Match Reaction v Scrotes

[Gooner23]

Gervinho

Awseome at pre-seasons tbf

[Master Splinter]

That was one of the best games ive seen Gibbs play for us. Didnt give Pennant a sniff, won more than his fair share of headers and comfortable on the ball going forwards.

Must be some sort of record, with Gibbs and Diaby both playing two 90 mins in a row. Awaiting this weeks injury update though, no doubt one of them will have a little groin or something..

Gibbs has been playing like that for a while (when he hasn't been dead). When he gets a decent run of games, he always looks good. Much like the preconceived nonsense that's lazily applied to Mertesacker and Jenkinson, people (journalists/bloggers/forumites) will just blindly refuse to notice when they play well or just focus on one poor piece of play in a match. So Mertesacker is always an error-prone, clumsy German, Jenkinson is completely useless and Gibbs has never once defended well.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Gibbs is a really good left back, it annoys me that Woy hasn't called him up to the England set up....seems to prefer ryan bertrand

[GP]

He's the best LB England have.

[Marc Overmars]

To be fair Gibbs has never been fit enough to sustain a solid and consistent run in the side. Hopefully he can do that now but we'll see.

[Cripps_orig]

Gibbs is a really good left back, it annoys me that Woy hasn't called him up to the England set up....seems to prefer ryan bertrand

Should be 3rd choice LB for sure

Cole and Baines are better atm though

[Olivier's xmas twist]

finished the game with 5 british players on the pitch.

new future

Not that the media will care though.

[Cripps_orig]

Not that the media will care though.

Mainly cos its only 4 tbh

[Marc Overmars]

Not that the media will care though.

We don't get hammered anymore for a lack of GHELs tbf.

[Alpha]

There were more positives than negatives and that should be very encouraging for a team with new players in key positions : Jerkinson looked good and will be a ready-made replacement for Sagna by the end of the season . Gibbs and Metersacker have also improved their game which made the defense sound with Verminator being the beast as usual .
Attacking-wise there was some good combinations but we were let down in the final third . Podolski was good on the left and will certainly score some goals . Giroud was good and worked hard . He remind us of Ade when he joined the team . With his strong physic he tried to be everywhere helping the defense and midfield . Players to blame are :
1) Gervinho , a really headless chicken .Gifted with fantastic dribbling ability he still doesn't know how to use it and how to link up with is teammates to make think happen . He doesn't understand the body language of other players : definitely a non-starter .
2) Diaby , although he ha s improved and showed some maturity in his game , he still revert to " old Diaby " at time and give the ball away . He lacks some defensive instinct to close players down . He rather look like a bodyguard protecting the opposite players : A defensive midfielder needed to teach him what to do .
A part from that decent result against a team full of wresllers .