Despite the rubbishness of the team recently, Sir Chezzer Knee has been very good over the last few weeks. Apart from a few dodgy kicks, he looks like he's got over his little shoulder and is back to the imposing figure who first broke into the team. A pleasing positive that will have mostly gone unnoticed amidst the CRISIS.
Sir Jack.
Good game from Oxo too. He'll be dropped now.
Gervinhbiyi.
We win and play well without Ramsey. Sadly, it's not a coincidence.
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Yep, AW used his head for once, lets hope he uses his brain with gev once Theo is back.
"I really like Arsenal. Do you really like Arsenal, or only Arsenal with trophies?" - Dennis Bergkamp.
"Which Arsenal do they want back, the one Arsene created?" - Tony Adams.
Yeah Ramsey takes far too long on the ball. Players like Wilshere can receive the ball and in an instant make up their mind about what to do next. This opens up more space as the opposition don't have time to get into position. Whenever Ramsey plays, our football is so laboured and turgid, and it's no coincidence either. He's simply a liability and not good enough IMO.
With Rosicky coming back and Coq getting better, can see Ramsey being 4th choice, till diaby gets fit. Gev seems to be 2nd choice behind Theo maybe even Ox.
"I really like Arsenal. Do you really like Arsenal, or only Arsenal with trophies?" - Dennis Bergkamp.
"Which Arsenal do they want back, the one Arsene created?" - Tony Adams.
Good win. Changes nothing. Worrying it took 2 penalties to score our goals. We need a striker ASAP. Know nothing about how we played and who played well. Didn't watch or listen to it over the radio. MOTD worth watching for the football? Sure as hell is for the commentary
Why just 4th? See my comment in the "Observations" thread I started.
While all answers are responses, not all responses are answers.
Agree with Cripps re: striker. Definitely in need of one. Giroud does have presence but that's about it for him. He's not the lone striker type of striker.
He also needs service, more so aerial service, something which is not what we do best. I can't recall one aerial cross coming from Gibbs down that left flank today. Sagna tried a few but his were mostly wayward.
A 25 goals+ per season striker and a gritty midfielder are must buy come January.
If only we had one of each when the Summer transfer window opened.
Anyway, Ive seen nor heard any of this match, so know little other than what I read in the match thread. A much needed result - hopefully this helps arrest the horrible slide we've been on. We really need to get as close as possible to maximum points between now and the FAC 3rd round.
Though I suspect our match against West Ham will be postponed until the new year.
Can't see us buying a 25+ goal striker as much as I'd love us to, Wenger wants strikers to do everything under the sun, problem with this IMO is that it dilutes their effectiveness in front of goal most of the time.
I'd rather see a player who's job is to put the ball in the net and nothing else, if he scores 25+ goals but doesn't touch the ball every 35 seconds everyone will still be happy.
Better today. 2nd half in particular I thought we played pretty well although at times we do invite too much pressure on ourselves, confuse ourselves with a team who can pass the ball around well enough to take the piss, lose it and put ourselves in danger.
Overall though, pretty happy with the performance and result. Desperately needed that.
Oh: GervinhoHow the hell does he get paid to play football? He works hard but he's just awlful.
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