A mix of decent play at times with worrying defensive frailty at others. I thought the effort was generally good though and Mertesacker was excellent. Sagna was a bit shaky at times which is unlike him. Chamakh...well, he did his best and put the effort in.
Rubbish. One of the best players in Europe? Behave.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
One of the best at pie eating contests maybe.
Didn't catch the match today but a much needed win nonetheless, glad to see Oxo is already delivering on his potential...puts others to shame, but talent shines through.
Decent start in the CL, I think the group stages were always going to be OK for us to get through looking at the other teams, it's once we get to the knockout stages we should worry.
Are Olympiakos that side that struggle to ever win away in the CL btw?
Decent game from Chamakh. Needs to score but he looked more sharp. Did well to create space for Ox's goal, should have had an assist with that nice pass and should have scored with a header and that chance that fell to his left foot. When he went off for RVP it was noticable. RVP hardly touched the ball and coudn't get involved with the link up play.
Chamberlain got his debut goal. Good run and finish with his left. Could have scored a second but the keeper rad the chip. Look comfortable on the ball but can't leave Sagna that exposed down the flanks.
Santos looked good as well. Arshavin was no help to him down the flanks but he looked more solid on defence in the second half. I like his runs forwards, he can dribble and also has an eye for the pass or cross. Strong as well and won't get bullied easily.
Merts was impressive. Calm at the back, read the game well, dealt with what ever came his way, didn't dive in... Good game. Just a shame that the overall display of the defence. Sagna was poor, but Oxlade left him exposed a bit, dame goes for the opposite side with Arshavin. He shouldn't be starting games for us when he plays like this. Really poor. But, I'll cut him some slack because a few weeks ago he looked sharp and dangerous.
Not impressed with Arteta, Frimpong or Ramsey. Rosicky was the best of our midfield players and he should have stayed in the centre. His first touch, passing and movement was on point and better than the rest of his peers. Arteta just isn't involved in the build up play, Ramsey is just hit and miss and Frimpong had no authority. We need to sort the middle out. Roles need to be definded quickly.
to me our midfielders left our back four too exposed especially on the franks as Frimpong did quite well in the holding role. Sagna had to understand he couldn't venture forward as much as he did, but Chambo and Arshavin helped very little and so did Rosicky in the middle.
Arteta had a good game, starting to make us tick and dictating tempo. Merts is very dependable: 5 times he played for us, 5 times I've seen him play like this. No-nonsense, uncimpromosing, solid.
Chamakh didn't play as bad as he does..I mean..I even noticed he was on the pitch, but missed a golden chance to make it 3-0-
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Good win. We were caught out a few times at the back and for once its not the CD's who were responsible. Oxo and frimpong in particular and guilty of loosing procession and misplaced passed. Frimpong and Sagna getting out muscled on a few a occasions as well. Song was really good at the back and it was his long ball from the deep finding Oxo for the first goal. My MOTM. Santos seemed to gain confidence and improved in attack and defense as the game wore on and took the goal well. While it is unfashionable to say so thought Chamakh had a good game in a long time -few poor finishes but put in a solid shift. Arteta did his usual solid, good passing the few times he misplaced a pass came back to recover it and the goal line block of what looked like a certain goal was not his only defensive contribution great buy by the looks. Rosicky another unfashionable player while not being outstanding looks better in that position than Ramsey has done. Arshavin was poor in the match bar few attempts at running at the defenders on the counter. Frimpong was poor as was Sagna unusually. Oxo had a mixed game. I thought the substitutions were imagination and conventional keeping up with our business strategies. A match coming up with spurs in the weekend and you bring in three players who are either injury prone or have just returned from big injuries in a match were the opposition was running the players ragged and out muscling this was surprising as was not getting in the Coquelin who's energy could have been put to use
I thought Santos had a good game, seems confident on the ball and makes clever runs with a decent final ball too. Seemed to defend well as well and looks capable of handling the physical game.
AOC played well, but was a bit naive defensively, he needs to learn that side of the game a bit more. Didn't track runs when Sagna was caught out of position or double teamed.
Didn't see Arshavin before we signed him then?
don't you start with that shit. you're better than that.
Was a genuine question. He was awesome for Zenit and Russia in 2008 and the talk of Europe. It was considered quite a coup when we got him but for one reason or another he turned into the fat fuck we see today.
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