Capital One Cup - Fourth Round 30/31 October *** Spoilers ***

Put £5 on a draw and £5 on a win when they were 3 - 0 down, honestly didn't think I'd see any of it!
 
HIlarious game, defensively both teams were so atonishingly laughable I wouldn't even know where to start :p

Offensively, neither team were that good, the defenses were that damn bad, still some nice build up play and decent enough goals. Despite the pundit constantly having a go at Arshavin, in the first half he was the only one to find a quality throughball and he did it all game long. THe first ball for Walcott to fluff about 10 mins in was just epic, then Arsenal's movement upfront was horrendous till the first goal, every time there was a break, movement in attack and people making runs Arshavin was putting in quality throughball one after the other. He also worked much harder than most getting back even very late in the game. He looked shattered and got a bunch of simple passes wrong around the 70 min mark, as usual but this time he seemed to 10 mins later, get his energy back and ran and worked REALLY hard all through extra time.

Frimpong, well I never actually rated him, but while WIlshire came back looking almost as good as ever, Frimpong looked no where even remotely close to his best.

Chamakh, nice to see him play well, abysmal in the first 45, got better and better in the second half and was frankly brilliant in extra time. As usual, players are rusty, they have no confidence, they try and do everything in every touch to start and look retarded, even within one game his nerves settled down he got back in the swing and he looked actually very good. Sure Reading made it easy but his movement was excellent, his passing improved dramatically. That last goal, if that was a league game and he came on in the 89th minute, he'd have missed it due to the pressure of feeling like he had a single chance to ever play again under Wenger. He does this to too many players, kills their form then gives them no chance to get it back.


Ridiculously entertaining game to watch, feel a bit sorry for Gnabry as he looked brighter than most in the first 45 mins, but he wasn't really what was needed at that stage. Eisfeld also didn't do anything brilliant, but he looked assured, won the ball several times, made the right choice often and just looked solid considering that was his first game for us.

I hope we use him more and give him chances throughout the season, its when we get someone like him who looks great at first, after a year of barely playing he'll look half as good.

Giroud, again, its "only" Reading but that was the kind of domineering performance we need to see from him. Of course the second he started to show form and get goals, Wenger dropped him in the league for a guy who is woeful. Giroud needs a run of games, if he can play like that against better teams he might just work out for us.
 
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lego said:
It was 22 - 1 for the win and 11 - 1 for the draw, Still waiting for bet365 to update, not sure if they were running any cup specials but I'm guessing the draw will be the paying result.
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It will probably be a result on normal time I'd imagine? So you'd get the draw given as the result, still a good win.

The guys who "left" at 37 mins in, probably only went off to get to the food queue's early, if he actually left, hahahahahahahahahah.
 
lego said:
It was 22 - 1 for the win and 11 - 1 for the draw, Still waiting for bet365 to update, not sure if they were running any cup specials but I'm guessing the draw will be the paying result.
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Wow, those are utterly horrible odds. :o I wonder what Betfair had, usually a decent indication of what value is.
 
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