Arsenal were decent, infact pretty good, other than the first 20 minutes better overall in attack than the weekend game.
However Denilson was ruddy awful, I saw two or three key tackles right on the edge of our box, or very close to it, it was Fabregas who made them. Diaby is doing what Song does, gets the ball, in this case twice facing the Bolton goal while just outside of our box. All he needs to do is move forward into space and we can attack and keep the ball, instead with a Bolton player behind him(closer to our goal and not in the way of going forward) he was leaning back and focusing on the player and keeping him away from the ball, rather than focusing on the ball and moving it away from the player. Both times he lost the ball easily, and ended up fouling the next Bolton player.
Yes he got a knock down and assist, but thats all he offered in the entire 90 minutes, frequent fouling in dangerous area's, no use of his brain in those situations, offered nothing in attack. Denilson was just pointless all over, poor passing, pretty constant fouling, stupid rash challenges. Should have been booked for the penalty one(don't think he was) and the run that resulted in Vermaelen taking the player down and getting booked, damn, Denilson slid in two footed from behind completely recklessly and completely missed the player. Firstly he took himself out of the play with the pointless and tottally stupid slide, had he made contact it should have been a second yellow at that point, and that was after another pathetic and weak attempt to tackle by Diaby.
Fabregas is simply awesome, most effective player on the planet right now,
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=38886&cc=5739
Don't think thats updated yet, 18 games 11 goals 11 assists is, well, absurd, thats just the league.
All competitions 28 appearances, 18 goals, 16 assists, honestly, thats just insane. Compared to Messi's scoring and assist rate last year I believe he's ahead on both, which is just again, absurd, especially considering his defensive workrate and the amount of times he makes tackles in our box and sits infront of the back four.
EDIT:- having checked, Messi played a lot less than I thought which does make his goal rate last year awesome, I thought he had played closer to the almost 80 games Xavi played last year(
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=38886&cc=5739), still for a less offensive player to be scoring at pretty close to Messi's rate in a better team, and kicking his ass on the assists while doing far more defensively is superb. He's also well ahead of Xavi's scoring/assist rate, who plays a very very similar role now.
The only laughable thing was football 365 article claiming the last three games have been superb against 2 of the leagues hardest to beat teams..... Bolton, 2nd from bottom, and joint 3rd most goals conceded. I hate this history thing, people are pretending this is the same Bolton who battled to European spots and were very hard to beat.
Good performance no doubt, but Diaby and Denilson looked very poor today against 2nd bottom, and its normally the top 8 they go to complete pieces against, the next month is harsh both on schedual and quality of opposition and unfortunately I don't think we'll cope even if Fabregas keeps getting a goal and an assist per game.
is absolutely rubbish...should have saved that.....but as they say things have a way of evening themselves out...how many times have we been robbed of a penalty or blatant foul...so im not too fussed about it. 
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