English, CL & Europa League Football [12th - 18th Mar 2010] **spoilers**

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Yesss 3 pts bagged...not exactly a beautiful win but a win is a wim regardless...Can only hope Bender keeps up his good form ie scoring goals although im not putting any money on him to score loads:p

Walcott is just utter utter ****....god knows why Wenger keeps the faith in him:confused:

Anyhow 3 pts bagged and thats what counts i suppose although i dont think any of our games are going to be that easy as some people make them out to be.
 
Normally I like John Champion as I've been listening to him for over 20 years now, since his Radio 2 days but I was getting a bit annoyed with him going on about whether Campbell should have been sent off the whole game. He didn't get off lightly, quite the opposite, it was Arsenal that were unbelievably hard done by due to the award of the penalty and yellow card following a blatant offside.

Arshavin's first-time shooting lately seems very wayward... he's fine if he's on the ball, moves into position and sets himself for the shot, but when he goes for a halfvolley or whatever he keeps skying it.
 
CliffyG said:
Walcott did ok when he came on, did more in 5 mins than Eboue did all game. Scrappy scrappy win but i'll take it.
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What horsecrap, Eboue was linking up very well with people in the first 15-20minutes until the game slowed down and Denilson/Diaby got into their "lets pass it uber slow and sideways" phase.

Sagna and Eboue actually linked up well obviously with a good one/two for the goal that started the move. Sagna was far more direct in the first 25 mins aswell then slowed to his usual slow barely getting down the wing self.

Eboue, if anyone noticed, was like the last game he didn't play at right back, being played as a left/right/central midfielder and part striker.

Nasri had a truly truly awful game, he looked shattered and not at match pace from the first minute, Denilson was so incredibly weak any time he had to go to win a ball, gave it up easily, kept slowing down our attacks and giving away the ball. I was frankly disgusted when Eboue was the first to come off. Nasri for pure tiredness and Denilson for doing entirely nothing should have gone off at half time. Frankly Nasri's been pushed very hard since he returned from a more recent injury, has played a lot of minutes in a short space of time and took a big knock last game, he shouldn't have started.


Theo actually did put a couple decent balls in, but most of what he did was brainless and stupid. Considering we were up against ten men, we were attrocious, we started off well but sunk into that incredibly slow attack that we've played badly with so many times. Bendtner wasn't bad at all, not fantastic, most of his and Arshavins shots were hard as the ball bobbled up constantly hence a for sky shots for Arshavin and even one of their defenders. From recollection he had a couple headers from corners that almost got knocked in by others, he held up the ball well, but he really got incredibly few touches in the box. The one decent pass by Walcott he got a decent shot off, maybe a touch to slowly but was well blocked. The goal he scored was a very ackward bouncing and high ball that he took very well and that was the only chance I remember him getting with the ball beyond the defence. We created very little and got the ball to his feet anywhere near the box very very little throughout the game.

As I said, Hull are a bit of a bogey team, but for a hilariously bad Myhill save we would have ended up drawing, even if the ref was crap and their goal should never have been.

Even against the worse teams it couldn't be more clear Denilson has zero future at the club, which I've said since early last season, he's dreadful, offers nothing defensively at all.

I still can't understand Wenger insistance on playing any player constantly with no rest till they get so tired they get injured or lose form. Gallas is never rested, then injury. Bendtner and Nasri have played far too many minutes since coming back from injury and that showed in Nasri very badly today. Eduardo is being completely wasted, Eboue clearly isn't near his best when being played in this almost free role and being switched around constantly throughout a game, while his last 3-4 appearances as a straight up right winger or right back have been phenomenal.

The team rarely puts together two similar performance in a row as he constantly moves the same players around and rarely properly rotates other players in.

This was in one of our easiest games to go and we looked utter crap, I can't see any real chance of us winning.
 
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HangTime said:
Normally I like John Champion as I've been listening to him for over 20 years now, since his Radio 2 days but I was getting a bit annoyed with him going on about whether Campbell should have been sent off the whole game. He didn't get off lightly, quite the opposite, it was Arsenal that were unbelievably hard done by due to the award of the penalty and yellow card following a blatant offside.

Arshavin's first-time shooting lately seems very wayward... he's fine if he's on the ball, moves into position and sets himself for the shot, but when he goes for a halfvolley or whatever he keeps skying it.
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That was mostly the pitch today, his best chance you can see the ball coming across quite flat but bouncing just as he swings at it, and the ball ended up going way over, happened more than once all over the pitch to almost everyone at some point today, the pitch was ruddy awful.
 
CliffyG said:
Yawn
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Agreed. I thought Walcott looked decent when he came on and Eboue really wasn't that great today.

Arsharvin was worryingly poor, though. I'm just glad he's getting the odd goal because it was the same against Burnley. He was pretty poor when he came on btu managed to grab himself a goal to settle things.
 
Very attacking lineup from us today

GK: VDS

RB: Neville
CB: Ferdinand
CB: Vidic
LB: Evra

RM: Valencia
CM: Fletcher
CM: Carrick
LM: Nani

CF: Rooney
CF: Berbatov

Hope to see some goals
 
Well that's a very strong lineup, hopefully Neville can play as well as he did against Milan. Saying that, after our recent results against Fulham, I'd take a scrappy 1-0 victory with the ball coming off Neville's crotch in the last minute.
 
BBC Sport

  • Fulham are unbeaten in five matches and have conceded just once in seven-and-a-half hours of Premier League football

  • Fullham have a poor away record (no wins in their last 13 league matches)

  • Man U have not lost at home (in the league) since December against Villa
 
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