English League Football [6th - 10th Feb 2010] **spoilers**

Not entirely sure it was a penalty, but not a dive, well it was marginally outside the box but I think he anticipated the contact and didn't want to be demolished as Skrtel was going right for him and hard with his leg out. Hard to tell if there was proper contact or not, of it Bendtner was preparing for contact.

Just glad that Gerrard did his usual(followed by Kuyt) and dived several times so if Bendtner did or did not dive doesn't matter, unsurprisingly Gerrard took the biscuit with the ridiculous dives stakes anyway.

Generally not a terrible 2nd half, most boring 1st half to watch in a long time. Yet again Song contributed nothing except running through people from behind and conceding freekicks. Sagna let Babel drift inside and didn't remotely track him when Babel had that shot, Gallas saw this so closed down but it was too late. Sagna should have drifted inside with him and prevented him getting space for the shot.

Eboue was very good defensively, made a lot of tackles, won a lot of the ball, passed or ran the ball out of defense very well but looked tired towards the end. It was nice to see someone on the wing who saw a player infront of him and didn't turn and pass back to the keeper constantly, he was actually willing to take on their players and beat them multiple times, also won a lot of freekicks in good positions because of his positive forward running.

Theo, utterly worthless sub, if he could cross Verm would have got us a second, if he could dribble past players, or if he put any effort in it might have been worth him being on the pitch. At least Wenger got angry when with minutes to go in the corner he passed it to Reina for no apparent reason. Blasting it up in row Z would have made more sense, a real footballer would have tried to win a throw or corner.

Bendtner needs games, wasn't fit, wasn't sharp but showed good awareness, for the goal he turned and found Rosicky as he knew he was out there making the run, great build up and Diaby actually managed to get in the box, maybe for the first time all game.

We desparately need the extra player to make a run into the box to create space and create chances. Problem is he wouldn't do that most of the game, his passing/holding the ball elsewhere was absymal and defensively he was useless again. CLichy's improving, getting fitter, needs a break next game as we've pushed him hard since he got back.

FUUUUUUUUUUUU. You make some good points. But I'm an Arsenal supporter, other people that are not Arsenal supporters will skim over that, maybe you should blog?
 
Donovan seems like a good little signing for Everton, even on a temporary basis. Decent crosser of the ball and good on the ball. Worried about him in the World Cup tbh.
Altidore also seems to be handy, reminds me of Anelka - has grown over the year at Hull - far better than what Ive seen from him playing at International level...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Players shouldn't go in with two feet off the ground.

No complaints about a red card for tackles like that.
 
Players shouldn't go in with two feet off the ground.

No complaints about a red card for tackles like that.

It wasn't that bad though. It's shockingly inconsistent, thinking back to Bellamy going over the ball in the Carling Cup game and raking Valencia's shin and going unpunished, or Young's shocking tackle on Valencia (which I note the BBC didn't even show) not even being given as a free kick!

Edit: Alan Hansen reckons it wasn't even a free kick!
 
I'll repeat. Players shouldn't go in with two feet off the ground / studs up.

If it was a player against Manchester United doing the same, you'd have no complaints.
Rose tinted specs and all that.
 
That's not what I'm saying though. It's certainly not a definite red card, but I can see why it was given. The decision looks stupid though by comparison to the 99 other identical tackles that go unpunished every week.
 
Cracking set of results for the neutral, top of the league is thrown right open and the bottom end is nice and tight too :)
 
FUUUUUUUUUUUU. You make some good points. But I'm an Arsenal supporter, other people that are not Arsenal supporters will skim over that, maybe you should blog?

Im an Arsenal supporter and I completely ignore it :D

I dont think he watches the games any more. Somewhere in that wall of text he will mention Walcott, Denilson, Diaby or Song playing bad. And how great Eboue and Bendtner are. (I do share his opinion on Bendtner though as I think he has promise but dont tell him that).

Nice to see Bendtner get a full game. He was a bit rusty in front of goal but he held up the ball well and made some nice passes. Espeically for the goal.

With the Fabregas handball, I thought it was handball but was definately outside the penalty area.

Cant see us challenging for the title but this result might make it a little more interesting and keep us in the top three. Utd and Chelski would have to collapse for us to win it now and I cant see them both doing that.
 
Once again MOTD completely ignores Gerrards dives :rolleyes:

Also Bender's incident was a dive imo. Any contact (and you'd need slow motions camera's to see it) was after he'd thrown his feet up in the air.
 
Once again MOTD completely ignores Gerrards dives :rolleyes:

Also Bender's incident was a dive imo. Any contact (and you'd need slow motions camera's to see it) was after he'd thrown his feet up in the air.

I agree, but imagine if The Sun/NOTW had their own TV channel. Gerrard would never dive, Arsenal would never show a fighting spirit (fair enough) and Terry would have 76 kids.

I'm glad BBC has the rights to show highlights.
 
[ASSE]Hinchy;15937701 said:
Gerrard was disgraceful tonight. Two appalling dives and an all round poor performance. What the hell is wrong with him this season?

He was an absolute disgrace against Everton at the weekend, tonight he was just plain crap :p

As for the United game, looked like we played well which is important as we need to keep our recent good form going, I was fully expecting us to draw with Villa before the game so to do it with 10 men is a good point IMO especially seeing as Chelsea lost

Nani had to go, yes he got the ball but you cant lunge in like that it's a leg break waiting to happen if he'd got it wrong. Dangerous play = Red card, no complaints
 
Hmm, when was the last time we didn't lose to United in the league I wonder? Shame we conceded so long after scoring, but a draw against such an impressive United team is a good result.

Very well done to Everton too! :D
 
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