Caporegime
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but even then, only one foot was anywhere near the player, and that one got the ball! I just don't see how it's a straight red.
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.
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...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.
Players shouldn't go in with two feet off the ground.
No complaints about a red card for tackles like that.
Imagine if Arsenal had Torres or Rooney. I can dream!
LOL id be doing some serious sex wee's if we had any of those 2 in the squad
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?
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?
nice and tight
Cracking set of results for the neutral, top of the league is thrown right open and the bottom end is nice and tight too
He is not an Arsenal fan, he is an Eboue fan
Once again MOTD completely ignores Gerrards dives
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.
[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?