Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [6th - 7th October 2012]

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Norwich player with a free header from 10 yards out, centre of goal and had his teammate not cut it out, it would have hit the corner flag :o
 
Brom 2 up and looking good value so far.

RDM got them playing good attacking football at the expense of their defence, Hodgson sorted the defence but stuffed up their attack but Clarke looks like he's got a good balance so far.
 
Bosingwa's back, and Ferdy but they're still playing Park and SWP when they could be playing Hoillet and Faurlin instead? Did he already forget how massively better the team was when those two went off the pitch, or how incredibly useless they've both been for 5 + years?
 
So Chelsea thrashing Norwich, Ivanovic with a great volley finish. Lukaku just missed a huge chance, hit the wrong side of the post though(watching it with no sound) think that might have been called offside anyway.

Reading throw away a 2 goal lead, Swansea with all the ball in the second half. Wigan not doing bad but looked like Jelavic should have had a penalty maybe? Again without sound it wasn't too clear... Pienaar's haircut makes him look weird and we now know the source of their good luck up till this game :p

EDIT:- Brentford 2-1 nice, Donaldson again its saying, sounds like they've had a lot of the ball but they've had almost no chances while we've had 4-5.

Oh, and West brom just likely sealed it.
 
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Arsenal XI: Mannone, Jenkinson, Vermaelen, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Ramsey, Arteta, Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud, Gervinho.

West Ham XI: Jääskeläinen, Demel, Collins, Reid, McCartney, Noble, Diame, Vaz Te, Nolan, Jarvis, Carroll.


Really liking that line up :)
 
Not too sure why, we'll see after this game but, Mertesacker is tall, not strong, he's tended to fold when up against stronger players.... though so has Kos lately. Considering where they attack from and how they'll attack with Carroll I think we'll be very vunerable in the air, strength and strength in midfield with Nolan, Diame offering strength and from set pieces they'll have Collins, Reid, Diame, Nolan, Carroll all strong and good in the air vs our.... no one at all.

Really nice goal from Granero, classy finish, too little too late. But 2 away to West Brom isn't such a bad result as West Brom are starting to look pretty good.

BAH whats going on with the Brentford game, still not finished, 98th minute, long ass injury I take it?

EDIT:- woo, 2-1 to Brentford, huge win, think it went to 100-101 minutes, not sure why either. 2 points off Crawley now, 4 points out of Tranmere and Crawley is two excellent results.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
Considering where they attack from and how they'll attack with Carroll I think we'll be very vunerable in the air, strength and strength in midfield with Nolan, Diame offering strength and from set pieces they'll have Collins, Reid, Diame, Nolan, Carroll all strong and good in the air vs our.... no one at all.
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Shouldn't worry, Nolan is the only good player in that list really.

Plus Carroll can't be fit yet.

If Arsenal take control of the football and play their game they will win comfortably.
 
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Shouldn't worry, Nolan is the only good player in that list really.

Plus Carroll can't be fit yet.

If Arsenal take control of the football and play their game they will win comfortably.
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Mert is a good referee away from conceding penalties, slow and gets caught out a lot, Verm likes to give away freekicks, Gibbs doesn't like to be near the defence and SWP could score a headed goal against us from a set piece let alone any of that lot.

West Ham have been fairly inconsistent though, if they show up they can certainly make it an uncomfortable game for us, the way we've been playing lately, its unlikely to be a push over, though Collins has been gash for the past year.

We're also playing zonal marking at set pieces, which means, Mertesacker goes near post, and their entire team will line up at the back post... as yet we've failed to adjust in any way to seeing that tactic happen. They just target the smaller side and overload it, and Fat Sam is a manager likely to realise it.
 
Conceded equaliser 89th minute. 92nd minute crazy deflected goal gives us a win. Won't argue with that! Was moaning online about how rubbish our luck has been when the winner went in. :p
 
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