Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [7th - 12th February 2014]
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Bit harsh on Toure, the whole defence should move over in that situation and Toure had to cover the space. Skrtel was at fault for that goal, should've allowed Flanagan to defend the ball but passed it to their striker instead.
If Skrtel didn't go for that, the Fulham attacker's favourite to score there.
Think Skrtel going for it is fine, made a hash of it, but if Kolo isn't fannying around it is cleared.
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But previously you weren't sure if you might want to see a Gerrard striptease..........
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But previously you weren't sure if you might want to see a Gerrard striptease..........
But previously you weren't sure if you might want to see a Gerrard striptease..........
The man's a legend...
Go on, if Thierry Henry offered you a cheeky peep show you'd go for it DM
Edit: Or Eboue.
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**** off you blonde ****. We've got 3 of our 4 first choice defenders out 
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Pretty sure his ban includes the FA cup tie against you lot. He was banned for the Palace game, Liverpool game, Utd game and the game on the weekend.
Not sure where you read or heard that Baz??, cant find anything on the net regarding him being back for the FA Cup tie this weekend.
EDIT: Just reading an article about Ozil on the evening standard website and it says in there that Flamini is serving a 3 match ban. So dont know whether to take that with a pinch of salt or if they have reduced it to 3
The link: http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...t-hes-working-hard-to-get-better-9121037.html
Right near the bottom.
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It's really not clear if he got a three or four match ban with multiple stories saying one or the other.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it was only a three match ban as I finally found this on the FA website.
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/suspensions
list of current suspensions which doesn't include Flamini so will assume Utd was the last game it counted for.
Reading up on it, I think people believed it would be a 4 game ban as a 3 game ban for a straight red + one more for having a previous suspension. But you only get a longer ban for getting suspended for the same offence. So if you get a red card for a bad tackle, and get 3 games, then further in the season get a red for two yellow card offences, it's just a one game ban. If you get another red for a bad tackle, same offence, it becomes a 4 game ban rather than 3 game.
So I don't think there is any chance it's a four game ban.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it was only a three match ban as I finally found this on the FA website.
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/suspensions
list of current suspensions which doesn't include Flamini so will assume Utd was the last game it counted for.
Reading up on it, I think people believed it would be a 4 game ban as a 3 game ban for a straight red + one more for having a previous suspension. But you only get a longer ban for getting suspended for the same offence. So if you get a red card for a bad tackle, and get 3 games, then further in the season get a red for two yellow card offences, it's just a one game ban. If you get another red for a bad tackle, same offence, it becomes a 4 game ban rather than 3 game.
So I don't think there is any chance it's a four game ban.
Not buying a striker in the window was a monumental **** up by Wenger. How many chances does Giroud miss? He must have one of the worst conversion rates in the premier league. He's not even holding up the ball well any more although to be fair there is never anyone near him.
I watched Ozil quite closely last night and think he's being let down by the team, there is hardly anyone offering for the ball in the final third, no runs behind the defence and no one busting a lung to support a break / attack. Without a Ramsey / Walcott there is no outlet at all. He's not a player who will beat a bunch of defenders or rocket in long shots, he's a passer and needs people to pass to. Can see it being a typical Feb for Arsenal, we won't beat Liverpool and Bayern playing like that.
I watched Ozil quite closely last night and think he's being let down by the team, there is hardly anyone offering for the ball in the final third, no runs behind the defence and no one busting a lung to support a break / attack. Without a Ramsey / Walcott there is no outlet at all. He's not a player who will beat a bunch of defenders or rocket in long shots, he's a passer and needs people to pass to. Can see it being a typical Feb for Arsenal, we won't beat Liverpool and Bayern playing like that.
I thought Giroud gave Vidic a bit of a torrid time in the first half. In fairness to him I don't think he had a guilt edge chance that you could lament him missing. However I do agree that he is not a world class striker and I think you need one to win the EPL or CL for that matter. Arsenal look less of a threat without Walcott and in some ways they suffer the same sort of selection conundrum as United. Trying to accomodate players in positions that are not their best. I wasnt impressed by Carzola or Rosicky. Wilshere I can see is a out and out CM but Arteta seemed to be the holding CM. I think all those players make the Arsenal style quite narrow. Without Walcott's pace things did look a little sterile and there seemed little Wenger could do to change that.
Having said all that, I do feel that Wenger has fashioned quite a hard working unit that closed down very well for the most part, making it very difficult for United to have much decent possession. In the past Arsenal have a periods where they completely bamboozled United with their passing but it never really got going last night. As for Ozil. I think he is over rated. He looks mentally weak to me but hey what do I know.