The highest goalscoring midfielder in club history?
Surely not.
I'm not the only one to list him either so it looks like you're in the minority.
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Weekend Football Thread. *spoilers* 29-31
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The highest goalscoring midfielder in club history?
Surely not.
I'm not the only one to list him either so it looks like you're in the minority.
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Thats where you fail, match of the day SELECTS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE. Unless you watch a FULL MATCH you have no idea how good a player is, which arguably is why people might think Song is good when he's horrendous, if they only show his succesful tackles and miss about the 15 fouls a game, then he might appear good, he isn't.
Arshavin is one of the top 3 in the prem, Torres isn't close as he has way to many games where he's hopeless and misses tap in after tap in, RVP probably misses out because he misses too many chances.
Either way, awful today, as in mostly great performance against what seems to be an incredibly average Utd, where we dominated the real chances and still smegged up. WHy Diaby or Song started I'll never know, both were woeful start to finish, Diaby's flashes of brilliance included two nutmegs where after he was done he looked like a lost child without a clue what to do next. He lost the ball frequently, as did Song by turning back towards their own goal then promptly losing it.
Song was insane, a on purpose handball he got away with a ludicrous challenge to get the yellow and several tackles in the first half alone that could have been a second yellow. He barely made a (bad) tackle in the second half for fear of being sent off, how we didn't take him off to put on a DM who could make a tackle I don't know. Diaby, awful, everything was awful, poor running, awful passing, slow running, barely closed down, put no effort in, awful infront of goal and scored a ridiculous own goal under no pressure at all without another player within 4-5 yards and still screwed his header up. Made no attempt at all to support RVP throughout.
Eboue, Arshavin(mostly poor first half till his goal, strangely, far better second half), RVP were all good but had little extra support and zero creativity in terms of passing in behind from the midfield 3 which ruined the game for us start to finish. Sagna wasn't fantastic at all, Gallas had a couple poor moments but mostly solid, Verm was solid, CLichy was mostly good.
The fact that Diaby and Song weren't taken off for the second half at 1-0 up when with even a semi decent player instead we would realistically have won easily.
Utd win with a dive, a freaking clear as day dive where he plants both feet and goes over and is at a 40 degree angle at best before theres any contact, and an own goal.
Had Wenger brought off our two worst instead of our two best players on the day we could have gone on to record our best victory at Old Trafford in the league for over 5 years, as it was Wenger screwed us monumentally and lost us the game before embarassing himself at the end.
As I've said since the FIRST PRESEASON GAME LAST YEAR, Song, Denilson and Diaby are simply crap, yes they aren't shown up against the bottom of the table teams, but against even average teams, which is all Utd were today, they are made to look like complete fools.
Not exactly a fail, i said its probably just me im not gonna fight a corner for torres if i didnt really think so lmao, like i said i probably havnt seen what hes capable of, technicaly then if you say you need to watch full games to see him, erm then thats going to be 99% of arsenal fans thinking that, doesnt suprise me, i understand now
just like i think rooney is better, but you need to watch full matches to see what hes capable of remember
, the thing is rooneys that good they show him in soccer am and match of the day too, have a think about that, this isnt Big brother, if its worth showing, they will show it, and youve just said they dont show you him in any of them, i wonder why.btw i just wanted to poke you with a stick by saying that, the beauty of discussion
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Soldato
Almunia obstructs Rooney, it doesn't matter if Rooney goes over or hurdles him (although he probably wouldn't get the penalty in that instance).
Milan looked very pedestrian tonight, I think this could be a season too far for them. The likes of Pirlo just don't look interested, complete waste of space. Inter had so much time on the ball, even allowing for the fact Milan were down to 10men. I could see Milan getting a real mauling in Europe off patient teams.
i was watching madrid aswell, i dont understand them sometimes, the quality in there team yet they can look so squishy sometimes, is it because spanish teams dont invest in there defence as much as english clubs ?, i dont understand like i said so maybe someone can enlighten me
Ameobi is the best player in the Premier League and he's not even in the Premier League.
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Here we go. MOTD time.
A chance to see 'the worst header of a ball in the Premier League' put 5 out of 5 on target in fairly quick succession.
A chance to see 'the worst header of a ball in the Premier League' put 5 out of 5 on target in fairly quick succession.
You're 3 hours late, please don't start this again.
Shock horror- The pundits on MOTD who generally know what they are talking about call the Rooney penalty 'stone wall'. Guess the experts on here still know better.
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Spurs on 2nd!?
Who do they think they are? A top 4 team or something!?
Should have been 1st.
You're 3 hours late, please don't start this again.
Shock horror- The pundits on MOTD who generally know what they are talking about call the Rooney penalty 'stone wall'. Guess the experts on here still know better.
People on here are more than experts, they are football itself.
the experts on here created the meaning of football, look on the back of FA rules and regulations you will see copyrighted from OCUK Sports arena no it alls.
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Soldato
Rooney never dived! His momentem may have eventually taken him down, but the keeper made sure of that by getting in the way. There cannot be any complaints.
Soldato
So painful watching Arsenal today they out played Man U in the first half.. the stupid move by Almunia was just crazy. Watching back again on match of the day and seeing it again: I just cannot understand what the hell Almunia was doing, the ball was heading no where near the goal why risk jumping for the ball like that?!
Also what the hell are other players following the dive tactics from Wednesdays match?
And the own goal.. well.. just wraps up the disappointment I feel about Arsenal today, the bad judgement by a couple of players.. it is a real shame as they had a very good chance of beating Man U today.
Also what the hell are other players following the dive tactics from Wednesdays match?
And the own goal.. well.. just wraps up the disappointment I feel about Arsenal today, the bad judgement by a couple of players.. it is a real shame as they had a very good chance of beating Man U today.
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