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.
