Match Summary: Mediocre Midfield

Posted by Gooner Get Ya Thursday, 18 September 2008 09:05

Having just sat through an hour of us playing terrible football I thought that at least if we lost something might be learned but the draw will mean that nothing has changed. A late equaliser often feels like a win but it’s NOT! Gallas seems to be the ultimate big goal scorer, Man U, Chavski and now Kiev, they keep saying he hasn’t scored in the comp for 5 years, word in your ear, you sky morons...HE HAS SCORED IN THE LAST 3 GAMES!

This was almost Fulham bad. I was angry about Fabregas and Ade. What did they actually do? Fabregas had possibly one of his worst Arsenal performances in a long time, actually saying that he didn’t do anything so it wasn’t bad it was just not actually anything. Adebayor was just his normal self, wasteful and clumsy.

I am disappointed with Toure’s recent form, I think he has been pretty weak and I genuinely feel that I would play Silvestre instead of him for a while. Kolo would be my choice of captain but its a lead by example example! He isn’t.We didn’t have any show in the middle of the park showing that we can’t really play against the 4-5-1 formations. No one played well or made much of an impact.

Player summary
· Almunia, did his job, you have to wait to see where a pen is going, guessing doesn’t work. 6
· Sagna, average, linked up well with Theo a couple of times, looked bad after the pen. 5
· Clichy, Bright in the first half, not great in the second half. 6
· Gallas, was made to look silly a couple of times defensively, scored which was handy. 6
· Toure, a couple of good runs in the first half after that weak. 5
· Walcott, good cross for the goal, looked good but was closed down rapidly. 7
· van Persie, wasted chances, didn’t look sharp. Not as good as I hoped. 5
· Song, gave us some fight in the middle of the park, it was better than average.
· Fabregas, invisible I thought he had been subbed. 4
· Denison, didn’t really do much did he. 5
· Adebayor, standard, weak, wasteful, overrated and overpaid. 4
· Bendtner, better than any other attacker we had.
· Vela, didn’t really do much in the 5 mins. 5
· Eboue, gave us a new angle, played well, I was pleased. 7


Highlight of the match

Theo after he got professionally fouled. It showed he is getting stroppy about things and that fight and desire was exactly what he needs in his game. No more nice Theo!

Arsenal Man of the Match.
Gallas / Theo, defensively he wasn’t great but in terms of his leadership he showed why Arsene kept his faith. Theo showed has run of good form and caused problems, his link up play is getting better. Everyone else was pretty poor.If we play like that in Bolton we are going to get embarrassed. The thing that really seems to anger me about Arsenal is the way they deal with failure; Fulham an example, nothing seems to raise the game. Against united in the FA cup it was ZERO passion. As far as I can see there are 3 players who really fight for the badge, Theo, Gallas and Cesc.

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