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EPL: Arsenal vs Chelsea (10th May 2009) – Emirates Stadium (Review & Opinion)
Disappointment again for all the Arsenal fans after falling prey to Chelsea and losing the Super Sunday clash 4-1. A lot was not expected today from Arsenal, but still the fans were expecting a better result for Arsenal. Unfortunately, despite Arsenal’s attacking mentality and free flowing football, Arsene Wenger’s tactic’s went wrong yet again today. Although I would agree to the fact that in terms of quick passing and moves, Arsenal was playing very well but the problem was revealed when Chelsea gained the possession and came attacking towards the Arsenal goal.
Arsene Wenger tells everyone that this team has great potential, but I am sorry to say that players like Alex Song and Denilson, might have potential, but that potential is not upto Arsenal’s standards. There were two main areas that I could identify left a loop hole for Chelsea to exploit. The first problem lies at the position of the holding mid-fielder, and by now we all know that Alex Song or Denilson is NOT the solution to that. Why can’t Arsene see it himself? Or is he just too stubborn to understand and accept what everyone is seeing? Flamini gave us that edge, and we never retained him. We need a strong player with the right mentality and with the right confidence who can play for Arsenal, we need a proper solution!
The second position is the Arsenal defense, and we need to fix it. I can’t get one thing… correct me if I am wrong. We sold Sol Campbell when he was about 30 and didn’t give him a contract extension to retain him. Similarly, we let go of Lauren, Vieira and even Pires and never thought of giving them longer contract extensions because of the Arsenal policy of not giving more than a year contracts to players who are aged 30 or more. Do you think we should have got Sylvestre or Gallas who were nearing 30, and that too, both from our RIVAL teams? Why don’t we get this policy shit straight then? Why did we need to lose our loyal players to get players almost the same age from our rival teams…? Well.. Forget it! I just don’t know what else to say…
The point is .. that after the 3-1 defeat against Manchester United all the fans were expecting a better result today from Arsenal and Arsene’s tactics so that the fans and the club could regain atleast some honour back. It is such a pity … that the result was even worse.. 4-1… and that too at the Emirates Stadium!!
One more thing that I cannot understand is that, why does Wenger always use the 4-5-1 formation when that never works for us? It was the same against Manchester United.. and the same against Chelsea today! On top of that, previously when Wenger was asked if he was looking at getting some new signings in the summer after the Champions League knock out… and Mr. Arsene Wenger replied in his own typical way that when Diaby and Bendtner is already in the squad, bringing someone else would be unfair to them…
I am speechless now… I am just speechless because I am pissed to the core!!
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Hahaha, I’m not pissed ….. yet.
In all honesty I think Song should stay (as a substitute) get Alonso or someone good. For ur info. Sol Campbell left on a free transfer (like Flamini). And Silvestre was bought at age 31 (I know, it’s worse than you thought). And it’s weird, we’re the least in the big 4(possibly the entire league) to score from headers. Only Gallas and Bendtner and Adebayour once. Chelsea had 4 attacks, and scored 3 goals, Toure scored an unfortunate own goal.
Arshavin was sick (flu), so we can’t blame Wenger on that, not playing Bendt and Ade was weird and Diaby was very, very disappointing.
It proves that a few players make a difference, it all started last year with Rosicsky (Get well soon) ,Eduardo, Gallas and Clichy Should’ve been on that pitch.
One last thing: Over the course of this year, I saw Rosicsky in almost every home game, in the Man United match he and Eduardo were on the bench, and thier faces said it all
I’m rather hurt than pissed bro .. yes Song is good as a substitute but not as the sole key player… Alonso is a very good option I guess because he can give that strong backing, confidence and thrust that is required in the whole team. We never score from headers… in fact if you notice.. our players are very uncomfortable with the air balls.. and I guess we don’t put in much time practicing air balls .. since Arsenal’s whole style of play is built around ground passing and one touch and two touch football! And since we are not good at handling air balls, our players are not confident enough to deal with headers… We are also very vulnerable in defending crosses and corners.. which is such stupidity!
I do agree about the faces of Eduardo and Rosicsky in the Man Utd. match ..