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Arsenal vs Manchester Utd. (2nd Leg) Emirates Stadium – Only a few hours to go!

Only a few hours to go before one of the biggest match at the Emirates Stadium is about to kick off between Arsenal and Manchester United. Manchester United won the first leg, and the match was unexpectedly one sided as Arsenal failed to make a mark at Old Trafford on 29th April 2009. Although the Gunners were fortunate to only lose by 1-0 as Man Utd. did waste a lot of chances that could have most certainly knocked Arsenal out of the competition. A lot is expected out of Arsenal tonight, and all the fans are back and ready to support the club. Even the Arsenal players, specifically Samir Nasri have called the fans to be very strong in their support when Manchester United visit the Emirates Stadium tonight. Arsene Wenger has also mentioned that Arsenal has not practiced for the penalties tonight, which should mean we are prepared to beat them with a atleast a 2 goal difference!    

Uefa Champions League
 

Arsenal is going to go in the match as underdogs after the 1-0 defeat at the Old Trafford and they need to balance their attacking options with effective defending. Glad to know that Van Persie is back for today’s game but Sylvestre is injured and is out because of a groin problem. According the my understanding, the following is the team that is going to start today’s game from the Arsenal squad:

Almunia

Sagna – Toure –  Djourou – Gibbs

Eboue – Fabregas – Song – Nasri

Van Persie – Adebayor

  I’m signing off now wishing we can pull it off tonight and beat Manchester Utd. with a good goal difference!! Nothing beats that! Fingers crossed! Goodluck to all the Gunners out there! Hail the Gunners!

EPL: Arsenal vs Porthsmouth (2nd May 2009) – Review

Bendtner & Walcott

Bendtner & Walcott

After a very harsh email to Arsenal after the Champions League Semi Final Against Manchester United, I calmed down a bit and was all excited for another weekend match at the Emirates Stadium.

Sat on my couch, turned on the TV and switched to Star Sports. It was interesting to see eight changes in the side with more young players given a chance against Portsmouth. The big guys were rested for the mid-week Champions League second leg at the Emirates Stadium, which was a good move since we were already on a secure 4th position which was further confirmed after the win today.

Alex Song played as a central defender alongside Djourou, and having Arshavin in the squad is turning out to be a match booster. It was good to see Carlos Vela back into the squad, and Aaron Ramsey was given a start as well. Great game play by Arsenal and the young lads took over the game with a 3-0 win over Portsmouth with Bendtner grabbing two goals, first scoring with his head in the 10th minute and then on a penalty just before halftime. Vela’s strike got the third goal in the 56th minute and even though Portsmouth did try to fight back, but they were not really able to convert the chances that they got.

Good defending, great passing, classy Arsenal moves, counter attacks and great Arsenal passion lead to this win.  All in all was a great come back and it feels great with 21 unbeaten matches in the Premiere League. I hope we can stay the whole season unbeaten next year and win the league to be crowned the new “young” invincibles. Would be a great achievement really.

Arsene has done built a great young team and this team is going to go a long way.

Letter to Mr. Wenger: Arsenal vs ManU (Champions League 1st Leg 29th April 09)

This a mail that I wrote to Arsenal. I am very hurt as a fan and I don’t know what else to say. I guess it contains all the frustrations that every Arsenal supporter is facing.

Dear Sir/Ma’am,

This mail is directed to Mr Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal top management. I want this to reach them, and also going to publish them on blogs and news websites to create a buzz so I know they read it one way or the other. This is not a matter of a simple Arsenal Fan writing a mail .. its about the whole Arsenal community which is dis-heartened and broken by all the broken promises by the club.

I didn’t know where to contact Arsenal Football Club and I really want this to go to Mr. Arsene Wenger. The AFC management should better know how all of us fans are supporting Arsenal taking fights from other bull shit supporters of Man U or Chelsea or any other club! We support Arsenal and fight for it to keep its prestige and the high profile image.. And what do we get? Such an insult and shame in front of our opponent supporters telling us on our faces that Arsenal is a shit club and they cant even score? And for some reason.. we cant even try and hold them for long … because we have been trophy-less since 4 seasons … and we don’t even seem hungry for that… not even our team and the players have that hungry attitude of going and getting the job done.. I’m sorry to say but majority of the players ..no matter whoever it is.. are just there for blabbering and not standing up to the expectations of the supporters and other stake holders.. They are taking hell lot of money to just bull shit on and off the field.. and they don’t even seem to GO FOR anything at all.. they just play for fun! And that too… fun of their own selves, passing the ball in a funky way and smiling that what a move they made… they should grow up and start scoring rather then only passing like babies…

We have never won champions league? And we are trophy-less since 4 seasons? Was this the so called “Animal” that the Arsenal players have turned into as referred to by Mr. Wenger?

For God’s sake these players get such high salaries and its their profession to play football.. but these guys cant even do a basic job done? All we wanted was a fight against Manchester United… are we looking forward to win the Champions League with these crappy players? Who don’t even seem to have the hunger to win something? And at the end of the season these idiots complain that we are trophy-less.. If they wont score .. are the fans and supporters going to score goals for them? They just want to make their individual names and get lost to big clubs like AC Milan and Barcelona … taking high salaries and warming their benches…

The following is a simple take-out and my analysis of today’s Champions League Semi Final 1st Leg with Manchester United:

- Arsenal cannot defend
- They don’t have players who are hungry to win.. they only play for the fun of their owns elves… and not the fans… they think that the fans can go to hell!!
- Arsenal never has the rock solid attitude of going out there and just bursting the opposite team apart
- The self belief is hardly their.. and even if they have self belief… they never have the ability of creating something because the ARSENAL Style of play is only successful if the players are good at improvisational passing ..because the old invincibles had the ability of creating funky new things on the field just by improvising and good understanding … these guys don’t have the ability to improvise.. they get the ball and they keep thinking what should they do next and they lose the opportunity
- They never shoot. because they take too much time to think whether to pass left, pass right or shoot.. this is not improvising… it should come as a flow.. and I am sorry to say these guys keep thinking and have lost everything!!!
- Even if they manage to create chances to score a goal, they start thinking .. “Okay we have done this amazingly… now how to further beautify it and score the goal… For God’s Sake just shoot the ball or pass it on the first instinct..
- Last but not the least, other teams play a fixed position game… the CAM would know where the winger would be and the winger would know where the right back or the striker or the CAM would be… they play a fixed position game … and they exactly know the plan and positions before hand that is why they even give passes without seeing and the player who has the responsibility of being in a certain position.. and he always has to be there to receive the ball and make the next planned move in terms of a corner or a shot… this is planned for teams like Chelsea, Man U or Liverpool .. where as Arsenal’s style of play is never planned and is 100% improvisation … but I am sorry, since this team doesn’t have any chemistry …and cannot improvise to create chances.. I would suggest Arsenal to play dirty and planned in order to be sure of at least what they are trying to do … Every Arsenal player stands clueless blaming each other .. we need to score even if we play dirty for now.. we need a trophy!!

I am extremely sorry, I am a die hard Arsenal supporter and its extremely depressing for me to take this… If we don’t win the second leg by hook or by crook … Arsenal Football Club, its long built image, its players and all its fan support will no longer be there …

This is a crises situation for Arsenal .. and if they don’t win the Champions League this Season … they are in the making of another Leeds United ..

A Tired & A Depressed Gunner…

SW

Phew! Its been a long long break…

I’ve been so damn busy with studies and work recently that I hardly got time to focus on this blog after starting it… So… I am back now and I believe I can contribute quite a bit to it.

I have been following the premiership and specifically the Arsenal and would only like to say… Look at them go baby…! They ROCK!!

Hail the Gunners!
AGFL
(A Gunner For Life)

Hail The Gunners

After going through and reading a lot of news, blogs and posts about the Gunners, today I am starting a series of my own opinions.

Just a piece of advice for the new Arsenal fans would be that, please don’t rush into decisions until you guys actually find out about the history of AFC. Yes… I am referring to the people who blame Arsene for what he is doing. I’d just like to point out that Arsenal became a bigger club since Arsene Wenger took over, and I advice you to please don’t panic and observe what the French man is going to do.

I believe he is going to take us by surprise … and who knows he lands someone really big at AFC this summer?