Hey
guys, what’s happening to Mr. President…. I mean our good old P 2d M 2d B, not
the wanna be world president who likes to preside over things on twitter
instead of his shaped office, you know who don’t you? Still on global politics,
with Mr. Price having to resign again, that makes it how many resignations
under this administration now? Your guess is as good as mine? I’ve lost count
or stopped keeping any count at least. I know I know, this is a football blog
so let’s leave politics and get back to things round leather folks.
Arsenal
made light work of Bate away in Minsk. Using a much rotated team as we expected
based on Wenger’s press conference. I did expect a tougher game from the
Belarusians, but they left the “A” part of their game until much later when the
gunners were much out of sight despite their scoring a second goal in the last
quarter of the match. The rally the home crowd might have been expecting was not
to be and the game ended 4-2. What I liked about our play was the ruthlessness
with which the gunners punished their mistakes especially on the second goal,
making the goalie pay for his poor clearance. Also Holding getting his first
goal of the season would do his confidence some real good. He has been below
par this season that in itself tells you how good he has been last season.
Lastly Giroud getting into the exclusive class of Century goals for Arsenal can
only be good for him too. The HFB does offer us some different dynamic to our
attack and while I get the criticism of his finishing at times, his 100 goals
so far in 5 seasons tells you a stat of 20+ goals a season which isn’t bad for
a striker….yeah maybe not world class but definitely not as bad as his critics
malign him to be. I also like the fact that he chose to compete at Arsenal
despite the arrival of Lacazette, instead of choosing the easy way out y
heading to Everton when Koeman came calling earlier or maybe it was the pay.
Anyway you get my drift. Now for what I really didn’t like was the manner we
conceded our two goals, very typical Arsenal, slow to the second ball or leaving
the opponent a chance to look in take your pick. All in all, we got the result
and a win at that, much to my pleasant surprise so job done.
Back to
the league, the gunners welcome Brighton Hove Albion to the Emirates. The
gunners are in rich vein of form and Arsene Wenger is beginning to think the
team has turned a corner. I think it’s premature to conclude that they have,
yes the form book shows a positive recovery from the Anfield debacle (still
having nightmares on that one) with 5W 1D and 4 clean sheets in 6 games, that’s
good no doubt but the team needs to keep their focus by taking it one game at a
time. If they want plaudits n praise from the manager, they have to earn it the
smart but hard way not by talking. This is not to trivialize the steady climbe
the team is making on the league table…far from it, just that the job isn’t a
sprint but a marathon so they have to keep plugging away and getting the
necessary results on board. I hate to say this but you gat to respect the due,
look at the Manchester clubs, a class apart….simple.
Brighton
Albion at home is another opportunity to make up lost ground especially with
Chelsea dropping points at home to City, let’s close the gap. Arsene has talked
about the importance of strengthening the home form and that’s true, these are
games the gunners should be winning no disrespect to Brighton but with all
things Arsenal you never know. While I haven’t
seen much of Brighton’s play, their form isn’t far from ours just a win more
from the gunners, albeit early days still I would say they haven’t done bad
with 2W1D3L from 6 games. I hope we add one more to their L column though.
The gunners
will have to make do without some key players, Özil is a doubt according to
Wenger during his press conference as are Koscielny and probably Iwobi. So the
predicted line up will look like this below just maybe Holding or Mertz
replacing Captain fantastic.
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| Image Credit:The UK Guardian |
I expect the gunners to win, the team is learning to play without the “prima donnas” agitating for moves away. Much as I like them, this is a good team as winning most of the time is about team work. Anyway I hope we get the three points and continue climbing up the table, we need to win this. That’s it from us right here, do leave us your comments, Like us on Facebook here and Shout to O.Giroud on his 31st Birthday, a brace please..lol. Do enjoy the game wherever you are….Ciaooo
