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Whatsup
ma people out there? May the peace and love be upon all souls, especially to the families of the victims who have
died in various terrorist attacks in the north east and around the globe. It’s
just sad to see such cowardice in bombing innocent people all in the
name of religion when some obvious political statement making targets are
available. I didn’t mention names though, No I did NOT. Now speaking of
politics, have you heard the recent blame game by you know who? Well i suppose
the green card beneficiaries were also responsible for the Las Vegas killing spree
or the Colorado shootings, or the confederate riots, all in which lives were lost,
maybe I don’t know much about national security I guess? At this rate, America
will make itself toxic to those trying to bring in venture capital
and i am sure China will be glad. I see President Xi Jinping smiling at the
White House’s folley, so easy!!
To football, made in the Arsenal
Jaare. We got a slim win last the weekend over the Swans at the emirates,
thanks to goals from Kolasinac and Ramsey. I wont wanna Jinx Ramsey but is this
going to be another purple patch season for him? Wenger seems to be giving him
more freedom these days, the balance is still delicate though and it requires a
lot of discipline from the deployed personnel, Ramsey in front of Elneny /Xhaka
axis instead of Ramsey on the wings….Just a thought though. Now back to the
Swansea game, it was one of two halves from the gunners. Abject and nervous in
possession with no end product in the first half, purposeful and more diligent incision in the second half. The gunners needed to respond after going into the break a
goal down. The good thing is Wenger spoke into their heads and they did. The not so good thing is, we seem to want to
play Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde most of the time, only showing up late when things
go sour? Ayew’s miss had to be the
moment of turn, with lots of credit to Petr Cech for keeping his team in the
with that block. These are the minutely fine margins that sometimes go on to
decide games. I wouldn’t want to complain too much after getting the much
needed 3 points especially knowing you have City and Spurs next in the league
respectively, you don’t wanna drop any points going into these games. We also
maintained our 100% home record for this season which is great, a form Wenger
describes as “impeccable”. For how long will that form hold? Your guess is as
good as mine, the gunners need to be more clinical in front of goal for that
form to hold out very very long….nuff said
Next
stop is the Europa league with the second game in the double header against Red
Star Belgrade coming up at the emirates. We all don’t like Thursday night
footie but like I said, we made our bed with Wenger, so we might as well lie in
it. The Serbians were a tough nut to crack at home with Giroud’s goal the
separator of both sides in the last game. Arsenal have the opportunity to
qualify for the knock out stage if they can pull off a win tonight. Now that
will be nice, winning four games in a row in Europe is no mean feat even if its
in the Europa league where the teams aren’t exactly top tier. Arsenal have also
never won the Serbians in past meetings before this season so winning two games
against them in a row would be a nice twist to the broken jinx.
True to
type, Arsene will be doing quite some rotation, with one eye on the super Sunday
clash against City. On that wenger was noted saying:
"I must say I am pleased with
the quality of our performances in every single competition," said Wenger.
It's very difficult to make a change. They all want competition, they all
deserve competition because of their quality.
"If you look at the number of
minutes played by all of these players since the start of the season, many of
them are in very competitive shape and that should be an advantage for the rest
of the season."
There
you go, expect to see the likes of Walcott Giroud Sanchez and just maybe
Nketiah spearheading the attack while Jack, Nielson, Elneny, Niles and Ramsey
may be the orchestra in midfield. In the defence we may be a bit short for
rotation, with Kolasinac a doubt while Koscielny is playing through pain with
his achilles tendon so I guess it Mertz Holding and Monreal again there backed
by Cech in goal. It’s a bit unbalanced but Wenger will definitely not bring out
the big guns with us sitting pretty at the top of the group plus Man City away
a few days from now. The subs will probably have a sprinkling of A list players
but more young guns. If the team can maintain focus and collectively defend we
might be able to do a double over them into the Knockout round. Red star isn’t without
threats of their own as the showed how dangerous they can be onn the counter in
the last game so the gunners would have to keep a keen eye on the likes of Boakye,
Savic and Radonjic. Whoever we put out
there has to play for the 3 points or at least a draw. Aiite people that’s it
from us, do enjoy the game wherever you maybe…..Ciaoooo
