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“Now that’s how you supposed to shoot,
from now on that’s how you shoot. I want my next partner to shoot like that
woooooo!!” A very apt quote from Mike Lowery aka Will Smith from the second instalment
of the Bad Boy series. A very crazy crazy bunch of explosive cacophony of comedy mixed
with flying bullets and high speed chases. For me that’s how you are supposed
to play to beat the Spurs, from now on that’s how we play. See I totalIy want
our next opponents to be played like that wooooo!
When Wenger said the gunners had no fear in his quote:
“We have no fear, we are focused on
nullifying their strengths and expressing ours. Tottenham are a good side but
we have the quality to win the game.” He actually meant it.
The
gunners picked a derby to back him up by finally showing up to do the job of
men displaying some BIG cajones. The performance was very disciplined, full of
hearty commitment, just go ask Man of the match Mesut özil or close second Mustafi,
and mostly utterly dominant from us. For all the talk about power shift in North
London which in fairness may have some credence to such, the Arsenal of Old
that we have all grown to love came to the party. The team pulled themselves
together to teach Spurs a good lesson of football. Make no mistake, its just a
match with the same 3points at stake but there was pride that needed to be
salvaged as well. Everybody stood to be counted which was great. We all know
the team is capable of doing this, one just needs to look back to the Chelsea
and City games to realise they have it in them. The main difference here is we
finished with a flourish by winning. Why the Team cant seem to bring this top
performance out of their locker week in week out, is the only gripe I have
about the NLD match, but that’s a discussion for another day. They had a must
win match against our fircest derby rivals they went out and gave us a
performance matched with 3 points and a clean sheet to booth. I will definitely
take it, lets have more of those boizz.
Down to earth from the derby win high,
its Spursday Thursday night football in the Europa League, and we travel
to visit FC Koln. Arsenal sit top of the group with 10points while Koln bring
up the rear just 3. Nothing but pride for them to play for, while we have to
make sure we show maturity and avoid defeat. We have qualified for the next
round of 32 so we know this is just a test drive more like. The coach has
maintained using fringe players for this competition. We would be expecting a
lot of changes as it were, Ospina may return in goal for Macey, Mertz will
probably replace Kos to lead from the back and a flurry of other changes. The key
thing is to help those on the fringes of the team get match playing time and
maintain fitness for the likes of Jack, Mustafi and Welbeck if the coach uses
them.
In other news, the gunners have poached
BVB’s head scout Sven Mislintat. Quite a coup that is if ask me, for those
wondering who he is, well he lead the team responsible for unearthing gems like
Lewandoski, Kagawa, Dembele, Aubamayang and co. Hopefully he can help work his
magic at the Colney as things have been a little stagnated in terms of spotting
the next gen talent. Adding him to the guy we tapped from Leicester and the
back room staff is gradually shaking up for some recalibration which we all
know is long overdue. For transfers, we are looking to snap Goretzka up from
Shalke 04 on a free, just like Sead Kolasinac he is out of contract by the end
of the season and doesn’t wanna renew. We just might be getting another bargain
of the season but lets see how that goes.
Aiite there you have it, lets hope the
boyz can get the job done with win and a clean sheet to boot. Don’t forget
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wherever you are…….Ciaoo
