Comments on: Arsenal/Liverpool: team sheet and complete analysis

By: prick

prick — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:08:33 +0000

Excuse me, where can I buy the Wenger-English dictionary? That is genius.

By: jbh

jbh — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:55:10 +0000

Diceman, the quote from AW above is wrongly written on the Arsenal site. He actually said “offensive role” not defensive. The wrote defensive by mistake.
PS great match tonight. Would not of fancied extra time, the team was very tired by the end.

By: LRV

LRV — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:10:10 +0000

Great result! Now we can say without fear of contradiction that Lord Wenger knows what he is doing. Things may not be honky-dory all of the time, but things are much better than some other clubs.

By: walter

walter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:47 +0000

If we would win it would be great to know it in advance but isn’t it the other way round Tony ? Kickoff at 7.45 means it is 8.45 in Belgium so in fact we are an hour later.
But it is rather funny sometimes. One of my sons was studying for his exams so he was looking at the live score site.
I was watching with one of my other sons on an internet stream and suddenly he came in and said that we were running behind. He already had seen we scored our second goal so we were late … but don’t mind the delay of a few minutes, as long as we can see it somewhere live it is great.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:12:54 +0000

Walter, because Europe is an hour different from the UK, does that mean you know the result an hour before we do?

By: walter

walter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:03:03 +0000

It seems that there has crawled something out of the sewer over there. LOL.
What a great performance from the whole team. And again the Lord Wenger surprised us, and the whole world with his line up.
We have seen 2 wonder goals and a real strikers goal. The goal from Merida was one of the best strikes you can see. Now speaking as a football lover must admit that the Liverpool goal was also one of the best you can see on a pitch. The Bendtner goal was a real strikers goal with a great finish with his left foot.
Nasri… what a player. His first full game in half a year and what a performance. The way he killed the game together with Eduardo shows what a senior player he is at only 22 years old.
Eduardo came a bit later in the game but when he started his trickery on the left in the second half….. breathtaking.
Fabianski also had a very good game, could do nothing to prevent the goal. He was standing where you should stand in the circumstances but the shot was just to good.
Hope the moaning brigade crawls back to the stone the sat under untill last tuesday now.

By: terrylane

terrylane — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:46:11 +0000

gr8 result tonight

By: diceman1984

diceman1984 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:38:47 +0000

Great translation Tony!

By: yudhveer

yudhveer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:48:30 +0000

YOULL NEVER WALK ALONE ARSENAL R SHITT REDS REDS ALL THE WAY

By: yudhveer

yudhveer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:46:13 +0000

WATCH THE REDS STORM 2 VICTORY 2NIGHT LOOK AT DA SIDE THE ARSES HAVE GOT OUT HAHAHAHA

By: walter

walter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:12:12 +0000

I just read that Vela is out with a knee injury ? I think the kid really is unlucky.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:08:31 +0000

personally i think its a match where we shud put in some 1st team players and sum reserves and sub reserves 2, i think almunia shud b the goalie 4 the game i agree with the back line but mybe in midfield watt-ramsey-merida-nasri and then fwd eduardo-bendtner thats a nice line up then bring vela on for nasri probley

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:29:29 +0000

According to my Wenger-English dictionary it translates as

“Nasri is a fucking genius who can play anywhere at any speed.”

By: diceman1984

diceman1984 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:02:20 +0000

“I can play him where he is needed basically,” said the manager. “I would say more in the defensive role now but, because he can dribble, he can play on the flanks too. He has pace and he can play in a role that is half a winger. A dropped winger who will come in sometimes, can go wide. But maybe it has to be balanced with a striker on the other side sometimes.”

This is what the boss said regarding Nasri, pretty confusing eh? I re-read it many times and I’m sorry to say I’m a bit up in the air, “…..He has pace and he can play in a role that is half a winger. A dropped winger who will come in sometimes, can go wide. But maybe it has to be balanced with a striker on the other side sometimes.”

hmmmmm

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:32 +0000

Tonight’s squad

Wojciech Szczesny
Lukasz Fabianski
Philippe Senderos
Kyle Bartley
Mikael Silvestre
Kieran Gibbs
Kerrea Gilbert
Fran Merida
Francis Coquelin
Craig Eastmond
Emmanuel Frimpong
Aaron Ramsey
Mark Randall
Samir Nasri
Eduardo
Gilles Sunu
Nicklas Bendtner
Sanchez Watt

By: Armin

Armin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:54 +0000

I am looking forward to see this game because I really like to see Bendtner – Dudu partnership, last season games in which they appeared together gave lot of opportunities for Eduardo to score, and seams to me that Bendtner “size” draw to much attention leaving maneuverable Dudu lot of space and time. So actually I would not be surprised if in this game Le Boss play 4-4-2. But who will ever know what old magician have in his hat

By: Paul C.

Paul C. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:24:07 +0000

Tony – the other thing to remember is that the next round of salary hikes and contract extensions will be the first to take into account the 50% tax bracket and depreciated pound. A lot of players are going to get less money than they thought, or clubs will end up paying much more than they wanted to in order to make up the difference.

There is a story in the papers this morning about “Utd plan Villa and Silva swoop!!!!” but what money will those guys want to be paid and can Utd afford it?

The English media still seem to be living in a dreamland where money falls off trees and the streets are paved with chocolate (uuummmmmmm, chocolate).

By: Jazbo

Jazbo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:20:55 +0000

I was so dissapointed in the WHU result that this is first time since Sunday that i have switched on my laptop, It’s clear to me that the team threw away three points but this has nothing to do with the manager it’s a mental attitude of the team collective, we know that we are a far better footballing team than anyone else in the league and this leads to complacency on the field this happens time and time again, what’s the answer??? maybe to rotate the team at half time and change two players every game thus keeping everyone on their toes for the whole game otherwise i can see this repeating it self over the coming weeks.

Tonights game should be a rather close affair with us coming out on top, quite surprised to see that Vela has not been included in the squad (injured ?)however this should open up the lefthand slot for Merida a player who i rate highly as one the future Arsenal greats providing we can keep hold of him, Coqulin, Ramsey and Nasir complete what looks like a very strong midfield outfit, up front i think it’s safe to say that Bentner and Eduardo will be the strike force with Nasri cutting in from the wide left, yes i think that Eduardo spends too much time out on the wing for my liking and should concentrate on being our “fox in the box”, so all in all it looks on paper like an Arsenal win but as some one once said “it’s a funny old game”.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:13:33 +0000

Two things – financial news and team news.

I missed this yesterday in the Guardian, but our Lord said

“Samir can be an important asset in the coming weeks,” said Wenger, who revealed that Wilshere was out with an ankle problem but that Eduardo, Bendtner and the midfielder Fran Mérida would play.

“I can play Samir where he is needed, [which] I would say [is] more in the defensive role. He has pace and he can play in a role that is half a winger, a dropped winger who will come in sometimes and go wide.”

And the financial crashes are happening so fast I am almost tempted to put up a separate site just for them – but I don’t want to dilute the fun we have (well I have) on this site.

So here’s the quick summary

From Hull’s auditors… “These forecasts demonstrate that in order to operate within the company’s finance facilities Hull City AFC will need to generate a surplus £23m during the next 12 months through player trading, match day and commercial income and/or through additional finance raising,”

Portsmouth are now banned from all player trading until they have paid off some of the money they owe other clubs.

Rangers are not in liquidation, but the bank is definitely putting a veto on all new purchases and all player contract renewals.

Southend are about to go into liquidation.

And just think – when UNTOLD started two years ago and started predicting financial meltdown, they all laughed. (Actually that reminds me of the Bob Monkhouse joke where he says, “When I was 16 I told everyone I was going to be a stand up comedian, and they all laughed. Huh! They aren’t laughing now!”

By: pig

pig — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:02:19 +0000

terry terry terry, calm down dude. the way your going on it appears that arsenal owe you a trophy or two. we all have aspirations for our team, but no sane supporter expects trophies, victories, parades etc. this is sport. the whole point of which is that despite statistics and form and the rest of it, its down to what happens on the day.

i think you should re-read the contract you have with arsenal just to remind yourself that they owe you nothing. whereas you probably owe some of the best times of your life to them.