Sometime They Make It Difficult For Us.

Who was the Arsenal man of the match?

Yes even I am confused as to who should get the MOTM award, two players are strong contender in Arshavin for his three assist, first two assist were just brilliant and the captain Cesc Fabregas for his brace last night. Even Diaby had a good game and what about Samir Nasri? Song, Vermaelen and Gallas, they all had a good game. I will not go into detail. All I can say is a very good team performance, I was not happy with the goal conceeded, I feel Almunia could have done better.

But Anyways, People I am confused, so let me know who was your MOTM in the comment section.

Injuries And Arsenal !

It's very sad to say this that after such a brilliant performance against spurs, it looked like Clichy was begining to find his feet and all of a sudden this news broke that he is again out for a month with a back injury, its sounds very serious though it say stress fracture at the lower back, something similar to Denilson's injury, we all know that Clichy missed the climax of the last season due to his back injury, I am so disgusted to know about his injury, I know we have Gibbs and Traore but still I don't think they upto Clichy's standard.

If we notice the Injury list is begining to increase as the week pass by, this is something which I am really worried about, I really hope tha Clichy should be back within a month which seems unlikely, But we can hope. Another inured player is Tomas Rosicky, when Arsene first mentioned about his injury he said it was just few days before he is fit but it's now 2 week since he has featured, I cannot really figure out what is the reason, from past 2 season's injuries have hampered our title chances.

As if now we can all pray that no other player get injured,
Now about tomorrows match, I am getting a very good feeling about this game, I got a feeling that AZ will be crushed by Arsenal, I am predicting a scoreline something like 5-0 6-0.

I think Nasri should get a start tomorrow, I was so disappointed not to see Nasri playing against those Scums, but I think Arsene will give him a start.
And now Finally about Eduardo, I heard many pundits and Arsenal fan moaning about Eduardo miss when one v one against the goal keeper, I really want all those stupids arse to shut up, I know he missed some sitter's but give a guy a break he just came off from his injury, As if now his finishing is not important, look at the way he make his run and get in ahead of the defender's, against scums he was running in gaps, dragging defenders with him. And about finishing it will come with couple of game. So I cannot see anything to be negative about his couple of missed chances.

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Complacency at it's best !

Well A late Equaliser for AZ get them one point, I know this will not be any problem for Arsenal but I did not see the real Arsenal today, they seem as if they are not interested in beating their opponent.

This was a kind of a match I would not like to see the replay of. I was bored to the core at how poor AZ as a team was and still they got a point.

Its like we played with a kid and started teasing him for a candy for 90 min and finally decided to give them a share of a candy. Well I will not draw too many conclusion, I certainly don't mind Arsenal dropping couple of points considering what is happening with Liverpool, Inter.

And Barca as well since they lost to Rubin Kazan, I am still confident we will top the group, but I have never seen Arsenal player's so complacent, they were playing as if AZ is some team of handicap.

Birmingham Done and Dusted/ AZ Next

Well Birmingham game was not an easy one but at the end of the day like Fulham game I will take this 3 points without any complaints, well since this game is now done and dusted, next up is Champions league group stage match against AZ Alkmaar, to be true Arsenal should qualify for the next stage ASAP, so we can concentrate on League matches, Like Fab said League championship mean more to me as well than Champions league.

No new injury apart from Theo, Vela should be back in the team as well and I think Almunia will retain his place between the post Rest of the team news tomorrow.
The best part about this fixture is that we don't have to travel much to reach the Netherlands, and I guess AZ Alkmaar should not cause much of a problem for Arsenal I will take a 1-0 win for Arsenal, since its an away match.

Fabregas said: "We have six points from two games in the group and if you think about the position we were in after just four minutes of our opening game, it shows how quickly football changes.

"You must stay focused every day to be the best, because everyone else out there wants to be the best too.

"People expect the so-called smaller teams to be easy, but especially away from home those games are tough.

"They are usually fresher than the English or the Spanish teams because maybe their own league is not as intense."

Now Captain have a point here about the intensity of the dutch league, its good to know that our leader is alert and take into account the do's and don't of these matches with the so called smaller teams.

Team news and preview sometime tomorrow.