Nikki B Injured In a Car Accident

The news has recently arrived that Nikki B has injured himself in a car accident, which is said to be a minor accident, but the the extent of his injury has not been released and he is set to miss out the CL clash with the greek champions Olympiacos.

More on this news to follow.

Champions League Preview

Well, my house is set as I am alone tonight called up few freinds, at my place for the opening day match of Arsenal CL fixture against Standard Liege kick off is at 12:15 am here in India. I am really expecting Arsenal to win(as always) tonight with ease, but looking at the difficulty faced by Manure and Chelski to beat their opponent, I am expecting a difficult match, and injury to RVP, Almunia and Denilson does not help either.

But the good news is we are expecting Eduardo(yeah UEFA sucks) and Rosicky to start together in a match after some 20 month, let hope this work out good for both this player, we all saw how good Tomas is even though he is not 100%. Vito Manone is confirmed to start for the first time(lets all pray he do not have to make a save). After the back to back defeat against you know who. Arsene will want to kick start the CL in fantastic way.

Looks like Nikki B will be granted with his wish to lead the line in tonights match with DUDU on the left and Tomas on the right with the midfield of Cesc, Song and err Diaby, I am expecting the back four to be same even though Clichy is not in his best of form I cannot see Wenger dropping him, considering Manone is starting the match.

Chelsea was shit last night but still somehow they won, at the end of the day thats what matter's, this is something our boys have to learn, getting the result even in the difficult situation. Hoping for a good match tonight.

International Round Up

So so Sunday, just posting about Arsenal player's who scored,

Good news is that Fab played on saturday, came on as a subtitute and was looking sharp and no Arsenal player is injured so far in these International.

Nikki B scored a Fantastic goal against Portugal

Van Persie also scored a similar goal like Bendtner.

Fabregas assist vs Belgium

Cesc MOTM - CELTIC 0 ARSENAL 2 - Player Rating

Many will say that it was a lucky win, but I say it was a well deserved win. Because we were the better team throughout the 90 min and even Tony Mowbray accepted it.

First goal by gallas you can say was lucky but what i liked about that goal was Gallas run when he started the run he was on an OFFSIDE position, when RVP11 passed the ball to Cesc he came back in, the way he loose his marker was also very good and he also have every right to claim the goal because I assume the Celtic keeper had covered Cesc shot and one more thing I liked is that Cesc has once again started to take a pot from the distance which usually he avoids so its a positive thing. Talking about the second goal fantastic work by Diaby to dribble past couple of players and feeding the overlapping Clichy and the hard low cross from him found the legs of Celtic skipper Caldwell and into the back of the net, even if Caldwell had left the ball Bendtner was lurking behind him and he would have finished it any how. so great result just have to keep a clean sheet once again when Celtic visit the Emirates.

PLAYERS RATING

1. Almunia : Didn't have much to do only one shot on goal from Celtic. He was very well protected by our back four 7

10. Gallas : Brilliant performance once again, got a goal as well , though he was trying to avoid contact with the ball and the highlight of the match was when he intersected the cross from Fortune which was destined to find Celtic player on the other side and boy he looks happy now after the departure of Kolo and he is smiling these days. 7.5

5. Vermaelen : I really don't want to hype his performance but in these last two games he has been fantastic, a no non-sense defender most Arsenal fans been asking for, the way he jumps to win header, considering he is only 6 ft is brilliant, his tackling is fantastic and positional sense is good and the highlight of this match was his brilliant run to deny Scott Brown to take a shot on goal which was destined to be hit at the back of the net. 8

22. Clichy : Another solid game for him was troubled by Celtic pacy winger but he managed him very well was involved in the second goal, Overall pretty decent performance but still have not reached the heights of 07-08 season. 7

3. Sagna : Good game from Sagna as usual need to work on his crossing though he and Nikki B were working good. 7

15. Denilson : Another good performance from the Brazilian, once again he showed why Wenger shows so much faith in him, at the begining he was a bit shaky the reason could be the brilliant park head atmoshphere but as the game went on he was solid in possesion and tackling, he seems to have worked in gym a lot, he has become strong physically, anothere good performance from him this new formation is really helping his game. 7

17. Song : Well what can I say about him, never in my wildest dream i thought Song can be this brillaint, his tackling, positioning, strength I hope Cameroon do not qualify for the ACN. So that Song don't have to leave in January for a month or so. He was excellent from the word go. 8

4 . Cesc : I think Wenger was playing with Celtic coach when he said Fab is 50-50 for the game,

because wenger knew that Celtic will be trying to shut Fabregas at every opportunity and thats exactly what they did but Captain Fab still ran the show just like Xavi for Barcelona he was everywhere and this new formation has given him the freedom to dictate the play, another brillaint performance from the captain and my man of the match for the day. 8.5(star man)

52. Bendtner : Not as good as the previous game but was good helping Sagna a lot in tracking back and winning and intersecting play I really think that he and RVP should change positions 6.5

23. Arshavin : Well our little Russian is taking time to adapt to this new system I suppose. Was not his usual self but worked his sock off for the team and got his foot in whenever required. 6

11. Van Persie : He was also not very effective throughout course of 90 min. He was trying too much to dribble past player and win free kick but it almost backfired in the first half as the celtic could have taken the lead, only for Vermaelen to deny Celtic the goal 6

Will Arsenal Sigh Huntelaar?

hello everyone,

This is my second post of the day usually I don't do that but I just read an interview of Harry Redknapp he clearly mentioned that they did tried to sign Huntelaar, they even had a meeting with Real representative but according to him his wage demands are too high for them.

Its assumed that he currently on 60K a week at Madrid so that means if he is to come to an english club he would be expecting something similar, but the biggest obstacle in this deal could be the shitty tax law in England, with all due respect to the country but this tax law seems to be unfair, like Arshavin clearly mentioned in his interview with SkySports that if they don't do anything about it there could be mass exodus of stars in premier league.

Its pretty obvious that no player would want a pay cut in their salary for a move to premier league that too when a player is in his prime, like Huntelaar, so if Arsenal have to buy him, they will have to make him one of the highest earner in the club with the likes of Cesc, Van Persie and Arshavin, which seems very unlikely since we all know how our club operates but all you can do is hope that we sign him.

Even if we don't sign him I think we are pretty good upfront with fully fit Eduardo, Walcott, Arshavin, Robin, Vela, Bendtner. Let me know where else do you think we should strengthen or squad and let stay positive even if we don't sign anymore player.

And a request to all the fan who come for home games at Emirates please cheer our player don't booooo them and get behind the team even if we are losing a match, let them know we are with the team, we have to stay positives, as I can see glory days are coming back to the Grove. And if you are finding it hard to inspire yourself then you must watch this Bobby Pires video. I still love him

till then

take care.