Braga rout means nothing !

I did not say that. its out very own Arsene Wenger's words.

And I believe he is right, what is the point in beating a team 6-0 and loosing the next match to an inferior opponents. He also mentioned that there will be no place for complacency in match against the Portugese side.

That is spot on from the manager but the real problem is maintaining the consistency, thats where they have to improve. Even the manager has confirmed that there could be a possible mental block if the team keeps loosing at home and clearly he is worried about it.

It's funny how the team was being praised for showing steel and stuff like that and how one defeat can change the scenario but I believe it's the manner with which the game was lost has really created so much fuss. But anyways we should move on and think about the next game.

I think to avoid this status and instill some belief and leadership in these bunch of players we should bring in some defensive coach like Martin Keown who was a winner and a leader whenever he was on the field. I may be wrong, this is just my opinion. If you think there are better ways we can change the mentality of this team please feel free to comment. And please don't go on about the sacking of Arsene wenger and all that crap.

Let's just move on to tonight's match against Braga, RVP, Arshavin and Clichy are all out. Clichy with his same old back problem and RVP and Arshavin have been rested.

If John Cross is to be believed they both have been asked to sit back at home and train hard at the training ground while the team is playing in Portugal. I don't understand this, isn't playing regular matches is suppose to get you match fit or is it some kind of a punishment I don't know.

One player who is sure to start tonight is our very own super confident Dane. Yes! Nicklas Bendtner. After he was put to his place by the manager when he decided to mouth about lack of playing time to some Danish newspaper. Its good to know that our manager can be ruthless at times with his pampered played. I hope that is the case with RVP and Arshavin.

Looking ahead for a win in tonight match. For all the Indian gooners I don't know whether the match is being shown live on Ten sports since their site is under maintainence. If they are showing it live then please let me know in the comment box. Otherwise you can catch the game live on an Internet stream on myp2p.

Have fun and leave your thoughts below in the comment box.

Cheers.

Stupid Monday !

image courtesy 7amkickoff

I believe I am not the only gooner feeling this way, but anyways life and football move on. I've heard enough read nuff blogs and news and stupid pundits like twichies son saying some Gallas is the signing of the season and all the stupid stuff but I've had enough of the torture and decided to move on.

Well I read Arseblog today and they have rightly highlighted the consistency of this team, no, I am not talking about the winning consistency but the consistency in showing the complacency while going 2-0 up or while playing smaller teams and this has been the case over the past 5 years.

Well I promised I will move on but you all can understand what state of mind I am in. Lets not think about the Sp*uds game till the next derby match against them, I believe we will beat them.

Now, what we gooners feel that Arsene should motivate his team and move on and focus on the match against the Portugese side Braga, really we have a bad memories of last season while playing in Portugal(Specially Fabianski). Lets just hope this team do enough and secure top spot in the group.

We still have the chance to move above Chelsea in the league, considering the rumours surrounding Ancelotti future and all the defensive problems they have but in the end its this team of ours have to decide s we can take advantage again if the opportunity arise or we will bottle it like we did against the tinies, only time will tell until then we all have to wait and hope.

That is it for today nothing new, apart from the ongoing war of words between Gallas and Nasri.
I think they both should shut up and move on.

Shut Up ! Move On..........

I mean really we should have won the game if not for Howard Stupid Webb or the linesman and of course our very own Almunia.

Is this something new. Arsenal fan's really need to ask themselves is this new that they have witness this season. I would really suggest every Arsenal fan out there who whine after every game about new goalkeeper, stupid refereeing. Guys! just stop, your whining won't change anything instead it will put more pressure on the team and the manager nothing else.

Instead of whining support the team and move on wait till the season is over and at the end of the season we can analyse what went wrong and then we have whole 2 month to shout on these issue.
League is anyways difficult to win but we are still in it.

Let's concentrate on Champions league, we can win this shit. So stop complaining and support the team.

UP THE GUNNERS.

Arsenal Draw Against FC Porto.

Arsenal Draw against portugese Champions Porto. Difficult I must say

here are the list of complete fixtures


Stuttgart v Barcelona
Olympiacos v Bordeaux
Inter Milan v Chelsea
Bayern Munich v Fiorentina
CSKA Moscow v Sevilla
Lyon v Real Madrid
Porto v Arsenal
AC Milan v Manchester United

The first legs will take place on February 16, 17, 23 & 24, with the second legs on March 9, 10, 16 & 17.

Thank God Fabregas Got Injured

No I am serious, sometime you feel injury is bad, yes it is bad but looking at the time of injury, it does not annoy me, because I am sure we will win against Hull tomorrow, But the thing is if you can remember Johan Cyrff Calatan match against Argentina, which Wenger refused to let him go and Cesc Wanted to play in, now there is no possibility that Cesc can play in that match and there is no possibility of a dispute between Arsene and Cesc over this stupid so called charity match. So I would say its good Cesc got injured. I know he is a player who make us Arsenal tick, but if we cannot beat Hull without Cesc we dont deserve to win anything then.

Now it is believed that Owen Coyle wants to take Jack on loan on January, If I was Wenger I would say yes, because if he can give Jack some playing time and that too in the premier league that will be great. I like Owen Coyle as a manager, he has done a fantastic job to get Burnley promoted and the way they play at home is great. So a Loan move for the best talent in English Football would be great.

Now for tomorrow Match, As usual we have a long list of Injuries, Cesc is out, but Denilson is back. RVP, Gibbs their rehabilitation continues. while Nikki B, Clichy Rosicky and not Far Away.

Here's hoping for a good match. and an Easy win.

And anxioulsy waiting for tonight draw for the Last 16 of the champions League and here are the teams we can draw against.

VFB Stuttgart
Inter Milan
FC Porto
CSKA Moscow
AC Milan
Bayern Munchen
Lyon


These are the seven team waiting to be drawn against Arsenal, If I would want anything from Santa this Christmas it would be an Injury free season from now on and VFB Stuttgart in the Last 16.

Let me know who do u think we will draw against tonight.

Here is a small video of our little Maestro Season so far.

MOTD - Highlights Arsenal v Liege

Arsenal v Standard Liege
by reinacomic

If you want to be petty in life you look at what others do. If you want to be big in life you look at your own performance - Wenger

if you want to be petty in life you look at what others do. If you want to be big in life you look at your own performance.- Arsene Wenger.

Great quote isn't it, Well Wenger don't care how much Scums score. WHY? Well he knows they are always going to finish below Arsenal no matter how many they score.

About tonight match against Liege, remember them alomost defeated us on match day one, when they scored 2 goals inside five min, what a match that was?

Well they are here again. But seriously I cannot see them scoring 2 goals tonight, I want Arsenal to score 10 tonight I know every Arsenal would want our team to score 10 today, But anyways that a different case.

What I am looking forward for tonight is who will start and who will be on the bench?

Three players I personally want to see on the starting line up are Denilson, Arshavin/Rosicky and Eduardo. Denilson because I feel he is good if not spectacular in the three men midfield, because he is more defensive minded and that helps Song in holding role and Cesc in attacking upfront with the front three in 4-3-3 formation. Eduardo, because as I explained in my previous post he will need couple of games to adjust to central striker role, trust me if he given more games he will score more goals than Van Persie( I know many fans won't agree with me on this) but he will. Arshavin may start ahead of Rosicky or Nasri.

So my starting line up will be somewhat like this.

Almunia

Eboue Gallas Vermaelen Gibbs

Song

Cesc Denilson

Rosicky Eduardo Arshavin

and my prediction is 4-1 may be. LET ME KNOW UR LINE UP AND PREDICTION

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.

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.

What Is Wrong With Arsenal Fans?

Not a vintage Arsenal Performance by anymeans but a win is a win, I have been reading lot of blogs recently, I do read comments on those blog and to be true I feel its really disgusting how negative we fans have become.

Yes, it was not a great performance somehow we managed a win, is this not enough. When we lose people say that look at Chelski, Manure they get win even though they do not play well and this what Arsenal have to learn to grind out result in difficult situation. This is what our boys did last night and I am very happy with the performance. I saw Chelsea play they were shit but somehow they won against Porto and everyone is praising them, so what's the problem with Arsenal win?, Infact we were the better team in the second half.

So I would sugest we should take positive's from a win no matter how we win it.

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.

Arsenal v UEFA - who will win?

Arsenal are determined to take Eduardo case very seiously, they have released a statement, which strongly state that they won't let UEFA get out of this easily.

The club statement says

"The Club is in receipt of Uefa’s reasoned decision in relation to the charge against Eduardo.

We strongly believe that the decision taken is deeply flawed and not based on any forensic review of the video evidence available.

There are obvious errors and inconsistencies in Uefa’s judgment and we intend to appeal".

Now what will happen to this case. I don't know, but surely Arsene is not ready to let go so easily.

Let me know what do you think.

UEFA Ban Eduardo - Your Thoughts.

News has just come in that UEFA has banned Eduardo for 2 Champions League Matches for "deceiving the referee" to win a penalty against Celtic in the 2nd leg of the CL play off round which Arsenal eventually won 3-1 and 5-1 on aggregate.

Under Normal Circumstances it would have been a just a yellow card so a 2 match ban sounds illogical.

Arsenal can appeal against the decision in 3 days.

Give me your thoughts on this decision.

In Defence Of Eduardo.

Fabregas out for ManUsa clash, which is a big blow for Arsenal as he failed to shrug of his Hamstring injury and for this I blame you Mr Wenger(most of the fan would agree with me), but thats in the past now we have to look forward, Since Cesc is not available we will be playing Diaby(I think) in his place and Ramsey is also injured.

It will be tough against ManU, this will be a real test for our new boy Vermaelen, Rooney will be a real test for him, lets all hope he pass with flying colours,

Now to the debate of the century. Eduardo is the only diver the world of football has seen, he has been diving all these years but was only noticed against Celtic, he even dived when Taylor broke his leg(F*** U Taylor), Gerard, Rooney, Drogba, Ronaldivedo etc etc are players he should need to learn from, that how to play good football without cheating.

Now I am feeling much better, I took out all my frustration in the above paragraph, now for some serious stuff, UEFA acting like a group of Muppet's here, they are charging Eduardo for something which had no outcome on the result and like Arsene said "they are opening a very dangerous door". Hell yeah! they are.

That means every decision a manager feels was incorrect will be challenged by the club and UEFA have to take action against it, if the law that UEFA has charged Eduardo with is it Applicable only in the Penalty box or anywhere near the box where a free kick can result in a goal or anywhere on the field. They have to clearly mention this what the law exactly say, and if this is the case why Ryan Babel was not charged when he fell in the Penalty box which eventually kicked Arsenal out of the CL and was mroe crucial than in DUDU case, and what about Dirk Kuyt when he pulled Hleb inside the box and no penalty was given, shouldn't these players be charged.

I don't know what problem they have with Arsenal in Particular but I completely agree with Arsene in defence of DUDU and I think all fan should. If this is law for everyone than I am cool with it but the way Eduardo has been singled out as if that Penalty won us the Champions League is just not acceptable.

Let me know what you all think

Till then........

Player Rating - Arsenal 3 Celtic 1 And MOTM

Congratulation to all our Players for doing a fantastic job over the two leg, Will not talk about Dudu dive, The reason Arsenal qualified is because they were the better side over the two legs and not because Eduardo won the penalty as most Celtic fans and media thinks.

Player Rating:

Almunia: Was not troubled by the Celtic defence. 6

Sagna : Solid performance going forward as well as defending. 7

Gallas : Well kept Celtic striker's in his pocket and was solid, i loved it when he dribbled past Celtic defender as if he was not there. 7

Vermaelen : I cannot remember a header he failed to win in the entire match. loved his attitude throughout the match. 7

Clichy : Slowly but steadily he is finding his true rythym maybe that long injury lay off helped him learning his mistake and clearly it seems he has been working on it during his re-habiliation. 7

Song : What can I say about him, was not as good as the first leg but very strong in the middle breaking Celtic attack. 6.5

Denilson : Star man, was brilliant throught out the match, he simply frustrated Celtic players, so much so they all started kicking him trying to intimidate him but could not succeed for the first time I saw Denilson actually getting on the face of a player refusing to bow down. I loved his performance. 8

Eboue : Just missed my MOTM award but I can say that this is one of his best performance in the middle of the Arsenal attack, his first touch has improved and his has shown a strong character, took his goal very well

7.5

Diaby : Decent performance from the Frenchmen, helped Song and Denilson well and was strong in midfield. 6

Bendtner : Not bad for the big Dane but one can see frustration on his face for not scoring so far in four matches, did troubled the Celtic defence whenever he had the ball. 6

Eduardo : Controversial penalty won by him, I seriously believe Dudu was not trying to con the ref, he might have caught in two minds and fell over, because I cannot see him exagerrating while diving, he just fell over thats it, overall fantastic performance from him, loved to see him play twice in one week.7

Ramsey: 6

Wilshere : 6

Arshavin: took his goal brilliantly. 6

Let me know who was yout MOTM

Comments and Suggestion are most welcome.

Highlights --Arsenal 3 Celtic 1

1st goal Eduardo and First half highlights




2nd goal Eboue




3rd goal Ashavin

Arsenal v Moaning Hoops - Preview & Prediction

The day has arrived when Celtic will play Arsenal and after tonight I hope their players & fans STFU, since the day they were beaten at their home, from Celtic manager, players and even some celtic fan (who believe they were not kicking Cesc all over the park and Cesc was Diving) just cannot seem to keep quiet or I should say they are using this opportunity to make a name for themself by giving interview to every bloody newspaper everyday, so lets hope we not only beat them tonight but thrash them like never before.

Cesc won't be taking part in this fixture, if reports are to be believed Ramsey will be playing in Cesc place and I really hope he does, But my instinct say Ramsey will have to do with a place on bench with Abou Diaby playing today.Rosicky is back in training but will be available for weekend match,Song, Sagna and Clichy are set to return after being rested last weekend against Portsmouth,

Formation is expected to be same 4-3-3 with Arshavin, Van persie and Bendtner upfront and Diaby, Denilson and Song in the middle and with the same back four that faced Celtic in the first leg.

Formation could be somewhat like this

---------------------------------Almunia

-----------------------Sagna Gallas Vermaelen Clichy

----------------------------------Song

--------------------------- Denilson Diaby

----------------------Bendtner Van Persie Arshavin

Prediction : 3 - 0 Arsenal

Let me know whats your prediction and Formation for today

Arsenal can win the champions league

Another quiet Monday, god i so hate Monday but that's another issue

Diaby is talking these days, people he played well against Portsmouth, well we all know how talented he is, but we also know how frustrating he can be sometimes, and the biggest problem with him is, he is far too inconsistent and get injured too often, but if he stay's fit and play like he did against Portsmouth week in week out. He will be a great asset to the club

This season he has set himself few targets like staying fit(most important), making the squad for next year world cup(first make a place at Arsenal) and winning trophies.

He sounded very optimistic about Arsenal chances this season.

The 23-year-old said: "It was my first full game because I'd had a few injuries in pre-season. So to score two goals and have the team winning was a very good day for me.

"It's given us a lot of confidence. We have some big games coming up in the future and we have to be ready.

"I feel we can definitely challenge everyone this season. We are ready to fight and to get something this year."

"We talk about winning the Champions League, of course. Arsenal is a big club and as a player you want to win that trophy so it's in our mind.”

Waiting news on Cesc Injury will keep you all updated

comments and suggestions are welcome

Wenger will sign atleast 2 Players.

We are almost into the champions league group stages and I believe all Arsenal have to do is score the first goal in the second leg at the Emirates Stadium, that one goal will kill Celtic spirit and I can't see them even trying to score and I think Arsenal can score few goals in that particular fixture.

Celtic aside we have our opening premier league home game against Portsmouth, well the less I talk about the outcome of the fixture its better we all know what will happen.My point is now how Wenger will rotate the players since we have Celtic home and then Man U away they both are massive games, so looking forward to see Wilshere and Gibbs to play the game this Saturday.

Now people say Wenger is Stubborn he won't spend money in the transfer to strengthen his team, but I say he will now, Once the team is completed the task of beating Celtic at Emirates he will buy probably a Centre back and a Striker, but if wenger is really happy he might even buy a DM a back up for song but I can assure you all that we will see atleast 2 new players.

We all know champions league football get us around 40-45 million, isn't 40 million that we got through Ade and Kolo transfer, this prove's that he was prepared financially if Arsenal fail to qualify for the champions league, as now we are almost through to the Champions league group stages we will see couple of new faces in the Arsenal dressing room.

One more thing about our new recruit Verminator(i like the name), its good to see that all our defender have been praising him and even Almunia is happy with him, like how he keeps his cool and balances the defence so its good that he is having a positive effect on the team-mates.