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.

When was the last time we BEAT OURSELVES ?

After last night I did not talk with anyone I think all the gooner's should know why. Last night defeat against the tinies brought back the memories of Wigan away game last season, but on further analysis I realised that this defeat against the tinies was not because of them being any better than us. But what I felt was that we gifted them those three goals they scored. In the entire 90 mins I cannot remember one clear opportunity that they created or troubled our keeper or opened our defence inside out that was not the case here. Infact we gave them the 3 goals and 3 points on a silver plate.

Lets just look at the way that they have scored. First goal was actually created by a header won by Defoe probably the smallest player on the pitch and then the ball was chested down by Van der Wart and he was not challenged by Sagna, he then flicked it to Gareth Bale but our very own Denilson decided to just stop and admire.

The second goal free fick at the edge of the box, well ok that was not a free kick but we have to do our basic right while defending a free kick, Fabregas have got away with such handball on previous occasion but not this time, how can you raise your hand and not expect a penalty when clearly that free kick was going nowhere instead Chamakh would have got it with his head but still Cesc thought it is wise to put his hand up, the second gift for the tinies.

What more can I say about the third goal they stole atleast 10 to 15 yards on the freekick, but still we have got to defend and again the basic was not right while defending the freekick. why was RVP marking Kaboul, he is not the greatest in heading a ball, why wasnt a defender marking him, we all know he is good in air.

I feel so tired now really but don't even think for a second that the tinies are even close to Arsenal as the British media would suggest for the entire season now. We are far better than the best in England but the only reason why we are failing at the crucial time is because we do not have a proven winner, a leader in our team, We needed a leader on the pitch when the tinies scored the first goal. I don't know how Arsene is going to motivate them but all I can say to all the Arsenal fans is that we will still come good at the end of the season. You call me optimistic but that's what I am like when I talk about Arsenal.

Good To Be Back, All the best Titi

Hello Gooners,

Its good to be back after a long spell with no post. Lots of reason not to post family, personal and lots of other stuff(I will not be discussing them in details) So what did I miss?

So far all I heard about is Cesc to Barcelona, I know you all are pretty much had enough of it so all I can say is F*** off Barca/Pique/Puyol/Laporta etc etc. Gosh how low this fuc**** are.

Anyways on the positive side we signed Chamakh and Kosomething, I know people are still asking for a defender and a goalkeeper Arsene has promised about one more defensive signing, I dont know what it will be ? A GK or a defender it can be anything only Arsene knows, I would personally prefer both.

If a story about Fulhams Mark Scwarzher is right then he should do well for me, he cannot be any bad than what we have and we all know who will the Arsenal no 1 after may be couple of seasons.

Nothing Arsenal happening around apart from the pre- season training and the traditional pre season curtain raiser againt Barnet this saturday. To be true after this boring World Cup I am really excited it. Time for some real football.

People I cannot really figure out anything more to write about. Oh! one more thing All the best Thiery Henry doesn't matter where you play you will always be my favourite player.

Am I forgetting something..........yes am I the only one who noticed that Eduardo name is not on the list of probable squad for the game against Barnet.

Ok thats all I can manage for today hope to be back with some exciting post, hopefully which you all will like

Till then,

All Hail King Gallas !

I don't want to talk about last night draw for me it was a point gained rather than 2 points lost end of.

First I will start with a prayer to the almighty to please give us a good news on Vermaelen injury, hope its a minor one.

Now about last night, everyone is praising Sol on his performance, yes he did a brilliant job hats off to him and Wenger who signed him at the right time.
But my man of the match is Billy Gallas for his excellent display last night and showed why Wenger rates him so highly. He was immense last night, considering how quick is Ag-long-ball-whore(hope I spelled his name correctly) he held on to him quiet brilliantly and matched with his pace and trickery.

We all know how Villa played last night direct ball to Ag long....whatever , who was supported by two wingers in Young and Downing. And Billy and the entire defence especially Sagna did very well.

I am really surprised as to so many people praising only Sol for the clean sheet and not Gallas except for few blogs.

If Wenger is to be believed, Gallas has been playing on the limit. In such Circumstances all I can say is All hail the new king.....King Gallas.

And one more thing f**k you Lee Probert you were shit last night.

Gooner4life...

Finally Time Has Come....

At the start of the season, when the fixture list was made almost everyone pointed out these four games as to how Arsenal will cope with them. Everyone said that it will be difficult for Arsenal to hold onto that fourth Champions League spot, but here are we fighting for the Title right there with Chelski and ManUSA and every pundit eating there word when they said Arsenal is the team going out of the traditional Top four.

Arsene Wenger has proved to all that he really knows.

Alright I am getting too sentimental now,

Now for todays match. its funny till yesterday it looked like we have all kind of injuries and today it seems almost all are back( except RVP, Djourou and Gibbs Offcourse) Nasri, Ramsey and Nikki B.

Of these three I really want to see Nikki B hit the ground quickly, if we are to win the league then this boy has to come good and stay fit for the rest of the season. Arsene really have lot of faith in his abilities and he is the reason he did not sign a striker, now I heard people saying what has he done only scored 2 goals so far, I say he scored 2 goals playing in the wings, he was not used as the CF, if he was being used as a CF and then has he scored only 2 goals then it would have been a fair criticism.

People forget that he is the same player who scored 15 goals last season, and he was the 3rd choice striker. So give him some time.

Lets hope we win tonight.

Gooner4life

Arsenal 3 Hull City 0 - MOTD Highlights

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Arsenal v Hull City
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Diaby ! Can you do it consistently?

Last night game was the best game for one player and he changed the way I use to think about him, yes you guessed it right, I am talking about Abou Diaby, he was the stand out performer for me, Apart from the Defence, If he can play like this week in week out, he can be a menace for teams playing against Arsenal, First 30 minutes were poor, then Arsenal really started to play in the second half, After Denilson with a magnificient Free kick put Arsenal Ahead by 1-0.

Diaby was the one who won that free kick, he also put the cross for Eduardo to score t e second and in the end he scored the third to put us 3-0 up. Common Diaby if you can play like this, where were you all this years? and please do not dis appear after last night brilliant performance. Same showing against Aston Villa please.

Now nuff of Diaby praise, We all got what we wanted so badly after watching Manure losing at the Craven Cottage defeat by 3-0, yes you heard it right 3-0, I was watching that match because I felt that Fulham wil beat ManU.

Last Night Preview.

GoalKeeper

Saved the Penalty but that does not change my stand toward him, he needs to be replaced, otherwise Hull did not test him.

Defence

Two CB were brillinat as usual, Eboue was good going Forward, special mention to Silvestre because Hull player were targeting that that left wing as our week side but he defended well and helped in attack as well.

Midfield.

It was more of a hard working Midfield rather than the usual Arsenal Beautiful passing one, but none the less they did the job well. Denilson and Diaby were involved heavily in the Attacking third, Denilson in the first 30 min was a bit shaky but may be beacause of his injury but got involved as the game played on, Song was excellent as we have come to expect of him.

Forward.

Arshavin did what he does best, always try to do something which help in attack and he was closed down quickly.

Eduardo, well he still dont look sharp. but on few occasion he was brilliant one when he turned and was through on goal in a flash I was like how the F**k he do that, but lacked composure to put in on goal, but eventually he scored one later on in the game. from a beautiful one passing.

Nasri was good if not brilliant, I thought Nicky Bramby should have been Red Carded for Raising his hand on Nasri. I thought even Garcia deserved a card for his melodrama, Nasri just stepped on him he acted as if someone kicked him between his legs and fell to ground.

All in all a good result considering ManU lost. 3 more points against Villa please.

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.

Almunia And Barca Both Need a Slap.

Sorry for the Long Absence from the blog, Exams guys was busy writing them.

Anyways back to my favourite topic Arsenal FC. Now About last night game. Yes we were not playing good after Cesc got injured, (WOW this guy really does mean a lot to Arsenal). Anyways to many negatives from this game which I really thought we will win. But take nothing away from Burnley they were well organised and did not let us score.

Keeper.

How bad was Almunia? Almost cost us the match, if it would had been for the offside flag, we would have lost the match. That was a cross even my teams GK would have held on to. Common Arsene replace him.
Defenders were hesitating to give him back pass they had no confidence in him.

I dont want to talk much about the game anymore, we built a good momentum with a win against the KOP's but failed to continue with it. Next up is Hull at home I am expecting for an easy win without Cesc in the team. No more hiccups please.

Barca need a slap on their face, I really think it time now that Arsenal complain about their public pursuit of Fabregas, trying to unsettle him. Joan Laporta is desperate to hold onto the president seat at Barca.

Arshavin's 100th career goal.

Well, yes it was Arshavin's 100 career goal, and he still did not ask Cesc to take the Penalty, was he so confident that he will score the goal in that match or was it something else.

Arshavin explained it on his Website. He said " before the game the coach tells the name of the person who should do it." and it was Cesc Fabregas.

Asked whether his team mates knew about it, he said. "Actually, yes. I told them long ago that my next goal would be my one-hundredth." But still he was not asked to take the Penalty which he himself won.

But anyways I would like to congratulate Arsha for his 100 th goal, may he score more 100 goals with Arsenal.

Rumour Mills


It is rumoured that Arsenal are after Bojan Krkic, Barcelona young striker, And Barca are looking for a loan deal rather than a permanent deal. I don't know much about it though, I cannot really see it happening.

Nothing much to talk about. Till then bye

Have Something To Say, Express It

First things first, sorry to all my readers for no post for few days, I was busy with my Best friends Wedding, Indian weddings are grand, So had lot of work to do for his marriage,

Alright lets not go there, 3 matches 3 loss, ok its bad I know But i will not consider Carling Cup result as we all know how much importance Arsene gives to Carling Cup. So I will not waste time talking about the loss and how Mark Hughes is a prick.

Stoke Game I think we will win it. No matter how much physical they get, we will beat them. So I will not waste time in talking tactics and Stuff.

I have been receiving lots of E-mail from my friends and my readers, they want to express their thoughts and feeling, After discussing with my fellow gooners, I have decided to publish your your thoughts on my blog if they are good.

So If you guys have something in your head just mail it to me, if its good enough I will publish it for you guys.

Do not forget to mention your
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And mail me at gooneramaan30@yahoo.com

5 Way To Beat Chelsea.

Well seriously I am tired of reading all the match preview and how we have a weaker if not better Squad than Chelski,

But trust me there are 5 way through which we can beat chelski.

1 Play Denilson and Song in the Middle along with Cesc Fabregas, I know many people have lot to say about Denilson but trust me, in this new 4-3-3 formation he plays just ahead of Song and Behing Fabregas thus helping in attack as well and in defending and he has developed himself physically If you have doubt remember Man shitty game, we conceeded as soon as Denilson was taken off. And besides he plays well in supporting role to Cesc Fabregas.

2 Vermaelen should Kick Drogba at every possiblity becuase no matter what? he is going to stay on the groud even if not kicked by anyone and avoid letting him get behind defence for those long ball which is sure to come because our midfiled is going to outplay Chelski Midfiled.

3 Play Sagna and Eboue as Fullback, these two has played at the left back position before but I expect Traore to play, he is good in attack but not so good Defensively.

4 Play Eduardo as CF because I cannot see a better game for him then Chelski get his goal scoring touch back, players like Eduardo raise their game against big team when given the chance.

5 Arshavin and Nasri as wing forward, Arshavin is the key here because they have a make shift right back in Ivanovic and we know what Arshavin can do, people have criticised Arshavin this season but remember he is a big match player and can hurt any team at any point, he did that against Manure but unfortunately got injured, and this is his first chance to show his class against Chelski. I expect him to score this Sunday.

6 Sorry I am adding an extra point here, Contain Anelka he is more Dangerous than Dogba, he attacks koin in midfield he drags his marker with him and his movement is diffcult to judge, our fullback should be on their toes to track Anelka becuase he attacks from anywhere on the field.


3 points is what we expect and 3 point I hope we get, and 3 point is all we are asking for,
All the preview review does not matter this Sunday, May the best team ( Arsenal) win.

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

Get Off Eduardo's back. Arsenal will beat Chealsea

An away trip to sunderland after an international break was never an easy way to start the premier league, Arsenal started well and probably played well throughout the 90 min but just could not penetrate the resolute Sunderland defence. To be true this was the result I feared against Sunderland because they have really improved under steve bruce, coming away with a point from Old trafford is not an easy thing to do. I would have been happy with a point. but anyways we lost.

Now about the match let me start of with defence.

Vermaelen and Gallas were solid as usual apart from that one setpiece, nothing they did wrong all day.
Sagna as usual solid at the back and also while attacking but his crosses were as usual not good.
Traore was lively throughout the match but was sometime out of position. he really need to work on defending more.

Now comes Midfiled.

Song was probably the best player but still he did not had the best game of this season.
Cesc was finding it hard to get thing ticking as he was playing deep and Cana was stuck on his ass like a bee to a honey. but still he did well.
Ramsey was tad disappointing, I expected him to do well after a week off and after such a brilliant performance from him against Scotland, was easily outmuscled at times.

Now, finally the attackers.

Rosicky was lively when match started but faded away, well could be because of lack of match fitness, he should have scored in the opening five minute of the game.
Nasri was finding it difficult to get in the game was lacking match sharpness after a long lay off, he was desperately trying to drive in the middle to create something but failed to do anything.

Finally about Eduardo, OK not his best game but got to give the guy a break and give him couple of games to adjust, because I see all the bloggers writing him off that he cannot play in that role. what I feel is crap? He will come good trust me. Even Van Persie took seven eight game to get on in that position. Trust me Eduardo will not take seven games to adjust, give him a couple of games and he will come good. Don't judge him by just one game, he will come good.

Overall we were the better team but failed to take any chances though they were few. Next up Chelsea, I have got a very good feeling about this game.

Have faith Gooners.

Well It can't get any better than this.

It cannot really get any better for for our opposition listening to the number of injury that is mounting they will be happy to know another first team player got injured, november curse strikes again. this time its Gibbs. It is believed to be a broken something. Something similar to Nasri's injury so we all know how long to wait for him to get fit.

Ok we have Traore to fill the gap or even huge experience of Silvestre to fill in, but the man who I think will replace gibbs is Eboue. Finally I think Arsenal fan will come to know the importance of player like Eboue.

Well Tonight one more intenational, so by tomorrow we will come to know how many players we have lost due to injury, I wish it do not extend but internationals always springs a surprise.

Well I don't know what to say apart from rumours mills and injury news I do not have any thing to give to you all.

Ankle Sprain Explained !

Well as we all know by now that Van Persie has torn his ankle ligament, as soon as the news started to spread that it very serious and he could be out for 2 months.

But after searching about this injury on google and after having a word with one of my family doctors I came to know RVP could be out for minimum of 6 weeks. Lets me explain to you about this Injury and how serious it can be.





This injury is divided into three grades and it is called ankle sprain.

In first degree sprain it can take min of 4 to 6 week to heal.
In second degree sprain it can take upto 4 to 8 week to heal.
And in case of third degree sprain it can take upto 6 to 12 week to heal and in case of third degree sprain sometimes surgery has to be done which can take more than 12 week to heal.

This is just the amount of time it will take to heal, once it is healed then add few more weeks to bring him back to competitive level, all in all we can say that its will be a lengthy lay off for RVP.

We can only pray that it is a 1st degree sprain and nothing more than that. Apart from feeling gutted we cannot do anything but curse international friendly.
Like Wenger say November curse, which struck again.

We knew it already Arsene !

Breaking news, Arsene revealed today that he will be playing his young guns in the quater finals of the Carling cup, no matter who the team is playing against. He says he will put on the team who will win, well that nice.

I will to true here, if Arsene is saying the truth then the possibility of Arsenal beating Citeh is quite less, but as we all know this kids are more than capable of causing an upset and we all know that Hughes will be playing his strongest possible team.

If our young guns beat Citeh I will be getting a treat in a 5-star hotel, why? Coz one of my stupid Manure friend think Citeh will thrash our kids, and as usual we decided to bet against it. So if Arsenal win then I win a dinner in a nice 5-star hotel. So go you young gunners.

Well lets just move on, Now the news is Arsene is trying to attract an Israeli youth from Barca, Finally some news about a player transfer from Barca to Arsenal, I was actually kinda bored by Cesc to Barca stories, so this new rumour is nice for a change.

NINE MORE DAYS TO GO FOR THE INTERNATIONALS.

Boring International ! Barca are back with Cesc DNA.

Two week of boredom awaits for all gooners, after every international all the football fans jump on the internet to check if one of their star performer are ok or not, how long have they played? Are they carrying any knock? and the questions go on and on and on. well that is all we have got to do when this meaningless intenational friendlies are played. But for few players this week is the decider as to will they go to South Africa and to be true I would want all the Arsenal players to play in south Africa, which is I know is not possible. But I really hope russia and France qualify for the world cup because I want to see Arshavin and other of our french players this summer at the world cup, they are the reason why I even bother watching internationals. So if Arsenal players are not playing I don't feel lke watching international matches.

Well, we leave it there, as we all know its international week, rumours of our player leaving and stupid Cesc to Barca comments, this time it is Xavi with the same old DNA comment. I feel that they have been taught by the Barca precident about this DNA comment. I cannot really understand how far they will go to unsettle Cesc.

In other news, Bendtner has gone under the knife for his groin injury, thank god we have Theo back and offcourse Nasri and Tomas, but the problem with Bendtner injury is that we have lost the much needed height for defending set pieces, and to be true I was loving the way bendtner was playing so far this season, so this long lay off is bad for his good form. And what else? yes

Fletcher? who remember that dirty player from manure, he is blaming Arsene comments for influencing refree, which is crap as we all know but what else can you except from a person who himself is a crap.
To be true I cannot really figure out what to write today.
May be tomorrow I can come up with something better, so people wait till tomorrow.