feel dirty dropping 4 points to the Brums. We played like shit against them in January but this time around, deserved to win. Two set-pieces gift-wrapped by the ref resulted in two goals. Horrible night for the Gunners, if there’s a silver lining, it’s that Walcott finally broke the ice and scored two league goals. Bad result in FA Cup followed by mediocre result in Champions League followed by a bad result in the league. This is when things started to go south for us last year but this year is different. We played awful last year during this time period, but this year it’s a question of injuries (RVP, Rosicky), bad luck (Adebayor and the crossbar) and bad refereeing
I’m not concerned, we’ll shake this off next week against Villa and finish the job in Italy. Prayers with Eduardo, he’s out for a long, long time, will miss the season obviously and is out for Euro 2008. Say what you will about Arsenal’s bad disciplinary record, we’ll argue with ref, go for a bold tackle, but we don’t try to end players’ careers. The FA needs to realize people come to watch players like Eduardo, not riff-raff like Martin Taylor. I’m very interested as to what the suspension will be for this guy, seeing how we’re the Gunners and not Man Utd or Liverpool, he’ll get off with a slap on the wrist. At what age do they teach you how to tackle? This fucker still hasn’t learned, ban this guy for a season. Wenger is pissed, and rightfully.Revenge mission complete and as a bonus you get two of the classiest finishes you’ll ever see. Make sure you pay attention to how Eduardo uses the outside of his boot on his volley. If Eduardo was our full-time striker up front with one of RVP and Adebayor, we’d be scoring a lot more goals than we do. Think about it, how many times have you seen Adebayor blow an easy chance because he didn’t show composure or shot it too straight instead of applying a thoughtful finish. Same with RVP but to a lesser degree. For all the chances we create our return rate on goals is very low and bad finishing is the primary reason. Anyway, let’s just enjoy the win and hope the Scum can do us a favor against Villa in the next league game.Walcott looked good in this one too, when he accelerated down the middle of the pitch a few times I realized what we’d been missing the last few months and just why we’ve got 67 scoreless ties. If we stay healthy down the stretch there’s no reason why we shouldn’t easily catch Villa. Arshavin’s also looking good on the left side of the pitch and he’s starting to get some timing chemistry going with the strikers and his midfield, too bad his cup-tied for the Champions League. Honourable mention to Song – very good game. Now let’s see him do it twice in a row.
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