A Great Captain Wins it For Arsenal

I forgot to add that about 3 years ago RvP scored a perfectly good goal against Chavs and it was ruled offisde.
So they owed us one

Padre; i was about to point that out.that the law of karma finally caught up with chelsea.RVP scored that perfect goal which was ruled as an offside and Karma made sure justice was served.who cares if it was offside.the issue is that Arsenal suprised everyone with a victory including ME!!!!

Gallas was great.[i feel he is a misunderstood player]

Scolari can rant all he can, the game is over and the points are in the bags.

I also wonder is Cesc is the tonic but i have to wait till we play a bottom or mid table team to conclude.For me CESC is the right choice and should have been made captain instead of gallas who didn't know the culture of our club.

is this team cured.no;it's still unbalanced and we still need a good and tough tackling DM to compliment cesc.we may see flashes of the old cesc but i fear untill he gets a real DM partner we will only see flashes of him.Wenger should know that winning a trophy without a DM is the toughest most crazy thing to dream about in football.please i don't want to hear about song cos he is just a reserve player and should not be cesc's 1st choice partner.denilson is not a DM and even if wenger plays him in that position all he would be doing is to nollify cesc's true worth.

"We defend as a Unit,
We attack as a Unit,
We are always talking to each other"

Anybody can comment on that match that the players are talking to each other as a TEAM?

I thought Song ahd a decent game, can he continue to improve?

He can improve but i really doubt that he should be a regular.he is a reserve player to me.not the best patrner for cesc/ denilson/diaby cos to me those 3 are the same kind of players and not DM's

C'mon, AJ.if it takes Flamini 4 seasons to show his value, Song still got 3 more seasons to go to prove his value and fulfils his potential.

And how sh*tty Flamini was and we never understood what Wenger saw in Flamini?

Same for Denilson who is only playing in his first regular season.

Remember how sh*tty Fabregas was in his 2nd season when muscular midfielders like Papa Diop just simply ran through Fabregas who fell down as easily as Denilson now?

And how we moaned that Fabregas is just too "lightweight" and can NEVER repalced Vieira?

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.....And how we moaned that Fabregas is just too "lightweight" and can NEVER repalced Vieira?

Cesc can never replace Vieira as they are 2 different types of player. Vieira is a box-to-box midfielder with excellent defensive and attacking qualities. Cesc is more of a passer of the ball looking for the openings to exploit.

Agreed MLG.

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ARSENAL’S stars have warned: We’re back in the title race.
The Gunners beat Chelsea in Sunday’s derby after two of the most turbulent weeks in the club’s history.

And two-goal hero Robin van Persie insists the in-fighting has been replaced by a common desire to win.

The Dutch forward said: “We showed a lot of self-belief and character to win against Chelsea.

“Everybody thought ‘OK, we can win this game if we fight and stick together’.

“That is what we did so it was a big compliment for the whole team.

“That is the answer we wanted to give our critics. The last couple of weeks had been very difficult — we’d been losing points. But if we stayed together and fought for every ball, we had a chance against Chelsea.

“There’s still a long way to go but we set a big, big example. I’m really happy about the team spirit as it’s been a frustrating time.”

But the message was similar after Arsenal beat Manchester United a couple of weeks ago — only to go on and lose at home to Aston Villa. Strike star Emmanuel Adebayor is aware of the need to find consistency.

He said: “We want to keep going until the end of the season. We know we have a good team and squad.

“We had a bad couple of days but everyone can see we want to keep alive our title dreams.

“The most important thing is to keep going.

“Sometimes you have a little bit more concentration against a big team.

“That’s one of the things we’re going to work very hard on in the days ahead and we’ll see what we can do against the lower teams.

“But it was very big win against Chelsea. We went through a lot of difficult moments, people wrote us off in the Premier League.

“Now we’ve sent out a message to every team that we believe in ourselves and we can do something.”

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I felt that there is cause for optimism that even a "rebel" (hinted as that culprit that insulted team-mates on the pitch) like van Persie is acknowledging TEAM-WORK, TOGETHERNESS.

teh difference between post-ManLeeds victory and post-Chelski victory is Captain Fabregas.

Fabregas is that peace-maker, linking up a rebellious and arrogant Van Persie to a sulky Gallas at the other end.

it is nto whetehr fabreags is shouting, cajoling his team-mates on teh pitch, but hsi mere presence as a peace-maker, his desire to coagulate and meld all players into a winning team that so lifted the despondency and morale of the TEAM.

And with optimists like CLichy and Almunia supporting him, and with the Back-4 - Sagna-Djourou-Gallas-CLichy - finally palying as a UNIT, and with gallas showing what Wenegr actually saw in him, we are fast getting a solidly assembled Defence.

We have no porblem with attack as long as van Persie is playing out of his skin with a fierce desire to win, plus Adebayor winning headers and knock-downs for his co-striker.

DO not slag Song as his languid style led us to think he is lazy.
he is not.
Like Djourou, he is using his "football brain" to analyse the situaton, to anticipate, and as coached by Wenger, to cut-off space and intercept passes.

SImilarly, Denilson needs time to gell and vice-versa Fabregas.

But the captaincy apparently done no hamr to Fabregas' game, except to enhance him as a "peace-maker" to meld his fractious team-mates into a whole UNIT.

Nasri-SOng-Fabregas-Denilson is adequate till Rosicky, Eboue and Walcott are fit again.
But the importance is that Denilson is versatile and a good squad member. and he needs to improve as he facing fierce competition from youngsters eager to take his place:
- Bischoff, Ramsey, Wilshere, Merida, Coquelin, BAracrite, Randall, Lansbury - and Denilson can only improves.

And if rumors are correct and Wenger bids for Yaya Toure in Janaury 2009?

But the key point is that can this TEAM discovers CONSISTENCY and slaughters Wigan 7-0 this weekend?..

And yes, I am going to predict 7-0 this weekend as I feel that some day, a team will feel the full backlash when the TEAM releases all their previosu frustations onot a hapless Wigan to prove a point on their credence as a TITLE CHALLENGER.

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MLG, there is no replacement for Vieira and Diaby is a bIG BIG LETDWON, never live up to his billing as the 2nd Coming fo Vieira. I feel that there is no future for Diaby.

Like Aliadiere, his time had come and gone with plenty of youngsters startign to overtake him to play in a Fabregas' TEAM:

Youngsters like Ramsey, Wilshere, Bischoff, Coquelin, Merida - more suitable to the new style of paly, rather than a Diaby who dwells on the ball, over-dribble and "blind alley" running.

When Fabregas masters the art of "long pass and short pass" and with felow midfielders giving him protection for that split-second of spotting a passing channel (liek that hof-ball to bendtner), then we will start to see the return of those "one-touch one pass" triangular passes when Hleb is in the team, as well as the French Spine.

There is still a dilemma:

How to best make use of Walcott blazing pace with plenty fo accurate long through balls between CB, as well as accurate passes when Walcott starts one of hsi diagonal runs that are so effective against Croatia?

and we need a Fabregas at his best to spot all those runs and play an accurate through ball.

let's hope that Nasri will be fully integrate intot eh TEAM by December and we then really have a MIDFIELD that will create 20+ scoring games in every game.

let's wait for Wigan game to observe how this TEAM will create 20+ scoring chances.

except Adebayor my friend. lazy nonplussed and a stinker of a work ethic...can't stand him in a Arsenal shirt. he is looking for a transfer.

i wonder why anyone will pay attention to RVP.the guy is a natural rebel.have we forgotten he fought with his coach and team mates in his formar club.thankGOd fab knows how to tone him down.

Denilson isn't a bad player but the issue is that he and cesc are no DM's.song is the only candidate but frankly he is not good enough to compliment cesc,denilson or diaby.his game is too slow for our kind of fast passing pacey game.it's as simple as that.get a fast strong DM to even play with Denilson and you will be amazed at how he will shine.

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except Adebayor my friend. lazy nonplussed and a stinker of a work ethic...can't stand him in a Arsenal shirt. he is looking for a transfer.

Wenger made a mistake not taking the £25m or so in the summer for him.

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