Our defense sucks and we need a goalie. What’s new? After the scum had done us a favor by beating Chelsea, we blew it all away by giving up a 2-0 lead to Wigan. The back four looked leaky all game and I’m surprised Wigan didn’t score much earlier. At this point, I just want the season to end because just like last year, and the year before that, we’ve shown that we can’t handle the pressure. Yes, injuries are an issue but we are Arsenal Football Club, we should be able to go to our second team and still get a result in places like Birmingham and Wigan. Up 2-0, we simply stopped playing and Wigan, which was knocking on the door all game long, just took the chances they were presented. Frankly, we deserved to lose.
Disappointing. I think the bad weather played a factor, it helped Everton as they were able to stay in the game while we struggled to get our usual passing play going on the slippery surface.
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Chances are YouTube will take the goals down, but the download link is always available.
Hopefully the first goal (although heavily deflected) will help Eduardo’s confidence. Nasri’s initial work on his goal was great. Typical Arsenal goal, tons of passing and an exquisite finish.
What a great win? Big credit to our defense for standing tall in the final 15 when Liverpool threw whatever they had at them. Great job by Ashavin for persisting even though he didn’t have much success in the first half, but don’t forget Song, Vermaelen and Gallas who headed out pretty much every threatening Liverpool cross. Traore also deserves credit and I have to say, when we brought in Silvestre on I got a little nervous. The midfield wasn’t great for either team but ours was better, we won the ball back many times in one-on-one situations and intercepted Liverpool passes consistently. Great effort! We do need a big striker up-front because right now we don’t have a target man, Arhsavin is awesome but he’s too small to be playing with his back to the goal. I think Wenger will purchase in January and as long as our defense can keep it together, we should be fine.
Walk in the park this afternoon for us. Vito Corleone gets a clean sheet, Eboue gets a cheer and Vermaelen a brace. Other than a couple Wigan shots directly at Vito there was no threat. The six Wigan fans that traveled had nothing to be happy about. The only “negative” from our side, if I had to pick one, was RVP missing and whiffing on some chances he should at least hit the target with.
