Comments on: Silvestre, Traore, Song and a new midfielder + Arsenal-Fulham Preview

By: Mimi Wenu

Mimi Wenu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:12:24 +0000

Two games against below mid-table teams and we are really struggling.Is Fabs the answer?I don’t think so.The first game against WBA would easily have been a draw but we were lucky though not this time round on Saturday.It was difficult and frustrating watching my team fail to create any clear cut chances in 94 minutes of football.There was such a corridor in our midfield that fulham utilized to the maximum.If we start dropping points against the likes of fulham at this stage in the competition then what will become of us in the 6 matches against the top three teams?I can see why I need to lower my expectations early enough to avoid disappointment later on.Very poor performance from Denilson.But why was Theo sub’d instead of bringing in Song for Denilson early enough?!I just hope we won’t start blaming refs and bad pitches again.We are supposed to have the pedigree to win against all odds

By: tunde

tunde — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:21:00 +0000

i am soo disappointed i cant even commet, i pity arsene and spanish fry because both had a lot of faith in this game and were probably expecting atleast a close score win…i soo mad chelsea and liverpool played awful for most spells of their games but the got full points thanks to their game winners, steven G and Deco, who is our game winner? i dont understand AW, you hav money, freakin buy some good players, i cant see us holding cesc 4 long, no mata how faithful he is, if we dont win sumtin and he has good offers, he’ll be tempted 2 move, how long will he do this, i understand man utd and chelsae spend loads of money stupidly, but the make up for it by winning trophies, is wenger not going 2 buy ane1 due 2 hoigh wages and also not win anything, Come on………..AAAWWWWWWWWWWWWww, im sooo maddddd…….Fulham, fulham, of all teams, they werent even impressibe going forward apart from counter attacks….

By: tom

tom — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:08:31 +0000

sometimes it is good to have a wake-up call early in the season – a loss to frighten the players into gear

By: darragh

darragh — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:22:46 +0000

Lee Dixon made a good point on Match of the Day 2 – Arsenal looked like they had no leadership…and he was totally right. Gallas should not be captain. Make Toure or Fabregas captain.

By: vlcgooner

vlcgooner — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:42:16 +0000

There really is no sense in fans saying, as some have: “Denilson was rubbish, we really miss Flamini.” The logic is about as poor as an errant Denilson pass. Denilson was filling in for Cesc. Clearly he was not up to snuff; he is still a squad player. However, Flamini would not have made an impact on that game since our problem was retaining possession and creating going forward. In fact, Eboue looked pretty good — fewer biting tackles to be sure, but he is probably more creative going forward.

By: jim-jim

jim-jim — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:30:19 +0000

I think that it was a dreadful rsult, but maybe it will be a kick up the backside for some of the players. They will learn that they need to put in a lot more to win against the sides like Fulham

By: OL GIT

OL GIT — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:03:38 +0000

HAVING LISTENED TO THE FULHAM GAME WITH ABSOLUTELY NO CONFDECE,I THINK MY WORST FEARS ARE ABOUT TO BE REALISED.A FIFTH PLACE FINISH!LIKE EVERYTHING,ITS NOT WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BEFORE BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW.WENGERS STUBBORNESS IN PERSISTING WITH KIDS AND NO NEW SIGNINGS WILL SURELY MEAN THAT ONCE AGAIN WE WILL BE WELL BEHIND MUFC AND EVEN WORSE,COLE AND HIS COMRADSKIS.PROVE ME WRONG ARSENE.PLEASE!

By: Le gunner

Le gunner — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:31:15 +0000

Denilson was supposed to be that creative midfielder I think mentally he couldn’t handle that responsibility. I don’t like blaming one player but in this game he hampered us if you watch the game again and you will see how many times the team will build up an attack and when the ball gets to him he loses it and the entire team had to track back and the attack would break this happened for about 60 minutes and he then retreated back and stopped making any runs forward because he was too afraid to go forward and lose the ball again and that when we saw more of Eboue going forward and try and do something which Denilson failed to do miserably. Nothing came for him. For his sake I hope its a one off and get himself to play a lot better than that. During the summer when our players were linked with other clubs I said I don’t give a damn about any of our players who don’t want to play for Arsenal except one man and that is Fabregas if he ever decide to go I would probably have break down . It shows how important he is to the team. I don’t think we should over react about this result but we should be concerned if no enforcement is brought in. We need a hairy horrible monster in the midfield because at the moment we look like a bunch of flimsy school boys. In the meantime I would like to see Song alongside Fabregas and give Carlos Vela a run in the team.

By: TayGoon

TayGoon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:05:05 +0000

Even if we had signed a super DM he wouldn’t have helped. What we lacked today was a creative midfielder not DM. We had 2 DMs today and the front 2 had no service. Theo is always lively in most cases but today you could tell he was running blind alleys. Our defensive problem is unfortunately our captain. Since WHL last season, he has been at the center of probably over 70 percent of the goals we have conceded.

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:28:19 +0000

Heartbroken… Even Clichy played awfully! He lost the ball almost as many times as Denilson… Woeful Arsenal performance…
This better serve as a kick in the pants for our boys – I want to see a 6-0 drubbing of both FC Twente and Newcastle next week.