first of all, I am sorry for being absent for so long. Had some serious issues going on with me locally and was busy in resolving them, but now am back and will be writing the blog again.
Yesterday night saw us nearly beating mug smashers in an eight goal thriller. This time it was us who did the bad defending again after a poor defensive performance against Chelsea in the FA Cup. My point was once again proved that Song is the best pairing for Cesc in the central mid field. He was amazing defensively as well as he was able to send in a through ball forward which resulted in Bendtner being offside twice, may be because of his laziness or whatever.
Before the game, when I saw the line up for the match I realised that this was the team we should have played against Chelsea as well, but at that time may be Wenger was too defensive in his approach after seeing the pitch of Wembley, which was terrible to say the least, and helped Chelsea in winning the game.
Now for Arshavin, I remember Le Boss commenting at the mid of the January transfer window that if he signs a player the player would be a real class act, and Arshavin is already proving himself to be one of the best attacking mid fielders in the Premier League, if not THE BEST, along with Cesc and Ronaldo.
Yesterday night saw us nearly beating mug smashers in an eight goal thriller. This time it was us who did the bad defending again after a poor defensive performance against Chelsea in the FA Cup. My point was once again proved that Song is the best pairing for Cesc in the central mid field. He was amazing defensively as well as he was able to send in a through ball forward which resulted in Bendtner being offside twice, may be because of his laziness or whatever.
Before the game, when I saw the line up for the match I realised that this was the team we should have played against Chelsea as well, but at that time may be Wenger was too defensive in his approach after seeing the pitch of Wembley, which was terrible to say the least, and helped Chelsea in winning the game.
Now for Arshavin, I remember Le Boss commenting at the mid of the January transfer window that if he signs a player the player would be a real class act, and Arshavin is already proving himself to be one of the best attacking mid fielders in the Premier League, if not THE BEST, along with Cesc and Ronaldo.
The first goal from Arshavin was a simple tap in after a brilliant work done by Cesc and Nasri. Cesc stole the ball from Maschearano and Nasri then passed it in the path of Cesc who passed it back to Arshavin who tapped it in with his wrong foot quite easily.
The second goal was a great one, probably the best goal of Arshavin's short carreer here at Arsenal or may be we should rate it after the one he scored above the head of Robinson.
Third goal was again a mess by Liverpool defense, and Arshavin again showed his mental strength to slot the ball past Pepe Reina easily.
Fourth goal again showed Arshavin's mental strength and his finishing capabilities. A perfect counter attack for Arsenal led to a through ball to Arshavin who slaughtered the ball into the net past Reina again.
Overall, if we rate the teams then defensively the game was below standard for both the teams. For Arsenal because of Silvestre and for Liverpool because of their full backs. and in the mid field it was not a very good game as well, as both teams' players missed many straight passes and the flow of the game was never there.
It was a great game overall because as Arsene has said a number of times, Football is an attacking game and the one who attacks most entertains the people most. It was an attacking game and the people would have like it.
One can see the alarm bells ringing though after seeing this performance from Arsenal as we are short of defensive cover seriously, because in the absence of Gallas and Djourou we are not playing very well defensively. The only thing that appreciates us is the fact that we are back on scoring ways and now we have our full attacking options available to us.
Hope to see Arsenal perform better against the big four in the upcoming big four matches. Good bye for now.
The second goal was a great one, probably the best goal of Arshavin's short carreer here at Arsenal or may be we should rate it after the one he scored above the head of Robinson.
Third goal was again a mess by Liverpool defense, and Arshavin again showed his mental strength to slot the ball past Pepe Reina easily.
Fourth goal again showed Arshavin's mental strength and his finishing capabilities. A perfect counter attack for Arsenal led to a through ball to Arshavin who slaughtered the ball into the net past Reina again.
Overall, if we rate the teams then defensively the game was below standard for both the teams. For Arsenal because of Silvestre and for Liverpool because of their full backs. and in the mid field it was not a very good game as well, as both teams' players missed many straight passes and the flow of the game was never there.
It was a great game overall because as Arsene has said a number of times, Football is an attacking game and the one who attacks most entertains the people most. It was an attacking game and the people would have like it.
One can see the alarm bells ringing though after seeing this performance from Arsenal as we are short of defensive cover seriously, because in the absence of Gallas and Djourou we are not playing very well defensively. The only thing that appreciates us is the fact that we are back on scoring ways and now we have our full attacking options available to us.
Hope to see Arsenal perform better against the big four in the upcoming big four matches. Good bye for now.
