Arsenal

[Silent Runner]

I thought Gibbs went badly AWOL for their goal.

[carlito]

Song really does upset me.

[Art Vandelay]

His play is very jazzy at times. Also, I'm not really convinced Gibbs is anything that special. He likes an aimless punt about as much as any player I've ever seen.

[mop]

Tim Krul is a bit of a dick.

[Petrousgyre]

Has Wenger recently found Rosicky's On switch? This is the best I've seen him play for Arsenal.

[carlito]

He just makes the wrong decision too many times. Wants to be the guy to play the glory ball - three or four times now in this games he's done it and he's given the ball away when we've had players in great forward positions with good simple passes on. In the dying minutes against Milan it was even worse when he had Park and I think Gervinho tearing into space and he went for the impossi-ball, lost possesion and killed any hopes of attack immediately.

He get cheers for holding onto the ball under pressure, but more often than not he gets himself into those position by holding on to ball too long and getting closed down.

The is a difference between taking on responsibilty and indulging yourself and more often and more often I feel Song is guilty of the later.

It worries me, because he's a talented player but I am increasingly worried that he's getting a bit hollywood which is the last thing we want for a player in his position in a team like ours.

[mop]

I'm with you there. He seems to break up our play as much as the oppositions.

[Dude Ranch]

He get cheers for holding onto the ball under pressure, but more often than not he gets himself into those position by holding on to ball too long and getting closed down.

I know what you mean but I think it's one of his strengths. When done right he sucks players in and makes space for everyone else. Rosicky does the same, Helb did too. It's those little incidents that can get overlooked cos it's not a killer pass or whatnot but it pulls the oppo about and creates chances to break. It is annoying when he gets caught out twenty yards from our goal though.

The is a difference between taking on responsibilty and indulging yourself and more often and more often I feel Song is guilty of the later.

It worries me, because he's a talented player but I am increasingly worried that he's getting a bit hollywood which is the last thing we want for a player in his position in a team like ours.

I think your gripe should be with Wenger, if he doesn't like it then he should tell him to stop. And its not as if Song is actually a holding midfielder. We always thought he was but he's not really. He seems to have as much license to get forward as anything. I see it as part of the way we play.

[SeanR]

driving home, listening to R5L, I nearly crashed when RVP equalised

[Petrousgyre]

Delightful techinque from the Ox there. Goal of the season had it gone in.

[Silent Runner]

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

[SeanR]

GGGNNNN!

[humdrum]

Rosicky

[Art Vandelay]

The pass was needlessly fired at him though.

[toythatkills]

"One of those games."

[SeanR]

ramsey wub.gif

[pinholestar]

:omg:

[toythatkills]

Oh my fucking God!

Getting wins from certain draws, I'm just not used to this Arsenal any more

[humdrum]

Fucking take 10 seconds with your goal kicks now krull you time wasting cunt!

[mop]

REAL NICE ACTION!

[SeanR]

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

[Silent Runner]

Oh baby.

[Art Vandelay]

Unbelievable.

Scrapscrapscrap.

[Mars]

Krul is such a baby.

[humdrum]

Fucking get in there!

[Silent Runner]

Krul chased RVP down there. Ridic. booking for RVP.

Fucking beautiful night.

[mindgames]

So good

[SeanR]

vermalen running interference on his captain doing something stupid wub.gif

[humdrum]

I'm sure it's been said before but these are the type of games we where losing last year.

Great great determination from the team and tommy v at the end.

[carlito]

Alex Song, thanks for reading my post on Rllmukforum.com, taking the criticism on board and having a vastly superior second half.