Comments on: Arsenal’s Slim Title Hopes Dashed By Inexperience

by: Wenger's Immortals

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:31:49 +0000

I’d like to see Toure and Gilberto in midfield - Kolo obviously has an eye for goal and if Gallas, Senderos & Djourou are all fit then Kolo gives us that physical presence in midfield. But I doubt Arsene will do that and stick with Freddie!

My ideal team (injuries permitting) would be:

Lehmann

Eboue - Gallas - Djourou - Clichy

Hleb - Toure - Gilberto (c) - Rosicky

Fabregas/Van Persie

Henry

by: gazzap

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:28:18 +0000

we certainly need more physically bigger players in the team. taller players will defend set pieces and score them as well and these days so many goals come from that source and we are just ignoring it.

by: GunnerPete

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:17:05 +0000

Hope you noticed my error….I meant Gallas to replace Silver and to give him and Fabrigas a rest. That is where we can rotate. Anytime we get another defender injury, either of the midfield strong men can fall back. It also means that Kolo & gallas can attack when they want and I would predict that they would score a good 20 goals a season between them if not more.

Thats it……all Im asking for is the team that looks exciting but so strong that others would not be looking forward to playing us.

by: GunnerPete

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:10:58 +0000

I think your headline is wrong mate. We lost point against Pompey, Villa, Boro, Fulham & West Ham because of two major errors, both by our God Arsene. (1) Kolo, who we all love has made more cock ups this year than all his pervious year added together. His height was our undoing Saturday, and it left us once again with a chasing game. Senderos would have nodded that away and physically dealt better.

(2) Team selection, again! for gods sake how do you pick Alliadierre Or Freddy before Adebajor & Walcott based on form. Please dont give me the rotation crap we keep hearing….most Manure & Chelski players have played more games than our lot. Also we now know for certain that Arsene has a blind spot re; our midfield…..gone are the days when we could put out some hardnut but skillful players like Viera / Petit & Edu to protect our defence. So as Ive said TOO MANY times, we have the players but AW will not use them.

Tell me what team would like to line up against :-

Lehmann
Eboue Senderos Djurou Clichy.

Midefield = Toure & Silver

Fabrigas & Rosicky.

We then have a choise of forwards friom: Henry, Van P, Walcott, Hleb, Adebajor, and add Bentner & Stokes to come back.

I also love the fact that we have Diaby, Gilbert & Luaren to come back soon so as I say , we have the players but they are not being picked in the positions that would make us a great defensive unit that could spring into attack at great pace & power.

The other players ie: Freddy, Alliadierre, Flamini, should be sold to finance the purchase or Barnes (derby) Bale (saints ) and Kirkland (Wigan) all brits and all very talented.

by: D

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:20:52 +0000

Yes, after the away Carling Cup trip to anfield, we have:

Blackburn at Home
Away to Watford
Away to Sheffield
Charlton at Home

–Anything less than 12 pts would be terrible, even with AW rotating the squad. IF, and that’s a big IF, we do get the 12 pts, we may be closer to the leaders considering Chelski have: Wigan, Reading, Fulham and Villa; while Man-Ure have: Villa, Wigan, Reading and Newcastle - I figure Utd will drop a couple and Chelski will be on top come january. But considering Utd lost on Sunday, we’d only be 12 back if we’d won on Saturday - making the home draw that much tougher to take.

by: trhemp

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:42:33 +0000

we have 4 pretty easy games coming up, should be able to take 12 points