Comments on: Arshavin Embarasses Liverpool - And Arsene Wenger (w/ Player Ratings)

by: Am

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:34:01 +0000

Nasri and song should have got 7’s.

Both of them were tracking back and tackling, something neither fabrigas/arshavin or denilson were not doing.

by: Ritesh

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:40:16 +0000

The defence was bad but remember we have all these players out. With Almunia playing, we would have probably won the game.

Sagna had a shocking game by his standards. Sylvester has not played a lot and it showed, he needs more games under his belt as he was injured so long, but who would take that risk given an alternative.

Fabregas… I think we are better when he does not play. When we had a midfield of Song/denilson and the trio of AA/Nasri/TW the team was more balanced. Sell FAb in the summer if we are better without him. If AW had chosen Walcot ahead of Fabregas last night, no way, Liverpool would have bossed the game.

AA …. Hats off. We need cover for the defence, not enough depth I am tempted to say.. But then who could forsee that JD and Gallas would be out at the same time.

by: carlosthegooner

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:20:05 +0000

couldn’t disagree more on Bendtner. Guy was up front on his own and ran it well, not closing down stupidly but allowing the ball to move wide before closing down. Little service as Fab and Nas had a night off. Song again I thought done very well, he could have done with some support though and Sagna hardly surprisingly looked shattered after 60 minutes and should have been replaced by Eboue. Hope Sylvestre goes in the close season as he’s old, slow and just not good enough. Be nice to have Torres as he’s just pure class.

by: pooner

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:03:57 +0000

Mostly accurate ratings, although i thought Nasri, particularly in the first half looked our brightest hope going forward and made the first goal.

Song was a mix of excellent and dreadful as he seemed the only Arsenal midfielder who was bothered to defend and not give the ball away cheaply, although his forward passes were unbelievably poor and inaccurate.

Fabianski was at fault for a couple of goals, but when so much gets through your back four against a team like Liverpool it is impossible to save everything. It would have taken one of the best goalkeepers in the world to have kept a clean sheet yesterday evening, and alas fab ain’t one (yet)

Oh and what of walcott??? he came on and played amazingly!!!

by: richard

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:49:19 +0000

Great finishes from Ashavin after being gifted in all 4 goals..
Terrible defensive eras led to each goal. Again, great finishing not inventive creation.
But I’ll take it and happy that he is cup tied for the semis against United.

by: km

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:02:56 +0000

gr8 post!arshavin single handedly got us the draw.he was immense & like u i’m still baffled & r.upset on why wenger didnt play him against chelsea:( yeh & the mancs are gona hammer us if we defend like this.we need to play 4 4 2 with song as dm & denilson on the bench,cos den is gona get raped in that match & wenger plz dnt play diaby as he’s simply a squad player who comes on in the last 10mins when we’r 2/3-0 up.we need to play eduardo cos he has clever movement & is clinical unlike bendtner who is a retard & ade who is a jekyl & hyde player.and fabregas needs to step up a gear - song has been better than him recently & i thought nasri put in a lot of work 2day while bendtner does not cause the defence problems…

by: Marv Tha' Gooner

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:24:59 +0000

1 sentence sums up the match….

SILVESTRE”S GOTS TO GO!!!

by: gunners88

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:16:18 +0000

spot on abt the praises for arshavin. He totally deserves it! I f*king love him!

It was Liverpool-4 Arshavin-4.
Without him we would be thrashed by them. All his shots wasn’t tap in or serve on a silver platter.
And yes none of the players could have scored any of those!

And funny how some fans are saying they ‘understand’ or think that wenger was right to not play arshavin in the fa cup semis. How wrong were they!
Even when he wasnt scoring, he was tracking back and making defence splitting passes!
And sagna has been awesome for us but i think he deserve less than 6 for tonight

by: Wenger's Immortals

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:09:41 +0000

Agree with melcfromfinsburypark, Song was good tonight and with Arshavin were the only two players who performed. Also I think you’ve overrated Fabianski - yes, while he did make some saves he was also poor for a couple of the goals, the second and third in particular. Manual Almunia would have only conceded a maximum of 3 goals tonight.

Again, Wenger played the wrong team. The five in midfield should have been:

Arshavin - Song - Nasri - Fabregas - Walcott

Denilson has been a passenger for weeks now and needs a rest or a kick up the backside. Nasri was far more effective in the middle when he floated about and Walcott would have caused more damage on the right.

by: AdamM

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:58:29 +0000

Quite honestly i had no idea Denilson was on the pitch, i honestly couldn’t have told you who the 11th man that was playing in lieu of a 2nd striker was. I can’t figure out if that is better or worse than the fact that i definitely knew Silvestre was playing because how amazingly bad he was.
Thank god for Arshavin, Song, Toure and Gibbs..