Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Gerrard's backpass isn't any news

Okay, every Man Utd fans blame Gerrard's backpass to Drogba which cost them 2 points behind Chelsea at the end.


However, Gerrard has already gifted the boy twice to Henry in year 2004. So, anything special?


(start at 0:55)


By the way, many players like to backpass. Another gift to Henry by a Wigan player.

(start at 1:20)

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

It's like watching your girl beloved being raped

It was helpless, powerless, and inresistible, have to await things happen. It's like watching your girl beloved being raped. Maybe it is lucky, as you found it is a handsome guy.

Not many sensible Arsenal fans would think Arsenal can aviod losing tonight. It is very brave for them to watch the match tonight.

Arsenal is not the same level as Barcelona. 4-1 (6-3 on aggregate) is a fair result.

Without the best defenisve midfielder and need to play Silvestre in the center, Almunia had another show against the best attacking team in the planet.

Bendtner's early goal brought us hope but bought Messi to the game at the same time. He finished the hat trick in the 1st half comfortably. One of those thanks to Silvestre, another thanks to Velmealen.

It is never gonna be a game. It is a attacking show by Barcelona. This show is even more one-sided after Cesc, Arshavin, Gallas, Van Persie, Song all missed the match. Barcelona should have scored 5 goals in the first 20 minutes at Emirates and rest the 2nd leg for the Spain derby. But they didnt and gave Arsenal the hope.

When Arsenal tried to resist in the 2nd leg, Barcelona punched them hardly. 4 goals at the end gave another bad memory to Arsenal.

Messi was in the wonderland.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Another injury time goal at St Andrews, yet again

We could not expect ManUtd to drop more than 4 points in the coming games. So, Man Utd is the champions. Go to bet.

Arsenal did not deserve to win tonight. Poor game even before Fabregas got injuried.

Everyone hoped the late goal by Nasri has won the game for them. The formula of Arsneal's victory is, a late goal, a just-win, another 3 points, then keep moving to the next game. The confidence of Arsenal was built up in this way, since the Stoke game. Unlike Chelsea and Man Utd who scores early goal against weak team and then play to rest, Arsenal loves to create danger to themselves and then try to show they can do it. So, they only not fight in the last 30 minutes.

That team of "One-Nil to the Arsenal" can win the title because of the back 5. That Champions league runners-up did not conceded goals as well. But Almunia-Sagna-Campell-Song-Clichy is not strong enough to avoid conceding goals. One-nil is not enough to win the game. But with Bendtner did not go for the high ball, Arshavin miskicked the ball at 6-yard, Nasri decided to pass at 5 yard, chance goes to Birmingham's way.

Fair result. And is fair if Arsenal goes third this season.

They are tremendous and scored lots of goal before RVP got injured. I said to my friends the offense of that Arsenal team can be compared with previous Arsenal team which Pires, Henry and Bergkamp plays. But since we lost the RVP as the targe man, evey game is difficult for Arsenal, no matter how the final result turned out. They are still playing short passes on the ground but the game is not as beautiful as before. The 2nd Porto leg is not only game that can be compared with earlier this season.

If you follow Wenger for some time, you would know it is normal. Wenger does not have plan B. This is the first season Arsenal adopt new formation, and it is good enough already. Winning the trophy with this team is a over-prediction.

Arshavin knows it.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Liverpoor could not test Man Utd

We all thought Man Utd-Liverpool is a tight game which probably have a big say in the title race. But we got disappointed.

Torres scored the 1st goal in 5th minute when he left the attention from Gary Neville, and then cannot perform like his normal. He "lost his character" before Rooney takes the panelty, and miss a wonderful goal-scoring opportunity in the 89th minute.

Liverpool is all about Gerrard and Torres. When one of either slip, Liverpool is liverpoor. This is the golden rule even team knows starting last year. And the magic also lost.

The defence of liverpool sucks. Carrangher is not as safe as he was and Agger is a jsut a fair central defender. Johnson and Reina is better in attack. Insua? too bad to mention despite he scored a wonderful volley against Arsenal in Carling Cup.

Liverpool's title hope this year was dismissed as early as 3 to 4 years ago. They are trying to resume their normal habit in the premier league, running for the 4th place. But I am sorry to say Tottenham and Man City this season are too strong for them.

Last time Liverool finished 5 is at 02/03 when they lost a key match against Chelsea at the end of season. Then, Chelsea got the place and Abramovich joined the Blues.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

How many match bans given to Vermaelen?

How much more tests will be assinged to these youngsters?

- Big loss to ManUtd and Chelsea and then win against Liverpool to stay in the title race
- Ramsey broken legs at Stoke and win with last minute penality
- Bendtner wasted a stake of full chance against Burnley and scored a hat-trick 3 days later at Champions League
- Last minute winner at Hull
- A match that should win comfortabely turned out to be a penality and a defender off.

The next 3 league opponenets are Birmingham (A), Wolves (H) and Spurs (A).

If Vermaelen was handed 3 match ban, Arsenal will play for a draw at Spurs and fail if Spurs can keep their momentum.

Wenger is furious because Vermaelen is essential for Arsenal's defence. He is a more key player than Gallas. Fortunately Wenger preferred Song to Silvestre to partner Campell but this inevitably created a hole at defensive midfield. (Dont tell me Denilson is the one to fill in...)

The game against West Ham is divied into 2 parts, vur by the red card and West Ham's penalty.

Arsenal easily got their lead by Denilson goal but it is more credit to Bendtner in the 1st part of the game. He has the sense to set up the teammates like RVP, although his skill needs to develop. Arsenal's 4-3-3 is so dangerous early this season because RVP played what we call the "invicible 9" - the central striker distracts defenders and creates space for teammates to get into the box. Barcelone's Ibramhamovic is another example.

But their old poor habit keeps. They were so enjoyable to play their football and forgot the essense of getting the 2nd goal. They forgot they got a draw at Upton Park even getting a 2 goal cushion. Maybe the Barcelona draw boost their confidence and they want to show what they can do.

The penality is not a bad one to bring Arsenal's player back to the game. So lucky that Almunia saved it.

And so lucky that Wenger not caught after he makes his team defend so deep.Bendtner should stay with Diaby because Arshavin sucks when play in the center. Getting into deep allows West Ham to build up their attack. Lucky they cannot build and I think it is the same even one more is off.

Cesc did not as sharp as before he injuried. But we need to patient as it is only his first match back. We got too much tests this season and he knows he need to reserve the energy.

Well, let's enjoy going top for..less than 24 hours.