7 things to learn from the Old Trafford game
1. You can only have one formation in one season. so as we play 4-3-3 in the pre-season, we can only afford to play 4-3-3. Players need time to understand & adapt the tactics, so do not change it in a single season. (Keep the faith even it seems not work with the available players)
2. All substitutions need to be made after 60 minutes. You need to trust your starting eleven. Give them at least 15 more minutes in the 2nd half (Keep the faith even how strange the opponent's tactic is)
3. Whoever we play, ignore their tactics and style. We play our own football and we can surely win & score with it. If they park the bus in front of goal, we would keep our nerve and be patient. If the game finally ends with a dulll draw, that is their problem. (Keep the faith we believe our football style)
4. Key players must be played if they are fit, or so-called fit. (Keep the faith even they seems have a poor game, they can change it sometime later)
5. Trust your players even how crap they seem to be. They need games. Youth players can only improve their games. So do Diaby & Denilson.
6. We need a plan B from the bench. The tactics need to be the same, but at least we can move some players from the flank to the middle or from the bench to the field. Nasri can play both the flank and the middle, but starting him in the middles allows us no plan B.
7. Play the ball in the middle is alright. People saying why not using the width of the pitch. You know, we didn't train crossing!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Arsenal the present
We lost the Carling Cup Final.
People around start mocking Arsenal once again. They say Arsenal is a team 6 years without trophy and will be without for a even longer time. Somebody in facebook compared Arsenal with the Hong Kong MPF, aiming at something can't really can get in near future. Well, every gooner should be get used to this kind of laugh in recent years. And as I recalled, people talked about quadruple just a week ago.
Is Arsenal never gonna win another trophy under the Arsene Wenger? Is Arsenal only capable to be better the year later? These are not indeed the center of the discussion.
People, even the fans, would question the philsophy of Arsenal. Selling the best players in the team to cash in. Brings the most talented youngsters to the first team, gain experienced and then sell for money again. I was one of them a few years ago. Especially when we reached only 4th rank for 2 years consecutively. "C"ashley Cole left the team since we moved to Emirates and he won 6 trophies since then. We won none.
Football is about winning trophies. This is the ultimate target for every football club in the world. It is so natural and understandable to measure the success of a club according to the number of trophies they won. However, to reach the target, there are many success factors. Man Utd become the best club in England because of Ferguson and Famous 1992 Academy. Chelsea is success not only because of Abramovich's money, but also Jose Mourinho.
To be honest, Arsenal had never as successful as these 2 clubs, even they had an invincible. Arsenal's success comes too short and too fast under Arsene Wenger. He start the so-called new philosophy all since the sale of Patrick Vieira and mature of Cesc Fabregas. The move to Emirates is something make the philosphy more solid. Being not unable to spend big, Arsenal put efforts on the worldwide scouting system. With the hot money making the transfer market too crazy, Arsenal do not have the money to spend big and can only spend smart. For example, Wenger admired Essien but failed to compete with Chelsea. On the other hand, some key players left the team bacause of other big club's interest (Henry, Hleb), money (Ashely Cole, Flamini) & getting older (Gilberto, Ljungberg, Pires, Vieira, Parlour). All these side issues make the rebuilding difficult for Wenger.
He can only rely on the young players who seems so talented at early ages. Young talented players are also cheap who fits the smart-spending phoilosophy. He bought Adebayor, Hleb, Eboue, Diaby, Walcott, Song and brings Denilson, Bendtner, Djourou to the first team.
Get ride of the difficult period, when Wenger has the ability to spend, however, he finds any big spending would ruin the progress of young players. The young system, both scouting and academy, at that time was already well built and has a inexpensive treasure for the club. He wants to protect it and so can only keep the team in similar style.
This year, Wenger rarely shouted to ask for his youngsters to deliver. He feels the transform was finished and it is time for the team to win something. With growth of Wilshere and Szczesny, the last puzzles of the team were collected. We have everything to win something this year. What we lack is just the start. Carling Cup is a easy step but we failed. It doesn;t matter because there are still 3 more chances coming.
Arsenal's failure hurts not only the fans, but also Wenger. He is more faithful to the team than any Gooners in the world because he is a god damn perfectionist. He doesn't like losing. As you can see on the pitch, his patience, like us, has gone.
Remark: A lovely article seen in the internet -
Arsenal’s Winning Mentality and the Invincible Season
People around start mocking Arsenal once again. They say Arsenal is a team 6 years without trophy and will be without for a even longer time. Somebody in facebook compared Arsenal with the Hong Kong MPF, aiming at something can't really can get in near future. Well, every gooner should be get used to this kind of laugh in recent years. And as I recalled, people talked about quadruple just a week ago.
Is Arsenal never gonna win another trophy under the Arsene Wenger? Is Arsenal only capable to be better the year later? These are not indeed the center of the discussion.
People, even the fans, would question the philsophy of Arsenal. Selling the best players in the team to cash in. Brings the most talented youngsters to the first team, gain experienced and then sell for money again. I was one of them a few years ago. Especially when we reached only 4th rank for 2 years consecutively. "C"ashley Cole left the team since we moved to Emirates and he won 6 trophies since then. We won none.
Football is about winning trophies. This is the ultimate target for every football club in the world. It is so natural and understandable to measure the success of a club according to the number of trophies they won. However, to reach the target, there are many success factors. Man Utd become the best club in England because of Ferguson and Famous 1992 Academy. Chelsea is success not only because of Abramovich's money, but also Jose Mourinho.
To be honest, Arsenal had never as successful as these 2 clubs, even they had an invincible. Arsenal's success comes too short and too fast under Arsene Wenger. He start the so-called new philosophy all since the sale of Patrick Vieira and mature of Cesc Fabregas. The move to Emirates is something make the philosphy more solid. Being not unable to spend big, Arsenal put efforts on the worldwide scouting system. With the hot money making the transfer market too crazy, Arsenal do not have the money to spend big and can only spend smart. For example, Wenger admired Essien but failed to compete with Chelsea. On the other hand, some key players left the team bacause of other big club's interest (Henry, Hleb), money (Ashely Cole, Flamini) & getting older (Gilberto, Ljungberg, Pires, Vieira, Parlour). All these side issues make the rebuilding difficult for Wenger.
He can only rely on the young players who seems so talented at early ages. Young talented players are also cheap who fits the smart-spending phoilosophy. He bought Adebayor, Hleb, Eboue, Diaby, Walcott, Song and brings Denilson, Bendtner, Djourou to the first team.
Get ride of the difficult period, when Wenger has the ability to spend, however, he finds any big spending would ruin the progress of young players. The young system, both scouting and academy, at that time was already well built and has a inexpensive treasure for the club. He wants to protect it and so can only keep the team in similar style.
This year, Wenger rarely shouted to ask for his youngsters to deliver. He feels the transform was finished and it is time for the team to win something. With growth of Wilshere and Szczesny, the last puzzles of the team were collected. We have everything to win something this year. What we lack is just the start. Carling Cup is a easy step but we failed. It doesn;t matter because there are still 3 more chances coming.
Arsenal's failure hurts not only the fans, but also Wenger. He is more faithful to the team than any Gooners in the world because he is a god damn perfectionist. He doesn't like losing. As you can see on the pitch, his patience, like us, has gone.
Remark: A lovely article seen in the internet -
Arsenal’s Winning Mentality and the Invincible Season
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Pain
Arsenal punished by their North London rivals by an awesome 2nd half comeback.
Arsenal 2 - 3 Tottenham
Arsenal's hope to top the table were completely destroyed and Chelsea is likely to extend thier lead over the Gunners to 5 points.
This is the first defect that I can hardly accept since the 2006 final.
This reminds me about 2 old comments:
1) Arsenal can no longer win any trophy under Arsene Wenger - by Palmer (ANR's blogger)
2) Whenever Arsenal close to the top of table, or win something, they slipped - By Mourinho
I was deeply hurt by the result. Fortunately this is a Novemeber match so the we may be still have chance to blow our title hope bubbles later this season. However, I hate the feeling of being strengthless. We used to have many match-winners like Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Freddie Ljungberg. But the existing team can hardly overcome the obstacles they faced. I can name a lot easily, Clichy slip at St Andrews, the 4-4 draw with Spurs at Emirates, all the games against Drogba. They keep disappoints the fans.
I congratuate Spurs fans as they can smile the whole year with this victory. They did not expect their team to win at Emirates so these, including the Champions League football this year, are out of their expectation. Their team are climbing up from a position of middle team to challenge big teams. Being an arsenal fan in hard, you are not satisfied even your team got a second, because you always think the team SHOULD win something.
I am struggling as being a gooner. I missed the old days, the time when the team perform like winners. I loved the club. I look forward to this match for more than a month and spend the whole week to wait for the match. What I get from the match is pain.
I have high expectation to the gunners. At 2-nil up at half time, I expect them to score more to crash their rivals, and to build up their morale to both the midweek Champions League game and next Villa game. I think too much for the table and coming fixture, then Spurs's 3 goals got me back to the current situation.
I support the team since 1998, even when I did not watch them played a single minute. I bought up to 10 Arsenal DVDs to make sure I can always watch the goals when no match is played, and to retaste the wonderful winning memory. As the internet improves and I started not to satisfy with only the goals, I download every single MOTD highlights in recent years so I can watch more. I loved playing football video games, and I used Arsenal for many years. I follow many Arsenal's fans in twitter, as well as some Arsenal's players and I read their Tweets everyday. With all these, arsenal is just surronding me.
I understand the ability of the players from the replay, the news, the computer games. So I know they are capable to win something. There is no real difficulty to win against the fucking Spurs.
I almost cry after the final whistle.
Arsenal 2 - 3 Tottenham
Arsenal's hope to top the table were completely destroyed and Chelsea is likely to extend thier lead over the Gunners to 5 points.
This is the first defect that I can hardly accept since the 2006 final.
This reminds me about 2 old comments:
1) Arsenal can no longer win any trophy under Arsene Wenger - by Palmer (ANR's blogger)
2) Whenever Arsenal close to the top of table, or win something, they slipped - By Mourinho
I was deeply hurt by the result. Fortunately this is a Novemeber match so the we may be still have chance to blow our title hope bubbles later this season. However, I hate the feeling of being strengthless. We used to have many match-winners like Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Freddie Ljungberg. But the existing team can hardly overcome the obstacles they faced. I can name a lot easily, Clichy slip at St Andrews, the 4-4 draw with Spurs at Emirates, all the games against Drogba. They keep disappoints the fans.
I congratuate Spurs fans as they can smile the whole year with this victory. They did not expect their team to win at Emirates so these, including the Champions League football this year, are out of their expectation. Their team are climbing up from a position of middle team to challenge big teams. Being an arsenal fan in hard, you are not satisfied even your team got a second, because you always think the team SHOULD win something.
I am struggling as being a gooner. I missed the old days, the time when the team perform like winners. I loved the club. I look forward to this match for more than a month and spend the whole week to wait for the match. What I get from the match is pain.
I have high expectation to the gunners. At 2-nil up at half time, I expect them to score more to crash their rivals, and to build up their morale to both the midweek Champions League game and next Villa game. I think too much for the table and coming fixture, then Spurs's 3 goals got me back to the current situation.
I support the team since 1998, even when I did not watch them played a single minute. I bought up to 10 Arsenal DVDs to make sure I can always watch the goals when no match is played, and to retaste the wonderful winning memory. As the internet improves and I started not to satisfy with only the goals, I download every single MOTD highlights in recent years so I can watch more. I loved playing football video games, and I used Arsenal for many years. I follow many Arsenal's fans in twitter, as well as some Arsenal's players and I read their Tweets everyday. With all these, arsenal is just surronding me.
I understand the ability of the players from the replay, the news, the computer games. So I know they are capable to win something. There is no real difficulty to win against the fucking Spurs.
I almost cry after the final whistle.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
大人鬥細路
車路士 2 - 0 阿仙奴
意料中事。車路士未出力時阿仙奴還打得可以，當車路士一出力就領先了。很輕鬆，上季已經是這樣。杜奧巴好像羸得不好意思，整場比賽打得有風度之餘卻有表現。這令我想起亨利。E，阿仙奴不是早早在四年前已經有一個新亨利嗎?
四年前，聯賽盃決賽，上演了一場大人鬥細路的比賽。雲加信任聯賽盃中一直上陣的小將，派出一支平均年齡少於廿一歲的陣容對抗車路士的正選。當時禾確特首次為阿仙奴入波。即使最後反勝為敗，阿仙奴仍贏得不少的掌聲。
四年過去了，阿仙奴再沒有打入任何賽事的決賽。但雲加堅持對小將的信任則每一季有增無減。主將一個一個的賣走，年輕的球員一個一個的上位變做主力。沒錯，部份的他們的確進步了很多。法比加斯成為世界級球員、基治一度成為高爾離隊後左閘的答案、桑治上季進步神速成為不可或缺的主力，還有開始上力的禾確特、開始懂得進攻的伊保、作用越來越重要的戴亞比等。但是，失敗的例子不是很多嗎?當年正選上陣的賀迪、辛達路斯、查奧爾、 艾拿迪亞等，去了哪裡?
年輕給人的感覺是充滿朝氣，看似只有進步，沒有退步。也有人說阿仙奴是一支活在將來的球隊，球隊有的是潛能，實力嘛?耐心等吧，有一天你會等到的。所以禾確特會是新亨利、戴亞比是新韋拉、辛達路斯是新阿當斯。他們會越來越接近名宿的實力，因為是名宿會有變老的一天。
意料中事。車路士未出力時阿仙奴還打得可以，當車路士一出力就領先了。很輕鬆，上季已經是這樣。杜奧巴好像羸得不好意思，整場比賽打得有風度之餘卻有表現。這令我想起亨利。E，阿仙奴不是早早在四年前已經有一個新亨利嗎?
四年前，聯賽盃決賽，上演了一場大人鬥細路的比賽。雲加信任聯賽盃中一直上陣的小將，派出一支平均年齡少於廿一歲的陣容對抗車路士的正選。當時禾確特首次為阿仙奴入波。即使最後反勝為敗，阿仙奴仍贏得不少的掌聲。
四年過去了，阿仙奴再沒有打入任何賽事的決賽。但雲加堅持對小將的信任則每一季有增無減。主將一個一個的賣走，年輕的球員一個一個的上位變做主力。沒錯，部份的他們的確進步了很多。法比加斯成為世界級球員、基治一度成為高爾離隊後左閘的答案、桑治上季進步神速成為不可或缺的主力，還有開始上力的禾確特、開始懂得進攻的伊保、作用越來越重要的戴亞比等。但是，失敗的例子不是很多嗎?當年正選上陣的賀迪、辛達路斯、查奧爾、 艾拿迪亞等，去了哪裡?
年輕給人的感覺是充滿朝氣，看似只有進步，沒有退步。也有人說阿仙奴是一支活在將來的球隊，球隊有的是潛能，實力嘛?耐心等吧，有一天你會等到的。所以禾確特會是新亨利、戴亞比是新韋拉、辛達路斯是新阿當斯。他們會越來越接近名宿的實力，因為是名宿會有變老的一天。
Saturday, September 25, 2010
自找的爆冷
阿仙奴 ２－３ 西布朗
(From http://soccernet.espn.go.com/)０－０ Brunt (pen miss 37)
０－１ Odemwingie (50)
０－２ Jara (52)
０－３ Thomas (73)
１－３ Nasri (75)
２－３ Nasri (90)
０－２ Jara (52)
０－３ Thomas (73)
１－３ Nasri (75)
２－３ Nasri (90)
敗給弱隊永遠不會好受。即使近年阿仙奴的攻力怎樣不銳利，主場落後三比零都是罕見的畫面。對上一次是敗給如日中天的車路士。至於大敗給弱隊吧，大約是高貝利年代連環烏龍球敗給米杜士堡。
黑心的說，這場比賽看了２０分鐘後我希望西布朗入球的。整隊波死氣沉沉，球員不止一次面對面交失波。是他們心不在焉，太過老定，或仍然沉醉於在盃賽淘汰同市死敵？我後悔沒有早早下注下一隊入球於西布朗身上。
冷靜，分是失了。也許阿仙奴球迷可慶幸最後的十幾分鐘拿斯利為他們了挽回了少許的面子。我不擔心這次阿仙奴的敗陣會影響到往後的比賽，因為整場失準的主因是在排陣上。
今天雲加少有的輪換，可能週中的盃賽與下週中的歐聯令他有所顧忌。另外他今年對自己的後備陣容有信心，覺得可以排出相約實力的陣容。可惜，他排陣的功夫根本差得很。
先看中場，桑治、戴亞比本應是一隊很好的防守中場，對西布朗這些較為硬淨的球隊可作四人防線的屏障。但由於雲加收起了週中差不多打足的路斯基及韋舒亞，二人前面只放了一個拿斯利，令中場的優勢雙手拱讓給西布朗。很早已經有人說過拿斯利的創造力來自他的盤球（dribble），而不是傳球（passing）。這樣的三人中場沒有人懂分波，既造不到空位，也令西布朗五人中場容易睹塞阿仙奴的傳球。加上右翼放了一個不是進攻料子的伊保，左翼放了一個疏於走動的艾沙雲，阿仙奴的進攻便死氣沉沉，只靠部份球員的個人能力突破，西布朗很容易防守。部份球員特別是戴亞比的積極性在比賽初段太低，走動太少更突顯法比加斯在陣中（或是有能力接棒的韋舒亞）的重要。我重申，沒有法比加斯的比賽，千萬不要讓陣中四大神獸（桑治、戴亞比、伊保、丹尼臣）一同上陣，這只會握殺了阿仙奴的創造力。（除了丹尼臣，我覺得他們在陣中的角色都很重要，只是不要一起上陣罷了…）
艾蒙尼亞的失誤由雲加不肯重用馬隆尼或舒爾辛尼已經知道會不斷出現（留意我不是說沒有買到舒華沙），失第二球時牛油手見怪不怪，失第三球沒有飛撲也部份因為上半場的十二碼加黃牌。反而四名法國防線的統籌問題更顯眼，有網友笑指他們像是溝通不良。開季以來亦有很多意識上的不恰當令為己隊製造很多麻煩，例如高斯爾尼的解圍落點永遠清不遠。惟有寄望今年華美倫身體健康吧。
最尾雲加一口氣把所有攻擊球員放上場只是孤注一擲，奈何卡路士韋拿任左翼只自斷一臂，而隊友的走位又沒有互相配合，很多時沒有人去搶第二點（Second ball）。要在西布朗身上追三球是本身的問題多於時間的問題。
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