Morning all. Getting pretty stoked for the Champions League match tomorrow I must say. Unfortunately, they will definitely show the Manchester United match on tv here so I'll be stuck watching it on my computer while I watch the scum on tv.
I watched WrestleMania 25 last night. I have to say that Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels was a great match, classic even, but I was mad that Undertaker won because I think Michaels was better and more entertaining. The tombstone though is a rough move and even though I know it's fake I'd hate to even have to go through a fake one of those.
On to Arsenal though, and we have a lot of players out for the first leg tomorrow in Spain. Robin van Persie is out with his groin injury, while Nasri and Walcott are also nursing injuries. Andrey Arshavin of course, cannot play in the Champions League due to being cup-tied from his time at Zenit. So that multitude of attacking talent we had is very depleted for this one, and I'd guess the lineup will look like this:
Sagna-Gallas-Toure-Clichy
Song-Denilson
Walcott-Fabregas-Nasri
Adebayor
Villareal have suffered some blows as well, with Santi Cazorla getting his leg broken and being out for the season, so they aren't at full strength either.
I'm going to say that I think the final score will be 1-0 to the Arsenal. I just have a hunch.
Emmanuel Adebayor says he is hungry for trophies, and I'm pretty sure everyone one of us fans is hungry for them too.
"When I joined this club, I was told by most of my friends and team-mates that I had a great chance of winning something. But for the last three years I have gone on holiday having not won a trophy and with an empty heart. Now it's the time to achieve things. Maybe I want it more than the others, I don't know. We all have a desire to achieve things and that's the most important thing."
If you go by the effort showed in Saturday's match, then I'm going to say that Ade is backing up his words with action, which is what you always want to see. If the players can give their all every match for the full 90 minutes, we can beat any team we come up against.
Is there a Gooner out there that doesn't have a special feeling about the Champions League this year? I think we all feel like this is our year to win it all, and with all the players wanting to win as badly as we want them to, I think maybe we can do it. It'd be one of the greatest days of my life and certainly one of the greatest days in the history of Arsenal.
5 comments:
Good work on your blog an dall that but I would just like to point out that the 4-2-3-1 was being used by Wenger long before you pointed it out.
He always liked a creative forward behind the number nine and because of a lack of creativity due to Fabregas' injury played Nasri there which worked. Because of this also we have been playing with more directness and more width.
In recent games he went back to a 4-4-2 and with RVP playing a Bergy role in the second half especially Arsenal produced the goods.
I say all this as in your previous post you sound like you feel you where the first to notice it.
we all noticed it after the first leg vs Roma mr. column... and in turn spoke about it then. Sound like and say are two entirely different things.
Okay you did say it. This is the extract from your last post. "Remember when I was talking about that 4-2-3-1 formation? Well we went with it and it worked incredibly well."
We had used it long before you figured it out.
Dude, yes, I said we used the 4-2-3-1. Wow, pointing out what formation we uses is really something to get pissed about. I never said I "discovered" or "invented" the formation, all I did was talk about us using it.
I know the formation has been used before, obviously.
How could one understand the tone of my writing? I was not pissed off hence the opening line of my first comment.
I'm just saying the first post you mentioned the 4-2-3-1 everyone else already knew about it. Like u said Joaquin pointed it out to you (Gosh someone had to point it out) but we all talked about it and put our opinions forward or against it.
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