Good morning,
Like Feck it is.I suppose that we should touch on last night’s
game against Chelsea in the COC.
The first goal we conceded infuriated me for the simple reason
that it’s the second time in as many games that we’ve been exploited from an
attacking corner. This time it was a combination of faults between Jenkinson
and Fabianksi. Jenkinson’s header wasn’t strong enough to get to Fabianksi,
Fabianksi should have come out quicker to meet it.
After what happened at Palace you would have thought that
type of mistake would happen again. Yes this time it was different players and
a goal instead of a red card but it still cost us at the time. These incidents
are forever more highlighting our inadequacies without the ball. For the most
part these haven’t been on display against the weaker teams as we tend to enjoy
more of the ball. But against the stronger teams it sticks out like a sore
thumb.
We can make all the excuses we want about how it’s only COC
and that we had no real defensive midfielders and a weakened team but it’s all
crap. We should be looking to win every game we play no matter what the
competition. The defensive midfielders aren’t the only ones who should be
working off the ball, the defence should start from the top and act as a unit
of 11 players when we don’t have the ball. And lastly yes we had a weakened
team, but so did Chelsea, the difference is they had Eto as their back up
forward and we had Bendtner. We had Ryo, they had Mata. But I suppose that’s
what money gets you.
“Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and
expecting different results”
I’m not usually one for quotes, but this one hits the nail
right on the head. It shows that with Bendtner as a back up and not making the
most of our transfer fund that we’ve repeating mistakes of not capitalising
when we can. This is a man who was “80% gone”, never playing for the club again
if he had his way. Now we’re relying on him to give Giroud a break. When you
look at it in those simple terms, it’s madness.
Some people have been defending Bendneter saying he’s a
decent player, he may have been at one point but we haven’t seen that in a long
time. I’m not sure anyone has seen it for a while. He’s managed to get a few
goals for Denmark but that’s a different set up, he’s just not up to the same
quality to those around him and last night it showed. He was slow to react to
the changes in play, slow on the ball, without and looked tiered from the off. It’s
telling that in that from what I could gather he had no part to play in any of
our chances on goal. Not to mention his famous attitude hasn’t done him any
favours in winning over the fans.
As if that wasn’t bad enough we had Park on the bench! Park!
I’m not sure I’ve actually ever seen him play for Arsenal. He’s nowhere in the
managers plans and we can’t get rid of him so he must be there simply to make
up the numbers on the bench again showing up our shallow squad. If we didn’t have
the injuries we have at this time it may
have been different but at some stage in the season every team will suffer with
injuries. You need to have the depth to cope with when they strike.
One thing that was good to see was Vermaelen’s performance was
pretty solid. He didn’t wow us with goal line clearances or last ditch tackles,
but he didn’t need to. He was good with his positioning and tried to do his bit
up top when we had a set piece. That’s what’s needed from him at this point. Doing
the simple stuff well in his first few games is what will get him back in
contention. Getting yourself noticed is risky, if you try something and it
doesn’t come off and it costs you. The mountain will be even harder to climb. Maybe
he could have done more with the second goal but I think it was just a very
good strike, not much any team could have done except prevent the chance before
it came to Mata.
That’s us out the league cup again and our second loss to
tough opposition. If we win the league I’ll look back on this as a moody rant
but that’s a long way off and a big if. This was the first of a run of hard
games against good teams. It’s easy enough to say we need to get our chin up
and focus on the next one but it’s easier said than done. It’s going to be a
long, tough month for Arsenal and for us fans. There will be plenty of opposing
fans lapping up our defeats i just hope they’re few and far between.
Until next time
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