3-0

Money CAN buy you trophies, if not matches

Some says this match was a match of “Rich vs Poor”, but Man City just shut the hell up of Arsenal. They beat them 3-0, so what could Arsenal say?

Excuses, yet flaws

Last season, Arsenal had to learn it the hard way. This season, they wanted to learn the same thing again. And that is, you need to have backups. Good backups. Come on Bendtner (Read below)? Song and Denilson?  Djourou and Silvestre? If they were in the first-team Arsenal would have been relegated. Sign some good backups, Arsene. You can’t stand if you don’t have backbones.

Speed, speed, speed

Kudos to Man City. A 1-0 or 2-0 win even would be considered lucky by some. But 3-0? You can’t say they scored 3 lucky goals.

The main difference between Arsenal and man City is SPEED. Look at Robinho. He and his teammates counter attack with such speed and accuracy that everytime they attack they have a 45% chance of scoring. It’s because they are quick, as compared to Bendtner who can’t even hold the ball for more than 3 seconds and isn’t fast enough to beat the defenders, and they are lethal, as whenever they attack they bury their chances, unlike Bendtner (AGAIN) whom instead of aiming into the net he shoots straight to Joe Hart. Speed and accuracy, learn that Arsenal.

A new champion is crowned

In the past, Gooners always call Eboue the “worst player to have ever played for Arsenal”. This time, a new young kid from Denmark comes up and “usurp” Eboue’s throne. That kid is Niklas Bendtner. Congrats, young Dane.

This match against Man City was the crowning ceremony, the crowning of a new “champion”. Or should I say, the last few matches. Against Man Utd, against, Aston Villa and now against Man City. he barely had a dangerous shot. Specifically, he didn’t even scored a goal.

It’s really puzzling how a hot prospective 20 year-old kid could “overthrow” Eboue. Years ago, when he was playing with Birmingham, clubs all drool seeing him play. Now, he loses the ball easily, has to really improve his ball control and the only thing that could get his some goals, his head, is failing either. Yet the problem is that Arsene Wenger is playing him too quickly, but then, as if he had a choice. Arsenal had no more strikers, besides Vela. i would certainly love to see Vela play, but what’s stopping him is his experience. Yet surely I can tell he is at least 3 times better than Bendtner. Arsene should have given Bendtner more time,  don’t rush him.

Bendtner oh Bendtner

Just because it worked once doesn’t means it will work 3 times

In the match Arsenal vs Man Utd, Arsene Wenger chose to play a lone striker in Bendtner with Diaby supporting him. It worked quite well in that match and Wenger said “He may use that tactic more often.” Well, just because it worked once, it doesn’t mean it will work thrice. Knowing that it didn’t work against Aston Villa he should have reverted back to normal, then re-evaluate again. In fact I feel Diaby should be playing instead of Denilson. He’s become a good player, 2-footed, trying tricks and when he first came Wenger dubbed him “the next Patrick Vieira”, so naturally he should be made a holding midfielder and allow Fabregas to roam forward.

So after everything, it wasn’t a matter of “Rich vs Poor”.

It was a matter of “Spendthrift vs Thrifty”.

Dariano