Eduardo Looked Sharp On His Return

Every Gooner must have felt a tinge of relief as Eduardo had a 45 minute run out at Underhill last night, and what more, he looked in fine nick as his intelligence and movement caused confusion amongst the Pompey defence last night.

Eduardo’s game was not built around pace but he showed a good spurt of pace on more than one occasion as he created attacking opportunities and nearly scored a fine effort himself.

I think his build up play was very good all night and he really does have an eye for a pass, something i was not too aware of before his injury, his close skill has not changed one iota as he twisted and turned defenders and had one very good effort splendidly saved by the Pompey keeper, i have a feeling that our number 9, our fox in the box is well and truly on his way back.

He was substituted for a slight hamstring niggle and that is not suprising considering he will not have been in that scenario for 10 months and his muscles will have to re-adapt but its all part of the process and a massage will do the trick for him.

Eddy was pleased after the game saying,

“At the moment, I am better and I feel very happy, I came off at half-time because I felt something in my hamstring, but I think I will be all right in two weeks. The situation with my injury was very hard for me, but I have to forget everything bad in my life.”

Looks like when the games get tough our boy will be there and he is a tremendous addition to any squad in the world, his intelligence is fantastic and he is always asking questions of the defenders with clever movement and impeccably timed runs. He can also play out on the left so we might see him there sooner rather than later, most of all he came through with no big adverse reactions and he looked as good as ever.

Welcome back Eduardo; you have been sorely missed!

I have not really got much time to go through anything else but there is not really much else to go through today!

It appears that Samir Nasri has a history of health problems and if that is true i will not be happy, we have enough crocks without another one, a 13 million one at that!

Wenger has been fustrated by his injuries,

“Samir is a mix of [Robert] Pires and [Alexander] Hleb. I told myself that signing him could prove a positive gamble.

“But he picked up many injuries, too many!

“You tell yourself that if the guy was always with us, he would bring us a lot, but for the moment he has only been there half of the games, and fits and starts are bad for high level football.

“The partnership with Clichy has developed, but we are still far from what can be produced because he is too often absent.”

Hopefully they were just part of his growth and will disappear gradually, i remember Hleb was injured a lot in his first two seasons and the change of leagues does probably have quite a big influence on their physical wellbeing.

Arsene also thinks we are still in the title race.

What are your thoughts on that and Eduardo’s return?

Sorry for the short post, il be back with a better one tomorrow!

Til next time Gooners