Looking back in history, Arsenal hate traveling to eastern Europe, yet this is where they must try and re-ignite their season after West Brom stomped all over what was previously a great start.
It is not that the defeat has deflated me, it is the manner in which is was done, however that is old ground and today brings us a different game with different problems.
With Fabianski starting he must be in the very last of the last chance saloons. If he sinks I don’t see how the manager can persevere with him, yet if he swims it may well give the manager a dilemma ahead of the game against Chelsea depending on the fitness of Manuel Almunia – that is how quickly things can change.
Lucasz has brilliant talent, his natural reflexes have been lauded ever since he arrived at the club, you just have to question that thing between his ears sometimes, is he cut out for it mentally? That is where my doubts are aimed at.
In front of him he should have a similar defence to the one that played on Saturday afternoon, Koscielny and Squillaci will probably form the center back partnership, with Sagna on the right. Hopefully, having passed a fitness test, Gibbs will start on the left giving Gael Clichy a massive boot up the jacksy because believe me, it is needed.
Jack Wilshere returns to the side and will undoubtedly start in midfield, I put my money on Denilson and Song partnering him which I am fine with and understand completely in Europe, they offer greater protection for the back four and it suits our slightly altered system when we play away from home. I think the fact that we now talk about Wilshere as an essential player in the team just shows how bigger impact he has had on the team this season. He is quickly establishing himself as a talisman, I can’t wait to have Cesc back alongside him in midfield.
The front three will probably consist of Samir Nasri, Marouane Chamakh and Andrey Arshavin, there is no way that any one of those three can be dropped right now, Arshavin for his capability of producing a piece of pure genius, Chamakh for his hard graft and Samir Nasri for scoring four goals in two games and becoming a much more influential player since the end of last season.
Again, on the surface we should sweep Partizan Belgrade away pretty quickly, they are not a team jam packed full of stars, yet there will be one hell of an atmosphere there and it is not a pleasant place to be traveling to at all from what I have been hearing, though these days things have apparently improved a hell of a lot.
Tonight we just need a positive result, any win on offer, and get the hell out of there and prepare for the Chelsea game. A win tonight and the doom is partially lifted, a win tonight and a good result against Chelsea and it will be relegated to history. However, it must start tonight.
We need to see the hunger, hard work, precision and discipline that class teams are made of, we need to see the basics done well.
Come on Arsenal, and Lucasz.
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Trouble is, if Fabianski plays well (which by the law of averages he must do eventually), then he stays in the side and could cause serious damage to our season.
It’s tricky one.
When I read the title, I thought this was about Fabregas
i expect a win provided that we outscore our opponents.
Why is everyone on Fabianski so much? Did no one else see the absolute crap performance Song put in last saturday. He was woeful, he gave away too many passes and was too far forward to play his usual role. He’s taken a big step back this season and he needs to be reigned in again. We started of solid defensively because our two centre have been on form but if they’re having a day like they did against west brom he needs to stay just in front of them.
He has always been our 3 rd centre back and he was so effective last season because he would see danger and run into the box to cover our other two, he’s playing to far forward to be useful in that way, he got sent off against sunderland because he had to take players out high up the field and couldn’t just put himself between them and the defence.
I think the main problem is the introduction of the terrier jack wilshire he provides great cover for Song to make forward runs, whereas diaby is off on his own forward runs so doesn’t.
Look I’m sick to death of the stupid mistakes our keepers are making, they’re both fantastic keepers on the training ground and wenger has no choice but to come out with messages of support and belief.
The thing I hate about our keepers is they make the impossible saves really well and they’re really good at saving shots that for any other keeper would be goals but the simple little things, the inside post, the decision to come out, their positioning and they’re complete inability to stop the easy shots are they’re downfall. They make the difficult stuff look easy but they just haven’t mastered the easy stuff yet.
Mates, i believe we should keep all our first teamers rested. We dont need them, even if we lose , i couldnt care, we will still qualify. We must focus on Chelsea, they are on zero confidence and are at the best time to be beaten. Hence, this should be the starting 11.
Fabianski
Eboue Djourou Squillaci(didnt play at totts) Gibbs/ Cruise
Diaby Denilson JET
Lansbury Vela Randall
Diaby and Flapianski were dropped several times as babies… it’s the only explanation.
WHERE IS JET?
I am also of the opinion that we should rest sum starters today for the trip to Chelsea. We can easily get the points back later in the group if we slip up today. So why not keep our stars fresh for the weekend’s challenge?
hi everyone. i think arsenal fans should vote every time there is a game or player of the month award and vote for fabianski and almunia. Not only is it one of the only ways the club will get the message it will be funny. I SAY SPREAD THE WORD SO ALL ARSENAL FANS ARE AWARE AND VOTE.
Remember Porto?
Actually:
remember Blackburn, Wigan, Stoke, Warsaw, Spuds etc?
Any other self-respecting top club would have dropped both our so-called “keepers” a long time ago.
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We can pass judgement on Fabianski if he gets to play important games like Chelsea, Manchester United….Why? If he was call to organise, routine reflex saves, corner kicks clearance, punching balls away under immerse pressure….That will conclude if he can be a great GK vs a good GK…..Enough say
He needs a run in the side.
He has had some decent games but these are outweighed by the pisspoor ones.
If he is in for chelsea game and does ok then keep him in for a run 10 games or whatever. If he doesn’t drop any clangers and actually makes some decent saves and, who knows, wins a few points, then Almunia can be left on the bench.
It’s difficuly for keepers until they’ve had a long run (in my opinion a full season) before judgement can be passed.
Look at Joe Hart last year, played really well for Birmingham for a full season every game. If he’d been in and out at City and dropped the odd clanger last year he wouldn’t be anywhere near as good
[...] build up to the match centered around one player, goalkeeper Lucasz Fabianski and I am delighted to say that when he was called upon he did his job [...]
[...] build up to the match centered around one player, goalkeeper Lucasz Fabianski and I am delighted to say that when he was called upon he did his job [...]