Nicklas Bendtner
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cut him some slack
he's scored key goals in 4 of last 5 games,and had a mare in the other which we still won,I'll live with that strike rate until vp gets back or chamak gets a run next season
he's getting goals and is allowing andrei to play in a wider position
andrey was for more wasteful today,but of course he's untouchable
if we lose league on goal difference it won't be down to nic against burnley
it will be down to the other end of the pitch letting in 10 too many over the season.!
thought nic took winner brilliantly
also brave on denilson to have a punt ,if the shot was saved easily
our brazilian scapegoat would have been slaughtered
he's scored key goals in 4 of last 5 games,and had a mare in the other which we still won,I'll live with that strike rate until vp gets back or chamak gets a run next season
he's getting goals and is allowing andrei to play in a wider position
andrey was for more wasteful today,but of course he's untouchable
if we lose league on goal difference it won't be down to nic against burnley
it will be down to the other end of the pitch letting in 10 too many over the season.!
thought nic took winner brilliantly
also brave on denilson to have a punt ,if the shot was saved easily
our brazilian scapegoat would have been slaughtered
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Good football blog on Bendtner and our Champions League chances:
This could be our year!!!
Ten days ago at the Emirates, Nicklas Bendtner was starring in his own horror show. All the old favourites spring to mind, 'couldn't finish his dinner,' 'worse finisher than Devon Loch' and 'couldn't score in a nightclub wearing David Beckham's head' but none of them do justice to Bendtner's ineptitude in front of goal.
Shortly before receiving the Shepherd's crook from Arsene Wenger, Bendtner missed yet another sitter, it seemed as if it was his 388th but in reality it was only his fifth. The Burnley goalkeeper, Brian Jensen was rooted to the spot and was a spectator as Bendtner had the simplest of tap ins. Once again he somehow contrived to shank it. The camera picked up a great shot of Jensen with his hands on his hips, laughing at his fellow countryman.
Jensen is one of football's nice guys - not the type to pour scorn on an opponent, a fellow Dane and friend - the laughter would have been involuntary, induced by witnessing an international footballer showing the technique and composure usually reserved for the Baldock and District Sunday League Division 6.
It was one of those rare moments when the 18 stone bloke standing next to you in the pub says, "I could've scored that" and you have to agree with him. We don't know what goes on behind closed doors but in public Arsene Wenger was quick to play down Bendtner's howlers. He took a leaf out of Jensen's book and laughed it off but you can't help wondering if he would have been so cool about it had the game finished 1-1 and the Gunners had dropped two precious points.
Wenger kept faith with his striker in Champions League against Porto and the Dane repaid him with his first ever hat-trick. He then notched in injury time against Wigan to keep Arsenal's title bid on course. What a fantastic piece of man-management by the Frenchman, what a brilliant response from the Dane, that's what wins titles and trophies.
It could have been all so different. If Bendtner had had another game from hell against the Portuguese and Arsenal had been dumped out of Europe the fingers would have been pointing firmly in Wenger's direction. The evidence would have been damning, replay after replay of Bendtner's ineptitude in front of goal against Burnley, how could anyone show such misguided faith in a striker so blatantly out of form?
That's football. And that's why Arsene Wenger is so good at what he does, he gets the big calls right. Chelsea and Real Madrid have bitten the dust in the past week, so could this be the year the Gunners are crowned Champions of Europe?
This could be our year!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWDSHQvTqE ==> Nicklas Bendtner, the season so far (09/10) By me