very interesting game. watched it today only, and was very impressed with the 3 new signings. podolski not very influential but looks like he can score goals, cazorla just brilliant in the middle - i think he and arteta are going to be quite good in there, and giroud looks like a classic striker, good link-up, strong, quick, gets a shot when he has the chance.
i thought we played the old 4-2-3-1 in the first half but in the second was more like a 4-4-2 with arshavin behind the strikers, there were moments when you could easily spot the two banks of four when defending, am i wrong here? maybe we change our shape when not on the ball, but that's the impression i got. i'm interested to see what we'll do about that, i guess wenger will probably wait on van persie to see how we're going to play.
anyway, it's only preseason and against a 2nd tier team that just lost their best player, so let's see how we turn that into good performances in the league. at least this time we start the season with a good number of quality attacking players and reasonable defenders, even if with not much backup.
roll on 2012/2013
