Positives for Arsenal?
- Van Persie finishing superbly with his right foot. He's worked on that.
- Mertesacker had an excellent game and was organized
Negative.
- Koscielny is an absolute disaster of a defender. He's a joke. A clown. Inside the first Thirteen minutes Borussia Dortmund played four passes over the top, that found a Dortmund man unmarked, alone and bearing down on goal. THIS HAPPENED FOUR FUCKING TIMES IN THIRTEEN MINUTES. It shouldn't even be happening once in ninety minutes. And each and every time, the reason was Koscielny. Mertesacker was holding his line very well but it was Koscielny without a fucking clue of what to do, dropping deep even though Mertesacker's movements were loud and clear.
Koscielny is a fucking cock. The hero of that 8-2 at Old Trafford, a pathetic waste of £10 mil. But hey, the AKBs won't ever admit that Lord Wanker wsted £10 mil on this joke who is rated as beneath Kaboul in France!...
- Don't care if he made the pass for the goal that does not justify his utter general gashness. Someone with his pace should be able to use it far more to their advantage. Every time I watch Walcott, I die a little inside.
- Gervinho. I told you all that I've watched this guy several times for Lille. Eden Hazard is the baller in that team. Gervinho is a muppet. Headless chicken. Never seen a player with such little awareness of what is around him and such a shit first touch. He's got pace but doesn't know how to use it, he lacks the football intelligence to play give and gos so Arsenal's movement is limited.
- Benayoun looked every inch the Chelski reserve he is.
- Kieran Gibbs. Fucking hell. He makes me pine for Clichy that is how defensively pathetic he is.
As I watched that match tonight, it hit me just how boring to watch Arsenal are. There is not a single player in that team that I would pay to watch. Not one. Not even RVP (though he is excellent). On the other hand, I would pay to watch Goetze or Shinji Kagawa all day long. None of the Arsenal players give you that air of expectation when they get the ball. When Paul Merson or Dennis Bergkamp for instance used to get the ball...you'd get excited and sense something could happen.
Arsenal don't have a single player who can make things happen. In fact the expectation when most of them get the ball, is that they are going to do something fundamentally retarded. The midfield is so much poorer without Fabregas it's untrue.
There is not a single wide player who attacks the opposing full-back and tries to take him on. Not one. Name one Arsenal midfielder who runs at full-backs and tries to beat them for skill? Can't.
Yeah a point ain't bad. Whatever. This team is S-H-I-T-E.
The refusal to purchase a top level striker with pace a la Higuain/Nilmar is just beyond farcical. The centre of midfield is lacking in severe quality both defensively (Alex Thong, useless) and in attack (or is Benayoun the answer). The midfield Arsenal put out in the CL today is barely superior to the Aston Villa midfield imo.
And yet again we are shown that irrespective of who plays in defence, there is no tactical set up or organization. YAWN.
