Partizan Fail to Throw Any Light on Arsenal Stadium Mystery
By Boris Mellor
September 29 2010
In the end Arsenal achieved a comfortable win against FK Partizan, the only complaint is it could have been by a far greater margin, with a missed penalty and numerous chances. Partizan would probably have failed to score if Deckchair Denilson hadn’t hailed a cab in the penalty area and stopped the ball instead. What goes go on in his and Diaby’s heads?
FK Partizan had a cunning plan, they dressed just like West Brom, and I must say it gave me a start when they came on. Fortunately they were never as good as the baggies, and Wenger had a cunning plan of his own, he played his Carling Cup team.
Which brings us to the mystery mentioned in the headline, if Arsenal could play so well on a Tuesday night why did they play so badly the previous Saturday? But this victory, enjoyable as it was, was against a weak opposition, and it will not throw any light on the mystery of why Arsenal played so poorly against WBA. It was an improved performance, but not the kind of test that Chelsea may prove to be.
This was a game you could win with a Carling team. However, it is also irritating because it highlights the inconsistencies of this squad. Brilliant at Spurs, awful at home against WBA, and comfortable at Belgrade. Can Arsenal win big games without Fabregas – we are still waiting to find out.
Arsenal played some great football, and the Wilshere one two that led to Arshavin’s goal had Barcelona written all over it. So with only 15 minutes gone Arsenal were one nil up. Arsenal then besieged the Partizan goal mouth but failed to score, and inevitably lost the lead on 33 minutes.
Arsenal should have gone in several goals up at half time, not level. In the second half both Partizan and Arsenal both missed penalties, then in the last 20 minutes two headed goals saw the Gunners put the game to bed. It was a well deserved victory against moderate opposition.
Does it mean Chelsea will be trembling in their boots? No it won’t, but it might warn them not to take things for granted. However I am not sure that the Carling team can get a hat trick of Spurs, Partizan and Chavs. Wenger will have to play his strongest team, but can he be sure who that is?
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I would not say the team have been inconsistent, they have actually done well this season apart from an appalling performance against West Brom.
I expect us to lose against Chelsea because we will have too many of out best players out, and well, it's Chelsea.
Poor performance at sunderland too
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
Ahhh the days when we beat Chelsea for fun, seem long ago now.. ever since Mr. Drogba... why did we not sign him?!
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
it's a long season.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
His obsessionw ith CL CUp and cup competition is going to cost us dear as I felt that he had written us out of the title race and concentrating on cup competition.
There is simply no logical reason as such a horror show against WBA except that the players' minds were not on this game, but were on Tuesday match.
The approach and way we palyed against WBA is exactly that same kind of mentality that got us whupped 5-1 by S*CUMS during CC simply the players can't get a rise even if 11 no. nubile and bosomy bimbo dancing nude on the WHL pitch.
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Sunderland is a hard place to go, as if Blackburn away. I think picking up 4 out of 6 points out of those games is a good return. The performance at Sunderland was not amazing it's true but was not awful.
Ahhh the days when we beat Chelsea for fun, seem long ago now.. ever since Mr. Drogba... why did we not sign him?!
because he would have cost 25 million pound mate.
I am going off point of course and I am aware that Mr. Drogba does a huge amount of good so fair play to him, as does Craig Bellamy but this is something people do not discuss.
I just so happen to be very clued up on the way things run in such areas of interest and I really find it to be a self satisfying rancid system to be honest. I wish genuine good hard working modest people would be more celebrated and maybe then girls won't grow up wanting to be wags, or @#$%& or whatever and boys will aspire to things with a bit more credibility.
Drogba is still heroic (as is Bellamy) compared to a lot of footballers.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.