Wednesday 22 October 2008

Barazite suffers knee injury, Almunia's & Wenger's thoughts


"I am very proud of the team. The average age was 23 and I am proud because we came in and tried to dictate the game in a very heated atmosphere" - AW

Wenger was pleased with last nights performance, and perhaps i was overly critical yesterday. My analysis not helped by a cock up on the very first word of the blog! so my apologies for that.

Wenger pointed out that the average age of the side was 23, and taking that and Fener's home record into consideration it was a brilliant performance, the great man said;
"It was a very open game because the two teams were going forward. Fenerbahce are an attacking side and are very dangerous. Both teams were going forward 100 per cent but the fact we scored an early goal forced Fenerbahce to come out and we caught them many times on the counter-attack.

"It was open because we scored early and it forced them to come completely at us. Overall our pace, movement and technique made the difference and allowed us to take advantage of it but it was not an easy game."

"I am very proud of the team. The average age was 23 and I am proud because we came in and tried to dictate the game in a very heated atmosphere. It is very pleasing that they seemed to play with no fear. I am pleased to see it works. We came here and had a go. We started strong, we remained quite strong and we finished strong."

Some plum then had the shit brains to ask Arsene if he would ever manage Fenerbache, he spat back
"I have a contract with Arsenal until 2011."
Some people eh?

Captain Manuel also praised the performance, comparing it to a 'training match', a good performance by him probably won us the game. It sounds stupid but in a game like that a 2 or 3 goal lead can disappear in the blink of an eye. It was a terrific performance by him and maybe the captaincy gave him some extra confidence, he is a brilliant keeper on his day and i think he is here to stay for a while yet, even though he does have his critics.

Theo and Ade had their say after the game, Adebayor saying that the next step is to conquer Europe.

Now onto Nacer Barazite. I understand he suffered some knee damage yesterday but the extent is still to be found out. Young Guns has given the injury possibilities.

He copped a nasty tackle from behind and it is about time our technically brilliant players stop having to put up with plain crap tackling. It is suppost to be 'the beautiful game', i dont see anything beautiful about a fat Blackpool bastard taking out one of our best youngsters, leaving him on a stretcher.

We wish him well.

A big shout out to the Arsenal Ladies who have gone an amazing 100 league games without defeat, thats 5 years. They were last beaten in 2003 in the league. What a record. Well done!

Right, il be back Friday with an early weekend preview (we play sunday).

t'ra

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