Ade turns the tide but will he match his ambitions?

Before todays game Adebayor set out his ambitions as clear as day. Win everything.

Now i not only think that is ambitious, i believe it is a pretty stupid thing to say, heaping attention on himself and with that attention expectations will follow.

But those comments must mean there is confidence in him and in the team, that is a good thing until it becomes over-confidence, arrogance and down right disrespect. Its good to see players confident but it has to be just right or the defeats by Hull and the likes will become more common. And by that i do not mean any disrespect at all to Hull.

It seems that faith in the team, by the players, is running high so lets hope that turns into those big silver things they call trophies.

Now, to the game. 65 minutes or thereabouts had gone, we had caused West Ham problems and their defence had been in pretty decent nick, Theo threatened and had gone close and Bendtner had had a decent effort clawed away by a brilliant Robert Green who always seems to up his game against us.

Then Diaby and Adebayor came on for Nasri and Theo, giving Van Persie the license to hover and pop up wherever he pleased. He hit a fantastic effort on goal that produced a splendid save from Green, he kept popping up on the edge of the area, causing big problems. Cesc was then fouled and VP hit a pile driver that smashed off the post, we were getting closer and closer.

Adebayor then appeared in the box, beat a defender and aimed a low cross towards Bendtner and the absolute Muppet of a defender prodded it into his own goal. West Ham's work was undone in a second.

Later on Adebayor was freed by a Bendtner pass, he rounded the keeper and finished quite marvelously with two defenders pretty much blocking the majority of the goal, cool, composed and clinical. That's the Adebayor we will need week in and week out to reach those ambitions he set up.

Fire us to trophies Ade, i dare you.

A good, solid and patient performance was praised by the boss. He said this reflecting on a 'big win';

"if we had come out of it with a frustrating 0-0 draw, we would have felt that we had wasted an opportunity

“We knew before the game that we couldn't afford to drop points today but I must say that West Ham can feel frustrated because they defended very well and gave absolutely everything today."

We had to win today, and we did. Liverfluke got very lucky again today, they are having a purple patch and are not managing to look the best team in the league. I doubt they will win the league and i think we will finish above them, Man Utd dropped points and Chelsea are only a point ahead of us now. We have had an inconsistent start and are only 4 points off the early leaders. That is really not bad at all i have to say, we are most definitely in the title race and 3 more points on Wednesday will go a long way to getting through a tricky week.

Wenger was particularly happy with Adebayor's impact from the bench, saying it shows his good attitude;

“What is fantastic is that he is a regular starter in my team and he fights very hard. Today he came on with 25 minutes to go and fought for every ball. That is more than any speech I can make."

And on team spirit he had this to say;

"We have a great spirit in the side and we have great quality"

But the boss was not done yet and gave an opinion on the development of Theo Walcott and how he envisages his improvement over the coming years;

"There is already a lot there but of course there is a lot more to come. We have all been 19, we were not all better at 21, but he will be better. “

He is in fantastic form at the moment and is now a key player in our team, if our team really lacks something sometimes its pace. Clichy and Walcott are our speed merchants and are a threat in every single game. That's why i think it is important to hold onto Armand Traore, he is one quick kid.

Right that's about it for now, onto a new feature i am starting on the blog.

I will sometimes write articles that i cant really write in the detail i want on the blogs. It will not be a weekly thing or anything like that i just want to make some points every now and again, they might not be about Arsenal in particular, they may just be about football and the issues in general. I hope you will read them as i will enjoy writing them. I'l keep you posted.

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