So this is it, our defining moment, but who will play? Well yesterday I dared to suggest a midfield of Rosicky, Nasri and Diaby, and outside of Cesc, our most skilful midfield, a few people suggested I was as mad as a March Hare not suggesting Song.
I am amazed that people would find that midfield not the best we have, Nasri can mix it and for me takes over from Cesc, Diaby can be the enforcer and Rosicky can start the attacks, yes Song has improved no end, but for this game I believe we need pace and skill over the ability to stop attacks, what Porto did last time was to by-pass the midfield and that makes Song redundant.
We need to keep the ball, not worry about winning it back should we lose it, tonight is about being positive and go on the attack from the off, we cannot afford to let them score, if we have to use a DM then sure, use Song, but please leave Denilson in the cafeteria, I reckon a front line of Theo, Bendtner and Arshavin will click tonight and I have Bendtner down with Theo to score more than one apiece.
This is not about leaving Song out, it’s about having the most creative midfield in football, besides, since the ACN, Song has not had the form he showed before.
However, we all know Wenger will play Sagna at the back and the midfield will be Denilson, Song and Nasri, that then leaves Eboue free to play up front on the right, so it will be his team or mine and I hope he is brave and goes for skill over his favourites.
My team
Almunia
Eboue Campbell Vermaelen Clichy
Rosicky Nasri Diaby
Walcott Bendtner Arshavin
Wenger’s team
Almunia
Sagna Campbell Vermaelen Clichy
Denilson Nasri Song
Eboue Bendtner Arshavin
I watched us destroy Burnley on Saturday, we weren’t far off, but we left it late, keep the nucleus of that team together and it will pay dividends, bring Song on once we are 3 up, don’t waste the opportunity because this Porto team are there for the taking.
It reminds me of the battle of Quebec, Montcalm, the French general was camped in at the fortress of Quebec, General James Wolfe was with his army waiting in the St. Lawrence river with no way past the big French guns, what did he do next? He slipped past them at night, scaled the impossible heights of Abraham and when dawn broke the British army was behind them and ready, the battle was over in double quick time, Wolfe raced to a 3 nil lead before Montcalm had a chance to deploy his counter defensive midfield ploy, the Brits trashed the French and won Canada, and to this day Canada is still a colony and that’s why Great Britain won the winter Olympics.
So the moral of the story is surprise, do something they don’t expect, be bold Arsene and the day is yours, oh and forget the fact you are French, tonight you are batting for Harry, for England and St. George, go forth and seize the moment (Napoleon) tonight we go through to the quarter finals and get revenge on the fornicators from the bridge.
Have a great day grovers, tonight could and should be memorable.
And don’t forget I’m not dissing Song, I’m saving him for a rainy day, and tonight isn’t one of them.
No predictions but we’ll score two more than they do!
“Bendtner scored a hat-trick. Shows you how bad Porto are!”
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You work in same office with Jaguar, BBK et al?
I won’t get too carried away, yes we scored 5 and yes we were good, well most of the team, but they were shit, and they were in the first game, let’s see what we do at Hull and enjoy today, but lets not start on the old Arsene knows bit because we’ve won fuck all yet.
Mention should be made of Wenger’s tactics last night. We totally controlled the midfield, Porto couldn’t get the balll, and when they did, we won it back immediately. Why? Because of the the way AW set up the MF with Nasri & TR slightly forward of Diaby, and Song acting as a sweeper MF.
TR was magnificent before he got injured.
I understand TA said that Song needs to learn to keep his position and not attack so much. I agree entirely. Against better teams we will get punished.
Sensational performance Geoff, & the atmosphere sounded great @ the stadium.
Evening all
Raddy he needs to learn how not to give the ball away so much as well. I expect there will be people out there that didn’t see how many times he did that though, I did.
Nasri and Rosicky had blinders.
but lets not start on the old Arsene knows bit because we’ve won fuck all yet.
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Come on Geoff, just for a day why dont you let AKBs have a field day?
Geoff. If us AKB’s can’t celebrate a win like last night, when can we?
After all – it was you who wrote “Seize the moment”!
He still had to bring Denilson on though didn’t he, so llast night he had Denilson, Song and Eboue on, at least Eboue had a blinder.
Sagna can’t cross a ball for shit though.
TR got injured?, please tell me its the ‘irony’ thing
Geoff, We agree about Song. However, if he can continue his improvement, he is going to be a very big player for us over the next decade….. IF
BR
Its getting to the stage where there aren’t that many better teams anymore.
The commentator here said that Chamakh is to sign for 4 years I think he said. Can this be confirmed by anyone?
All
yes..what a smashing game.
Just check my first post on top of this current post,
I mentioned above..in my first post,we will “SMASH” porto..which we did..mashallah
Sagna can’t cross a ball for shit though.
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We won 5-0, imagine if Sagna could
Because if Arsene knew, we’d have bought the players we still need and be at the top of the league by 10 clear points, that’s why.
bnsb ,
which city u r in ?
Sabeel,
I was in Bengaluru the previous weekend 27/28 feb. It was so hot. Changed my perception of the City.
bnsb. I expect to read that we picked up at least 2 injuries last night. TR hobbled off as did Nasri.
I hope I am wrong though
Raddy if we had a team of Songs we would be in a different division.
Sam
bangalore is more and more hot,becos of the “air biscuits” flying around..ask DDM and Geoff abt that..
Sam Change B to M, you have the answer
Might just have needed a grease & oil change. They looked ok to me.
Porto were shit because WE made them look shit.
We came out and steamrollered them in the first half. They didn’t know what hit them!
whats the biggest scoreline in champions league won by any team
bnsb
i wish i would live in mangalore, love sea-food…especially prawns/fish..
How about team of Verms Geoff ?
I thought Verminator was so committed yesterday. Throwing himself in front of shots bravely and all when we were comfortable. He was awesome.
I watched us destroy Burnley on Saturday, we weren’t far off, but we left it late, keep the nucleus of that team together and it will pay dividends.
Don’t forget who said the above in this post.
Song was extremely sloppy yesterday…Period…
bnsb is your avatar a chastity belt?
Sam I agree there, he was fantastic.
Geoff. When the Gods shine upon us we should celebrate unconditionally. It doesn’t happen often!
For me, it was the best European performance since AC Milan away.
Sabeel, the only poor player out there, but I’ll have money there are people that will make him man of the match.
I was really impressed with Rosicky, Nasri and Arshavin. That attacking trident were key in us controlling the game as much as we did. eboue when he came on was great too.
LOL GG
Raddy I was there celebrating, I agree, but when I see people on here crowing that sat at home watching on the TV and not seeing what I did, it gets to me.
Rohan, totally agree!
Sabeel
Dont, even we Mangaloreans find it difficult to get our weekly quota, honest. And they are terribly costly and but still taste like you know what. I am told catches are rare and far and between. The boats are in sea for long and we get stale fish. Smells fishy, but thats the story.
Geoff that bloke sulk or hulk was made to look poor
Geoff
I think some people are having a affair with Song,No doubt he gets so much support..
Post ACN he has been far less than the level of arsenal..
Song is so lazy,someone gotto give him some lashes,to take him out of his comfort zone while defending
Big Raddy – I’m not sure i’ve ever had as much fun on a Tuesday night!!
Absolutely fantastic.
I’ve been grinning since i woke up. People thought i was weird on the tube..
Porto had no answer to Eboue !! He destroyed them in his 15 minutes. One of the best cameo’s ever.
I can’t believe I am writing that
What!!! Song was great last night. Sloppy my arse.
I’m off though. Got to study for a Physics exam.
Enjoy the moment.
Geoff you wereseen @ the train station with 30 minutes to go apparently, so you couldn’t have seen Ebay go down in the box.
bnsb,
there a racket there going on,a fish racket..
but i would go every weekend to the sea and catch fish on my own,not tuf to get a license and a boat seriously
bnsb is your avatar a chastity belt?
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Never seen one, is it common in your part of the world?
with a billion people, I guess not
Rohan
Song was realy sloppy,i counted as many as 10 times,he gave away posession ..which led to there attacks..
lazy sloppy song
Sabeel
Karwar would be the place of your dream.
GG. Maybe that is why there are less than 20 million Aussies and 500+ million Indians
bnsb
u lucky bugger
Great minds GG
Big Raddy
india is bigger than australia as are for habitat,majority of aus is only desert, so they move all over the world
Why do people always have to criticise?!
We played fantastically well last night. The team played like a team. Of course some people are going to stand out more than others, that is the nature of the game.
We spanked a team 5-0 in the knockout round of the Champs League? Be Happy!
hopefully rosicky isnt to badly crocked , he has really hit the traps lately with his form.
but going up north now against orange mans shit kickers , we need some power and strength , we should be alright with TV, song, and diaby and nikki b , in the side my only worry is that they will target nasri beacause of the game at ours.
Fucking hell though goals 3 and 4 amazing last night.
But on to saturday lets hope he keeps denilson out if no 7 doesn’t make it.
I THINK A 3-1 WIN IS ON FOR US , fab 4 will be back for west ham.
You are missing the point Sabeel.
It was a joke.
That’s because so many Australians are poofs, nothing to do with the women.
That’s why there’s only 20 million of them.
chipo
whose saying one is not happy
but in happiness,we shoudl not forget abt the “Scope of improvement”
a perfectionist always tries to improve even after victory..
BR the chastity belt was a medievil English invention wasn’t it; to stop the maidens being bowled over while Richard III was @ the Holy wars. Corredt me if I’m wrong.
Anyway, bnsb’s avatar looks like one or a pair of oversize Bill Grundys.
Big Raddy,
where u from
Chipo, were you there last night or did you watch it on TV?
Oh and would just like to congratulate the ref last night. A lot of CL refs get criticised (fairly), but i thought this guy had a really good game. You didn’t notice him, which is sign of a good performance i guess.
Quality all over the pitch last night Diaby and Nasri were my mom superb performances by the pair, We ruled the midfield last night which made the game pretty easy, Sabeel if anyone was sloppy last night it was Arshavin i love the little fella and he did set up two but he gave the ball away at will ! The only negative for me was Campbell for the first time since being back looked his age hopefully it had more to do with his recent injury than him feeling the pace .
So its the atraction of poofs thats drawing so many British here
Gnarley Richard 111 didn’t go to the holy wars. So you’re corrected.
Gnarley you only get the ugly ones.
The reason so many brits are there was because we found it, and the populated it.
but when I see people on here crowing that sat at home watching on the TV and not seeing what I did, it gets to me.
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Geoff, For us far away fans its like four blind men feeling the elephant and describing it. Each describing in their own different way. Dont see why that should get you worked up.
Was it Richard the Turd then Geoff?
chippy
u r right on arshavin being sloppy
arshavin and song both were sloppy,
but arshavin is not match for song in sloppiness record.
Theres those oversized undies again
but arshavin is NO match for song in sloppiness record.
Richard the first Gnarley. The Lion heart.
bnsb you can’t see the movement off the ball and the shit balsl given away that always lead to attack, no names, no pack drill.
Chippy i agree on Arshavin but i think we just have to accept that we have a genius on our hands and we should let him do whatever he wants!
Agreed on Sol as well, he looked very slow and off the pace. Let’s hope Gallas is back for the Spurs and City games cos im not looking forward to him/Silv against Bellamy/Defoe!
Did you like any of the 5-0 performance sabeel
Arshavin makes goals and scores them, Song does the opposite.
Chipo Sol held the line perfectly last night, something else you can’t see on the TV.
No one calls Nasri a fat ponce these days
Maybe Samir reads le-grove …
gg9
I liked Nasri,Vermy and Eboue…
oh the 1st.
Thats more like it sabeel. I thought Nascar was BOG (best on ground)
of course arshavin..was good in attack
I love Nasri, always have and I said Bendtner was ready to explode, it’s only the keeper and 2 DM’s I don’t rate, the rest are great.
Didnt think Song was anywhere near as sloppy as Arshavin last night the russian gave the ball away countless times with flicks and tricks in danger positions in our half which against better sides we may have been punished,
As i said the other day Song still needs to learn to sit back more tho he joins in on way to many attacks when he should be staying back and protecting the defence but that will come with more games,
gg9
Nasri went straight down the tunnel,hope he is not injured…
Sabeel. I come from a loving congress between my parents.
But in geographical terms, I was born in London, 3 miles from the Home of Football.
Today – Copenhagen – the capital of Denmark.
wenger touched on what geoff posted
Imagine putting fabregas on in place of song,wenger said,we would hurt them even more..and would have played even better…
Beleive me im not digging out the little fella Chipo and Geoff hes outstanding just trying to even things up a tad
That Richard 1 was a right bastard. Nasty bunch those Plantagenets. French of course, and Richard the Lionheart couldn’t even speak English…. typical Frenchie
Raddy
great to know,hope local public are liking what bendy is doing for us
Hopefully straight down the tunnel for a massage, a hot tub & smoke, a glass of cherry, & a pat on the back with a “well done old boy” from the top brass.
Geoff i was there and I like men in a way I shouldn’t.
I thought this was the site where you can have an opinion not get one lol
We need a top GK , 1 top defender if Gallas stays else 2 , 1 DM who is better than or equal atleast to Song and a Striker who is in a level between RVP and NB52.
I think we can get all of them even within Wenger’s budgets.
Then we will win the league easily next year.
Chppy. He had a strange game. Some of AA’s passing was awful, but he was magic running at their FB, who had an absolute nightmare.
Chipo it the site where I get an opinion, you read it wrong. Raddy he was born in Oxford, that is such a miss-conception. Typical from a fucking Dane.
Still cant believe we beat a top european team 5-0 in the knockout stages!
We havent started a game so well all season, we have to do that more often!
Geoff 8.40am
“Gnarley you only get the ugly ones”
Didn’t your sister move to canberra or Dubbo
Chipo, this site is not for men that like men, please refrain.
Yes but you haven’t seen her!
Gambon, too true, if we did, I would be happy all the time.
Sabeel.
NB is Denmark’s No1 pin up Boy. The public here love him, especially as he is a walking advert for Carlsberg (Danish beer).
He is constantly in the Society papers because he has a tendency to go out with posh tottie.
And NIk is Denmark’s Sports Personality of the Year, plus Footballer of the Year
BigRaddy, Totally agree the fullback will be having sleepless nights for weeks
Did anyone else shit themselves when denilson came on last night?? Even with us leading nicely i still thought “oh Fuck”
Clacko, yes, me too. Raddy, can he speak Danish, I heard he couldn’t.
And with regards Bendtner i though he come over well in that Interview last night he didnt seem to be the Billy big bollocks thats hes sometimes portrayed as,
If Pedro gives Song a high mark, he’s doing it to wind me up and I’ll edit his post.
Haha season?
Got to wonder about the standard of Danish football when a clumsy squad player is the national pin up!
Its like Peter Crouch being the UK pin up!
Bring back M Laudrup!
Geoff. True about Oxford. But the man lived in France most of his life and his father was a Frog.
But sod it – these are just details – the man saw and conquered and as such was proper English !
Chipo, that’s what it must be like living in China, the first one was funny.
Raddy did it take that long to google!
Richards mum was Eleanor of Aquitaine and as such the biggest landowner in France, so who can blame Richard for spending so long there.
Simple things please simple minds…
Gambon.
2009. Denmark 4 England 0
Can you imagine how my mates ripped it out of me. And as you will see in SA, Denmark are a tidy side, nothing fancy, but well organised and have a fine defence (AW…. sign Simon Kjær ).
Shame they are in a tough group.
Yes Geoff !
History is your specialist subject, mine is onanism.
Nik speaks Danish as Becks and JT speak English.
I was meaning to dig your Richard can’t speak English comment!