Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Galvasean

Walcott subbed off for Adebayor.

wandatowell

the poached eggs seemed to have done the trick,

great play from arsh and cesc

DenMan

2-1. Great build up play and well finished by Mikael.

Galvasean

I'll be damned, Silvestre scored.
Slick move.

Pepe LeFrits

Arshavin and Fabregas combine to cut apart Wigan with absurd ease, Silvestre slotting the ball in from a few yards out. Much better.

Silvestre's reaction to his goal is hilarious. He looks amazed to have scored.

Pepe LeFrits

Gibbs is having a mare, btw.

Galvasean

Arsenal seem a team transformed since taking off Bendtner

edit: WTF he's actually still on the pitch!?!?

wandatowell

hells bells that was an awful header but nic :rolleyes:

wandatowell

ARSHAVIN you beauty!!! top top class footballer

Galvasean

That has settled it.

DenMan

That's it alright. Great finish Arshavin. Super pass on the break to get Ade away. 1-3. Game over.

1-4 Brilliant Song.

Galvasean

Good solo effort from Song for 4.

Royale with Cheese

Big win after a poor first half. The gap back to 5th is now 9 points. Sounds good.

Let's just hope Djourou's injury isn't bad. I was quietly confident of getting somewhere in the Champions League, but not with a 2nd/3rd string defence.

Pepe LeFrits

Indeed. We had better also hope that Gibbs improves fast or Clichy comes back fast.

Still, that was a great result. Arshavin is ****ing class.

therecklessone

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Arshavin is ****ing class.

+1

He will be a huge player for youse next year.

gosplan

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Gibbs is having a mare, btw.

True, better now than midweek though.

Galvasean

Thats 4 assists for Fabregas in 3 games since he got back. Pretty good return.

Pepe LeFrits

2 goals and 7 assists in 9 games for Shavva too...

Their combination that made the Silvestre goal is the kind of thing I want to be seeing more of. Hopefully Arsene will give up on this nonsense of playing Cesc in a Gerrard/Lampard type role now.

OPENROAD

Looking forward to MOTD and Football First later, have to say I'm getting really excited about Arshavin, very surprised at how quickly he has settled in.

tony1kenobi

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

OPENROAD

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

He reminds me a lot of Freddie.

L'prof

This season v previous seasons:

P   W   D   L   F   A  GD Pts
2008-2009:  32  17  10   5  54  28  26  61
2007-2008:  32  20  10   2  62  26  36  70 ( 3rd)
2006-2007:  32  16   8   8  52  29  23  56 ( 4th)
2005-2006:  32  16   5  11  53  25  28  53 ( 4th)
2004-2005:  32  21   7   4  73  33  40  70 ( 2nd)
2003-2004:  32  23   9   0  62  22  40  78 ( 1st)
2002-2003:  32  20   7   5  67  34  33  67 ( 2nd)
2001-2002:  32  20   9   3  66  32  34  69 ( 1st)
2000-2001:  32  17   9   6  53  29  24  60 ( 2nd)
1999-2000:  32  18   6   8  60  32  28  60 ( 2nd)
1998-1999:  32  17  12   3  43  13  30  63 ( 2nd)
1997-1998:  32  19   9   4  56  28  28  66 ( 1st)
1996-1997:  32  16   9   7  52  28  24  57 ( 3rd)
1995-1996:  32  15   9   8  44  28  16  54 ( 5th)

Rolling season:

P   W   D   L   F   A  GD Pts
2008-2009:  38  21  11   6  66  33  33  74

Current run:

P   W   D   L   F   A  GD Pts
2008-2009:  18  10   8   0  29  10  19  38

Great to get the win today.

tony1kenobi

OPENROAD wrote: »

He reminds me a lot of Freddie.

Without the brittle bones..........

L'prof

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Without the brittle bones..........

...so far.

gosplan

Good news

You gotta feel for Villareal though.

redout

Villareal's Senna out of return leg

Villarreal will be without Marcos Senna for this week's Champions League return meeting with Arsenal because of injury.

The Spain international midfielder limped out of last night's 2-0 home defeat by Malaga in the 80th minute due to a hamstring problem, leaving the Yellow Submarine with 10 players as coach Manuel Pellegrini had already made three substitutions.

It is not yet known how long Senna will be out for but, according to Villarreal's website, he will definitely miss Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg at the Emirates Stadium.


Senna scored Villarreal's goal as they drew the first leg with Arsenal 1-1 at El Madrigal last week.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0412/sennam.html


Roll on semi-final

Pepe LeFrits

gosplan wrote: »

You gotta feel for Villareal though.

Not really. It's not like we're going to be at full strength either.

I think we should have enough to see off Villarreal but Chelsea are going to beat us next weekend.

gosplan

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Not really. It's not like we're going to be at full strength either.

Yeah but they've two midfielders good enough to make the Spanish team - Senna and Carzola.

We've been really unlucky with injuries this season but thank god our main midfielder is back when it counts.

Galvasean

gosplan wrote: »

Good news

You gotta feel for Villareal though.

Not really. We will be missing Gallas, Almunia, Djourou, Arshavin, Rosicky and most likely Clichy and Eduardo too.

Bounty Hunter

for the first time today bar a complete collapse from Arsenal im willing to admit that imo CL football next season is Arsenals not Villa's, so good luck I like Arsenal