Not the start of the season that all Arsenal fans were looking for, huh? The sad part is that, because of this club's (board and manager) inability to recruit and hold on to top players, we have become a circus. Heck, top players might be a reach for us right now. It's comical when you know you have injury problems and you loan out one of the few healthy defenders (Ignasi Miquel) that you have, so we can watch good old Sagna play left back for 70 minutes today, because we have only one defender on the bench. That's straight up embarrassing....
On top of that you have a once great manager who in the past few years has completely lost his mind. In his post match press conference, our dear Arsene had the nerve to claim that "We are ready to buy the players if we find that the players are good enough for us. People always say 'buy players, buy players, buy players'. When you tell them 'tell me who?' it becomes much more problematic." I mean is he for real??? How about you had all fucking summer to buy whoever you feel is GOOD enough for us! I can give him a bunch of names! How about Mario Gomez; Gonzalo Higuain; Marouanne Felliani to name a few! As i said a few days ago, you know we have hit rock bottom when a player chooses fucking Wolfsburg over us. So if some journalist had the balls to ask: "Why did Higuain choose Napoli over Arsenal"? Arsene would probably say that the price Real Madrid wanted for him was too high. Well guess what genius? I don't care which shit players you try to bring in the next few weeks, you will probably pay DOUBLE what they are worth just because every single person who follows football knows that we NEED players! So let's just say that the mismanagement of our club is mind boggling.
Now, to the game today. In all honesty, the performance we gave wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. Some of the mistakes we had were pretty bad, but especially in the second half we had enough chances to win this game. There is no denying that the referee Anthony Taylor is an absolute cunt and overall had a very shitty game, but having said that, we still should have performed better.
We started the game very well and scored a great goal nice and early. It's as good of a start as you can ask for. The first 20 minutes Villa rarely threatened our goal and everything was one way traffic. All that changed in the 21st minute when Koscielny made a terrible decision to come out and close in on Agbonlahor who was already going to the right of our goal into the path of Gibbs. As soon as he saw Koscielny opening a lane towards the goal for him, he changed his mind, slipped the ball past him and was one on one vs Szczesny. No complaints for the penalty decision that followed and after a lucky finish by Benteke, the game was tied. The rest of the half we didn't play well, we looked nervous and way too sporadic.
The second half we started much better and actually created some very good chances. First, Theo gave a great ball to Giroud who after controlling the ball with his chest should have shot imediatelly instead of trying to have an extra touch. A minute later, a great one-two between Rosicky and Giroud got Tomas in a great position to score but his shot went high. The little things like scoring one of these chances change games and if we had a certain traitor (RVP) still in the squad, i am sure he would have scored one of those two. Which brings us back to the first paragraph of this post about mismanagement (I don't see Suarez or Rooney being sold to a direct rival). Villa to their credit, were all over the pitch, constantly putting our players under pressure and had a great chance in the 52nd min, when after Wilshere gave the ball away, Delph hit the post. A few minutes later, another bad giveaway, this time by Cazorla led to the second penalty which to me was no penalty at all. Koscielny touched the ball first, but as i mentioned earlier, the ref was a cunt. He then proceeded to sent Koscielny off for a foul that deserved a warning at best. Even with 10 men, Rosicky and Cazorla missed 2 great chances to equalize. Eventually Villa caught us on the counter and made it 1-3.
The defense today was average. We had some decent spells, but we pretty much gave away the 1st and 2nd Villa goals with terrible mistakes. Szczesny wasn't great today and it seems, he is exactly where he left off last year: needs to be much better! Sagna wasn't at his best, but he was also played out of position for most of the game. He also took a needless fall at the end of the game that looked very, very bad. Mertesacker wasn't great either, in the 52nd min he basically allowed Delph to take his time and shoot unbothered, which could have been a goal had it not hit the side bar. Koscielny also made a bad mistake for the first goal, at times he was too anxious and was over pursuing players, but i don't blame him for the red card, that was just a bulshit fucking call. Jenkinson was solid for most of the game but he looked very rusty going forward and trying to cross.
The midfield wasn't as bad as it looked at times. Rosicky who was hands down the man of the match, was causing all sorts of trouble for the Villa defense throughout the whole game! His dribbling and his vision are tremendous. The one thing that wasn't working for him today was his finishing, but he had an awesome game. Wilshere on the other hand was disappointing to me. He was very energetic, but at times very sloppy with the ball. Going forward he wasn't as sharp as usual. And most importantly, he lost his cool on more than one occasion. Even though he is still young, that cannot be his excuse forever. He is one of the leaders of this team and he should start acting like one. Oxlade was positive for the most part. He gave a tremendous pass to Giroud for his goal and he had some good runs on the wing. At times he disappeared though and to make matters worse, he injured himself by making a stupid tackle, which the cunt ref somehow decided was a yellow for Luna. Ramsey wasn't great, but he didn't make many mistakes and was very active the whole game. Cazorla looked very rusty, especially his first touch and on top of that missed a great chance to tie the game in the 77th minute. Theo didn't have a good game. He disappeared for long periods of the game and didn't really have too many chances. I don't know if his knee injury had anything to do with his lack of involvement.
The midfield wasn't as bad as it looked at times. Rosicky who was hands down the man of the match, was causing all sorts of trouble for the Villa defense throughout the whole game! His dribbling and his vision are tremendous. The one thing that wasn't working for him today was his finishing, but he had an awesome game. Wilshere on the other hand was disappointing to me. He was very energetic, but at times very sloppy with the ball. Going forward he wasn't as sharp as usual. And most importantly, he lost his cool on more than one occasion. Even though he is still young, that cannot be his excuse forever. He is one of the leaders of this team and he should start acting like one. Oxlade was positive for the most part. He gave a tremendous pass to Giroud for his goal and he had some good runs on the wing. At times he disappeared though and to make matters worse, he injured himself by making a stupid tackle, which the cunt ref somehow decided was a yellow for Luna. Ramsey wasn't great, but he didn't make many mistakes and was very active the whole game. Cazorla looked very rusty, especially his first touch and on top of that missed a great chance to tie the game in the 77th minute. Theo didn't have a good game. He disappeared for long periods of the game and didn't really have too many chances. I don't know if his knee injury had anything to do with his lack of involvement.
Giroud was our second best player after Rosicky. He scored a great goal and was very active upfront. Some of his one-two combinations with Rosicky were awesome. The only regret is that he didn't convert the two good chances that he had in the second half. Still, a positive start of the season for him.
So now, we have a Champions League qualifier on Wednesday in Istanbul of all places and i am expecting a good squad rotation for that game. Oh wait. We have no fucking players left! We are in a position where we don't have enough fit defenders; our midfield is thinner than a sheet of paper and we will have to play the same 11-12 players for the next few games. So much for "easing Wilshere into the season" so we can protect him. Heck, who are we kidding? Wenger wouldn't have rotated the squad even if he had enough players, because that's how he rolls. If we don't qualify for the Champions League group stage this year, Wenger has only person to blame: himself! p.s.Dare i say, it might actually be good for us? Shake this whole club up and make it realize that in the past few years we have been going in the wrong fucking direction and we need changes!
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