First, i want to apologize that i didn't write about the Newcastle and the Everton games. Both games were during the week so i wasn't able to watch them completely because i was at work. I saw highlights of both and quite a bit of the Everton game but i didn't want to write blog entries based on highlights. I was really happy with both wins, and you can see how important they were, now that we are 3 pts ahead of Spurs!
Today was another great result for us. The thing i didn't like is that we had too many breakdowns defensively and Villa had more than 3 or 4 good chances to score against us. The first two were both runs by Albrighton on the right and he could have done much better with both of these chances. He had huge amounts of space and had he done a better job Villa would have been up on us because the score was still 0-0 at this point. We had at least two more bad defensive mistakes in the first half, and twice in the second half when Weimann should have scored as well. Some of those mistakes were caused by Gibbs pushing up the pitch and no one covering for him at the back and the rest were sloppy giveaways in our own half, like Santos's mistake for Weimann's first chance. All i am saying is that defensively we didn't have a good game. Having said all that, once i heard Djourou will play in the back because of Koscielny's injury, i was crushed because he is an absolute clown. To his credit he had a decent game. He didn't have any major fuck ups as he normally does, so good for him! That doesn't change my opinion that he sucks and Miquel should be playing ahead of him.
The one defensive aspect of our game that we have done a better job in the last few games is pressing better on the ball. It's still not great but compared to what we normally do, last 3,4 games we have pressed the ball great!
Defensive blunders aside, in midfield and attack, i thought we were great! We created a lot of chances; we looked threatening most of the time; had some great combinations and scored a great 2nd goal. The pass from Song and the execution from Walcott were top class. Theo has really played better in the last 5, 6 weeks. He is making better runs and positioning himself much better on the pitch. And he needed to start playing better because he had a patch where he was under performing for a number of games in a row. Rosicky was great, very active and had a great shot on goal blocked by Given. Gervinho didn't have a spectacular game but gave a good pass for Gibbs's first goal and on at least 2 important occasions he tracked people back and helped defensively which was great to see. Robin had a decent game, he was a bit unlucky not score today but i don't mind seeing different goal scorers on the board from time to time. Arteta scored a beautiful goal and had another great shot blocked in the first half.
So, overall it was another great win for us. I would have enjoyed it much more if we had not allowed Villa so many chances but at the end of the day a 3 goal win is always good. Now we are 4+ goals on Spurs in the goal difference department as well as 3 pts ahead. We have to be careful though, because i looked at the games we have left and Tottenham have easier games than us until the end of the season, so this will be a dog fight!The next 2 games at QPR away and City at home will be very very important for us. If we can keep the distance between us and Spurs after those 2 games, we will have a good shot for 3rd place. Not to mention that i would love for us to end City's title dreams by beating them at our house, so those stupid traitors Nasri and Clichy will win 0 trophies after they left "to win trophies". C'mon You Gunners!!!
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