Santi, a class above others : Review

Hello Gooners, sure you are having a great weekend at least from a footballing perspective! So the game against Fulham wasn’t a stroll in the park like some of us expected it to be especially with our performance in the first half.

Anyone notice the game was just a complete reverse of the one at Aston Villa? Splendid first half at Villa, awful one at Fulham, awful second half at Villa and we switched on completely in the second half against Fulham and the goals too came in reverse halves. Sometimes you just feel the players look at a team and think they just have to show up to win, maybe they hear this team has conceded 6 against Hull and 4 at Sunderland and they don’t consider them a threat so the first half really proved to them that they had to up the tempo.

The passing was poor and slow and we lacked any width in game, Cazorla was the best player in that half but all his damage was from playing in the middle and Serge really wasn’t stretching anyone down the right. It was Sagna vs Richardson alone and Sagna wasn’t winning that battle. Our defence too was barely tested and when called into question Szczesny made an outstanding save from Sidwell (can’t wait for him to retire so we can stop hearing that Arsenal link with him from the commentators every time we play them)

Santi was everywhere

The second half was more purposeful and then we got the goals after putting a huge amount of pressure on the Fulham goal. We got two goals in quick succession like we did against Cardiff and Villa and it seems once we get the first we are more likely to get the second almost immediately which is a good trait in itself but we should take the opportunity to kill the game.It’s almost like we play in bursts as once we get one goal we push to get another almost immediately and after that we relax to kill of the game by keeping the ball. That’s where we are different from Man City, they look to score more goals and we just are comfortable keeping our shape with the feeling that we have won.

Podolski

To be fair we did try to kill this one off and Poldoski when he came was like a man lion unleashed from years in a dungeon. The fury that came from his left boot when he struck the ball minutes after been on the pitch can only be compared to the force of Thor’s hammer, somehow that ball didn’t go in and it would have been an amazing goal. It’s always nice to have that kind of talent to bring on in a game. Wenger was quizzed after the game on Poldi as expected after cameras caught Poldi showing some frustration at the Villa game

Wenger said, “Every player who is on the bench is frustrated. But Lukas has a fantastic spirit and attitude and he showed that when he came on.“He will play. He has been out for four-and-a-half months and it takes time, but he looks sharp.

Set Pieces

No Direct Free kicks scored so far

Just a quick thought on our free kicks, we haven’t scored any this season and is that unconnected with the fact that it seems we don’t have a designated taker? Who is practicing the most at taking them in training? Who is scoring them in training? The ones that seem farther off from goal are taken by Ozil and Arteta. Walcott, Ozil and Cazorla seem to battle it out when the kick is closer to goal but one of the funniest sights these season has to be Sagna stepping up to take one against Spurs. We see Suarez and Yaya Toure score at least 1 in every 3 they take this season hence the need for us to take free kicks more seriously. Let’s not even go into how we deal with our corners that is a whole blog post on its own.

The Ex-Spurs players club

Did anyone notice Clint Dempsey actually played this game? Between him and Berbatov both players that have played for the cunts we have as neighbours I wonder how won the competition for being the most ineffectual and please our name should never be mentioned with Berbatov in the same sentence again dear mainstream media. We would rather play Viviano upfront. So languid I don’t think even he broke sweat during the whole 90 minutes.

All in all it was a good game and it was nice to see Gnabry put up another good performance sadly he didn’t cap it with a goal from that move he had where he dummied two players in the box and shot well but the Fulham keeper saved. Kos and Per no words for them, the way Kos recovered to chase down Bent just goes to show how much a clean sheet means to them. Szczesny with another clean sheet under his belt and Sagna and Monreal showed their quality also. Santi got the goals left foot right foot and deservedly took the MOTM award.

Someone seems happy with the 3 points, looking daper too

If that picture doesn’t help you have a great day and week ahead, I don’t know what else can mate. 😉 I understand dressing to come for the game but to get all that suit back on to head home? naaaa…doesn’t just sit right with me…but they do look always though!

So, that’s all I can get in folks, share a comment with us will ya on anything from the game, to Ozil’s performance, or anything Arsenal related use the comments section beneath or tweet at us @canoncrested. Follow we always follow back.

Bye friends…