The Singapore Gooners are really a dedicated bunch. Where else can you see a group of guys in a pub, 1am on a Sun morning, watching a big screen telecast of their favourite team? Mind you, these are not betting (at least, not heavily) people or some tikoh trying to score with chicks (there's none). Just honest to goodness fans who make the trip down faithfully for every Arsenal match.
The Bolton match was, in my view, a disaster. Arsene fielded a fairly "soft" team against our bogey team, due to injuries and suspensions to our starting XI. I say "soft" because that's the way Bolton plays against us, by bullying the ball off our feet. Heck, even the ref seem to be on their side, flashing the yellow card like he was in an auction. Like gooner4eva says... we need some good 'ol Martin Keown-type players to stand up to the rough play that some teams dish out to us. Cannot always depend on skills la...
The 4-5-1 shouldn't have been deployed in this match. Reason is Adebayor is not the lone striker that we can use in this kinds of matches. Theo, for all his tenacity, should have maintained his super-sub tag and come on to provide last burst of fire for the last 20-30 min. Why was Hleb not started? Someone tell me please.
We did come close, 3 times in fact. Damn woodwork just keeps getting in the way la. I always wonder why we say that, when in actual fact it's a case of the shooter not getting the ball into the net when we need it to be.
Like Sggooner says, doesn't matter what happens in the ManYoo-Chel$ki match liao...
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dude, you are just as dedicated. ah well, it was indeed a painful night of football. let's just hope the boys learn more from the loss...
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