Tuesday, February 14, 2006

No hattrick for Bolton

Seeing us getting Bolton-ed for the third time in one season is the last thing I want so I would say thank you to no.19 for taking the responsibility of a striker by moving into a goalscoring position and hit a perfect firsttime from Cesc's cross on injury time. That was a great goal though Nolan's goal was even better. I couldn't believe that, seeing them scoring from open play.

But Bolton are starting to get into my nerve. And I can hardly bear Big Sam's face, his face says it all. I don't mind seeing them excelling in all kind of setpieces and i don't mind seeing them playing physical. That's ugly but they need to survive and that's fine. They have inferior quality after all. But they are getting more and more into the dirty part by trying to get freekicks near the box, and they try that by all means. And as Wenger rightly pointed out, they have also mastered the time wasting technique. The refs.. what a joke. So when Arsenal's players go down it was because we were inadequate physically but when the opponents' players go down it was because we were fouling them? Why don't you just give them the points and spare us the frustating 90 minutes?!

I am afraid the only way Wenger can tip the scale towards us is by signing some strong players to change our public image of being soft.

It's such a shame that Nakata plays for Bolton, such a team. I am an Asian and I like Nakata. I still remember that day he first played for Perugia, against Juve, where Nakata really impressed me despite Perugia losing 4-3. Good player, bad team.

On the team's performance, I thought Pires did well with some shots on-target. Bergkamp in particular was a threat with his perfect passes that put Adebayor into good position but the new Kanu is no Shearer. Cesc was also doing really well while I would like to remind Wenger to stop that stupid move of playing Ljungberg at rightback in search for goals. Against top teams, that can really backfire, badly.

Anfield tonight. Liverpool's strikers are not exactly the sharpest ones but their defense are seriously first class.

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