Blackburn vs. Arsenal open thread
by Ted Harwood on Aug 28, 2010 5:00 AM EDT
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Please feel free to comment below before, during, and after Arsenal's match against Blackburn Rovers today at Ewood Park.
Up the Gunners!
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allardyce going 4-4-2, quite a surprise to me.
I was expecting him to try clogging the middle.
both teams starting out with high press
dangerous airball into the arsenal box, cleared. Hope not to see too much more of that.
Song has an ugly new blonde hair job :/
good early move sagna crossing into walcott, earned a corner.
team is looking sharp today.
the rain is making things harder for the defense.
Hopefully the same will apply when we attack their defense.
jesus good thing Cesc was at the near post
Almunia wasn’t going to save that header.
Almunia with a good save
but he banged his head against the goalpost, I hope he’ sok
this game is all over the place
We need to hold on to that damned ball!
well we survived another header
This game will not end with a clean sheet…
on the upside,
Almunia is looking….kinda good for once?
hah
I had to keep quiet too… a couple laps around the couch helped!
GREAT string of passes from left to right to find Walcott!!!
reminds me of that Rosicky-Arshavin move that ended in Walcott’s first goal vs Blackpool. What great vision and passing!
And Theo had a lot more to do on this one
He just scooted away from his marker…perfectly placed shot
In my opinion,
We got that goal because Blackburn’s midfield is getting explicit instructions to double Fabregas. Left a hole for us to exploit.
we're seeing signs of the Old Arshavin..
Let’s hope to see more!
One downside about not having Wilshire on the pitch
Is the constant humor of getting to see him stand beside Diaby.
Fabregas really fast to get back there
hardly ever see him have to run like that…testament to his positioning
Great finish by Walcott
Set pieces from Rovers worrying though, no?
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
And there's the physicality biting us in the ass
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
Koscielny just run off
WEAK
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
blackburn brought up their goalie for free kick into the box
They really want to send it in there
shit RVP hurt again
This is why i wanted Chamakh to start. An away game to a Sam Allardyce team is the last place I want to get RVP match fit….
we need it
Samba by himself is justifying all those airballs blackburn is sending in.
i would say generally they are both better that way.
which is sort of a problem because blackburn is packing it in the middle when they don’t have the ball, 4-4-2 → 4-5-1 look to me
Get Rosicky out there
And. fellas, it sounds great, but I gotta here more Arshavin!
Captain, there are doubt's...
actually, i wish we had a wide winger to sub in for Arshavin
Arshavin is playing well, but we need to stretch the field a bit. Clichy looks like he can’t get forward, probably because he has his hands full marking diouf/kalinic. Our only wing threat is Sagna.
The Telegraph, btw, has the best live stats and charts during the game
Average player position, passing charts, heat maps…
Let's not fall behind!
Aaaaaaand it’s Arrrrrrsenal, Arrrrrrsenal FC…..
woooo beautiful backheel pass by cesc to chamakh!
And lo and behold the sun is coming out! Thanks MD5! XD
blackburn is not pressing the middle as hard now
think they are getting tired?
We have a very free attacking formation don't we
Both Walcott and Chamakh are everywhere very similar to what we saw vs blackpool
well he's got the right ideas
maybe a bit rusty still though.
i think he's being given explicit instructions to play deep
to open up space for Walcott to run in and attack. I can more than live with that.
And it was Chamakh dropping way, way deep to the halway line,
getting the ball and playing it up to Clichy to spring the play that led to the all-important second goal.
...and crappy pass.
the ball isn’t going to stick to walcott’s head, diaby. don’t just blast the ball at him.
ohhh GREAT moves by Walcott!
and its a yellow for the defender!
hey wasn't Gael Givet a player for Monaco
back when they went to the Champs league final vs porto?
I love how whenever the ball gets near Walcott
The announcers get very, very excited.
well for damn good reason
Blackburn has no answer for him!
ohhhhhhhhhh!
damn nice cross field pass from rosicky, ball gets tapped to diaby but he can’t control it. It looked like a goal opportunity for sure :(
good reaction from Almunia
I hope to see more of Today Almunia and not yesterday Almunia!
well he was being impeded
but refs never call those. Dunno what the television pundit was going on about.
Big blackburn forwards giving us problems
Our defenders don’t have enough focus left over to prevent second chances…
ohhhhh we could have capitalized on that
bad goalie clearance
ohhhhh dammit
wasted shot from rosicky after a blasting run from walcott down the middle.
Ok...i haven't slept all night, i think i'll catch a wink now lol.
Have a good weekend fellow gunners! And pray to god RVP is ok.
From Orbinho on Twitter:
Orbinho
FT Stats Blackburn-Arsenal Shots 14-12 On target 3-4 Corners 4-7 Possession 36%-64% Passing accuracy 66%-80% Duels Won % 45%-55%
Good as we possibly could have hoped for
Away win against the team that generally gives us one of our toughest style matchups. Couldn’t play like we normally do but all our players played surprisingly well. We’re never going to dominate against a team that has a good defense and likes to press in the midfield like Blackburn did but we had enough possession to make opportunities.
Really pleased with Walcott, Clichy, Arshavin, and hell even Almunia. Worried about Robin though.
I was very impressed by Almunia for once. Looked confident in all his decisions, didn’t make any mistakes.
axemen23: the human vuvuzela
by HoodRiverDuck on Aug 28, 2010 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions
if he's gonna be the guy
he’s going to be able to take a lot of confidence from today, which is what he needs. He also was screaming at the defenders a lot after opportunities were given away.
We certainly gave Blacckburn some chances
Fortunately they didn’t have much to offer. A game like this against a more dynamic attack would have turned out very different. Hopefully our recent signing will only make us better.
Captain, there are doubt's...
Most of those chances were off throw ins or long free kicks
Nothing much to worry about from that. Those chances are always going to exist. Blackburn is just a team that takes a lot more of them than the average team.
That goal was worry some because it wasn’t luck it was just a team managing to totally break down our defense. Most of the actual chances were just a lucky cross/throw/long ball.
This is his season
I’m betting/hoping 15-20 goals by the end of the season.
Pheew
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
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