Saturday, 13 September 2014

Arsenal 2 v 2 Man Citeh


Arsenal 2 v 2 Manchester City

Sczezny

Debuchy Mertesaker Koscielny Monrael

Flamini

Sanchez Ramsey Wilshire Ozil

Wellbeck


City lined up: Shampoo salesman, bald, decent fullback, Kompany, expensive centre half, expensive fullback, very expensive midfield, hugely expensive striker, with ten quazillion quids' worth of players on the bench.

Then they kicked us off the park.

We started well. Wellbeck looked lively, and likely. He's going to be a handful for opponents. The team started well, generally. We cloed them down early and intelligently, and looked much the more likely to score. Wellbeck hit the post after being put clean through by a sliderule mistake by da Silva.

They hit us on the break and we conceded from their first effort on target. Something we've done in every league game so far this season (okay, only four, but that's four times the first effort on goal we've faced has seen us go a goal behind). Decent movement from Aguero and a good finish. Flamini may have done better, but, hey, no-one's perfect and he kicks S***s player up in the air more than anyone else, so I won't have a word said against him.

I watched this on the computer. I'll never pay for BT Sports as long as they employ Michael Owen (merely boring and annoying) and Steve McMamaman (just very irritating), but especially, now, the dirty clogging ginger little shit Paul Scholes. What a negative little twat he is. He couldn't find a good word for anyone or anything Arsenal (bad memories, Paul?), didn't take back the verbal pasting he gave Jack Wilshire before the kick off, and is the living definition of ginger tosser. Get rid of him as soon as possible, BT.

64 minutes in and Jack Wilshire scored a great equaliser, good move, good control, good finish, and after 73 minutes we were ahead through Sanchez, a fantastic volley after Jack kept the ball alive, alertly winning a header and getting it back to Sanchez in the area.

One-nil down, then ahead, against the defending champions, conceding a second and having to settle for the draw didn't feel so good, but then they had the better chances very late on to win the game, so we've no complaints, really.

Two things were surprising:

  1. That a footballing side of ultra-expensive world class players resorted to repeated fouling to break up the rhythm of the game when they were a goal ahead.

  1. That a referee cursed with being pedantic enough to book Sanchez for a shirt off goal celebration, suddenly became less anal when a City player kicked the ball away, a standard and designated yellow card offence that would've seen them down to ten men with us still a goal to the good.

Unbeaten in the league = good. Too many draws and already so many points behind an awesome-looking Chelsea = bad.

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