EPL: Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers
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gd game for the team... nx up is fa cup... hope they rest the players cos milan match is near...
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I rather they giveup FA cup to Man U and win Milan at home. For sure ManU will hit real hard coming weekend game, just like the 04 fight between these 2 teams.
Although AC r at mid table, I doubt it's an easy opponent.
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Originally posted by T.Ryousuke:
I rather they giveup FA cup to Man U and win Milan at home. For sure ManU will hit real hard coming weekend game, just like the 04 fight between these 2 teams.
Although AC r at mid table, I doubt it's an easy opponent.
Yeah champ league give so much more money.Should let the youngsters play in the fa cup. Anyway, manutd was the team that gave up playing in the fa cup in 2000. Now that they want it, try to take it from our youngsters lor.
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watch the match tis morning. can say tis match was very very boring.
was surprise dat blackburn players were a bunch of passive players who were not at their present self of playing rough today. all they did were basically camp at their own half n waiting gunners to pass wrongly to them so dat they have a chance to counter attack. bloodly suckers!
but gunners were not stupid either as since they were leading, why bother to challenge these unmotivated guys n get unwanted injuries? may as well as play safe by passing ball here n there.
wenger today had not use any substitutes at all n i am wondering why play fabregas as right winger instead of his fav position? there were time he was lurking into central while sagna covering the right side... wondering is this one of tactic by wenger to 声东击西?
a good result for gunners as this 3 points r important for us.
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Originally posted by T.Ryousuke:
I rather they giveup FA cup to Man U and win Milan at home. For sure ManU will hit real hard coming weekend game, just like the 04 fight between these 2 teams.
Although AC r at mid table, I doubt it's an easy opponent.
yup... tackles sure will fly here n there so better let youngsters play... can throw eboue, traore, hoyte, etc in... they can get more experience too... -
i thought blackburn suppossed to b fierce n physical. shouldnt have sold savage
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Originally posted by bryanw:
i thought blackburn suppossed to b fierce n physical. shouldnt have sold savage
but physical alone cant help the team progress... so they need to change abit... add passing and some physical... -
Arsenal 2 - 0 Blackburn : Match Report
Arsenal moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League with a fraught and frantic 2-0 win over Blackburn at Emirates Stadium on Monday night.
From the fourth to the 92nd minute, only a Philippe Senderos header divided the sides.
Arsenal created the better of the chances - most notably when Alex Hleb thumped a shot against the base of the post - but they never quite killed off a resilient Blackburn side until Emmanuel Adebayor cracked home a close-range shot just before the final whistle.
As Manchester United and Chelsea will testify, title victories are build on performances such as this - when, with the pressure mounting, you respond in the most positive way.
Make no mistake, despite Blackburn's endeavour, tonight Arsenal fully deserved their three points. It was not comfortable but games such as these never are. And, remember, it won't get any easier from here on in.
But this evening Arsenal proved to their fans, the Premier League and themselves that they have the stuff of champions.
In the build-up to this game, Wenger had suggested he might be without as many as 11 first-team players. In the end, Senderos (knee) and Mathieu Flamini (hamstring) recovered in time to make it.However the absentee list was still lengthy: Emmanuel Eboue, Kolo Toure, Alex Song (all international duty), Johan Djourou (groin), Robin van Persie (thigh), Abou Diaby (calf), Manuel Almunia (sick), Denilson (hamstring) and Tomas Rosicky (hamstring). Yet despite all that, there was actually only one change in the starting XI - Gilberto returning in place of Diaby.
This was always going to be one of the toughest of Arsenal's remaining home fixtures. But all of a sudden it had become massive.
Since Arsenal had won at Eastlands last Saturday lunchtime, Manchester United had come within a 94th-minute equaliser of dropping six points. In fact they had dropped five. Meanwhile third-place Chelsea had let two slip at home to Liverpool on Sunday.
For the first time since that trip to Newcastle just before Christmas, Arsenal had the chance to lead the Premier League table by more than a nose.
And they were certainly the quicker out of the stalls this evening.
They simply deluged Blackburn in the opening stages. In the second minute, Bacary Sagna skipped past a couple of challenges on the right and crossed for the unmarked Fabregas, whose chest control let him down at the crucial moment.
Then Eduardo went through only but was clipped just before he reached the area and his stumble allowed the Blackburn defence to sweep the ball behind for a corner. The Croatian international fired it over to the edge of the six-yard box where it was met by a firm header from Senderos.
The Swiss defender was engulfed by his team-mates after the ball went in. In the circumstances you sensed it might a crucial goal in the season not just the game.
Arsenal did not sit back and admire their work. They swarmed all over the visitors in the minutes that followed. Adebayor and Eduardo received the ball in dangerous positions as the Blackburn defence creaked under the weight of mounting Arsenal pressure. Steven Reid flicked a header wide from Bentley's free-kick but when Flamini skied a lay-off from Sagna yards over the bar in the 19th minute it was pretty much the first thing the home side had done wrong all evening.
Midway through the half the French midfielder should have made amends when he went raced onto Fabregas' header. However his bobbling drive bounced away off Brad Friedel's legs.
The tempo dropped markedly after that and Blackburn finally emerged from their own half and won a couple of corners. However the excellent Sagna inspired Arsenal into further forays forward.
Blackburn gave the home side their first genuine scare in the 36th minute when Brett Emerton curled over a cross from the right that Benni McCarthy and Roque Santa Cruz got a touch on. Both had too much space and had either made a solid connection the scores would have been level.
The Paraguayan nearly slid in a goal late in the half from Andre Ooijer's raking cross. Arsenal had been dominant team in the opening period but, at the break, the visitors had suggested they would be the test many had predicted.
Bentley nearly proved that in the opening seconds when he bent a low free-kick towards the near post and the stooping Lehmann shovelled the ball wide.
But Arsenal might have made the game safe seconds later when Eduardo appeared on the right and eschewed his team-mates in the middle to drill a pass to Hleb on the far side of the area. The Belarus midfielder took a touch and hammered his drive against the base of the post.
To this point Adebayor had being having a quiet game compared to his imperious form of late. That changed in the 53rd minute when he collected Eduardo's chip forward, cruised past his marker and thumped an angled shot against the legs of Friedel.
The game was opening up now. Arsenal looked the team more likely to score but Blackburn were having an ominous amount of pressure. Emirates Stadium was as nervy as it was passionate.
The greatest soothing influence from a home perspective was now Adebayor. Fifteen minutes from time, he tricked his way past a couple of defenders in the area and fired low at Friedel. The American half-saved it and the ball was cleared. The Togolese striker did something similar a couple of minutes later but this time the ball went out for a corner.
Hleb stung Friedel's hands with 10 minutes left as Arsenal began to look like the end of the game would see them as dominant as the start.
Fabregas had a couple of efforts in the dying minutes. The better of them was a flashing shot just wide.
Two minutes into added time, the second finally arrived. Hleb waltzed into space inside the area and squared to Adebayor who slammed home his shot from the edge of the six-yard box.
Arsenal had taken full advantage of their rivals' faltering form.
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Originally posted by 798:
watch the match tis morning. can say tis match was very very boring.
was surprise dat blackburn players were a bunch of passive players who were not at their present self of playing rough today. all they did were basically camp at their own half n waiting gunners to pass wrongly to them so dat they have a chance to counter attack. bloodly suckers!
but gunners were not stupid either as since they were leading, why bother to challenge these unmotivated guys n get unwanted injuries? may as well as play safe by passing ball here n there.
wenger today had not use any substitutes at all n i am wondering why play fabregas as right winger instead of his fav position? there were time he was lurking into central while sagna covering the right side... wondering is this one of tactic by wenger to 声东击西?
a good result for gunners as this 3 points r important for us.
blackburn play rough wait u complain, blackburn dont play rough u say them unmotivated, sucker. wat the bloody fArk do u want??? U r beginning to become the 2nd Poolman, insulting and no reespect for the opposition.
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u 1st day noe him meh?
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Originally posted by RaTtY8l:
blackburn play rough wait u complain, blackburn dont play rough u say them unmotivated, sucker. wat the bloody fArk do u want??? U r beginning to become the 2nd Poolman, insulting and no reespect for the opposition.
well as the matter of fact, blackburn have no winning desire n mark hughe is treating blackburn as if it is mini manu squad. he should be concerning of blackburn's position than to help ferguson. gone were the days when Blackburn is strong rival wif Man U. i suppose u do not know the history either.no wonder fabregas had questioned mark hughe's past career when he was barca player.
a team dat play defensive n rough football is really killing football in the league.
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do u watch every game blackburn play? or do u come to the conclusion from soccernet or skysports? and since when man u got into the pic? and y do u claim MH is treating blackburn as a mini manu squard? and who told you that MH is helping ferguson? and pls, we do not live in history. we are living in the present, not past, not future. if you wanna talk about history, we can talk abt our mum, grandma, great grandma or even the great-great-duno how-many-great-u-wan grandma history. or u wanna talk about the times where police wear shorts? or when singapore was in the football league of malaysia???
wat is wrong with playing defensive football? wat is wrong with playing rough football? the ref is there? the red n yellow cards are there. the whistle is there, the linesman is there, the video replays are there.if they break the rules, they are penalised.
wat is ur defination of killing football??? not playing fanciful football like arsenal and ends up giving a last min penalty against portsmouth??? a true fan will watch n support its team no matter hw badly, poorly, boring, defensive its team played.
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Originally posted by RaTtY8l:
do u watch every game blackburn play? or do u come to the conclusion from soccernet or skysports? and since when man u got into the pic? and y do u claim MH is treating blackburn as a mini manu squard? and who told you that MH is helping ferguson? and pls, we do not live in history. we are living in the present, not past, not future. if you wanna talk about history, we can talk abt our mum, grandma, great grandma or even the great-great-duno how-many-great-u-wan grandma history. or u wanna talk about the times where police wear shorts? or when singapore was in the football league of malaysia???
wat is wrong with playing defensive football? wat is wrong with playing rough football? the ref is there? the red n yellow cards are there. the whistle is there, the linesman is there, the video replays are there.if they break the rules, they are penalised.
wat is ur defination of killing football??? not playing fanciful football like arsenal and ends up giving a last min penalty against portsmouth??? a true fan will watch n support its team no matter hw badly, poorly, boring, defensive its team played.
Did you see what rough football leads to? Look at eduardo dammit.
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Originally posted by 798:
watch the match tis morning. can say tis match was very very boring.
was surprise dat blackburn players were a bunch of passive players who were not at their present self of playing rough today. all they did were basically camp at their own half n waiting gunners to pass wrongly to them so dat they have a chance to counter attack. bloodly suckers!
but gunners were not stupid either as since they were leading, why bother to challenge these unmotivated guys n get unwanted injuries? may as well as play safe by passing ball here n there.
wenger today had not use any substitutes at all n i am wondering why play fabregas as right winger instead of his fav position? there were time he was lurking into central while sagna covering the right side... wondering is this one of tactic by wenger to 声东击西?
a good result for gunners as this 3 points r important for us.
I still can't get used to this format, especially being busy and not coming sgforums lately. Anyway, Blackburn has not been known to play fantastic or fanciful football. I've previously commented that I think last season. And they do play a little on the rough side to put opponents off their stride.
But to say Mark Hughes is trying to help Ferguson is taking a bit far. If I remember correctly, Quezeiro (spelling might be wrong) had a sideline spat with Blackburn bench last season, and I'm rather certain he was saying something like ,'It's a f***ing shame.' I get the feeling it was directed at Hughes.
I've seen Blackburn play like that too against Chelsea and Man U as well. Can't recall watching any Liverpool vs Blackburn matches in recent seasons.