Comments on: Arsenal v. Pompey, match preview

By: ctpa

ctpa — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:09:30 +0000

Fabregas: ? 3wks out w/ hamstring. Went into the game w/ injury and now the decision not to keep him on the bench against Portsmouth looks unwise.

By: ctpa

ctpa — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:44:12 +0000

4-1. Good enough but not as dominant as it could/should have been.

Eduardo, Diaby had good displays.

Maybe Diaby can now go on to become the player he would have been before meeting the miscreant Dan Smith.

Gibbs got some good lessons today and eventually made a class defensive stop on the troublesome Piquionne.

RVP kept the level of of play high despite being denied by James. It was good to see RVP not let frustration ruin his day.

Almunia still needs to become more aggressive and decisive in his area.

Hopefully Fabregas will be ready for Celtic and Man U. If not, then Ramsey will get the call and he should do ok.

Arshavin still treading water.

By: Darkhail

Darkhail — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:08:30 +0000

@TxGun, I generally podcast so I hadn't realized it was over yet. I am a bit shocked, it is upsetting to let them win, but I can understand. It was a great show.

By: Bull

Bull — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:53:34 +0000

Vela out for a month!

By: TxGun

TxGun — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:20:25 +0000

They are off the air now because of anti-Semitic Liverpool doucebag supporters of the US. The threatened their families and steven and kenny decided to call it quits. The US lost the only good football radio show and we Gooners lost one ofthe only pro-arsenal people in the US media besides nick webster.

By: Darkhail

Darkhail — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:08:37 +0000

@TXGun, I do occasionally.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:01:55 +0000

@Tim, I think we were looking st it in 2 different ways. I was looking at it in terms of which players could come in for those rested while you were looking at where players who might come in may play. I mean eduardo can come in for rvp vela and diaby could play wide. Eboue has come on and played in the front 3 against everton and he could play in the midfield 3 as wenger used him there last year

By: TXGun

TXGun — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:14:03 +0000

Hey anyone listen to World Soccer Daily?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:39 +0000

@chris, Theoretically, Diaby could be used as a sort of attacking player in a 4-3-3, but since I included Eboue, I don't see him using Eboue as a 3 in midfield. Maybe.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:33:08 +0000

I have just looked at the website and it looks like there are still tickets available for the pompey game. That is a worrying sign – i think this is the 1st time that premier league tickets at the emirates have gone to general sale