CL: Sparta Prague vs Arsenal | 18/10/05

[Tegh]

Oh, and with regards to Eboue, he looked OK, but wasn't what I imagined.

But hey, it's his first Champions League performance for us, and he needs time to settle, he definitely looks promising. He seemed to be quick, strong, and It's most likely because he had fresh legs, but he was willing to work for the team and track back.

 

[invisibleman18]

Congratulations Henry. i just knew he would break the bloody record in a game i couldnt get to see on tv (bloody ESPN), but its great news. good to know he didn't get injured too. just seen the highlights, and great first goal.
is there any news on how long reyes will be out for? doesn't seem fair does it, take 1 off the injury list and add another to it.

 

[chandraraj]

looking back at the results we are getting lately, this one is brilliant. keep it up arsenal. man, i am really glad. two goals from henry! awesome. so, people who questioned his performance in CL should take note.

 

[invisibleman18]

sorry if i have just missed this somewhere, but why did cygan start ahead of senderos today? has wenger given a reason?

 

[jeromelee]

Does Wenger answer questions or just post more questions? :wink:

 

[jeromelee]

Oh yah, a great win but at a great loss. Hope Reyes is not to badly knocked up.

 

[joe3428]

gee, our injury list almost as long as our team squad!

 

[gunner_down_under]

Toure was solid!...henry was Class.....and apart from the assist, did Pires even pass thw ball forward once?....I mean, I dont think I can remember him playing the ball to anyone in front of him the whole night.....it was always clichy - pires and back to clichy, cygan to pires, and then back to toure, fab to pires, and back to flamini......he looks like he's completely lost it!

 

[whoztheman]

pireas was poor but less poor than earlier but not just because of the assist. he did alright in the second half. myabe with henry back, we'll see better performances from him..well, reasonably better....

186 made me a bit emotional. his reaction was just great to watch. unfortunately there werent too many senior players to share it with him. i dont think fabregas had any idea why henry was jumping around like that :roll: vieira, bergkamp, sol would have made a big deal out of it. after the match lauren gave henry a long hug. < sob sob>

we are a one man team, but given the situation we are currently in i'm not complaining

 

[ccc]

i'm reviewing the game. it seemed reyes had his rib injured in the first accident, that's about 5th min. he kept on playing till he was tackled again that made his broken bone worse. I noticed that his rib wasn't knocked at that time, he should have picked injury before then. poor boy.

 

[kel varnsen]

sorry if i have just missed this somewhere, but why did cygan start ahead of senderos today? has wenger given a reason?

maybe because it was a champions league match, like someone said earlier. not as frantic as the premier league...

 

[MK5]

A few of points from yesterdays game.


Although we have an easy group I think we’ve learned to take nothing for granted in Europe and 3 wins out of 3 is above expectation.

We’ve got a player who deserves to be up there Pele and Maradona in Thierry Henry.

Toure played superb without either of Sol or Phil beside him.

Lehmann looked as shaky as he started to do around this time last season.

What will it take for AW to realise that RvP isn’t a second striker?

I think it was confirmed that the fans sometimes knows better than the manager yesterday. Me plus many others wanted a proper striker who could score goals so we don't have to rely so much on Henry but AW kept looking for a “shadow striker” and look what’s happened.

The number of games top teams in Europe have to play got to be reduced and surely these kind of games, (Games in a half empty stadium a cold October night) are the games we could do without.

 

[RocktheCasbah]

Cygan did some good stuff last night, but he also showed why people prefer Senderos IMO. I counted at least three occassions, including his trademark error of going into midfield for the ball, not getting it, thus allowing a forward into the space he'd just vacated. Luckily for him, Kolo, as he has been for most of this season, was superb in his reading and covering.

I'm with Tegh, really. Didn't think we were that great, but the best player in the world can make all the difference to any football team. Luckily he ours.

 

[Ridge]

2-0 in 74th minutes and i thought wenger would throw quincy on, but, still, he waited til the last last minute, always. whats 2 minutes for?

 

[MK5]

2-0 in 74th minutes and i thought wenger would throw quincy on, but, still, he waited til the last last minute, always. whats 2 minutes for?

It was a tactical substitution to waste a bit of the added time.

 

[asajoseph]

With the game won, and Henry lacking fitness, it would have been really nice to see Quincy given a shot for a little longer. He made some good runs when he came on, and given a little longer might have made a bigger impression.

 

[kel varnsen]

With the game won, and Henry lacking fitness, it would have been really nice to see Quincy given a shot for a little longer. He made some good runs when he came on, and given a little longer might have made a bigger impression.

he would have made a bigger impact if gilberto hadn't completely bottled it in the final minutes. a simple 10 yard pass would have sent quincy clear through, but gilberto turned around and passed the ball to pires instead. even though we were up 2-0, it frustrated the hell out of me.

 

[Kum_Arsenal]

happy to see 3 out of 3 wins. Henry is back again in business and he welcomed himself in a great way with 2 Goals. Just simply Superb he is. No words to describe his talent and abilites.

"The Return of the King"

 

[PolishGooner]

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