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Canuck said:
He had one save to make, of which he made a complete balls up. Kicking wasnt great either.
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PL: Arsenal vs Birmingham City | 04/12/04
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He had one save to make, of which he made a complete balls up. Kicking wasnt great either.
UKPressure
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I avoided all the news and waited all day to see the result of the game on match of the day. All i have to say is YES!!!! 
, I nearly had an orgasm when the final whistel went. Its been a long time since Arsenal have made me feel so good, im so happy I just wanted to share my joy.(sorry its 7 hours late)
, I nearly had an orgasm when the final whistel went. Its been a long time since Arsenal have made me feel so good, im so happy I just wanted to share my joy.(sorry its 7 hours late)patrick42uk
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Mark said:
he's only had one game. nerves are likely to play a part. he needs a run for any judgments to be made. i think he'll get the rosenborg game.
RocktheCasbah
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The defence looked more comfortable and confident than they had in a long while, to me at least.. Whether that was down to Almunia, who can say?
Finally a big win and a clean sheet. Ljungberg was brilliant again. He's been our best player in recent months. Very tenacious and never giving up. Pires is a great goalscorer from midfield and I think we've said all there is to say about Henry. A big result at the start of a big week.
siddharth
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Mark said:
Dropping Almunia for the next match won't be nice on Wenger's part who is one of the best managers in the world.It would mean wenger doesn't have confidence in Almunia and judging him on the basis of one match would be stupid. Wenger is not the sort of man who likes to gamble particularly in big matches and i'm sure he must have put a lot of thought into dropping Lehmann at such a crucial stage.
Almunia needs a run of atleast 5 to 6 matches before wenger makes a decision about him. I'm now pretty convinced wenger is looking for a Goalkeeper and Lehmann will be allowed to leave at the end of the season.What remains to be seen is how Almunia performs.......
air
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What's funny about the keeper situation is that I thought very highly of Lehmann when he was playing in Germany, and I don't recall hearing about Almunia before he moved to Arsenal. At the moment I prefer our Spanish keeper, though.
The game was just so dull for the first half hour until Pires scored. It's funny how he's been, in my opinion, one of the off-form players recently, yet he still has nine goals already.
I wouldn't mind two separate threads for matches, one for posting info on what's happening and pre-match talk and another one for post-match analysis. You want to read what people had to say and you get 10 pages of yeahs and ohs about goals and all.
Yeah?
The game was just so dull for the first half hour until Pires scored. It's funny how he's been, in my opinion, one of the off-form players recently, yet he still has nine goals already.
I wouldn't mind two separate threads for matches, one for posting info on what's happening and pre-match talk and another one for post-match analysis. You want to read what people had to say and you get 10 pages of yeahs and ohs about goals and all.
Yeah?
Gurgen
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It was nice to see Thierry smiling again, he even smiled in his cheeky interview.
towelie
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Sol said:
i always thought lehmann's kicks sucked a lot. i didn't see yesterday's game - almunia's kicks are worse??
i saw match of the day and there was one highlight when he came out really well when savage could have got in a scoring position. i was quite impressed because it seemed to me that this season lehmann hasn't always been timing those runs out
it was his first game. i think we should show him some love
champions04
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towelie said:
That's what I thought as well. Don't think goal kicks are Lehmann's strong points. Some of the time, it doesn't even cross the halfway line. Almunia's goalkicks are more pacy and it allowed Reyes to head a ball down to Henry at one point. I also think he is more quick at coming out of his goaline and just clearing the ball.
That being said, the man almost made two mistakes which could have been costly. Maybe Wenger will put him in the game against Rosenberg but I'm 99.9% sure that Lehmann will be back against Chelsea
Almunia has better kicks than Lehmann. If you watched Carling Cup matches you would see they are long hard and have a low trajectory. Not low enough that the opposition would get the bal in our half but low and hard enough that a chanc can be made from it unlike the high lofty ones that you just get under control or have a game of head tennis with the oppposition. Almunia was just nervour last night. I have watched quite a few of his games and always say to myself how I wished Lehmann could take kicking lessons from him. Onnce he gets used to playing in a big team in a big league he will get over this nervousness and his kicking will be back to normal.
lee1001
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In regards to the Almunia vs Lehmann Situation.
It is no surprise to me that we kept a clean sheet.
Birmingham have scored only 12 goals in the premiership this season. Thierry has scored 13.
Wenger surely knows this and im wondering if he deliberatly put Almunia in the starting line-up because the chances of us keeping a clean sheet were high and therefore Almunia would have got a lot of confidence from not conceding.
Once he has the confidence then maybe we will see he is the better keeper. Wenger has been quoted recently as saying he thinks Almunia is a quality keeper and perhaps supports my argument.
It is no surprise to me that we kept a clean sheet.
Birmingham have scored only 12 goals in the premiership this season. Thierry has scored 13.
Wenger surely knows this and im wondering if he deliberatly put Almunia in the starting line-up because the chances of us keeping a clean sheet were high and therefore Almunia would have got a lot of confidence from not conceding.
Once he has the confidence then maybe we will see he is the better keeper. Wenger has been quoted recently as saying he thinks Almunia is a quality keeper and perhaps supports my argument.
Sammer
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lee1001 said:
Yeah, this was the perfect match to give Alumnia confidence, which he probably lacked after his blunder against the ManC´s.
This is great managing by Arsène in my view. Maybe he is trying to get more competition going with Lehmann.
Lehmann´s recent performances in the german national team, all of them pretty oustanding, show, that he can handle it and Wenger will try to take advantage of that.
At the same time, we all get a better picture of how good Alumnia is, which can only be good considering Lehmann´s age and our upcoming need for a long-term-keeper.
