Zico
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Positives to take from yesterday
Van Persie - distinguishes himself by being the only Arsenal guy who doesn't buy into this idea of passing a hundred times to make the perfect goal. Should have a break out season.
Djourou - looked composed. There was a point when he showed great control right under the nose of a Citeh attacker.
Negatives
Hleb - best close control of any of our lads. But the guy needs to do two things
1. shoot
2. stop crowding the centre by cutting in all the time.
Hoyte - in too deep at this point. If he's not performing in our third game, it's time to relegate him. Positioning, tackling, overlapping all woeful.
I agree with whoever said a few pages back that our three last games showed the same problems. No willingess to shoot and lack of grit. How hard is it to shoot? At Liverpool, all of Riise, Gerrard, Kewell, Alonso, Garcia can't resist a pop from 25 yards. And now some dirty cat called Agger hit one from range yesterday. We've all seen Henry, van Persie, Rosicky and others score from range. So why this current fascination with dribbling and setting each other up?
Van Persie - distinguishes himself by being the only Arsenal guy who doesn't buy into this idea of passing a hundred times to make the perfect goal. Should have a break out season.
Djourou - looked composed. There was a point when he showed great control right under the nose of a Citeh attacker.
Negatives
Hleb - best close control of any of our lads. But the guy needs to do two things
1. shoot
2. stop crowding the centre by cutting in all the time.
Hoyte - in too deep at this point. If he's not performing in our third game, it's time to relegate him. Positioning, tackling, overlapping all woeful.
I agree with whoever said a few pages back that our three last games showed the same problems. No willingess to shoot and lack of grit. How hard is it to shoot? At Liverpool, all of Riise, Gerrard, Kewell, Alonso, Garcia can't resist a pop from 25 yards. And now some dirty cat called Agger hit one from range yesterday. We've all seen Henry, van Persie, Rosicky and others score from range. So why this current fascination with dribbling and setting each other up?