Player Ratings - CL: CSKA Moscow vs Arsenal | 17/10/06

[kel varnsen]

lehmann - 5
should have saved carvalho's free kick.

hoyte - 4,5
offered absolutely nothing going forward and had a few misunderstandings with hleb.

toure - 6
decent, but gave the ball away a number of times. especially in the first half.

djourou - 5
looked nervous and struggled with the brazilian forwards at times.

gallas - 5,5
average.

hleb - 3
one of his worst matches i've seen in a long time. horrendous passing and together with hoyte he made a mess out of even the simplest of situations defensively.

cesc - 5
average at best. gave the ball away, wasn't able to impose himself on the match, didn't link up very well with the rest of the team etc. not good.

gilberto - 3
how many ****ing times did he give the ball away tonight? honestly, i lost count. horrendous on the ball and not much better off the ball either.

rosicky - 7
our best midfielder, and player, by far today.

rvp - 4
not a good game at all. a few decent passes, but wasted a good chance and his first touch let him down a few times.

henry - 4
very poor. as a target man, his strengths as a footballer are wasted.

 

[23Campbell]

Lehmann - 6
Hoyte - 6
Toure - 6.5
Djourou - 6
Gallas - 6.5
Hleb - 4.5
Rosicky - 7
Fabregas - 6.5
Gilberto - 6.5
Van Persie - 3
Henry - 5

 

[IBL]

Toure 7 - best player by far for us

Gallas, Rosicky 6.5 - did ok

Everyone else 5 or less

Clichy 6.5 - injected some urgency

 

[Arsenal1508]

Even though this match should really be a draw after the Henry goal dissallowed, I'm still pissed. Some truly awful indivial performances out there.

Lehman - 6 Could do nothing about the goal...just too damn powerful
Hoyte - 5 Good recovery pace but got beaten too many times
Toure - 7 One of the better defenders out there
Gallas - 7 Saved Djourou many times
Djourou - 2 Absolutely Awful
Gilberto - 3 Attroucious passing and his inabilility to win the ball for us in the middle of the park was one of the major reasons CSKA controlled a lot of the possestion.
Cesc - 8 Surperb match by the young Spaniard. A legend in the making.
Rosicky/Hleb: 6 Did not do anything effective enough
Van Persie: 4 Not a factor
Henry 7: bumped up by a point becuase of the goal that should have counted

Clichy: 8 looked very energized and great to have him back
Walcott: 7 pacey and got us a freekick and a corner
Adebayor: 6 did not do much

 

[PaulDavis]

Starting 11s:

Jens Lehmann - 5
Justin Hoyte - 4
Kolo Toure - 7.5
Johan Djourou - 5
William Gallas - 5.5
Gilberto Silva - 3
Francesc Fabregas - 6.5
Tomas Rosicky - 6
Alexandr Hleb - 4
Robin Van Persie - 4
Thierry Henry - 5

Substitutes:
Emmanuel Adebayor - 6
Gael Glichy - 5.5
Theo Walcott - 5.5

 

[Wuuxie]

I try to like Gilberto, but he gave the ball away so many times, I find it difficult, Without Toure covering him, WE couldve lost by more than one goal, feel sorry for Henry, And Rosicky played brilliant along with Toure, My views anyway, maybe im wrong.

 

[Viper]

Lehmann 5.5

Hoyte 3
I just don't know what to say... does he offer much? Not good enough for Arsenal. He is ****.

Toure 8
Immense. What would we do without him? He was literelly everywhere.

Djourou 5.5
Looked shaky at times put some great last ditch blocks and tackles.

Gallas 5.5
Although he put in some great tackles, he lost the ball in dangerous areas a couple of times.

Hleb 4
Poor performance. Numerous number of inaccurate passes.

Cesc 5.5
Lost the ball 5 million times in the first half. Improved as the game went on though

Gilberto 4
Although he put in some impressive tackles and won the ball quite often, his passing is abysmal and could've cost us.

Rosicky 7
Bright in attack, caused problems.

Van Persie 3
Absolutely awful. **** left winger. He contributed nothing and should've created two openings, but ****ed up.

Henry 3.5
99% of the times he had his back to the goal. His first touch was poor at times and generally did nothing.

Walcott --
No Impact.

Clichy 6.5
A very impressive attacking display.

Adebayor 5.9
Okay.

 

[maxxx]

RVP - big fat Zero just like the weather there.

and Gilberto, the guy just can't pass, he put us in trouble so many times today with his sloppy passing.

 

[Lukazan]

Lehmann - 5 Still reckon he should have dealt with the free kick. If you can't see, do something about it.

Hoyte - 5 Shakey as hell

Toure - 7 Brilliant

Djourou - 5 Shakey.

Gallas - 6 Exceptional for the first 75 minutes and then went completely awol for the last 15?

Hleb - 4 Poor poor game. I thought he'd be really up for this one too.

Fabregas - 5 Poor until the last 5 minutes.

Rosicky - 6.5 Best player outside of the defence, which doesn't say much.

Gilberto - 5 Meh, nothing to shout about.

Henry - 6 ^^^

RVP - 4 Awful pass for Gallas and made a mess of a great opportunity.

 

[jester]

agree kel - hleb and gilberto the worst two performances for an arsenal player in a long time

 

[JMT]

Even though this match should really be a draw after the Henry goal dissallowed, I'm still pissed. Some truly awful indivial performances out there.

Lehman - 6 Could do nothing about the goal...just too damn powerful
Hoyte - 5 Good recovery pace but got beaten too many times
Toure - 7 One of the better defenders out there
Gallas - 7 Saved Djourou many times
Djourou - 2 Absolutely Awful
Gilberto - 3 Attroucious passing and his inabilility to win the ball for us in the middle of the park was one of the major reasons CSKA controlled a lot of the possestion.
Cesc - 8 Surperb match by the young Spaniard. A legend in the making.
Rosicky/Hleb: 6 Did not do anything effective enough
Van Persie: 4 Not a factor
Henry 7: bumped up by a point becuase of the goal that should have counted

Clichy: 8 looked very energized and great to have him back
Walcott: 7 pacey and got us a freekick and a corner
Adebayor: 6 did not do much

Laughable

 

[OneProudGooner]

RVP - big fat Zero just like the weather there.

and Gilberto, the guy just can't pass, he put us in trouble so many times today with his sloppy passing.

Yes one poor game and it means he can't pass..
he's not usually that bad.

 

[jjmcjohnson]

I did not watch match but this will not stop me passing judgement

Lehmann - 1
Hoyte - -9879747855
Toure - 99999999999999999999999999
Djourou - 4
Gallas - Chips
Hleb - 1,00000000000000000000
Rosicky - 7/2
Fabregas - 10/10
Gilberto - 3.14
Van Persie - 1
Henry - 12

 

[Trick]

Re: cska Moscow - Arsenal, player ratings

lehmann - 5
should have saved carvalho's free kick.

LOOOOOL

 

[tam1886]

Even though this match should really be a draw after the Henry goal dissallowed, I'm still pissed. Some truly awful indivial performances out there.

Lehman - 6 Could do nothing about the goal...just too damn powerful
Hoyte - 5 Good recovery pace but got beaten too many times
Toure - 7 One of the better defenders out there
Gallas - 7 Saved Djourou many times
Djourou - 2 Absolutely Awful
Gilberto - 3 Attroucious passing and his inabilility to win the ball for us in the middle of the park was one of the major reasons CSKA controlled a lot of the possestion.
Cesc - 8 Surperb match by the young Spaniard. A legend in the making.
Rosicky/Hleb: 6 Did not do anything effective enough
Van Persie: 4 Not a factor
Henry 7: bumped up by a point becuase of the goal that should have counted

Clichy: 8 looked very energized and great to have him back
Walcott: 7 pacey and got us a freekick and a corner
Adebayor: 6 did not do much

Were we watching the same match?

The only players to come away from that game with any credibility are Toure and Gallas for the amount of saving tackles they had to make after being left in the **** by Hoyte, Cesc Gilberto, Djourou and Hleb. Even they had their few bad moments.

And for me, our best player was Clichy. Instant impact on the game, certainly more so than any other.

If your being honest you'll know we were terrible and not many deserve above a 5 or 6

 

[sword_gun]

Even though this match should really be a draw after the Henry goal dissallowed, I'm still pissed. Some truly awful indivial performances out there.

Lehman - 6 Could do nothing about the goal...just too damn powerful
Hoyte - 5 Good recovery pace but got beaten too many times
Toure - 7 One of the better defenders out there
Gallas - 7 Saved Djourou many times
Djourou - 2 Absolutely Awful
Gilberto - 3 Attroucious passing and his inabilility to win the ball for us in the middle of the park was one of the major reasons CSKA controlled a lot of the possestion.
Cesc - 8 Surperb match by the young Spaniard. A legend in the making.
Rosicky/Hleb: 6 Did not do anything effective enough
Van Persie: 4 Not a factor
Henry 7: bumped up by a point becuase of the goal that should have counted

Clichy: 8 looked very energized and great to have him back
Walcott: 7 pacey and got us a freekick and a corner
Adebayor: 6 did not do much

which match did you watch?

well, i woud say Toure ROsicky the same 7
lehmann -6
the rest 5

 

[Trick]

Hillarious ratings some of you give

 

[maxxx]

RVP - big fat Zero just like the weather there.

and Gilberto, the guy just can't pass, he put us in trouble so many times today with his sloppy passing.

Yes one poor game and it means he can't pass..
he's not usually that bad.

Sounds like you don't watch many games. I recommend you watch more games before saying Gilberto can pass.

 

[andyswafc]

Even though this match should really be a draw after the Henry goal dissallowed, I'm still pissed. Some truly awful indivial performances out there.

Lehman - 6 Could do nothing about the goal...just too damn powerful
Hoyte - 5 Good recovery pace but got beaten too many times
Toure - 7 One of the better defenders out there
Gallas - 7 Saved Djourou many times
Djourou - 2 Absolutely Awful
Gilberto - 3 Attroucious passing and his inabilility to win the ball for us in the middle of the park was one of the major reasons CSKA controlled a lot of the possestion.
Cesc - 8 Surperb match by the young Spaniard. A legend in the making.
Rosicky/Hleb: 6 Did not do anything effective enough
Van Persie: 4 Not a factor
Henry 7: bumped up by a point becuase of the goal that should have counted

Clichy: 8 looked very energized and great to have him back
Walcott: 7 pacey and got us a freekick and a corner
Adebayor: 6 did not do much

Yoooooou what?

 

[maxxx]

Fabregas was excellent today. the movement around him today was abysmal though.

he just gets better and better and runs his heart out for the team.

He was more of a captain than henry.