You think it's right that Eduardo got a suspension over his 'supposed dive'? I think the GK got a slight touch on him, but he surely made the most of it. But I think it's a good start. If let's say a player clearly fell down without anybody touching him, then they can start banning the player for a few games. That would sent out a message to the would be divers not to do it, or at least made them think twice before diving. It's the only way to curb the diving really. Right now they get away without punishment almost. Also referee seems to pick and choose who they want to book for diving. We can see lots of instances where a player falls down, but got told by the referee to get up, but for some others they would get booked straight away.

I'll be happy with whatever way we use/or benefited from as long as we win.

If there is a touch, then it's hard to judge really. How do we know how much of an impact the fouler had on the 'diver'? Only the guy who got tackled can answer that, and that one is a grey area of some sort.. can't really decide, just let it be. But for the case of those diving without being touched by anyone, then the diver should get punishment for it. Give them a few games.. that should teach them.

Not set an example, but they have to start somewhere. Hopefully they will implement it in the whole of the games under their supervision after this. Only that would make it fair.

Nani had a good start to the season so far. For the long run, it's better we keep him in the side for him to find his form and his confidence level, because Park and Valencia while good/very good players, Nani is the one who is likely to create something out of nothing. It's Nani on one side, and the other side up for grabs between Valencia and Park. If Valencia can work on his inside moves, he would be starter for me over Park, although Park as shown against Chelsea is great to have when we use him right. They didn't know how to deal with his movements in the first half.

See comments below.
Valencia is far more consistent with his crossing. It's easy to spot his crossing.. our players would know what to expect from him which is good because they can react to it better. You know once he gets past the LB, he would cross it soon. But defenders would find it easier to stop him compared to Nani. Show him the inside, and block the outside.. he wouldn't be as effective.

Nani however is different. When he gets it right, his crossing is as dangerous and as good if not better than Valencia's. He's unpredictable the defenders won't find it so easy to stop him. Stop him from going outside, he would turn inside and so on.. but that also means our players can't judge when he's gonna cross it.

As for Valencia not impressing that much so far, consider this. We have a hard time so far getting in behind the opposition's defence, apart from the 2nd half of the Wigan game. He's also new to the team.. it will take a while for him to adjust. But he's done alright so far. He was brilliant I thought in pre-season against Bayern and Valencia. Whenever he beat their LB, his crossing was almost always great. He's the opposite of Park. Park is crap going outside and crossing it in, but Valencia is crap whenever the outside is blocked and he has to maneuver inside. But going by SAF's recent comment about him, it seems they are working on him on that part of his game.

Today is Saturday huh? I thought Friday.. need to re tune my clock. Night awake, day sleep..

Wonder how we line up? Will we go with 442 or go with 433 as we usually do in the past for these type of games.

While we don't have what you would call one of the best midfielders around in that department, we're not lacking in quality. If we lack quality in that department, we wouldn't have been that successful the last few seasons. And Arsenal's midfield, apart from Fabregas, they don't have anyone else in there in the centre who you would call one of the best around.

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Added on August 29, 2009, 11:29 pmfoster
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SUBS: Kuszczak, Neville, Owen, Anderson, Berbatov, Park, Scholes.

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Added on August 29, 2009, 11:29 pmThat's interesting. 433. No Berba.. and Rooney back in the centre of the front three. Been a long time since he plays there huh in that lineup? Looking forward to it, although I hope he's not so isolated.

This post has been edited by Wan: Aug 29 2009, 11:31 PM

Inside there, cari the mediaplayer ones. Those one should open inside a website. No need player. But just let the myp2p window open in case somehow in the middle of the game the link goes offline.

It's not really a surprise for Fletcher to put that kind of performances in the big games. He's shown over the years he's mighty in these sort of affair, and most of them were against Arsenal. It's the normal/smaller type of games which he usually find himself looking average, which he changed last season.

We got lucky there at the end Gallas/Diaby decided to get into that offside position. Rooney would have been killed by SAF if that goal counted.. Went to sleep there. And what the hell happen to our composure at the end? We got into great position to add to our goal, but we mess them all up. Nani and Berbatov.. he was great and shit at the same time.

Well, the ref instructed him to go to the stands, which he did.. and with only a few seconds left, should just let the match go on.. nothing he could have done. It was funny, and Wenger seem to be fine about it.. didn't really argue much.