To be fair to djourou, he was getting skinned by none other than the skillful and pacey carlos tevez. But the moment he chose the no nonsense route by simply kicking the ball out when under pressure, I thought, okay, he's going to be alright.

I haven't really cared about choosing my motm, but I'll have to agree with those who chose Fabianski. Had he let even one in, especially in those early city onslaught, it could have been a different outcome totally. He played a big part in the fact that the squad morale remain intact the whole 90+ mins and City lost the interest and looked totally exhausted after 70 mins.

City's style have always been to sit back cautiously and then launch deadly quick attacks. But they seemed determined to come at us aggressively last night. Maybe they were looking down on us, maybe they thought there's no need to be cautious against the light weight London team.

AW facial expression in this pic priceless"

agreed

remember his goal against shakhtar? perfectly timed. Just because he's not on the scoresheet, doesn't mean that he's no contributing

love to see theo running like that again.

a video of Song, Nasri, and... Mofobayor.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfcs5h_ci...own309hg_latino

in case anyone missed this one

but Fab got hug him when he is sub off

i foreseen that Arsene will field a fairly strong team, now Arsenal is at least ambitious a bit, target CC

CC is when a?

thursday morning malaysia time.

yes, it's not easy for chamakh...and with those huge Man C defender...i also agree chamakh has given great contribution during the past games...it's just in the Man C game, 'kurang menyengat' lah...IMO, he needs o build up his pysique more...overall good game for chamakh..and he will get better

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Added on October 26, 2010, 11:22 am

AW=RA with white hair??


This post has been edited by '62jaguar: Oct 26 2010, 11:22 AM

Chamakh work rate is superb
plus this is just his first season
a fit chamakh and bendtner already enuff for Arsenal
got vela as back up with Jay Thomas (prospect)
when that leave RVP???
pienaar contract will expired with everton this season, will he join Arsenal?

shud have pull his pants down..lol

Nah, Nasri and Arshavin both are better than him unless its free and very low wages.

Chamakh no doubt is the biggest impact so far on Arsenal as the new player and highly effective in getting penalties and red cards for opponents which is very good.

Still no matter how good he is i think the will be in 2nd position when r.v.p returns as a fully fit r.v.p i dare to say is better than Drogba, Rooney, Torres and probably even Messi.

Miss r.v.p a lot though

RVP plays a deeper role though....

Maybe a partnership upfront could be the solution?

AW=RA ? No way LOL ..

About the Chamakh discussion , I think he could have timed his run slightly better and work better on his finishing . Otherwise , he's already done a very good job linking play in final third .

TBH, I really don't know if Chamakh and RVP could play together . Both of them are similar type of players , unselfish , creative and linking up plays . We need a deadlier striker like Henry when paired with DB10 , and Chamakh certainly isn't Henry .

Perhaps we can reverse it to RVP as CF while Chamakh as SS(supporting striker , currently hold by Fabregas) but nobody would dismiss Cesc's capability up front . So ... this is the depth headache eh ?

Another thing is , we won't know when RVP will go back to the treatment room again

good to see bendtner playing(and scoring) again

he's a good targetman,and he's good with his feet too(kinda like crouch,but younger and can still develop)

I honestly hopes he doesn't develop into Crouch

what i like about chamakh's game during city was his deceptive physical attributes shown when he outskilled the City defender near the touch line on the left side and then outmuscled to set up cesc and nasri before cesc's shot was saved. That was just fantastic - a great display of skill and physical strenght even though he looks sorta slim to me!

Yeah despite the goals i still feel we lack an out and out finisher striker... i wish we still had dudu =( esp the pre-injury one. Bendy i hope he can improve on that finishing that will inspire confidence. of our pool of forwards i hope that one or two will turn into a prolific goal scorer. I like that chamakh still makes runs like an out and out striker like the one he got the city player sent off and for the 2nd goal which he turned and run but was blocked.. those were like off the shoulder spin and run onto through ball runs that an out an out striker tends to do and im glad he's providing an outlet for the passes to get there with his off the ball runs.

to be honest,i still can't believe bendtner could score in tight angle like the other day.i was hoping for him to pass to walcott but instead he put it above hart and into the net.give him more time and fitness,he could be our own drogba and by that time comes,one will wonder how wenger gonna fit in three targetman into our team.

bola lambung

too bad we are not very good in long passes and crosses... yet. we need to improve in that area, otherwise its such a waste.. especially with chamakh aerial ability

wenger dont like this..