time for promoted youth to impress AW..

wilshere should start in carling cup, since he is still banned in the premier league..

no la, the ban is for all English competition which includes Carling Cup also

gosh i tot premier league only!

BPL, Carling and FA cup.

Agreed wit sickx. RVP should play wing instead of midfield. RVP will not adept to midfield even ML or MR.

Hope to c both Chamakh and RVP play but RVP seems like always injured. Besides, Fabregas will be the best player to play CM but again he also often get injured.

For defender, Vermaelen is another good option as well. Clichy and Sagna should join attack when against weaker team. When against big team, they might need to concentrate on defending.

thanks to dxjb


English Carling League Cup 4th Round
NEWCASTLE UNITED VS ARSENAL
ASTRO SUPERSPORT 2 (CH816) 2.40 am LIVE

WIN.

Chamakh, Chamakh... Chamakh ! Chamakh ! Chamakh !

I don't think we'll ever see a 30 goal striker like Titi, not with this team, but the good thing about this team is that everybody can assist and score. If 5 players hit 10-15 goals each and throw in a couple of assist here and there we won't have much trouble in terms of attacking at all.

The issue of Robin + Chamakh is indeed intriguing, but we will need Robin to be full fit before anything can be turned into reality.

At the moment Chamakh seems more suited to spearhead the attack while Robin, despite being most deadly at the edge of the box, can actually function deeper in Bergkamp's role by releasing the ball early to onrushing wingers/midfielders. With our attacking triumvirate, it's quite unlikely to have a central forward-supporting striker system like the orthodox number 9 and 10. Yet our main advantage is our fluidity. It's possible to revert Robin back to the right wing since he played there for both Holland and us before maturing into Bergkamp's role, but like both Arsene and van Marjwick's plans he is best suited deep central. Not sure whether Chamakh will be able to operate on the flank, but starting positions mean nothing as long as the players interchange positions regularly during the game.

http://arsenal-mania.com/articles/3109399/...or-Arsenal.html
Keown mentioned that Arshavin might be the one being sacrificed when Robin returns while Chamakh continues to excel in his role, and he does have a point. Arshavin's best strengths are his attacking prowess and assist abilities, but his poor defence often leaves Clichy exposed. Richards powered past our left flank easily during last weekend's match (at least from the highlights that I saw) and having someone who could defend from upfront would provide more cover for our backline.

Nasri, at his current form, has made himself virtually undroppable. Note that he has now combined the trickery of Hleb and the goalscoring skills of Bobby. And he's still only 22. Awesome.

For me Chamakh is the kind of player which Nick should model himself after - good in the air, good link up player, being a nuisance to the defenders, and able to maintain the same work rate and efficacy for a full 90 minutes.

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 27 2010, 01:25 PM

ever since Titi was screwed a few times for these kind of awards, i never really paid much attention to it anymore

This post has been edited by toshio14: Oct 27 2010, 01:58 PM

Guess SNeijder will probably get it. A champion league winner and finalist of world cup. Top performer in both the competition.

hope Emmanual Thomas can perform better tonite.
wanted to see vela and lansbury also.
other new kids this season to inspire? Frimpong already injured la

ei can anot arsenal tonite...how confident? why so weird wan...arsenal give 1/2 only wei!

Away matches what do u think? lol

away match + not full-force.

Instead of that,



Thumbs up if you get what I mean lool

Something very common in Arsenal.
No strikers/attackers in the box. When our strikers drifts to the wing, nobody gets in the box.
And this season there's been a lot of crossings by Sagna and Clichy

and usually, we end up swapping wings instead. "player 2" will pass back to RB/LB and then to Song/Denilson etc.etc.

This post has been edited by wadever: Oct 27 2010, 05:27 PM

to add-on also, freekick..since TT left hardly see any freekick goal lo

Walcott playing on the left? On the right for sure.

So, Chris Hughton said they are willing to forego CC to focus on the EPL. Hmm, well, they do have Sunderland next at St. James' Park on Sunday. And Sunderland is always difficult (I still rate the game against them where Fab scored that flukey goal was the most difficult - we couldn't play at all). Are they going to field a weaker side?

Arsenal do have players available. And the way I see it, West Ham at the Emirates on Saturday is an easier encounter compared to Newcastle at St. James' Park tonite. So, yeah, we can expect an 80% first teamers like the article suggests.

tonite game

scenezy
eboue - djourou - laci - gibbs
--------- song -----------
-- denilson ---- diaby ----
nasri --- bendtner --- rosicky

i think newcastle v sunderland is a derby ... right ? which will shift more importance too.