ARSENAL VS SUNDERLAND – THE SEASON START HERE (UPDATED)

Arsenal v Sunderland
Barclays Premier League, Emirates Stadium
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 15:00

Lupakan kekalahan dengan Porto hari lepas, malam ini Arsenal berdepan dengan situasi terbaik untuk meneruskan cabaran Premier League. Banyak kritikan pedas dilemparkan kepada The Gunners terutamanya Fabianski malah Harian Metro juga turut misquote kenyataan Fabregas. (Mana ada Fabregas kata Fabianski macam budak sekolah!)

Favourite line-up Andimazlan.com tetap memilih Fabianski sebagai penjaga gol walaupun dikritik hebat minggu lepas. Walaupun Wenger bersedia menurunkan Almunia yang masih cedera jari tangan tapi itu satu gamble yang tidak patut diteruskan. Sagna patut rehatla. Takda improvement. Turunkan Eboue untuk posisi bek kiri kerana larian dan hantaran tepat Eboue lebih diperlukan berbanding cross Sagna yang serba tidak menjadi kebelakangan ini. Sol Campbell dan Vermaelen tetap menjadi pilihan mengemudi posisi pertahanan tengah. Manakala Traore atau Silvestre PATUT menggantikan Clichy. Teramatlah sangat perlu!

Di bahagian tengah, Song as a Def. Midf. Fabregas dan Nasri bahagian centre. Wallcott sebagai winger kanan. (Walcott lari laju gila babi pun tak guna bai kalau control bola tunggang langgang!) But still we should give him this chance. Rosicky di bahagian winger kiri.

Bendtner tolongla cekap sikit maintu. Setakat berlari dan tanduk bola aku pun boleh! Vela or Eduardo should be considered IF Bendtner not on target in the first half.

Prediction : Arsenal 3 – 1 Sunderland.

Andimazlan.com’s First Eleven of Arsenal to face Sunderland.

		21. FABIANSKI
27. EBOUE	31. CAMPBELL		5. VERMAELEN	18. SILVESTRE
		17. SONG
14. WALCOTT	4. FABREGAS		8. NASRI	7. ROSICKY
		52. BENDTNER

SUBS:

24. MANNONE

3. SAGNA

22. CLICHY

30. TRAORE

15. DENILSON

16. RAMSEY

12. VELA

BOSSES

ARSÈNE WENGER

PAT RICE

UPDATE : WIN 2-0 BUT FAR FROM IMPRESSIVE!

Credit should go to Eboue for the first half goal scored by Bendtner. Now that we see what Sagna lack of that he failed to bring in his game lately – good pass or crosses to the opposition box.
Despite a clean sheet, Silvestre should check himself after the game that he almost cause us a goal by letting Jones a clear-cut one-on-one chance with Almunia.

Second half start, we dominated the game, almost 99% possesion of the ball but not a single big threat made to Sunderland goalkeeper until the last minute penalty came. What was Bendtner doing? Walcott running like hell but never made a single shot-on-target! Ridiculous! I think Wenger should consider playing Vela soon or lets try put Vermaelen upfront at least he got the instinct to score a goal. (Bagus juge free kick mamat ni tadi tapi kalau atas sikit lagi gerenti goal punya)

Bad passes! Even Fabregas can’t passes properly at this game. Same goes to Ramsey (what the hell with the long shot, mate?) and Nasri. We have the possesion because Sunderland play so poorly tonight. Jones and Bent unbelieveable and unforgiveable miss when one-on-one with Almunia summed-up Sunderland team performance in this match. Still Arsene Wenger have the guts to say ‘The team responded well today’. The free-kick awarded to Sunderland at the end of the second half was a real ‘cut-a-red-or blue-bomb-wire’. Luckily it hit the wall.

However we should be happy. Man Utd lose to Everton 1-3. Never looking back and keep the momentum going. But our performance last night was still far from impressive!

My Man-of-the-Match : Alex Song