Dagens Arsenal - 4 Mars 2009
Falken fick böna och be och tillslut fick han tillåtelse att skriva gårdagens artikel. Alla argument vek och Falken fick skriva om både det ena och det andra upptåg våra kära Gunners höll på med. Om ynglingarna och utlånade småungar i en välsmakande artikel. Här kommer dagens portion, hugg in!
Wenger
Vår Franske filosof gratulerar Arsenals Danske dynamit som drog in 2 stycken baljor i gårdagens match. Wenger menar att Nicklas Bendtner visade stor klass och ännu större potential med sina två mål: "He's grown up, he wants to do well and I believe he can be a promising striker. It's always difficult to give a rest to (Robin) Van Persie but he (Bendtner) was on the edge tonight and I felt he was playing with fire. Sometimes I play them together, many times, but Nicklas is slowly growing in the game and he had a good game tonight." Och om matchen i allmänhet tyckte Wenger följande: "We kept going and there's a very healthy, strong spirit in this team. We've come along and won the game without any doubt about the spirit and attitude of the players. It was a test again. Their goal gave a lot of courage to West Brom and it was down to us to find an opening again and we did that.”
Spelarna
Bacary Sagna ber sina lagkamrater om fortsatt hög fokus under matcherna. Arsenal har som bekant haft en väldigt stabil defensiv under 2009, något Fransmannen hoppas laget kan fortsätta med: "We dropped too many points and we wanted to look forward which was hard but we never gave up. We kept working hard in training and tonight we scored three goals. We have not been waiting for this kind of night, we just want to take points and that is it. We have to take everything positive out of the game, think about it but then it is gone. We have to stay focused and we have to work." Det var defensiven, vad säger Sagna om Arsenals offensiv då? "We talk to each other but we never talked about scoring goals," he said. "I think everyone was just looking forward and tonight we did the job. We played as a team and we scored goals and we see that when we score goals, we can win games. It was tough today because West Brom are quite a good team but we gave everything.”
Andrei Arshavin talar nu återigen ut om hur svårt han finner det att anpassa sig till den Engelska spelstilen i Premier League. Ryssen som kom nästan helt otränad till Arsenal under Januari-fönstret har visat prov på stor potential som Arsenalfansen längtat efter att se på yttermittältet: "I watched the matches that were broadcast in Russia whenever possible. But to tell the truth it seemed less difficult on TV. Only now do I understand how dynamic and hard the football is here. Now I would like to score as soon as possible. Everybody expected me to score in my very first match but that never happens, especially with me. But nothing was easy and immediate for me. Arsenal is no exception. So I need patience and hard work now. The main task now is to get into the Champions League for next season." Slutligen talar också Arshavin om hur det går för honom med lektioner i Engelska: "I began my English studies about two years ago. I had no solid plans of moving to London. But I already thought about England and moreover English is an international language and can be handy everywhere. All experienced people said that the better you know the language the easier it will be. And even if I had not left Russia, knowledge of a foreign language cannot be a waste."
Emmanuel Adebayor sätter nu målen för den kvarvarande säsongen. Årets säsong har kantats av misslyckanden och stora skadebekymmer (som om det sistnämnda skulle vara någonting nytt), men finns det ljus i slutet av tunneln?: "To be in fourth we have to give everything, to win every single game now until the end of the season. We know it is not going to be easy, we know it is going to be tough, but we just have to be ready in the head and face it. I just want to tell them (the fans) I know it is difficult for everyone at the moment. It is difficult for the boss, difficult for us as players, for them as fans - so they just have to keep doing what they love the most which is keep pushing us on."
Skadeläget
Kolo Touré ådrog sig som bekant en skada under gårdagens match mot West brom. Ivorianen som gjorde sitt första mål för säsongen i just gårdagens match kommer undersökas idag för att diagnos ska ställas på skadan.
En hel drös spelare kan tänkas göra come-back till helgen. Mikael Silvstre, William Gallas, Emmanuel Adebayor, Eduardo da Silva och Theo Walcott räknas alla kunna vara tillbaka och delta. Ett frågetecken råder dock kring Adebayor som förmodligen inte hunnit träna med laget ännu och förmodligen får vi vänta ytterligare en vecka på Togolesen. Slutligen är det bara Cesc Fabregas och Tomas "sick" Rosicky kvar. Duon tros vara tillbaka om upp mot två och en halv vecka.
Kan Arsenal bli helt skadefritt innan säsongsavslutningen?
Transferrykten
Arsène Wenger ska enligt Fansfc.com vara intresserad av Panathinaikos 18 åriga mittfältare Sotiris Ninis. Ninis ska tydligen vara en av de största talanger inom Grekisk fotboll just nu, och har dragit på sig mäktiga Bayern Münchens ögon. Vi får väl se om Wenger gör Tyskarna sot(ir)is under sommaren genom att värva talangen. Priset spekuleras ligga runt £12m.
Samma hemsida talar om att Kolo Touré tjatar på sin Franske manager att titta på Ivorianens landsman Souleymane Bamba. Bamba som till vardags spelar i Hibernian ska under säsongen imponerat i den skotska ligan och ska vara villig att gå för ca £ 3m.
Ahh, rykten…. Pure bollocks
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