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First English club through, only English club to win this matchday, and the only one top of their group. Not bad for a team who people said were gonna struggle to qualify. That's 12 seasons in a row of Champions League knockout football.
People will talk about RvP, but I thought our best player tonight was Alex Song. Absolute machine, was just everywhere, and the work for thaat assist for Robin's first was just unbelievable.
Now to play the U15s against Olympiakos :lol:
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KenGooner_GCU
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Would've been weird if Henry was my childhood hero and I was any older then that... haha
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imnofreak
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17 :shock: :shock: :shock:
I got the impression you were way older.
Edited by imnofreak: 23/11/2011 11:48:31 PM
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KenGooner_GCU
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Thierry Henry is a god. Once a gooner always a gooner I was quite depressed when he left, he was my childhood hero! (note: I'm 17 now)
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sydneycroatia58
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No doubt I'm bias, but bias aside, I can't see how he shouldn't have won in that 03/04 season.
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BusbyBabe
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No doubting how good he was but showing a little bias :lol: . Only natural but there was some top players then.
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sydneycroatia58
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sleel6 wrote:BusbyBabe wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:The fact that he never won a WPOTY award is ludicrous, especially in that 2002-05 period when he was easily the best striker in the world.
Some stiff competition there. This. Ronaldinho was pretty amazing around then too. The funny thing is now people say certain players won't win the WPOTY award because they didn't have any success at club level yet that seemed to be the opposite in the 03/04 season :lol: Ronaldinho won the award, yet won nothing with Barcelona. Henry on the other hand lead Arsenal to an unbeaten season, scoring 30 league goals in the process and yet finishes 2nd :lol: How he didn't win it that season is beyond me, especially when he was at the peak of his powers and far and away the best striker on the planet. Could also make a case for him deserving to win in 03 just on the basis of his league form. scored 24 goals and had 23 assists which is just fucking absurd from a striker :lol:
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BusbyBabe wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:The fact that he never won a WPOTY award is ludicrous, especially in that 2002-05 period when he was easily the best striker in the world.
Some stiff competition there. This. Ronaldinho was pretty amazing around then too.
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sydneycroatia58 wrote:The fact that he never won a WPOTY award is ludicrous, especially in that 2002-05 period when he was easily the best striker in the world. Some stiff competition there.
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imnofreak wrote:My god his footwork is amazing Inb4, 'he's good with his hands too'
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sydneycroatia58
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When you have footwork like he did and add thr blinding pace to it it's just unfair on every opponent :lol: Will never forget that goal against Liverpool where he just ran rings around the defence, in particular Jamie Carragher :lol:
The fact that he never won a WPOTY award is ludicrous, especially in that 2002-05 period when he was easily the best striker in the world.
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[youtube]rY_C7HSGS1Y[/youtube]
He does a lot of Liverpool compilations but I just noticed this one too... thought you'd like it.
My god his footwork is amazing, isn't it? He just beats players for fun. Really is one of the best forwards of the last 20 years.
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sydneycroatia58
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KenGooner_GCU wrote:Just shows how tight the league is right now. I don't think we're in the race for the title but a decent result against City could change that... You just never know.
We were in the race this time last year... This time last year we were 5 points of Chelsea at the top. Big difference is last season we didn't have City running away with it :lol: City have 6 more points after 12 games than Chelsea did last season.
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Just shows how tight the league is right now. I don't think we're in the race for the title but a decent result against City could change that... You just never know. We were in the race this time last year...
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Was just looking at where we were after 12 games last season compared to this season, and considering the start we had it makes some interesting reading.
Last season - Played 12, Won 7, Drawn 2, Lost 3
This season - Played 12, Won 7, Drawn 1, Lost 4
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Quote:[size=6] Wenger - 'My love for this Club is total'[/size] By Richard Clarke Arsène Wenger has reinforced his commitment to Arsenal by declaring, once again, that “this is the Club of my life”. The manager moved to clarify his position after comments he made about his future were published in a French magazine on Saturday morning. “I wanted just to say that this is the Club of my life,” he told Arsenal Player after the 2-1 win at Norwich. “I have a contract that I will honour and the only way I would one day consider [leaving] is if I feel I have not done well enough for the Club. “You cannot say you love the Club and have a start like we had then ignore it. That is just what I wanted to say. “There is no mixed message in there. My commitment and love for this Club is total. The only way I would consider [my future] is if I was not doing well enough for the Club.” http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-my-love-for-this-club-is-total- The stories about his comments and how he'll be leaving at the end of the season really are nothing short of hilarious. Leave it to the English press to sensationalize a nothing story.
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sydneycroatia58 wrote:benelsmore wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:benelsmore wrote:
Grant Holt probably should have buried one, but then again Bennett should have been sent off. Goes both ways.
By buried one I assume you mean score? If that's the case it would've been hard for Holt to score when he didn't even have 1 shot, let alone 1 on goal. Norwich had 2 shots on target, Morison's goal and Pilkington's freekick. Blah must have got my players mixed up. They seemed to get too crowded in the final third, few off the legs of defenders, those are the ones that can go anywhere. Yeah they had a few blocked shots but apart from those and the terrible miss from Pilkington from 6 yards out I don't remember any real chances they had. They had some decent ball down the wings but had absolutely no players into the box and their delivery was pretty crap. Also gave away way to much ball trying to go through our centre backs. Speaking of shots that can go anywhere, I'm still trying to figure out how the fuck Russell Martin got that first goal line clearance over the bar. 9 times out of 10 that goes off his shin and in :lol: Edited by sydneycroatia58: 20/11/2011 10:08:27 PM :lol: You, me and every other person on the planet that watched that game. Norwich seemed to be eager to counter but ran out of steam as soon as they got over the half way line. Would be interesting to see the gunners come up against a form team again. Against Chelsea they were phenomenal, but can they do it again? I'm not doubting for the sake of doubting but it would be interesting to measure their recent success against other top teams.
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benelsmore wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:benelsmore wrote:
Grant Holt probably should have buried one, but then again Bennett should have been sent off. Goes both ways.
By buried one I assume you mean score? If that's the case it would've been hard for Holt to score when he didn't even have 1 shot, let alone 1 on goal. Norwich had 2 shots on target, Morison's goal and Pilkington's freekick. Blah must have got my players mixed up. They seemed to get too crowded in the final third, few off the legs of defenders, those are the ones that can go anywhere. Yeah they had a few blocked shots but apart from those and the terrible miss from Pilkington from 6 yards out I don't remember any real chances they had. They had some decent ball down the wings but had absolutely no players into the box and their delivery was pretty crap. Also gave away way to much ball trying to go through our centre backs. Speaking of shots that can go anywhere, I'm still trying to figure out how the fuck Russell Martin got that first goal line clearance over the bar. 9 times out of 10 that goes off his shin and in :lol: Edited by sydneycroatia58: 20/11/2011 10:08:27 PM
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sydneycroatia58 wrote:benelsmore wrote:
Grant Holt probably should have buried one, but then again Bennett should have been sent off. Goes both ways.
By buried one I assume you mean score? If that's the case it would've been hard for Holt to score when he didn't even have 1 shot, let alone 1 on goal. Norwich had 2 shots on target, Morison's goal and Pilkington's freekick. Blah must have got my players mixed up. They seemed to get too crowded in the final third, few off the legs of defenders, those are the ones that can go anywhere.
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Gooner4life_8 wrote:Just a question Benelsmore, what did you think of Holt's dive? :lol: Burly blokes look fucking ridiculous doing swan dives.
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benelsmore wrote:
Grant Holt probably should have buried one, but then again Bennett should have been sent off. Goes both ways.
By buried one I assume you mean score? If that's the case it would've been hard for Holt to score when he didn't even have 1 shot, let alone 1 on goal. Norwich had 2 shots on target, Morison's goal and Pilkington's freekick.
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Just a question Benelsmore, what did you think of Holt's dive? :lol:
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KenGooner_GCU wrote:Christ, can't we do anything right?
Last year's Arsenal side would've conceded a goal in the last 10 minutes. Of course not, you're Arsenal :p Grant Holt probably should have buried one, but then again Bennett should have been sent off. Goes both ways.
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Christ, can't we do anything right? Last year's Arsenal side would've conceded a goal in the last 10 minutes.
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bypopulardemand wrote:Park when he has played has played decently... also he has been in good form in the internationals. He was pretty bad against Marseille.
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Park when he has played has played decently... also he has been in good form in the internationals.
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RedKat wrote:Didn't Chamakh make something like 29 appearances or something like that last season for 7 goals.
But fair enough no point continuing this argument when you are pretty much refuting everything.
But you surely can negate that RVP is the most important player in your squad at the moment by far and seems irreplaceable to get someone playing at the standard he is in your current squad?
Yeah Chamakh did make 29 appearances, although 11 of them were off the bench and all the rhythm and momentum he built in the first half of the season he lost once Robin was back and he just couldn't get any sort of run going. Much like what is happening this season. Of course I'm not going to deny that Robin is our most important player, that'd just be stupid. All I'm saying is that all these doomsday predictions about how fucked we are once Robin is injured are pointless until something/if something happens.
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RedKat wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:RedKat wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:RedKat wrote:BusbyBabe wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote: His last 7 assists in the league have all been for Robin. It helps when RVP is the only one scoring 8-[ Beat me to it. For Arsenal's last 10 goals, how many weren't scored by RVP? I'm sorry I wasn't aware that mattered. Our style of play is set up to give RvP as many chances as he needs, he's just taking advantage of them. The way people talk about us being a one man team you'd be forgiven for thinking it was Robin putting the ball on a plate for himself last night and not Theo. Oh and to answer your question of our last 10 goals Robin has scored 6(3 against Chelsea, 1 against WBA and 1 against Norwich) It matters in the sense that if RVP gets injured well you are well and truly fucked. And he does have an injury prone past. But that said for Arsenal's sake I hope he doesn't get injured too soon as its great to watch and as captain of my fantasy team he is giving me heaps of points. :) I do love how people say if he gets injured we are well and truly fucked without actually having any knowledge of what will happen. Statistics say that when a team relies so heavily on a striker, as Arsenal do with RVP or Liverpool with Suarez (or back in the years with Torres), they will struggle when he is injured. With Cesc and Nasri gone, Arsenal really do rely on RVP to no only score but to create. He is the best player at Arsenal by far. Who else do Arsenal have as a true out and out forward? Walcott is best on the wing, Chamakh has been immensely poor from when I have seen him. Chu-Young Park hasn't done much to show he has settled. Gervinho and Arshavin are also best suited on the wings. The problem for Chamakh is that, and I'm not denying he's been in horrible form, but it's not exactly easy to get into any sort of form when you're hardly playing, same with Park. The problem is we won't know how much or if we will struggle without RvP until we are actually without him for a sustained period of time. So until that happens any predictions about how fucked we will be without him are nothing short of useless.
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BusbyBabe wrote:Florent Malouda puts them on a plate for him as well. Fixed
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RedKat wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote:RedKat wrote:BusbyBabe wrote:sydneycroatia58 wrote: His last 7 assists in the league have all been for Robin. It helps when RVP is the only one scoring 8-[ Beat me to it. For Arsenal's last 10 goals, how many weren't scored by RVP? I'm sorry I wasn't aware that mattered. Our style of play is set up to give RvP as many chances as he needs, he's just taking advantage of them. The way people talk about us being a one man team you'd be forgiven for thinking it was Robin putting the ball on a plate for himself last night and not Theo. Oh and to answer your question of our last 10 goals Robin has scored 6(3 against Chelsea, 1 against WBA and 1 against Norwich) It matters in the sense that if RVP gets injured well you are well and truly fucked. And he does have an injury prone past. But that said for Arsenal's sake I hope he doesn't get injured too soon as its great to watch and as captain of my fantasy team he is giving me heaps of points. :) I do love how people say if he gets injured we are well and truly fucked without actually having any knowledge of what will happen.
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