Everton v Arsenal | Premiership 21/03/2012

[Trequartista]

People used to joke on here about AW fielding an entire team of Attacking Midfielders but its actually heading that way!

Szczesny
Yennaris Song Coquelin
Ramsey Arteta Wilshere
Rosicky Diaby Ozyakup
Arshavin

AW "But ze will not be able to cope wiz our movement and intelligence and I 'ave always said Arshavin eez a super quality Centre Forward"

[Massa]

Anyone got any highlights? Motd ones if possible!!

[Git]

http://arsenalist.com/video/?id=xplpic

[rah]

You know for the entire match we had Gibbs fighting a lone battle on the left hand side. Both Rosicky and Ramsey were no were near the flanks. Gibbs had a very good game especially in light of nobody present ahead of him.

I think that was entirely deliberate though. They were trying to cut Drenthe's options down by narrowing the midfield and forcing him to stay out wide and try to take on gibbs rather than cutting inside. Gibbs had a pretty decent handle on him all evening and then, when we had the ball was able to overlap quite easily.

Ramsey as a wide player isn't a winger type. But he did reasonably well coming off the wing to support RVP for knock downs and the like. Okay, so he fluffed his shots when he got there, but at least he was trying to. Compare that to Theo, who just wasn't gambling enough on making runs into the box.

[Reverend Gooner]

PLAYER RATINGS UP

[starmandb]

Last time I remember Djourou coming on in this situation we were 1-0 up against Fulham.

We all know how that ended...

djourou was sent off with us 1-0 up at fulham
djouros sub record
11/12
newcastle[a]0-0
udinese[h] lead 1-0 won 1-0
blackburn[a] 2-2 lost 4-3
mersaille[a] 0-0 won 1-0[played the ball thru for ramseys goal]
norwich[a] 2-1 won 2-1
dortmund[h] 1-0 won 2-1
10/11
villa[a] 4-2 won 4-2
fulham[h] 1-1 won 2-1
9/10
fulham[h] 3-0 won 4-0
8/9
fenerbahce[a] 4-2 won 5-2
villareal[a] 1down 1-1
boro[h] 1-0 won 2-0
07/08
derby[a]3-2 won 6-2
06/07
charlton[a] 2-1 won 2-1
fulham[a] losing 2-1 lost 2-1
boro[a] 2-0 won 2-0
05/06
villa[h] 3-0 won 5-0
04/05
man city[a] cc 1-0 won 2-0
thats 1 game out of 18 sub appearances from djourou where we have ended in a worse position than when he came on
and 9 games where we have ended up better off.
the oh no its djourou,s are a tad unfair

[ThereIsBearCum]

so Djourou doesn't make you nervous?

[starmandb]

so Djourou doesn't make you nervous?

he does switch off in games sometimes but there was a period last season when he had a run in the team where he looked very solid and his injury looked to be a real problem.
a decent squad player who provided he plays only at centre back i would happy to see him as cover

[Arsenal~Fanatic]

so Djourou doesn't make you nervous?

a decent squad player who provided he plays only at centre back i would happy to see him as cover

This.

He is decent enough for a 4th choice CB. He may had a couple of decent games for us at RB but imo he is a liability at RB as we found out the hard way against United. He should be utilized only as a 4th choice CB and never as a cover to the RB position.

[Dejan]

pssst. Walcott was shit for whole game(as usual). G-man comes on and creates 2 100% chances for RVP

sup?

[Arsenal~Fanatic]

pssst. Walcott was shit for whole game(as usual). G-man comes on and creates 2 100% chances for RVP

sup?

RVP failed to find the G-spot for once..

[ThereIsBearCum]

so Djourou doesn't make you nervous?

a decent squad player who provided he plays only at centre back i would happy to see him as cover

This.

He is decent enough for a 4th choice CB. He may had a couple of decent games for us at RB but imo he is a liability at RB as we found out the hard way against United. He should be utilized only as a 4th choice CB and never as a cover to the RB position.

he's a liability at CB IMO as well
offload him, bring in someone better, or failing that, promote Bartley

[rah]

pssst. Walcott was shit for whole game(as usual). G-man comes on and creates 2 100% chances for RVP

sup?

Walcott spent the game up against Leighton Baines. Gervinho was up against Tony Hibbert. Hell, even I could do reasonably against Hibbert.

Not saying that Walcott had a good game, because he didn't. But there's reasons for that. He's still our 2nd most productive player in terms of goals/assists after RVP.

[VCC]

pssst. Walcott was shit for whole game(as usual). G-man comes on and creates 2 100% chances for RVP

sup?

Walcott spent the game up against Leighton Baines. Gervinho was up against Tony Hibbert. Hell, even I could do reasonably against Hibbert.

Not saying that Walcott had a good game, because he didn't. But there's reasons for that. He's still our 2nd most productive player in terms of goals/assists after RVP.

exactly every time Walcott comes up against a reasonable defender he goes missing.Why? because he lacks the skills to be a great winger.

[ivan itchybum]

pssst. Walcott was shit for whole game(as usual). G-man comes on and creates 2 100% chances for RVP

sup?

Walcott spent the game up against Leighton Baines. Gervinho was up against Tony Hibbert. Hell, even I could do reasonably against Hibbert.

Not saying that Walcott had a good game, because he didn't. But there's reasons for that. He's still our 2nd most productive player in terms of goals/assists after RVP.

exactly every time Walcott comes up against a reasonable defender he goes missing.Why? because he lacks the skills to be a great winger.

you forget how young he is.