The Midfield General wrote:Q8 Gooner wrote:Vermaelen was brilliant heading the ball.. Arshavin looked good as a central striker.. Denilson did well.. Fabregas was poor though, but thats what quality players do, even on his off day he assisted the goal for Arshavin.. I really like the directness of Ramsey.. hope wenger doesn't spoil him..
Agree with all of that mate. Could have been the penalty miss early on that shook his performance.
It definitely wasn't the penalty miss because he was utter pants from the word go.
Not by his high standards, not by Denilson's standards, by anyone's standards, he was just rubbish simple as that.
It does get to me sometimes the way that AW will never take a key player off even when he's having a complete and utter mare.
He's done it 80 times with Diaby and and now Cesc gets to stay on. It's not as if we don't have players on the bench that could've replaced Cesc.
Ramsey could've come on for him and couldn't possibly have been any worse despite his young age. Why not take the risk?
Traore was good and used his strength well, Arshavin was excellent, Eboue was useful and Gallas was supersolid.
Still a very ugly win though. For the last 4-5 games we have utterly failed to get our passing game going and I can't understand it.