Slavia Prague Vs Arsenal | Champions League 07/11/07

[SE13]

Ade about to come on...

Meanwhile, great save from Almunia!

[REG]

Great save
Not been a very good game but then again we're always abit pony away in eastern europe

[Fordy]

daiby is the only player i think has done well

walcott has not been at his best

[Trina]

Come on Ade! Score pleeeeeeeease!

[SE13]

Bendtner replaced by Ade.

Couple of close moments from that corner, but again nothing to show, although Ade straight into the action....

[SE13]

Dudu off, Eboue on. Theo set to move forward....

[Trina]

5 minutes of added time...where did all that come from?!

Still 0-0

[Trina]

Full time 0-0

Ade could of scored in the last 10 seconds but it was a wrong offside decision...

[Fordy]

well that was crap no fabregas = no goals

[SE13]

Plus point: Still unbeaten

Minus point: To win games, we need to score.... It never really looked likely tonight.

Thought: Wenger always knew he was saving players, so in hindsight, the point gets us through.

Critisism: We lacked ambition and creativity.

Overall: I think Theo should remain (for the time being) as our not so secret weapon.

[Gunflash]

Pretty lacklustre from what I gathered. But we're into the knockout stages and that's the main thing.

[She_Gunner_Wales]

argh i ended up missing 1st half with having to pick Jake up then his coach kept me as i had to do more forms...i was like cant we do this next week the football is on!!!

Sounds like i didnt miss much, judging on the 2nd half, which i did finally get to see, we missed Cesc & Hleb, im not keen on Diarra, maybe time? who knows.... Bendtner didnt do much, but Clichy took the mick out of several of their players, some nice ball control going on when he got forward.

Great save from Almunia...although in the space of a split second i thought "oh Nooooo!"
Still, this will have been an extra games european experience for some of the players and we are through, we can sit back & relax and see what tactics Wenger will use now, judging on how the other groups are doing, who finishes as group winners/runners up for the knockout draw ect as to whether he will rest key players for the remaining 2 fixtures of the group.

1st game we have not scored in this season. ....guess im ussed to being spoilt.

[rodney]

That was a very poor performance and our worst of the season so far. Slavia deserve credit for pressing us throughout the 90 minutes, always keeping the pressure on and never allowing us to settle on the ball and play our passing game. They battled really well in the middle of the park and both strikers worked very hard so that our defence were never given a rest bite.

Saying that we should have played a lot better than that. Diaby in particular was very poor again tonight. I am fed up of saying it, but the guy is not a left winger. He has given us some decent performances on the left wing, but it is clear it isn't his natural position. The same goes for Theo on the other flank, after a really good performance against the same opposition last time out why did Wenger not give Theo a go up front. The problem again comes down to Wenger's failure to sign a winger during the Summer and it has forced him to place players out of position.

Wenger got his tactics wrong again imo tonight. He went with a kind of 4-4-1-1 formation. As Eduardo wasn't quite up front, but he wasn't quite in midfield he was just floating around the left hand side of the pitch and didn't offer anything to the team. After two performances in which we created very little Wenger stated he wanted to return to 4-4-2 in order to create more chances. Well why did he go against that tonight? We had two half chances tonight. Gilberto who put it horribly wide and a header from Ade. Really disappointed with Wenger tonight and I really hope he returns to 4-4-2 against Reading on Monday night in what is a crucial game.

One positive to come out of the night was Diarra was superb again. He battles so well and is an excellent defender. He has really impressed me with his performances at right back. As good as Sagna has been you could argue Diarra deserves a chance at right back. As for the rest of the defence I thought Gallas and Clichy were sloppy at times and gave the ball away cheaply. But they did their jobs well enough as with Almunia who made one really good save. Song performed well again at centre half i still doubt whether or not he has a future at the club, but whilst Djourou is away he has done a decent job.

Nick Bendtner has a lot of improving to do up front. His first touch has got to improve and he needs to be far sharper in his final ball in the final third of the pitch. His attitude needs to be sorted out as well, there were occassions where he is complaining at team mates to often instead of encouraging his team mates.

Overall we got the point we need and battled well and hopefully we won't play as badly as that again, as against an opposition with a higher quality of players we would have been punished.

[Reverend Gooner]

1st game we have not scored in this season. ....guess im ussed to being spoilt.

Indeed we do get it good. Imagine what it must be like to be a Derby fan!

Anyone fancy doing the full match report? (the above post looks like half of a very good one) I completely missed this one.

[Fabrestuta]

Not too upset with a 0-0 though it would have been nice to win. We're through to the knockout stages with 2 games to spare, so I can't have too many complaints. Plus as has already been said, we usually don't do well in Eastern Europe, so a draw isn't bad.