Comments on: Gunners Look To Slay The Dragon Of Porto At The Emirates

By: LRV

LRV — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:25:34 +0000

Correction: The ‘ball’ seem to……

By: LRV

LRV — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:23:24 +0000

Darius, your ’squeaky-bum-o-meter’ must have been overworked yesterday. Superb display of a variety of ‘football-o-metry’. Nasri was the bomb yesterday! The seem to stick to his foot like with a glue. Just simply beautiful.

By: arsenehollis

arsenehollis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:09:50 +0000

Welcome back Darius.

I think Walcott will start, or maybe Eboue on the right.

The noises coming out of the press conferences seem to suggest that we will be a touch cautious to begin with. Certainly keeping a clean sheet woudl be brilliant, but I hope that we don’t try and play just for 1 nil. We haven’t really shown that sort of stability this season and I think it will bring us down to the oppositions level.

They will hit on the break, Clichy and Sagna will have to be sharp and energetic, but we should really look to make this over long before we did on Saturday.

I dont think we played very well against Burnley, a chance for 2-2 in the 86th suggests we allowed them too much of a chance. Today we should do exactly what we did against Villareal and batter a team that is not as good as us.

Anything that gets us through is just fine, but here is a chance to really show what we are about. This absolute bollocks that having lost to manure and the chavs makes us unworthy of the title race is patently retarded, here is a chance to show that not only is the logic corrupt, but it is built upon completely false pretences.

We need to start playing to our best at some stage to win what we can, I hope we start now.

By: Saloner

Saloner — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:41:41 +0000

Gallas’s injury worries me more in the context of the league run-in rather than tonight’s game.
If we have our shooting boots on we shouldn’t have a problem getting past Porto.
AJ, I think it’d be well worth your while to allow Denilson another appraisal. He doesn’t look particularly effective even when, unlike now, he’s in top form, but he always goes about his work to great effect. Statistics by themselves don’t lie; they can be, and frequently are, made to lie. Denilson’s stats are perfectly justified I think.
Fingers crossed for tonight.

By: Flint McCullough

Flint McCullough — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:53:23 +0000

I see Walcott & Eboue starting before Rosicky & possibly Arshavin, Darius.

With the need to keep it tight, can we afford AA’s recent lack of work rate? Eboue has been offering much defending & going forward. Theo’s confidence must have rocketed & his pace makes it more of a risk for his fb to venture forward.

Even so I expect AA will start as it is the type of game, where he could be inspirational.

I gather it was 1978, when we beat Hadjuk Split with a delicate Big Willie Young chipped lob, that we last overturned an away deficit in the home tie. Apparently there have been 9 failed attempts, although I can only think of 8. Still all the more reason to do it tonight.

Have you ever looked out on the actual pitch aj?

By: aj

aj — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:30:00 +0000

Denilson was put on this Earth for one reason only and that was to illustrate the old adgage of lies, damn lies and statistics. He regularly looks like a world-beater, when you analyse his statistics yet we all look out on the pitch and see him playing like a dog!