Post Birmingham thoughts + mid-week Champion’s League

Good evening fellow Arsenal fans. Been quite some time since i last posted on the Blog. Mainly because of the international break.
Arsenal saved us all from boredom and insanity by hosting Birmingham city at the Emirates in the returning Premier League, a must win game some pin-pointed it and rightly so.

Overall the game kicked up some massive talking points, mainly the Jack Wilshere sending off deep into Stoppage time and the Chamakh penalty incident. The question was, A dive or not a dive? You all have your own opinions on the matter, and mine is simple… it was a dive.
He clearly goes down before contact is made. Lets not forget though, this isn’t the first time Chamakh has won us a penalty, in fact, he’s won us several. Key thing, at least 3 of them have been ‘Dodgy’

Chamakh celebrates Arsenal's second

Wengers words were correct though, he’s won us games and been very important at score-lines such as 1-1/0-0 ect.

Before i get on to Jack’s sending off, i would like to mention the Second goal which involved both Chamakh and Wilshere. The control from jack and the little pas to chamakh was pure brilliance and i very nice finish from the big man up front. Great goal.

Well, Probably the most controversial incident was the Wilshere tackle on Zigic. Straight red, no Arguments, no complaints from neither player or manager. So why is it controversial? Well, Arsenal have been grabbing the back pages with all this tackling nonsense so its funny how we are shoved into the lime light because of this tackle.

Jack Wilshere, Sent off against Birmingham

Obviously it was complete mistake from jack and was born 100% out of frustration. Losing the ball seconds before? Elbow from Zigic on jack? All we know is, Jack reacted and in result, got sent off. Credit to him though for coming out and saying he has no complaints. Something which we dont see from many players in this league from time to time.

Just concentrating more on the football, i thought Fabianski was solid throughout and in honesty, has had three solid games in a row now, Neither goals at Stamford Bridge was his fault and he couldn’t really do much about Zigic’s headers Yesterday!
The question is though, When Manuel Almunia is back, do you stick with Fabianski or plod Almunia in? Let me know your thoughts on that in the commets!

In terms of man of the match for Arsenal, Abou Diaby wins it for me. He was pretty much on the money all day, really quick feet, tackling, direct running, beating his man…he was pretty much outstanding in the game. Credit to the lad. Hopefully he can stick at it and keep that form going into Tuesday nights game and next weekend against Manchester City.

 

That brings me onto the midweek game. Champions league returns and with that, Eduardo Da Silva is back on the Emirates Pitch!  If you are attending the game, please give him a warm welcome!

Eduardo, Back at the Emirates

On the game, its going to be interesting… Shacktar have very good quality, Srna is a threat from anywhere on the pitch and must be watched. I do fully expect an Arsenal victory but don’t expect a Braga like score-line.

I will have a pre-match blog post up on Tuesday, Will be discussing the opposition in full and who to look out for. So please look out for that!

Thats pretty much it for tonight gooners, a good 3 points, Chelsea and Man utd both dropped points and we saw the return of Nicklas Bendtner + Theo Walcott. Lets hope Cesc Fabregas, And Thomas Vermaellen both return to action this week!

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Thanks a bunch!

Lewis