I'm going to do a Maurice Fischer on last night's Arsenal rape and say..."there's really...nothing to be said", of course that doesn't mean there's nothing to be written. Spectacular rape, the kind that was strong enough to reach across the tv and impregnate Arsenal fans all over the world. Arsenal have recently fallen into the dangerously alarming slump of winning matches and being competitive, hopefully last night was the wake-up call they needed to get the dismality of their season back on track and satisfy their quite demanding fans by being more consistent in their woefulness. Choosing a 4-2-3-1 like they did against Milan's MF Diamond is not at all surprising, that Rosicky was included in the 3 was surprising for the 1-2 seconds it took to realize Wenger is still authorized to make decisions, not just pout and look pretty in his totally hep jackets. I really like Rosicky, and have pushed for their changing formation to include him and/or Yossi, so it bugs me to see the half-assed way in which he was included in a side with Theo still set up to break quickly down the wing - the failure of which is sure to land on the "ineffectiveness" of Rosicky. Milan on the other hand just as unwatchable as ever, even without Borneo runaway Seedorf uglying up the MF possession, a team whose victories I am endlessly at a loss to explain.
2 excellent Europa matches tonight, Atletico - Lazio and a foreboding Stoke phalanx against Valencia in what are 3 sets of 4-2-3-1's and 1 10-0-0. Falcao has grown on me this season, he's gradually vertically backward integrated from his striker position to almost exactly the role Forlan played. Adrian from right wing ends up further forward than him on the overlap for the most part, and Arda on the other side has joined Gabi as my favorite player on the team. Boo hiss Dismal Diego. Exactly the kind of sentence that ensures he scores 2 and assists 1 tonight. Still Dismal Diego in my books. Despite their great defensive record under Simeone, Lazio have the perfect set up to score against them - with Ledesma, Hernanes, and Alvaro all lurking majorly only on the right side, and conversely Kasmirski for Atletico almost always being out of his LB position way up field, wit Arda tucking in much tighter in center making their left flank very porous theoretically at least...... I'm up for a nicely played 0-0, though have a sneaky feeling godforsaken Lazio might steal a 1-0 down Atletico's left.
Prediction jinxage and insistent doom and gloom whispers in ear dictate I not preview the Valencia game, too much of this season's success has boiled down to the Europa, though I'm secretly harboring ambitions of overtaking Barca in 2nd, weekend mammoth fixture will tell. But for tonight, anything less than 70% possession and 3 goal advantage is practically a loss... while a draw or loss is.... the kind of thing that makes me want to think out my sentences more carefully. Hoping they scrap the 4-2-3-1 and go with 3 across MF, on recent evidence it doesn't look likely. So let the countdwon benign. Kant weight.
2 excellent Europa matches tonight, Atletico - Lazio and a foreboding Stoke phalanx against Valencia in what are 3 sets of 4-2-3-1's and 1 10-0-0. Falcao has grown on me this season, he's gradually vertically backward integrated from his striker position to almost exactly the role Forlan played. Adrian from right wing ends up further forward than him on the overlap for the most part, and Arda on the other side has joined Gabi as my favorite player on the team. Boo hiss Dismal Diego. Exactly the kind of sentence that ensures he scores 2 and assists 1 tonight. Still Dismal Diego in my books. Despite their great defensive record under Simeone, Lazio have the perfect set up to score against them - with Ledesma, Hernanes, and Alvaro all lurking majorly only on the right side, and conversely Kasmirski for Atletico almost always being out of his LB position way up field, wit Arda tucking in much tighter in center making their left flank very porous theoretically at least...... I'm up for a nicely played 0-0, though have a sneaky feeling godforsaken Lazio might steal a 1-0 down Atletico's left.
Prediction jinxage and insistent doom and gloom whispers in ear dictate I not preview the Valencia game, too much of this season's success has boiled down to the Europa, though I'm secretly harboring ambitions of overtaking Barca in 2nd, weekend mammoth fixture will tell. But for tonight, anything less than 70% possession and 3 goal advantage is practically a loss... while a draw or loss is.... the kind of thing that makes me want to think out my sentences more carefully. Hoping they scrap the 4-2-3-1 and go with 3 across MF, on recent evidence it doesn't look likely. So let the countdwon benign. Kant weight.
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