一篇來自外國阿仙奴球迷的文章
Vieira was Arsenal's midfield for 9 yearsBy Myles Palmer
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GILBERTO is a nice guy who cannot tackle.
Everyone knows it.
He can't tackle.
He admits he can't tackle.
It's not his game.
But for most of Arsenal's Premiership games, it's been Fabregas and Gilberto in central midfield.
With two strikers and two "wide" men who cut in and make passes and runs.
At Newcastle, the inevitable happened.
Gilberto made a clumsy challenge and was booked.
Then he made another clumsy challenge was sent off for two yellows.
Both cards were harsh.
But they happened because Gilberto cannot tackle.
Then Arsenal lost to a late Solano shot.
What's wrong with Arsenal?
THE MIDFIELD !
They need a captain and a midfield.
The back five is the same back five that went 49 games unbeaten, pretty much.
Jens Lehman is better than ever. The best keeper in the Premiership this season.
LAUREN did well at left back against Ajax and Newcastle.
Senderos was fantastic in both games.
Lauren can tackle.
He would improve central midfield.
Why is the midfield so weak?
Because Edu and Vieira were not replaced.
Gilberto was a good partner for Vieira.
But without Vieira he is lost.
Vieira carried Gilberto for three years and made him a viable Arsenal player.
Without Vieira, Gilberto is exposed, an embarrassment.
Gilberto needs a minder.
But he's playing with a kid whose skeleton is still developing, and the kid needs a minder.
Cesc Fabregas is the best 18-year old midfielder I've seen for 35 years. Since Alan Hudson.
Fabregas is Arsenal's best midfield player by a mile.
But he should not be carrying a threadbare midfield at his age.
Patrick Vieira made Petit look good.
He made Grimandi and Parlour look good. He took short balls from Sol. He could find Bergkamp blindfolded. He had a nine-year relationship with Bergkamp, a five or six-year relationship with Henry, Pires and Ljungberg.
If you sell him, you rip away all the relationships which make the team tick.
Selling Vieira was the biggest mistake Arsenal have made since 1973 when they sold Frank McLintock to QPR.
Frank was not finished.
He led QPR to second place in 1976 while Arsenal were 17th with 36 points from 42 games.
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...............to be continue.... IN THE SUMMER I thought selling Vieira was the right move.
But Vieira was the heart, the linchpin, the pivot of the team.
Yes, he had declined.He was only 70% of what he was in 2002.
But after five months without Vieira we can all see that PV4 was still an irreplaceable backbone, the big wheel that kept the engine working.
And Arsene needed two experienced internationals to replace the big man.
Instead, he got the teenage Song on loan.
WATCHING NEWCASTLE, I was thinking how much they needed Grimandi, rather than how much they missed Vieira. Because Grimandi was a bit like Scott Parker.
JULIO BAPTISTA rumours?
Having watched Baptista play for Real Madrid last night, he is not the answer.
Baptista is far too ponderous to play for Arsenal.
Some of us were baffled when Arsene persuaded Freddie Ljungberg and Gilberto to sign new four-year deals.
Freddie has scored one goal this season. Against Ajax in September.
Like Overmars, Ljungberg is good when he is scoring goals.
When he is not scoring you wonder why he is there.
WE KNOW that 2003 to 2006 was always gonna be a stretch, financially.
And we know that the club is focused on making money out of every deal in the Emirates Stadium.
But AFC needs Champions League football next season and they won't achieve that without a midfield and without defensive cover.
Kolo Toure goes to the African Cup of Nations for a month, we assume.
SATURDAY NIGHT we went to a party and Willie, an Arsenal season-ticket holder for 45 years, asked if I'd seen how angry Arsene was in the TV interview.
I hadn't. I have it on video but haven't watched it.
Sure, Shearer's assault on Sol Campbell should have been a red card.
But Arsenal lost because they have been rumbled.
Teams copy Bolton now.They have all jumped on the Bolton bandwagon.
They know Arsenal don't like a physical game, they know Vieira has gone, so they get aggressive and it works.
Arsenal are managed by an idealist who complains about rough stuff and says football should be entertainment.
Well, that's naive. It says nothing on a football ticket about entertainment. Never has done. Not in 1888, 1948, 1971, or 1998.
Fans want to see their team win.
Football is about players, and professional football is about winning.
Yes, of course Arsene's teams have amazed us with their beautiful game.They've taken three titles off Man United by playing stylish football with phenomenal athleticism.
But the formula has been rumbled.
And Arsene is still doing what Tony Adams begged him not to do.
He is still playing both Pires and Ljungberg away from home.
When neither is the player he was.
And playing those two with Fabregas-Gilberto is suicidal.
It's madness.
It's a strange brand of self-defeating stubbornness.
I cannot figure out why he does it.
Is he the radical cleric of attacking football?
Thousands of people are in awe of Arsene and bow down to the ayatollah and say, "Arsene knows !"
TONY ADAMS is not there to argue with him any more.
David Dein ain't gonna tell him.
Danny Fiszman ain't gonna tell him.
Pat Rice, a shy man, will continue to be shy.
Bora Primorac does what Arsene wants.
Thierry ain't gonna tell him.
Henry Winter ain't gonna tell him.
Who can tell him?
Who will tell him : "Switch it around, put Kolo in there, put Lauren in there, buy two 26-years olds who can tackle, don't persevere with what you have done in September, October and November and half of December because it cannot work. It is killing the club. Forget about the Champions League, that is a ridiculous fantasy, it's irrelevant ! Focus on finishing second. Buy players now who can help you finish second. Buy players who can cover the injuries you will get after Xmas, or before. Arsenal needed Scott Parker at St James's Park. If Parker had been playing for Arsenal we would have won."
BASICALLY, Arsenal have been living a lie all season.
They've played some nice stuff and beaten weak opposition.
But they have not beaten a good team all season.
FC Thun?
Sparta Prague?
That's the worst Sparta Prague team I've ever seen.
They've already lost to WBA, Middlesbrough and Bolton.
And on Saturday they played an average Newcastle side and lost 1-0.
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佢講d野好中point. 唔係Vieira太重要,
而係無適當既替補.... Originally posted by Zero at 13-12-2005 12:27:
唔係Vieira太重要,
而係無適當既替補.... 就係因為沒適當既替補,所以至顯得佢既重要:icon105: pity that Arsenal missed Edgar Davids:icon021: 中的… marco:icon101: 應該簽堅尼嘛:icon101: Originally posted by yuren at 13-12-2005 02:21 PM:
應該簽堅尼嘛:icon101:
堅尼唔想係英超...:icon101: Originally posted by yuren at 2005-12-13 02:21 PM:
應該簽堅尼嘛:icon101:
難以接受死敵的前隊長來投.
我都係鍾意加維臣多d.
[ Last edited by 中場指揮官 on 13-12-2005 at 02:29 PM ]
If Parker had been playing for Arsenal we would have won
其實我都季初都幾想
不過車仔肯先奇啦 :( 呢兩個weeks唔係香港, 一場波都無睇到
阿仙奴就.... 0-2 Bolton, 0-0 Ajax, 0-1 Newcastle
可唔可以簡單講下點解會搞成咁 :icon116: Originally posted by 中場指揮官 at 2005-12-13 11:57:
BASICALLY, Arsenal have been living a lie all season.
They've played some nice stuff and beaten weak opposition.
But they have not beaten a good team all season.
FC Thun?
Sparta Prague?
That's the worst Sparta Prague team I've ever seen.
非常認同
旺熱同龍格堡都講過話今年歐聯係最大機會贏
個時睇到呢d報導已經知大獲...
我地打o左4場就出線... 係絕對正常o既事
唔值得有咩特別高興 難得我仲有fd話阿仙奴係歐冠五連勝係實力既表現:icon023: 其實我真係唔太知阿仙奴中場有咩後備......
Flamini ? Hleb ? 仲有邊個 ?
:icon101: Originally posted by 駿次郎 at 2005-12-14 12:24 AM:
呢兩個weeks唔係香港, 一場波都無睇到
阿仙奴就.... 0-2 Bolton, 0-0 Ajax, 0-1 Newcastle
可唔可以簡單講下點解會搞成咁 :icon116:
bolton: 受制對方壓迫性踢法.
ajax: 出左一半年青球員,亨利炒pk.
newcastle: 上半場有機會把握唔到,下半場形勢逆轉兼打少個. Originally posted by jerrycantona at 2005-12-14 03:24 AM:
其實我真係唔太知阿仙奴中場有咩後備......
Flamini ? Hleb ? 仲有邊個 ?
:icon101:
冇喇.:icon110: Originally posted by 中場指揮官 at 2005-12-14 04:18 PM:
bolton: 受制對方壓迫性踢法.
ajax: 出左一半年青球員,亨利炒pk.
newcastle: 上半場有機會把握唔到,下半場形勢逆轉兼打少個.
bolton: henry差d可以屈番兩球,可惜兩球都中柱:icon101: Originally posted by Sol_Campbell at 2005-12-14 18:05:
bolton: henry差d可以屈番兩球,可惜兩球都中柱:icon101:
記得Henry 唔記得邊球中柱個波彈番去Pires 面前無遠 ,仲諗住佢執硬
點知Pires 唔知搞咩 ,出碎步行過去咁:icon101: ,行得鬼咁慢 ,結果就連雞都執唔到:icon063::icon101: Originally posted by TAMTOM at 2005-12-14 18:10:
記得Henry 唔記得邊球中柱個波彈番去Pires 面前無遠 ,仲諗住佢執硬
點知Pires 唔知搞咩 ,出碎步行過去咁:icon101: ,行得鬼咁慢 ,結果就連雞都執唔到:icon063::icon101:
連12碼都懶得踢啦佢 :icon101: