Arsenal: Winning isn't everything
Posted by Martin in Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Chelsea, Jose Mourinho | 26 February 2007
Before the game on Sunday, myself and a few gooners discussed how we saw the end result.
Whilst none of us could agree on the score line (unfortunately I got that right, so its' all my fault), we all agreed that Arsene couldn't lose.
Should Arsenal win, then what does that say about Chelsea, their millions and not being able to defeat a very young and somewhat immature side.
Lose (providing by a small margin) and the youngsters would have experienced what it's like to play in a cup final, they'll have the hunger to win next time, and their performance would probably put Chelsea to shame.
So, it was the latter!
All credit to the team it was a pretty close thing. In the first half Chelsea weren't that convincing, we could argue about the off-side decision and it's wasn't till towards the end of the match that Chelsea really started to show their strength. Even with Lampard, Drogba, Cech, Terry, Ballack etc etc we still managed to hold our own.
So despite not winning, what we saw was huge potential for the future. O.k so we may not realise that this season, and maybe not even next but with the likes of Fabregas, Adebayor, Denilson, Walcott, Diaby etc etc playing as they did on Sunday, then we can only go from strength to strength.
Whilst Wenger is doing a great job bringing in young and talented players and developing them, Mourinho can only look on in admiration.
So we may have lost on the day, but we'll see who comes through in the long term!
Comments
Like your article suggests I really didnt't know which way the game would go, feeling that if we lost so what, it's only our infants playing against Chelsea arguably one of the best sides in Europe. Today I feel absolutely gutted, because do you know we should have won the match. The so called experts telling anybody who wanted to listen that Arsene was devalueing our game and that the only way we could win was to play with our 'best eleven'. I felt priviliged to have seen the infants play complete, beautiful football and making it look so easy. Summing the game up you could say, that the infants won the battle but experience won the war.
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