Arsenal : Reason to be Positive
Posted by Young'un in Arsenal, Bolton, Man United | 10 January 2009
Many Arsenal fans must be feeling pretty depressed. 2008 being a year to forget, as The Gunners threw away a 5 point lead at the top of the Premier League, as well as, in some pundit's opinions, slipping out of the title race this campaign. But there are some positive signs. Take recent results; the last three for example. Arsenal 1-0 Portsmouth; Arsenal 3-1 Plymouth; Arsenal 1-0 Bolton. You'd look at those results and think negatively. A mate said to me "Pompey have sold their best players, we were at home, we should be smashing them." A reasonable statement but you've got to look at the plus points. The last three games we've not played well but still managed to get the results needed. In the last couple of seasons we have not been able to do that. We could play teams off the park but go home frustrated with a point. Now, we're taking all three, albeit in a scrappy, unattractive matter, and it's a sign of a good team.
Arsenal have been nowhere near their best this season, but then you've got to think of it as if there's the best yet to come. Manchester United always come to life in the second half of the season and I think The Gunners will as well. In the double winning campaign of 01/02 we were 12 points I think behind the leaders but obviously came back to win the title.
There is Eduardo to come back soon, and the Croatian is one of if not the deadliest striker in the Premier League. Of course you have to take into account that he won't be at his best for a couple of months but just having him avaliable will be a huge boost. Van Persie has stayed injury free and we are benefiting from it. He's top scorer and is consistently putting in good performances for the team. Walcott is also returning soon which gives us another dimension as well as the creative flair of Rosicky and Fabregas; but their comebacks will be in the rather distant future. Wenger seems to ahve recognised the need for players to come in, and if someone like Arshavin does join, then we've got even more in our arsenal (excuse the pun).
When we're at our flowing best, we're unplayable; as we proved against United, who now hold the 'World Champions' title remember. Arshavin has the quality to plug the gap left by Fabregas' injury, and provides more goals than the inspirational spaniard, something you could well be right in thinking that we have been lacking recently. We got a good draw in the Champions League, I'd expect us to progress past Roma and then who knows? Maybe we could go all the way.
You have to remember that we're still in a transition period. Even the 'great' United were from 2003-2006. They slipped slightly down the league during that time just as we are at the moment. But like our northern rivals, we have bags of talent waiting in the wings and soon they will explode onto the scene and Arsenal will be back where they belong: top of the pile.
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Comments
If you think back we'd win the big games and lose to the minnows. Whilst our performances of late have not been crowd pleasers, we've still managed to come away with a wins. So I agree, we have much to be positive about.
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