There is light at the end of the tunnel, even with this squad we have, that's capable of turning things around, and MAYBE have some chance of winning the cup. In a similar fashion to how we revived ourselves in February last season, we can do the same again, but it basically comes down to picking the right players, and leaving the rubbish out. Last season our turn around really came about with the introduction of an in form Rosicky to the starting 11 on a regular basis, the guy wasn't injured last season, but Ramsey kept being preferred to Rosicky, contrary to what many fans wanted. Thankfully, his form hasn't rubbed off with his lay off. Rosicky's return led to the demotion of Ramsey in midfield, and that had an immediate and positive effect on our midfield last season. Rosicky made things happen, his movement, play, all combined to make our midfield look very sharp and effective. Even Gervinho didn't have much of a part to play in our revival, he was on the bench, and then eventually injured, which allowed others, like Benayoun, and Chamberlain to take a place in the starting 11, which helped us. And at the end of the day, it's going to come down to the same thing again this season. As long as we continue going into games starting with the likes of Ramsey and Gervinho, we will suffer. These 2 men do not deserve to play for Arsenal, they're not good enough. Ramsey should never start ahead of Rosicky, and Chamberlain and Podolski must ALWAYS start ahead of Gervinho, and hopefully with the addition of a new creative middle man in January, will strengthen our options in that area. People might think it's only 2 players, having 2 rubbish-useless players in the team, to be replaced by 2 quality players in the team, can make ALL the difference. Case in point, RVP, he was just 1 player, but look what he did for us. Imagine for example, that we had to rely on Chamakh last season, rather than RVP, scary though right? But as you see, it's just one player, Chamakh-RVP, all it takes is one player in place of a useless player to make things happen. Gervinho missed an open goal vs Bradford, had we had a quality player there, such as Podolski, or anyone with quality, they'd have scored it, and we would've been 1-1, and gone on to win the game. So you see, 1-2 quality players over 1-2 average **** heads, makes a MASSIVE difference to the team. And it's not just 2 players, Santos should never step onto a pitch for Arsenal again. If we stop playing these average players, I can see us turning things around, but if we persist with them, I can see us continuing the same disapointing trend we've been heading in. Thank God though, Gervinho's been called up for the African Nations Cup, hopefully by the time he returns, we will have someone occupying the left midfield spot, for him to not be needed.
I see you're on your usual ramble about Ramsey & Gervinho.How about criticising Cazorla & Vermaelen for their pathetic attempts at penalties on Tuesday.
Excuse me? But Vermaelen got us back into the game. They were unfortunate to miss penalties, but that's penalties. Cazorla was also very good in the game, his corner led to Vermaelen's goal, not to mention he also hit the post. If Gervinho scored from AN OPEN GOAL POSITION, then we would've never went to penalties, how about you concentrate on that, if you want to talk about 'pathetic', Gervinho and Ramsey sum up the meaning of pathetic.
They weren't unfortunate to miss penalties at all,Vermaelen couldn't even get the ball on target from 12yds which is criminal and Cazorla's was a pathetic attempt.By the way Cazorla hit the bar not the post.
And just so everyone can visualise it: [video=youtube;BKwnFU4wvaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKwnFU4wvaQ[/video]
If Gervinho didn't miss an open goal, it would've never gone to penalties, obviously you fail to grasp that. Missing a penalty in a shootout is far different than missing an open goal from a few yards out, the fact you don't see that, shows how you don't even understand football, or it displays the low depths you will stoop to, to continue your defence of the abysmal that exists at this club.
And btw genius, as I said, Vermaelen scored for us, if he didn't score, it'd never have even gone to penalties. Vermaelen and Cazorla combined, were the only reason we were still in the game. If the useless forehead did his job, to score from a few yards out, into an open goal, the game would've been won by us. But remain blind, and in denial, it doesn't matter, most Arsenal fans acknowledge Gervinho to be both rubbish, and ****.
Nah, don't tell that to him, missing a penalty in a shoot out, is comparable and more 'pathetic' than Gervinho's open goal miss.
Btw gooner, I see you didn't respond to my substantial points, that Ramsey and forehead didn't play any major role in our revival last season, but it was precisely the introduction of Rosicky, in Ramsey's midfield position, that helped us greatly.
Gooner, will now say both Messi and Ronaldo also open miss open goal chances sometimes, ignoring the fact that Messi has scored 87 goals this year, and Ronaldo scores 40 plus goals for Madrid. Messi and Ronaldo missing an open goal is a glitch, everyone makes a mistake, their goal records show that. Gervinho missing an open goal is an indication of how rubbish he is.
Arsenal87 has a point, it's unfair to criticize players over missing penalties. Messi missed the penalty against Chelsea in the CL semi-finals last season that would've ended that 2nd leg and put Barca through but he hit the crossbar. It happens to the best players. Ramsey and Gervinho (especially the latter) were beyond terrible. It's criminal to miss an open goal from a few yards out, missing a penalty isn't.
Gooner will stoop to any low depth to defend everything that's wrong with this club. He'll soon be making comparisons between Gervinho and Ronaldo, arguing Ronaldo had a tough time in United before he became one of the world's best, LOL.
Understandable that he would fail to grasp that, as it's illogical. It would have made the score 1-1 and would have changed the complexity of the next 50+ minutes of the game.
The complexity of the game would've been there for us to take, Bradford offered nothing in the second half, their legs were gone.
