A glimmer of hope + Wigan Preview
encouraging:
I never said that he will be my long-term No.1. He is a great goalkeeper and he is in competition with Lukasz Fabianski. So I want to see how we finish now so I don’t think it is the best
period to talk about individual players.
It’s disappointing to see Fabianski mentioned in that sentence, I think most of us want an entirely new, world class keeper, but Fabianski could be pretty good. By all accounts he’s amazing in
training, his only problem is nerves, and I think that that could be overcome with a solid preseason and a number of flukey saves in the first match against Chelsea.
Our GK situation is pretty strange one. Our no.1 is not fit to be a no.1, but we (presumably) dare not get a better GK because we have three very promising youngsters coming through. A good
solution to this problem would be to get an old, but still world class keeper for a season or two, while grooming our other keepers, and then bring the best one through. Of course, I don’t know
whether such a keeper exists today.
There’s some other interesting stuff as well, about Sol, Cesc, Chamakh and new ‘deals’. You read that right, apparently there are “deals” taking place right now. Multiple ones. Chamakh seems to
be a certainty, but one or two other ones seem to be negotiating, although knowing Wenger, he could be talking about Gallas and Merida resigning. All very interesting, but Wenger said that he’ll
announce any ‘deals’ after the season is over, so we’ll stop right here.
Yesterdays results: It was disappointing to see Manu get a last minute win over City. I thought City would win the match, but even with 200m and the world’s largest collection of strikers, they
still couldn’t beat the weakest Manu side in many, many years. They didn’t even manage to score against them. They did manage to lose in the last minute though.
Chelsea lost by the same scoreline that we lost, but while Tottenham played marginally worse as compared to how they played against us (although they still played pretty well), Chelsea very
pretty awful. If Pavlyuchenko had not been so bad, they could have lost 4-1, and their morale and GD would both have taken a battering. Still, I can’t complain, Chelsea lost. If we win against
Wigan, then we’ll be just 3 points behind them, and 2 behind Manu. We will be right back in it, especially with Manu still to visit Bale and co.
Ordinarily, we’d still require Manu to slip up once, and Chelsea to fall down twice, but as I said yesterday, if we really hammer Wigan today, then we could feasibly win it on goal difference.
And we really hammered teams when RvP was playing. RvP is a really, really good player who is really, really under rated. Wenger said that if he had been fit, then he would have been talked in
the same breath as Messi, CR9, Rooney and Cesc, and he’s right. RvP is something really special. He’s like Bergkamp, in that they both have amazing technique, except RvP’s technique is inferior
to Bergkamp’s, but he’s much more prolific.
Right on to Wigan; after all, if we don’t win today, then our chances of winning it will decrease dramatically again, and this time they will reach near zero.
Denilson is a doubt. Sol might not be up to playing so soon after Wednesday’s energy sapping performance, Sylvestre will certainly be playing and Rosicky will be tired after Wednesday, so we have
a lot of injury worries, but what else is new? The bottom line is that we still have more than enough quality to finish Wigan off.
Not much of a match preview today, but there’s not too much to talk about I think. Win, and we have a chance of major silverware. Lose/draw, and that goes out of the window.
Until tomorrow, and a probably a 10-0 hammering of Wigan Pathetic with a super 6 goals by RvP, each one better than the last, and the rest coming from Fabregas’s broken foot, Bendtner’s head,
Diaby’s curling shot and a spectacular own goal by that pink-haired moron, Scharner
