Sol Campbell, a bolt of 35 years
On Wednesday one of the big outstanding figures returned to Premier League: Sulzeer Jeremiah ‘Sun‘ Campbell. The English defender was a key piece in the champion Arsenal of the period 2003-2004 and he gained himself the respect of the gunners in spite of coming from his maximum rival, the Tottenham. Of course, when his yield began to diminish in the center of the rear there were not late the fans of the Arsenal to criticize him and to put him in the eye of the hurricane. His march to the Porsmouth after the Arsenal was losing the final of the Champions League (where, certainly, he was the author of the only goal of the gunners and first of the final) was not for the big door, precisely. But now, Arsène Wenger has not hesitated to recover him.
Before Aston Villa, the head office of the North-East of London moved forward his reappearance on having had to replace the injured person Vermealen to the half an hour of party, forming couple in the rear with Gallas. Campbell’s performance impressed me pleasantly, before a team very slippery and rapid rival to the counterattack. It was very agile in the cut, rapid and reliable at the time of catching air balls and understood each other very well with his couple in the center of the rear and with Clichy, side titular lefthander of the London set. At his 35 years Campbell keeps on demonstrating (at least to me) that can play at a big level defending the area of a big club like the Arsenal, that this period fights against Chelsea and Manchester United for the Premier.
I continue with the Arsenal because I would like commenting on the game that the team of Wenger is opening. In the equator of the big Leagues in Europe, I extract the conclusion that presently only Barca and Arsenal are developing a soccer of possession, of touch and of combination. The fault, for this way saying it, two brains of the respective teams take her as Xavi and Cesc Fàbregas. The emigrant Catalan to London is in one of his best moments and not of to grow. Before the villains it covered a ball with stars in the post after a big move with scandal dissimulation incluída. It defended, created, organized and was the best of theirs again. The Arsenal in England is the antithesis of the profile of game of the Premier: for lack of physical force it does not run, creates.
I am glad for Campbell’s return, because there reinforces one of the most balanced defenses of the European soccer, with two exceptional wings (Sagna and Clichy) and a brilliant couple of head offices in the cut and solid in the air game. After a few years of an Arsenal replete with questions, we are present at an improved version to which he lacks another scorer to be able to reach a big period. The injury of Van Persie, excellent partner of Arshavin, it was the worst news for the gunners.
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