amsterdam tournament
with a stroke of fortune, i found myself watching the amsterdam tournament last night.my only complaint is that the media is bloody lousy, because they got the timing wrong, and i missed the first 20 minutes of the arsenal game.
in truth, we could have been killed if they were sharper. but we won 2-1 in the end. and i am very sure eduardo was the one who scored the winner, not zauri. i am still amused that the commentator kept saying it was a zauri own goal.
well, it was just that important that eduardo scores in amsterdam.
what i like about bendtner is that he seems calm enough to score and try something different as well. there was once when eduardo flicked him through. he was offside, but he still slotted the ball into the far post. coolly done. and the other was when he was inside the box, on the right, shaping to shoot when he crossed the ball to the otehr side for an unmarked clichy. the idea was there, but the execution was not good enough. he should have dropped the ball in front for clichy to blast or head home, not to clichy's feet. especially since clichy is a left-footer. clichy shot straight at the keeper. but you must still applaud the move. and of course, back at the emirates, he chested the ball into flamini's path for flamini to put arsenal ahead against psg. and he has scored two quick-reaction poacher goals. so, all in all, quite promising indeed.
what i don't like is that i thought hoyte was caught out of position quite a few times, and song was caught in possession a few times as well, in dangerous positions. flamini was guilty of that on one particularly dangerous occasion. all in all, the teamplay wasn't as fluent as you would have liked, frankly. and the defence let almunia did a bit more work than expected. but when you look at it, traore, senderos, hoyte, djourou are all still very young. i suspect their average age is only 21. age shouldn't be an excuse, but it's still a factor after all. and i thought almunia doesn't look like the almunia i know. of course i think he changed his hair colour, but he seemed more assured nowadays. still, he must start keeping clean sheets as well.
hoyte missed a glorious opportunity to score. van persie was in a similar position as he was when he scored the winner against inter, but he found, i think it was rosicky. but rosicky didn't shoot, though he was quite open. he passed it into hoyte's path. hoyte from a tight angle hit the far post.
the commentator said something about arsenal guilty of trying to walk the ball in too often last season.
well, you would have thought i was frustrated that they did it again. i wasn't, really. in fact, i found that i was frustrated that hoyte could hit the post. i never thought: hey, what the hell is the rightback doing on the left side of the box? i just marvelled that he was there. i wasn't frustrated with the decisions made, just the final execution of hoyte's finish.
which leads me to van persie. it is all about style, style, style, he said. i think on that, we are on the same wavelength.
"Yes they are young and young people make mistakes, but that does not really matter - like in love, age does not matter.”
in truth, we could have been killed if they were sharper. but we won 2-1 in the end. and i am very sure eduardo was the one who scored the winner, not zauri. i am still amused that the commentator kept saying it was a zauri own goal.
well, it was just that important that eduardo scores in amsterdam.
what i like about bendtner is that he seems calm enough to score and try something different as well. there was once when eduardo flicked him through. he was offside, but he still slotted the ball into the far post. coolly done. and the other was when he was inside the box, on the right, shaping to shoot when he crossed the ball to the otehr side for an unmarked clichy. the idea was there, but the execution was not good enough. he should have dropped the ball in front for clichy to blast or head home, not to clichy's feet. especially since clichy is a left-footer. clichy shot straight at the keeper. but you must still applaud the move. and of course, back at the emirates, he chested the ball into flamini's path for flamini to put arsenal ahead against psg. and he has scored two quick-reaction poacher goals. so, all in all, quite promising indeed.
what i don't like is that i thought hoyte was caught out of position quite a few times, and song was caught in possession a few times as well, in dangerous positions. flamini was guilty of that on one particularly dangerous occasion. all in all, the teamplay wasn't as fluent as you would have liked, frankly. and the defence let almunia did a bit more work than expected. but when you look at it, traore, senderos, hoyte, djourou are all still very young. i suspect their average age is only 21. age shouldn't be an excuse, but it's still a factor after all. and i thought almunia doesn't look like the almunia i know. of course i think he changed his hair colour, but he seemed more assured nowadays. still, he must start keeping clean sheets as well.
hoyte missed a glorious opportunity to score. van persie was in a similar position as he was when he scored the winner against inter, but he found, i think it was rosicky. but rosicky didn't shoot, though he was quite open. he passed it into hoyte's path. hoyte from a tight angle hit the far post.
the commentator said something about arsenal guilty of trying to walk the ball in too often last season.
well, you would have thought i was frustrated that they did it again. i wasn't, really. in fact, i found that i was frustrated that hoyte could hit the post. i never thought: hey, what the hell is the rightback doing on the left side of the box? i just marvelled that he was there. i wasn't frustrated with the decisions made, just the final execution of hoyte's finish.
which leads me to van persie. it is all about style, style, style, he said. i think on that, we are on the same wavelength.
"Yes they are young and young people make mistakes, but that does not really matter - like in love, age does not matter.”
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