arsenal 3-0 wigan
i am very amused by what ray wilkins, the assistant at chelsea said. he claimed that us fielding youngsters undermine the value of the carling up.
first of all, i think we respect football more than chelsea ever has.
he forgot that with our youth team, we actually reached the carling cup final and semi-final in the past 2 years. and in the final, our youngsters could hold their heads high against the stars of chelsea.
if he respects the competition, as he claims, then why are chelsea planning to rest lampard and anelka? why don't you field your best team?
there are only two teams in england that have 25 players of the same calibre: chelsea and liverpool. but the standard at chelsea is of course higher. that is why chelsea can play their reserves and yet say they are respecting the competition because they are fielding their best players. there is little difference between anelka and drogba, who has sort of become the 'reserve'.
we don't have reserves who are of the same age and quality as the first team. because our squad is already thin, we have to be realistic.
the fact is that we don't have your oil money to buy 10 players to sit on the bench and play in the carling cup. so we use our youth players. if you look at it closely, most of the players who started yesterday are on the bench for the "normal" games. which is basically what chelsea will be doing themselves.
what chelsea have forgotten is that before man city came along, they were the common enemy in england. they were the team who were seen to have bought their way to success. the by-product is that they have players on the bench who could ahve walked into any first team in england- belletti, ballack, drogba, cole, mikel, ferreira etc. like i say, they have a squad of 25 players of the same quality, almost at least.
that is why i was also amazed that people could gush about the chelsea reserves when they comprehensively demolished boro a while back. those were no reserves. those were players good enough to be first team players elsewhere. it is true, chelsea could field two teams that could compete in england. but what is there to gush about? if the players are expected to be good, they should perform- no surprises.
i think the reason why wilkins talked so much was because he was jealous.
we want to win it, but we want our young players to win it. and they may just have the ability to win it.
naive mistakes were made yesterday. but i saw football that brought a smile back to me, back to everyone who was watching. it was football back to its roots, football without inhibition, simple, joyous football.
in the 73rd minute, a throughball was just too far for vela. he decelerated, turned back to the passer, grinned and put up a thumbs-up sign.
it is something we have forgotten.
i think we were looking at 3 future legends of arsenal- vela, ramsey and wilshere.
i love watching these 3 play, because they will get the ball, beat their marker and play it. they don't try to do too much. technique, speed, strength, intelligence- they possess all four qualities.
watching them, i sometimes wonder if these youngsters are more likely to score than their seniors, because they seem to have an incisiveness that the seniors lack. and they can and dare to shoot. vela, merida, wilshere, ramsey all had good attempts from long range. even the leftback gibbs. and the attack was free-flowing. you couldnt really tell who was playing on the left or on the right, because they were always swopping positions.
and when jay simpson poked that first goal in, i was wondering if adebayor could ever do something like that. predatory instincts. that was just his second shot and he scored. against a very outstanding kirkland, who probably should have been the man of the match, because of the way he saved wigan so many times despite clearly struggling with some injury.
and vela has this guts about him that van persie has since lost. you look at the four goals he has scored: he is not afraid to go in for a 50-50 ball, get out with the ball and go on to keep his cool to put it into the net.
this guy loves his football.
a team averaging 19 years of age that comprehensively saw off 2 senior teams with football that chelsea would never be able to play without their money- are you trying to kid me when you say we don't respect the competition?
first of all, i think we respect football more than chelsea ever has.
he forgot that with our youth team, we actually reached the carling cup final and semi-final in the past 2 years. and in the final, our youngsters could hold their heads high against the stars of chelsea.
if he respects the competition, as he claims, then why are chelsea planning to rest lampard and anelka? why don't you field your best team?
there are only two teams in england that have 25 players of the same calibre: chelsea and liverpool. but the standard at chelsea is of course higher. that is why chelsea can play their reserves and yet say they are respecting the competition because they are fielding their best players. there is little difference between anelka and drogba, who has sort of become the 'reserve'.
we don't have reserves who are of the same age and quality as the first team. because our squad is already thin, we have to be realistic.
the fact is that we don't have your oil money to buy 10 players to sit on the bench and play in the carling cup. so we use our youth players. if you look at it closely, most of the players who started yesterday are on the bench for the "normal" games. which is basically what chelsea will be doing themselves.
what chelsea have forgotten is that before man city came along, they were the common enemy in england. they were the team who were seen to have bought their way to success. the by-product is that they have players on the bench who could ahve walked into any first team in england- belletti, ballack, drogba, cole, mikel, ferreira etc. like i say, they have a squad of 25 players of the same quality, almost at least.
that is why i was also amazed that people could gush about the chelsea reserves when they comprehensively demolished boro a while back. those were no reserves. those were players good enough to be first team players elsewhere. it is true, chelsea could field two teams that could compete in england. but what is there to gush about? if the players are expected to be good, they should perform- no surprises.
i think the reason why wilkins talked so much was because he was jealous.
we want to win it, but we want our young players to win it. and they may just have the ability to win it.
naive mistakes were made yesterday. but i saw football that brought a smile back to me, back to everyone who was watching. it was football back to its roots, football without inhibition, simple, joyous football.
in the 73rd minute, a throughball was just too far for vela. he decelerated, turned back to the passer, grinned and put up a thumbs-up sign.
it is something we have forgotten.
i think we were looking at 3 future legends of arsenal- vela, ramsey and wilshere.
i love watching these 3 play, because they will get the ball, beat their marker and play it. they don't try to do too much. technique, speed, strength, intelligence- they possess all four qualities.
watching them, i sometimes wonder if these youngsters are more likely to score than their seniors, because they seem to have an incisiveness that the seniors lack. and they can and dare to shoot. vela, merida, wilshere, ramsey all had good attempts from long range. even the leftback gibbs. and the attack was free-flowing. you couldnt really tell who was playing on the left or on the right, because they were always swopping positions.
and when jay simpson poked that first goal in, i was wondering if adebayor could ever do something like that. predatory instincts. that was just his second shot and he scored. against a very outstanding kirkland, who probably should have been the man of the match, because of the way he saved wigan so many times despite clearly struggling with some injury.
and vela has this guts about him that van persie has since lost. you look at the four goals he has scored: he is not afraid to go in for a 50-50 ball, get out with the ball and go on to keep his cool to put it into the net.
this guy loves his football.
a team averaging 19 years of age that comprehensively saw off 2 senior teams with football that chelsea would never be able to play without their money- are you trying to kid me when you say we don't respect the competition?
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