Arsenal's Starts with demolition excercise in Emirates!

Gunners started with a brilliant 4-1 win in the Emirates stadium. Arsenal found ball sticking to their foot. Portsmouth did all they could and made few sensible subs too. No one could make any impact and with the lone goal from Kaboul which could be described as an exceptional header from the old defender.

Arsenal started with two good goals from Diaby, one from Gallas and another from Ramsey. Gallas had scored in all the three matches this season and seems like in quite a form. Fabregas was substituted with Ramsey after the half time break. Ramsey did very well with his clean tackles and powerful playmaking. Later in the match we saw Merida and Bendtner coming in for Arshavin and Eduardo. Eduardo was deadly with dribbling and ball control. He had created the first goal for Diaby from no where and Diaby should be thankful to the Crot for ending his goal draught. As usual Gallas had been attacking the strikers with his pace and marking skills and Vermaelen laid a firm foundation for the Arsenal attacks. We had not seen Alex Song starting today which is a sign of Wenger trying out new combinations to see how different young guns perform in that area. Diaby brought with his free flowing attack and Fabregas and Denilson played very low and defensive line. Fabregas was good as always with his terrific long balls and Denilson took the job of clearing the balls and pouring in those tough tackles on the attacks.

Van Persie had laid few good passes and goals but he himself was never able to find the net. He was terrible in his final touches. Had deadly killer passes from his shoes but not those net shaking ones. He was finding it tough to play the complete striker role and was more of a centre forward. I would say Arsene should try planing Arshavin in Centre in the three men strike force. Arshavin can beat players alone and can strike with fair power without many passes. Whereas Van Persie needs those support which is tough to get since the other two strikers will be wide men in this formation. Denilson proving to be a utility player and seems like apart from defending abilities he holds good play making skills. His passing was notable and interesting to watch. Both Clichy and Sagna was rested today and this should be in line with the preparation for the Celtic clash at Emirates this tuesday.

We still have quite a few great players injured and all of them are suppose to return in couple of months time. The list includes Vela, Walcott, Rosicky, Nasri, Djourou and Fabianski. Once these guys are back our squad would look more dangerous and Arsene would have more options to play with. All of them are players with great calibre and creativity.