Valencia dominates Arsenal

Another bad night from Arsenal. The most impressive player for Arsenal today was Djourou and Eboue. Arsenal was once again failing to create chances and once created was failing to finish them. First half saw all of Arsenal's senior players playing except for Eduardo and Walcott. Silvestre once again proved what a bad decision Wenger can make in transfer market. He also gave away a penalty which was also aftermath of an excellant dive by the Valencia forward. Fabianski stood tall to save the penalty from David Villa.

Arsenal started operations with Diaby, Song and Fabregas in midfield. Diaby was terrible with his passes and dribbling. While Song was keeping on fouling the Valencia players. Fabregas couldn't do much since he was not able to get a commentable possession of the ball. Later in the second half Walcott was unfortunate to miss the only real chance for the day. He made couple of good runs today.

Wilshere who is highly rated as an upcoming star gave away balls cheaply in quite a few occassions. He was not able to keep the ball close to him. Was always trying to make long runs which never helped. In the latter stages of the match we saw Eduardo coming to help defenders so that he can atleast touch the ball. Arsene Wenger played his subs and reserves in the second half to start with. But once he understood Arsenal won't be winning he started making subs to play reserves. This could be seen as negative tactic to cover his pride. He could well argue that my team just wanted matches and test fitness. Results doesn't matter with this move.

We are sure now that what Arsenal needs is not just a holding midfielder. We need to get three players for sure. This comment doesn't question any of our current players capability but to build a squad we need this. We need a defender who can play airballs well and who can be quick. We need a holding midfielder who can win balls neatly from opponents and we need a striker who is tall and can play in air well and has great reflexes.

A tip for Arsene would be to play young gunners first and later sub with senior players if he is playing to win. Or else it will be a complete give away like what we had seen today!