Manchester City Owns Arsenal!

Arsenal had started off well like everyother game. Fabregas controlled the whole game for Arsenal from start. We started off with Diaby, Van Persie and Bendtner up front. With regular midfield players in Fabregas, Song and Denilson. Arsene Wenger was forced to take off Denilson and Song from midfield towards the end of the game to give chance to Rosicky and Eduardo. Rosicky showed his worth by providing the assist for the first goal for Arsenal after the initial damage by Almunia by providing an own goal to Man City from a beautiful header by Richards on Barry's freekick.

Robin Van Persie's goal showed the real power inside his boots. Lescott tried to foul his but he rose to the occassion and pushed on towards the right of Given for a beautiful goal. Later Arsenal showed lot of advances and which left the back four disturbed. Man City was able to grab 4 goals in total out of which 3 came through good counter attacking football. Man City was excellant in their counter attacks with Adebayor, Bellamy and Wright Phillips upfront.

De Jong and Barry controlled the game for them. There was few excellant attempts on Man City goal from Bendtner and Van Persie before the goal from Rosicky which came as a consolation for the poor display and also the loss. Rosicky was able to prove his worth and significance in the team with a little cameo. Gallas was always marking Adebayor tightly which actually held Man City back. Towards the later stages of the match when Gallas was going front too often left Adebayor unmarked and he exploited Arsenal defence with this advantage.

Overall performance from Arsenal side where good but point to be noted is when you go for the kill make sure your defence is still tight. As we have mentioned in our previous blog on the defensive problems, Clichy was terrible in defense and was never seen when needed. Please do read our blogs on Arsenal defensive issues and Why Arsenal is losing. We always want Arsenal to win but there are few things we need to correct before we claim that we are INVINCIBLES AGAIN.