Arsenal Win 5 goals to none in Hungary

There had been good development in the Arsenal camp with Bendtner and Eduardo scoring twice and Van Persie converting another Penalty with ease.

Goal 1
Good link up play by Ramsey and Troare which led the latter to whip a cross towards near post and Bendtner rising to the occassion to finish from a good tough angle with his head.

Goal 2
Excellant vision by Bendtner which led him to pass the ball to Eduardo who was running to the box and finished with ease.

Goal 3
A freekick direct goal from Eduardo while Bendtner was fouled.

Goal 4
Bendtner finishing with ease again.

Goal 5
Van Persie converting a penalty awarded after Bendtner got fouled.

This makes it clear Mr.Bendtner was there everywhere on the offensive part of Arsenal game. He was trying hard to sway away the bad name he had earned through his awful finishing.

Season 2009-10 shows a drastic change to Arsenal team and their attitude.
Arsene Wenger started with Song, Denilson and Ramsey playing in central midfield. Not sure whether he was trying out something. Wilshere played as right side wide man. Song as usual was good with his tackles and control of the game. Ramsey was concentrating on creating chances out of no where and inventing goals. He is turning out to be another Fabregas in making as I pointed out once in this site. Wilshere was terrible with his runs and was losing the balls often. He is a good player but the right wideman was not his favourite position though. Toure and Djorou was good whereas Vermaelen and Gallas was proving to be extra ordinary. These two could make a good pair in Arsenal back four. Silvestre was played as LB and Eboue started as RB today. Eboue tried few unproductive runs and gave away the ball on few occassions and not as often as Wilshere. Wilshere had missed two chances from close range which was an aftermath of the beautiful link up play between him and Ramsey and later with Bendtner.

Arshavin, Van Persie and Senderos where brought out during second half. Arshavin was not getting his passes right whereas Van Persie was wasting lot of chances by selfishly taking shots without thinking to pass. We could see that last couple of matches Arsene is playing Senderos in Central Defensive Midfielder position. I would say he was getting better and had advantage over Song and Denilson due his stature. Another player to be watched and tried out in that position is Diaby. Senderos had cut in few passes and was passing the ball very well. He was not in a hurry and wasting balls. Ramsey was hardworking throughout the match. Wojciech Szczensy who is our reserve keeper came in the second half and made lot of excellant saves. This guy looks like he is better than Fabianski and will make Arsene think for some days. He deserves to be applauded for today's effort and will surely make a leap to the main team.

Fabregas, Rosicky, Walcott, Diaby, Vela and Clichy did not play today for us. Hope to see more of them in next match. FYI..Vela had a good match against USA yesterday when Mexico bet USA 5-0.

Preparation for friendly against Barnet

Maybe for most of the Arsenalites this match won't be that interesting. The Barnet Club has the smallest groud which could accomodate harly 6000 people. This means most of our viewers will be out there before the TV set or online. Last time we played Barnet was in 2004, where Barnet got chance to surprise us with first goal. Later we went on to win 10-1. With both Reyes(now with Athletico Madrid) and Jeffers(Don't know where) scoring hatricks. We have never played Barnet in any competitive matches.

Arsenal Squad announced for the Barnet Friendly:
Manuel Almunia
Vito Mannone
William Gallas
Johan Djourou
Mikael Silvestre
Thomas Vermaelen
Tomas Rosicky
Andrey Arshavin
Jack Wilshere
Thomas Cruise
Craig Eastmond
Luke Ayling
Conor Henderson
Francis Coquelin
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Mark Randall
Emmanuel Frimpong
Gilles Sunu
Sanchez Watt
Jay Simpson
Nacer Barazite

Players we will be eagerly waiting to watch in this match will be Rosicky, Vermaelen and Wilshere. The reason to watch out for these players are quite obvious. Rosicky coming back after 1 and a half years time which is pretty long for any footballer. Verma playing his first fixture in Arsenal colors. Don't forget Verma was Ajax captain when we snatched him to Emirates Stadium. Wilshere oozing with promise as per Wenger. Let's see how he performs in this fixture. I would guess that Arshavin will be leading the side today for the friendly in the absence of Cesc.

We have Almunia, Gallas and Arshavin who had already proved their skills in last season and expected to be in good touch. Silvestre with lot of experience with him. And Djourou with some tactics learned in last season. You can find lot of great young talents in that above list. Most of them performing well in Under 18 sqaud and few had played in Arsenal Reserves team too. Arsene Wenger is trying to get the young talent tested before he lay out plans for them. This blend of experience and youth in the squad for a friendly would do good to the team. I believe by the 3rd friendly this pre-season Arsene would definitely get his full squad ready.

Good luck Arsenal. Will be there to watch you in person today.