Saturday, November 8, 2008

I almost predicted correctly for this match

Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd

This scoreline should shut all pundits that said Arsenl will lose when up against Man utd at Emirates stadium. Although Arsenal did lose to Stoke City last weekend, but Arsenal always did pretty good in big matches, therefore, before the match, I had confident that Arsenal will win 2-0 and if not for Rafael 89minutes goal, my prediction will be perfect.

Arsenal had a lot of chances to increase the margin, but it seems that the god allowed Arsenal to score only 2 goals. Arsenal was brillant in possession, and succesfully marked the most dangerous player in the Man utd squad; C.Ronaldo. Rooney was just like day-dreaming on the pitch, not much threat came from rooney. On the other hand, Arsenal every player seems to be dangerous when each of them got the ball, the physical strength and body balance are far better than Man utd today, and even without Adebayor and Van Persie, Arsenal did not count on counter-attack, they use fast tempo passing and uses the pace of both Walcott and Clichy to pass-by defenders, and Bendtner gave both Man utd defenders; Vidic and Ferdinand a hard time.

I said that Fabregas is the man to decide whether or not Arsenal will win this match, and Nasri's second was assisted by him and it was a difficult assist I would said. Although Arsenal had won, but I did take note that their defender are not compressed well enough today, they are giving too much space to Man utd around the penalty box, this is very dangerous because they had many fantastic attacking players like Berbatov and C.Ronaldo. On couple occassion, Man utd did a some fantastic chances to score, luckily luck was on Arsenal side.

Nasri's goals proved the difference today, since his arrival from Marseille, he had done quite well considering this is his first season in BPL. He is just 21, and he had a great future. Almunia had a clash with Carrick at abt 70+ minutes and was subsituted by Fabanski. Rafael scored his first goal for Man utd and made the last 6 stoppage time a nervous moment for the fans and the managers and those who had bet !.

A few more hours before going to Genting highland, I think the last time I went to Genting was around 11 years ago and looking forward to see the changes around Genting ! Cya in 3 days time !

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