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Arsenal Thread

The day after tomorrow, Arsenal plays against us, Olympiacos. What do you think about the game?

Two years ago Olympiacos almost defeated Chelsea in Greece but was unlucky in London since 3 players of our squad were injured.
 
Matty Derbyshire will score a hat-trick but Arsenal will win 4-3, the winner scored by Eduardo with both hands after he tries to dive to win a penalty.
 
LOL. Really, why was Eduardo allowed to play despite the decision was that he could not play the first 2 games? Seems like Panathinaikos is not the only team that has good relations with UEFA. :)
 
Arsenal hit by Denilson lay-off

Arsenal midfielder Denilson has been ruled out for two months because of a fracture in his back.

The 21-year-old Brazilian picked up the injury in the Gunners' 4-2 defeat at Manchester City on 12 September.

Denilson played in 37 Premier League games last season, more than any of his team-mates, and was recently rewarded with a new, long-term contract.

He has featured six times for Arsenal this season and has scored once, in the opening day 6-1 win against Everton.


................. 4 months it is then.
 
Why god.....WHY!!

Do you remember that story that one of the builders that helped build the emirates buried a Spurs shirt under the stadium?

I think he has cursed us! Why do our players get injured ALL of the time.
 
Oooh I can't wait for tonight! Im preditcting 3-0 :DD hopefully we can play some great football while I am there.

I didn't get my tickets in the post because of the postal strike. So I need to go to the box office before the game. Just hope the que isn't HUGE!

I might just go after work and get them......YEE HAA!!
 
BobbyBox said:
Oooh I can't wait for tonight! Im preditcting 3-0 :DD hopefully we can play some great football while I am there.

I didn't get my tickets in the post because of the postal strike. So I need to go to the box office before the game. Just hope the que isn't HUGE!

I might just go after work and get them......YEE HAA!!
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you lucky cunt
 
Was just watching the u20 World Cup and Fran Merida scored a lovely goal for Spain. Surprised he's not pressed more for a first team place tbh, then again neither has Vela and he's really good.
 
I watched Merida the first season he came to us, when they had the under21 games at the emirates. Saw him about 3 times and he looked really good then. Haven't seen much of him lately though.

Also Vela will be a great player, but I think he may grow frustrated and leave before he gets a full team place.
 
BobbyBox said:
Oooh I can't wait for tonight! Im preditcting 3-0 :DD hopefully we can play some great football while I am there.

I didn't get my tickets in the post because of the postal strike. So I need to go to the box office before the game. Just hope the que isn't HUGE!

I might just go after work and get them......YEE HAA!!
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3000 fans of Olympiacos will be at London. I believe you all remember the atmosphere that we had created back in 2007 when we played Chelsea in London. So, you will be able to see the best fans of Europe in live action.

About the match, I think Arsenal will win 2-0 since all our players are extremely tired and Arsenal is a fast team.

P.S. Being able to get a ticket on the last day is luck. When Olympiacos plays in Europe, all the tickets are sold out at least two weeks before the match.
 
Inactive Member said:
3000 fans of Olympiacos will be at London. I believe you all remember the atmosphere that we had created back in 2007 when we played Chelsea in London. So, you will be able to see the best fans of Europe in live action.

About the match, I think Arsenal will win 2-0 since all our players are extremely tired and Arsenal is a fast team.

P.S. Being able to get a ticket on the last day is luck. When Olympiacos plays in Europe, all the tickets are sold out at least two weeks before the match.
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You only have 33,500 seats though :PP

Most games at Arsenal are sold out very quickly, I was suprised to see this game go on general sale.

Really looking forward to hearing the Olympiacos fans, should be really good fun!
 
Was a decent game, Two nice goals, although I was further away and couldn't see them up close.

We basically dominated, with a couple of scary moments for us. But they just sat back and tried to get us on the counter.

I was sat above the Olympiacos fans and they were in full voice and had a little trumpet going on aswell.

Arsenal fans only get going with the singing when we are pressuring or have scored a goal. Something needs to be done about it. We need a drummer and a trumpet man ;))

Anyway I had fun :DD
 
Cracking game marred, imo, by that Van Persie lunge. With the defender's leg planted and him focused in the opposite direction, RVP could easily have broken his leg. And for absolutely nothing, the ball was over the touchline when he went in.

Other than, classy performance. I'm not sure who told Olympiacos that parking the bus was the best approach, but conceeding possession like that made it just a matter of time before you scored. With such a weak group, that should be you lot through I'd of thought.
 
We could have lost with more goals but I think the way the game went, if Galletti, Derbyshire and Maresca were not absent, we could have taken at least a point. The referee did not give Arsenal a penalty after Dudu handed the ball but he also did not see Arshavin's goal was offside and he stopped Torosidis from scoring saying there was a foul while there was not (I am talking about that moment when Torosidis got the ball behind an Arsenal defender and he went alone with only the gk left but the referee stopped him).

Our fans were again fantastic and they were singing even after the game had ended.

Congratulations to Arsenal and I hope Olympiacos will be second. At least, we deserve to.
 
From Soccernet....


On Thursday, Arsene Wenger becomes the longest-serving manager in Arsenal's history, with his 13-year reign now surpassing that of George Allison who served the club between 1934 and 1947.


Manager profile of Arsene Wenger

When Wenger first arrived in North London from Japan, to an infamous headline of 'Arsene Who?' in the London Evening Standard, England and its football top flight were in a period of transition. A politician named Tony Blair was laying the groundwork for a landslide election victory the following summer and a Manchester United academy graduate named David Beckham had just launched himself into the public consciousness by beating Wimbledon's Neil Sullivan from the half-way line.

But while New Labour limps along and Beckham enjoys a state of semi-retirement in America, Wenger remains at the cutting edge of football having carved a real legacy in the domestic game with his revolutionary training techniques, innate ability to pluck a player from nowhere and the distinctive brand of football he has fostered at a stadium he helped to conceive.

Recent years have brought frustration due to a lack of silverware but his legacy, at Arsenal and beyond, is far-reaching and below we present the ten finest moments and achievements in Wenger's reign to date. In a nod to his 13-year stint, we have also selected a further three moments he would rather forget.

Top Ten Moments

1.The Invincibles. Arsenal's success in going the season unbeaten in 2003-04 was not just Wenger's finest achievement but perhaps the greatest domestic accomplishment of the modern era. A 2-1 win over Leicester in May ensured Wenger's side were the first team since Preston in 1888-89 to go unbeaten, although a dubiously-won penalty against Portsmouth and Ruud van Nistelrooy's own spot-kick that rattled the crossbar at Old Trafford, sparking shameful scenes from Martin Keown amongst others, showed just how fragile an achievement this was. There is no disguising the fact that Arsenal achieved the feat with real panache though, with Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp and, above all, Thierry Henry contributing to a remarkable campaign. And to think, Wenger was ridiculed for suggesting it could be done the season before.

2. The double Double. Winning both the Premier League and FA Cup in his first season - Arsenal's first Double since 1971 - was quite something, but to do so again within four years was remarkable indeed. Arsenal's triumph in 1998 was due to a combination of the solidity provided by the defence inherited from Bruce Rioch, the dominant midfield partnership of Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit, the electric contribution of Marc Overmars and the utter genius of Dennis Berkgamp. Four years later, it was Freddie Ljungberg, Pires and Henry who rose to the fore, with Sylvain Wiltord stealing the spotlight when winning the league at Old Trafford.

3. Transfer success. Quite simply, Wenger is the greatest manipulator of the transfer market in modern times. Any manager has skeletons like Igor Stepanovs, Stefan Malz and Amaury Bischoff in his closet, but Wenger's hit-rate is remarkable. Sol Campbell (free,) Cesc Fabregas (£500,000) and Kolo Toure (£150,000) are perhaps his three outstanding bargain purchases while his greatest piece of business was signing Nicolas Anelka for £500,000 before making a near-£23 million profit when selling him to Real Madrid two years later. That deal enabled Arsenal to redevelop their training ground and the man who replaced Anelka? A certain Thierry Henry, prised from Juventus for just £10.5 million - another example of Wenger's golden touch.

4. Style makeover. The description of George Graham's Arsenal as 'boring' was always a touch misleading, blessed as his side was with talents such as Anders Limpar, Paul Merson and Ian Wright, but Wenger completely transformed the image of Arsenal within the football community and indeed in the wider world. As the architect of a free-flowing, technically-intricate and attacking brand of football, Wenger installed Arsenal as the team to watch in Europe and with the likes of Bergkamp, Henry and Pires in full flight, they became a byword for attractive football. Recent years have seen a debate over whether style has come at the cost of substance, but what style.

5. Tony Adams scores against Everton. Some of the entries on this list are achievements spread across Wenger's reign, or specific games, but a ten-second snapshot at the end of the 1997-98 season is as significant as any of them. Steve Bould lofts the ball forward and Adams charges onto it, hammering the ball home in the game that clinched Wenger's first league title. It encapsulated perfectly the new style with which his side were performing and the way in which he reinvigorated players like Adams with new dietary regimes and tactical liberation.

6. Henry the record-breaker. Undoubtedly the leading light of the Wenger era, even considering the contributions of Vieira, Bergkamp and Fabregas, it is easy to forget that Henry arrived at Arsenal as a winger who never made the grade at Juventus. Under his compatriot, Henry was transformed into the finest forward in world football and enjoyed a catalogue of stunning goals in his eight-year spell at the club. In October 2005 he surpassed Ian Wright as the club's greatest goalscorer and accumulated 226 in 380 games before leaving to join Barcelona in 2007. The highlights are too numerous to do justice to, but special mention should go to his performance in the 5-1 win over Inter, the lob to beat Fabien Barthez, the 60-yard run and finish against Spurs and his backheel against Charlton. A genius, made by Wenger.

7. The Ferguson rivalry. It did not take long for the Frenchman to rattle Sir Alex Ferguson - the Manchester United manager declaring in April 1997: "He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football" - and what followed was one of the great rivalries in sport. Prior to the arrival of Jose Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson were engaged in almost perpetual warfare, both on the pitch and off. Wenger convincingly won a battle of wills in 2002 when his comment that "everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home" drew a furious response from Ferguson, but animosity has disappointingly died down in recent seasons, no doubt in no small part to Chelsea's success in becoming United's great rivals for silverware.

8. Marc Overmars scores at Old Trafford. For many, Robert Pires is the greatest left winger in Arsenal's history but if it was not for his predecessor, the history of the club, and Wenger's career, may have been very different. Arriving in Manchester in March 1998, Overmars raced through on goal and stabbed the ball past Peter Schmeichel to swing the title balance in Arsenal's favour and help deliver the Premier League crown in Wenger's first full season. It was clear proof that Arsenal, under Wenger, were there to stay.

9. 'It's only Ray Parlour'. Facing Chelsea in the 2002 FA Cup final, Ray Parlour took up possession and to the surprise of just about everyone in attendance at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, produced a stunning effort that seared past Carlo Cudicini. Ljungberg sealed victory with another lovely strike and Arsenal ended their four-year wait for a trophy. The league would follow in the very next game at Old Trafford.

10. Standing defiant. While not marking a title win, or even a league win, Wenger's trip to the stands at Old Trafford earlier this season already has an iconic feel about it. Sent from the touchline for the crime of kicking a water bottle, Wenger bravely made his way to join United fans who have berated him for years - often with the most unimaginable of accusations - and stood, arms outstretched in defiance. It summed up perfectly the way he has been forced to endure cruel taunts throughout his time in England and earned him the respect of many an observer.


Now we present the three aspects of his reign that Mr Wenger would probably rather forget.

1. The Red mist. The name Jason Crowe is likely to be more prominent in pub quiz books than the annals of football history but he boasts the unenviable record of having the quickest ever red card on his debut, having been sent off after 33 seconds of a League Cup tie against Birmingham in October 1997. That was one of the many incidents that helped Wenger's Arsenal fall victim to accusations of a lack of discipline in his early years. It didn't help when Patrick Vieira was sent off in the first two games of the 2000-01 season while the famous battle of Old Trafford in the unbeaten season saw FA charges levelled against a number of players. The tally of dismissals now stands in excess of 70.

2. 'The Battle of the Buffet'. Perhaps the most painful afternoon of Wenger's reign came at Old Trafford in October 2004. Chasing a 50th unbeaten league game in succession, having already beaten Nottingham Forest's record, Arsenal were undone when Wayne Rooney won a highly-dubious penalty and then scored himself after 90 minutes. The aftershocks of that particular defeat took months to subside. The result also left an indelible mark on Sir Alex Ferguson's suit as the United boss was struck by a slice of Pizza thrown by an Arsenal player, who remains nameless to this day.

3. European failure. For all his domestic achievements, Wenger's European record at Arsenal is average at best and the suspicion remains that he needs to win the Champions League to enter the ranks of the all-time greats. The closest his side came was losing a rain-drenched 2006 final to Barcelona, while last season's semi-final defeat to Manchester United was an ordeal from which you suspect the manager is yet to fully recover. A penalty shoot-out defeat to Galatasaray in the Uefa Cup final in 2000 was just another in a long list of disappointments on the continental stage.
 
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