FIFA has announced that it will award for the best goal celebration of the coming world cup. This news came just one day after Craig Bellamy goal celebration cost Manchester city 2 points (according to officials). I really felt sorry for Man City and Bellamy, that they went on to lose the match, even though they are arch rivals to me the Arsenal fan after that 4 - 2 thrashing, simply because they were brilliant that day, they came back 3 time to equalise and Bellamy was simply outstanding with his cool finishes, hope that Robin Van Persie saw the video and took a cue of how to finish!
So, coming to the goal celebration award, will it be the baby act of Torres or the job done of Gallas or acrobatics of Nani or archery of Guiza or boxing of Tim Cahill or rounding the ears act of Toni or any samba dance (definitely not the Adebayor's celebration) could win the award. I started to believe that players would also practice for goal celebration. But they have to remember not to take their shirt off (which results in yellow card) or celebrating in front of opposite fans (which will result in match bans) and make it short and simple (avoiding Bellamy incident).
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
What went wrong for Arsenal and my Comparisons | Manchester City 4 Arsenal 2
Yesterday was really a disappointing day for Arsenal and me. Arsenal were thrashed 4 - 2 by the rich boys. So what went wrong not only for Arsenal but also for my comparison.
1. The inclusion of Nigel De Jong, we was completely brilliant yesterday, he used his strength to good use to keep Fabregas quite. If he didn't start, things could have been different.
2. Left Winger of Arsenal - In absence of Arshavin, his replacement Diaby was a completely waste. He failed to test the wing backs which i considered the weakness of Manchester city. I was surprised that he played full 90 min. May be he is a central midfield player thats why he lacked the qualities of a winger, in that case Arsene Wenger could have started with Eduardo he showed in the recent past that he can start in the left side of midfield also.
3. Fragility of starting line up - On the closing 30 min Arsenal players were completely fragile that resulted in 3 goals, were as citizens were full of energy even though the international break was for both the teams.
4. Joleon Lescott - He played as good for his price tag. He blocked every ball inside his penalty area. I thought he would lack confidence after the opener at Goodsion park, but he was exactly the opposite, he was full of confident and won tackles comfortably.
5. Central forward of Arsenal - Robin Van Persie is not a ideal central forward, he lacks strength. But he is the ideal Left Winger, he can do great wonders in the left side of the pitch rather that at the center, remember he was the top assisting player of 2008 - 2009 season. So arsenal definitely need a Strong, Solid Forward, hope Wenger gets some in the January transfer window.
Eventhough its a humiliating defeat for Arsenal, there are few positives. Robin Van Persie scored his first league goal of the season, the only forward to score for Arsenal this season so far. Thomas Rosicky's first goal in his first match in 18 months. And Remember last season after Man City defeat, Arsenal went on to be unbeaten for 19 games. Hope that winning streak continuous this season also.
1. The inclusion of Nigel De Jong, we was completely brilliant yesterday, he used his strength to good use to keep Fabregas quite. If he didn't start, things could have been different.
2. Left Winger of Arsenal - In absence of Arshavin, his replacement Diaby was a completely waste. He failed to test the wing backs which i considered the weakness of Manchester city. I was surprised that he played full 90 min. May be he is a central midfield player thats why he lacked the qualities of a winger, in that case Arsene Wenger could have started with Eduardo he showed in the recent past that he can start in the left side of midfield also.
3. Fragility of starting line up - On the closing 30 min Arsenal players were completely fragile that resulted in 3 goals, were as citizens were full of energy even though the international break was for both the teams.
4. Joleon Lescott - He played as good for his price tag. He blocked every ball inside his penalty area. I thought he would lack confidence after the opener at Goodsion park, but he was exactly the opposite, he was full of confident and won tackles comfortably.
5. Central forward of Arsenal - Robin Van Persie is not a ideal central forward, he lacks strength. But he is the ideal Left Winger, he can do great wonders in the left side of the pitch rather that at the center, remember he was the top assisting player of 2008 - 2009 season. So arsenal definitely need a Strong, Solid Forward, hope Wenger gets some in the January transfer window.
Eventhough its a humiliating defeat for Arsenal, there are few positives. Robin Van Persie scored his first league goal of the season, the only forward to score for Arsenal this season so far. Thomas Rosicky's first goal in his first match in 18 months. And Remember last season after Man City defeat, Arsenal went on to be unbeaten for 19 games. Hope that winning streak continuous this season also.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Manchester City Vs Arsenal | Manchester City Vs Arsenal Preview | 4 3 3 vs 4 3 3 | Arsenal 2008 vs Arsenal 2009
This week end, Arsenal play with against Arsenal 2008 .. er .. Manchester City at City of Manchester Stadium. Both the club's fan will be eager about the out come of the match, as this Manchester City's first quality test and for Gunners its a match against two alums of Arsenal, Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure. It would be interesting to see Gallas marking Adebayor and Toure marking Robin Van Persie. I call this match as4 3 3 vs 4 3 3, both the teams have applied this attacking formation this season and have been successful too, but Arsenal leads in the total goals scored list and Man City have 100% win record. So rather than predicting formations or results as usual, I gonna compare the teams so that you can come to predicting terms.
Goal Keepers - Manuel Almunia Vs Shay Given, Both are very experienced and solid goolees, no one edges out.
Central Defence - William Gallas and Thomas Vermaelen Vs Kolo Toure Vs Joleon Lescott. Gallas and Vermaelen are in their form of their lives scoring goals as well and its vise versa with Toure and Lescott, Lescott especially is totally lacks confidence after the opener against Arsenal.
Wing Backs - Gael Clichy and Bacary Sagna Vs Micah Richards and Wayne Bridge. Clichy and Sagna wins hands down, its like competition of the best vs the rest.
Midfield - Fabregas, Denilson, Song VS Barry, Ireland, SWP. This is the victory defining competition. Man to man comparison, Song Vs Barry, Barry wins. Denilson Vs SWP, both are different type of players difficult to compare. Fabregas Vs (Ireland)^2, Fab wins. But if Fab is not playing, Denilson Vs Ireland, where Ireland wins.
Forwards - RVP, Bendtner, Arshavin Vs Adebayor, Tevez, Robinho. Adebayor Vs Bendtner, Ade wins hands down, I'm sure he gonna score against his old club. RVP Vs Robinho, even though Robinho has all the talent he dosent have mental strengths, like determination, consistency and etcs, that's why RVP wins. Arshavin Vs Tevez, there is no comparison, Arshavin wins hands down.
Even though I'm Arsenal biased, most of the football geeks will accept the above, simply for the quality Arsenal posses. Its not about win, points, silverware its all about how you play to win, thats why we follow, love, live Arsenal forever. Money cant buy quality or Wenger, hope that the Rich Arab realises sooner before he gets transfer ban.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Joomla and SEO | Does Joomla Helps SEO?
Joomla makes made search engine optimizer's work easy, rather than waiting for the inner pages to getting indexed or making some submissions to get indexed. But there are some minuses as well, there are some concerns like we should have limited contents, loading speed of the home page, etc. But anyways it is a break through technology in SEO consiering the fact thet Joomla is a open source.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Manchester United Vs Arsenal 2009 | Arsenal formation against Manchester United | Arsenal Starting line up vs Manchester United
This week end Arsenal ill be facing the defending champions or you can call them as depleted champions Manchester United at Old Trafford. Last season arsenal scored 4 out 6 points against Man U in league fixtures, this season with few star players missing in there squad, it will be interesting to see how gunners will fare this season. But the only negative thing for gunners going into this fixture is the absence of Francesc Fabregas, who could be out for up to 3 weeks. So its sure that we can't expect creatively brilliance in the midfield that produced score line like 6 -1 and 4 - 1 and also Arsenal are playing away from home against the champions, so we could say that its really tough for Arsenal to get a result and make it 3 out of 3 win this season. But don't underestimate them, Arsenal have quite often proved wrong who wrote them off.
Staring from current squad players, former players, football pundits and fans all over the world have prised Arsene Wenger for the new formation that he applied this season. But I seriously doubt that the formation would work without Fabregas. Against Man U in there own backyard, the formation should be more defensive. So i have gone for 4 2 2 1 1 formation.
Alexandre Song and Denilson play as two defensive midfielders, thats the best role that they can play rather that expecting them to be Fabregas. Theo Walcott should be fit in time for this game, but that is only my guess. So I have placed him as the right winder with Andrei Arshavin being the left wingers. Eduardo is the center forward accompanying this above him is Robin van Persie. The game plan is wings, we have got two great players playing in those position, let them create chances and our strikers finishing it, because Man U have two wall in the form of central defenders, its really fought to get past them but the wing back are not that convincing enough so we can expect something out there and let Song and Denilson win possession and feed the wings. I really convinced that Arsenal would at least get a point out of this, even without Fabregas simply because. Compare the midfield of Man U and Arsenal you will agree with me.
Staring from current squad players, former players, football pundits and fans all over the world have prised Arsene Wenger for the new formation that he applied this season. But I seriously doubt that the formation would work without Fabregas. Against Man U in there own backyard, the formation should be more defensive. So i have gone for 4 2 2 1 1 formation.
Alexandre Song and Denilson play as two defensive midfielders, thats the best role that they can play rather that expecting them to be Fabregas. Theo Walcott should be fit in time for this game, but that is only my guess. So I have placed him as the right winder with Andrei Arshavin being the left wingers. Eduardo is the center forward accompanying this above him is Robin van Persie. The game plan is wings, we have got two great players playing in those position, let them create chances and our strikers finishing it, because Man U have two wall in the form of central defenders, its really fought to get past them but the wing back are not that convincing enough so we can expect something out there and let Song and Denilson win possession and feed the wings. I really convinced that Arsenal would at least get a point out of this, even without Fabregas simply because. Compare the midfield of Man U and Arsenal you will agree with me.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Arsenal Vs Portsmouth post match review | Arsenal 4 Portsmouth 1 | Fabregas injured | Francesc Fabregas injury 2009 | Abou Diaby scores 2 goals
Comprehensive performance but not as comprehensive we all wish for, was the performance of gunners against Portsmouth. Even though the score line is 4 - 1 in Arsenal's favor, there are still some concerns like Strikers not scoring, defense of dead ball, complacency and injuries.
Arsenal started the game is the right frame of mind, we can see the confidence and belief in the squad. They kept possessions as usual, passed brilliant in fact some were 100% accurate and most importantly believed in each others abilities. Fabregas started the days proceedings with a lovely loft to Eduardo who stated today, he showed as why we all rate him so much with a brilliant ball to Abou Diaby who thundered one in the top right corner even though David James got a hand to it. A classic Arsenal counter attack made the score line 2 Nil, Diaby scored the second too.
Diaby playing in his 100th match for Arsenal had all the luck and scored 2 goals in span of 2 minutes. Manuel Almunia then made a casual effect to clear a cross but Kabul made full use of it and made it 2 - 1. Almunia could have done better should have seen Kabul coming and jumped in front of him, rather he collided with him.
The score could have been even more flattering for Arsenal, David James showed why he still the England No.1. He made a string a fantabulous saved to keep Robin Van Persie Frustrated. I'm really amused by the reflexes of the nearly 40 year old goalie. Fabio Capello who watched the game from the stands, should have been a happy man. But his happiness was short lived as James was replaced Injured in the closing stages.
William Gallas scored in the 3rd consecutive match of the season when he deflected home Vermaelen's cross in a awkward way. Its always good to see the center backs coming up and scoring consistently. Aaron Ramsey who substituted Fabregas in the half time scored his first premier league goal to seal the game for the gunners.
Man of the match : Abou Diaby (but for me it is David James)
Fabregas who started even though he was injured was taken off during the half as it had worsened. Its Hamstring injury, he will surly miss the return leg of champions trophy match against Celtic. Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope that he is fit in time for the match Against Manchester United.
Arsenal started the game is the right frame of mind, we can see the confidence and belief in the squad. They kept possessions as usual, passed brilliant in fact some were 100% accurate and most importantly believed in each others abilities. Fabregas started the days proceedings with a lovely loft to Eduardo who stated today, he showed as why we all rate him so much with a brilliant ball to Abou Diaby who thundered one in the top right corner even though David James got a hand to it. A classic Arsenal counter attack made the score line 2 Nil, Diaby scored the second too.
Diaby playing in his 100th match for Arsenal had all the luck and scored 2 goals in span of 2 minutes. Manuel Almunia then made a casual effect to clear a cross but Kabul made full use of it and made it 2 - 1. Almunia could have done better should have seen Kabul coming and jumped in front of him, rather he collided with him.
The score could have been even more flattering for Arsenal, David James showed why he still the England No.1. He made a string a fantabulous saved to keep Robin Van Persie Frustrated. I'm really amused by the reflexes of the nearly 40 year old goalie. Fabio Capello who watched the game from the stands, should have been a happy man. But his happiness was short lived as James was replaced Injured in the closing stages.
William Gallas scored in the 3rd consecutive match of the season when he deflected home Vermaelen's cross in a awkward way. Its always good to see the center backs coming up and scoring consistently. Aaron Ramsey who substituted Fabregas in the half time scored his first premier league goal to seal the game for the gunners.
Man of the match : Abou Diaby (but for me it is David James)
Fabregas who started even though he was injured was taken off during the half as it had worsened. Its Hamstring injury, he will surly miss the return leg of champions trophy match against Celtic. Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope that he is fit in time for the match Against Manchester United.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Arsenal FC Formation for the game against Portsmouth | Arsenal 4 1 2 2 1 Formation | Arsenal FC Starting Line up | Arsenal Vs Portsmouth Preview
After a hell of a star in the Season opener match Everton (won 6 -1) and in Champion league Against Celtic (won 2 -0) both away, Arsenal play Portsmouth next up in the Emirates stadium. So i come up with a formation that better suites the current players.
I have gone for a 4 1 2 2 1 formation, its the mix of 4 5 1 (defensive) formation and 4 3 3 (attacking) formation, for the reason that the formation is neither defensive nor attacking.
Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Thomas Vermaelen and Gael Clichy will continue to be the defensive wall, i hope that the form and fitness remains for the rest of the season. Alexandre Song is the defensive midfielder with Cesc Fabregas and Denilson as the central midfielders, I'm pretty sure that they can recreate that they have done in the previous matches not only for the match against Portsmouth but for rest of the season.
Robin van Persie and Andrey Andrei Arshavin are the Left and Right wingers or can call them as strikers. The best word to describe their position is 'supporting midfielders', i feel that thats the best position that suits them, both brilliant dribblers and intelligent passers. Eduardo plays up front, he is the best finisher we have got and he is not injured so why waste him. Many say he is not tall enough to be a striker, but he is a different bread of forward with grate amount of striker instinct which we recently saw in the match against Everton and more over we don't need them to be tall as we got out defenders will be come attacking and scoring in the dead ball situations. I predict a thumping home victory say 3 nil or 4 nil kind of victory.
I have gone for a 4 1 2 2 1 formation, its the mix of 4 5 1 (defensive) formation and 4 3 3 (attacking) formation, for the reason that the formation is neither defensive nor attacking.
Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Thomas Vermaelen and Gael Clichy will continue to be the defensive wall, i hope that the form and fitness remains for the rest of the season. Alexandre Song is the defensive midfielder with Cesc Fabregas and Denilson as the central midfielders, I'm pretty sure that they can recreate that they have done in the previous matches not only for the match against Portsmouth but for rest of the season.
Robin van Persie and Andrey Andrei Arshavin are the Left and Right wingers or can call them as strikers. The best word to describe their position is 'supporting midfielders', i feel that thats the best position that suits them, both brilliant dribblers and intelligent passers. Eduardo plays up front, he is the best finisher we have got and he is not injured so why waste him. Many say he is not tall enough to be a striker, but he is a different bread of forward with grate amount of striker instinct which we recently saw in the match against Everton and more over we don't need them to be tall as we got out defenders will be come attacking and scoring in the dead ball situations. I predict a thumping home victory say 3 nil or 4 nil kind of victory.
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