By Myles Palmer
I asked a couple of ANR readers to preview Sunday’s 4 p.m. Premiership game at Goodison.
Spirited, younger Arsenal will thrash Everton
By Charles Sultan
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The team for Sunday will be:
Richard Wright;Luzhny,Tony Adams (C),Sol Campbell,Matthew Upson; Parlour,Vieira, Grimandi,Gio; Henry, Wiltord.
On the bench – Seaman, Dixon, Edu, Jeffers, Inamoto(or Aliadiere)
I believe the score will be Everton 1 Arsenal 3.
The season has been a success in comparison to our last campaign when we failed to score in a number of games and conceded goals at an alarming rate.
This season has seen the team sprit grow and the English additions of Campbell, Wright and Jeffers has gone along way to replace the ageing English contingent in the squad.
Campbell has been a success and is now the rock of our defence. He will improve and be an even better player than he was at Tottenham.
Lauren, Cole and Campbell have given the defence a young look and goals can come from all over the pitch, unlike last year.
Freddie Ljungberg, Ashley Cole, Mr Pires, Henry and Parlour have been fantastic this season.
Others have pulled their weight but the refreshing thing is we have young players who are making a name for themselves and they have it all to prove.
In certain games we have had a back 5 unit with an average age of 24 or younger.
Beating teams like Manure, Juventus and Liverpool with such youth has given Arsenal a belief that we are going in the right direction.
We don’t get done for pace at the back like last season.
The most disappointing players this season has been Grimandi and Luzhny. These two need no explaining as their performances speak for themselves, appalling.
Fergie’s decision to stay on does not bother me the slightest as he was in charge when they had the disappointing start to the season.
Manure are now trying to replace star performers in their team who were English.
Doing it with foreign players will be hard as we have found at at Arsenal.
Some don’t settle, like Veron, and others will need time. Keane and the rest are a lot older now and they will find it hard going, like at the start of the season.
Scholes is not too happy and neither is Beckham contrary to reports.
There is a lot wrong behind the scenes at OT but the media won’t let it be known.
Arsenal will continue to improve under Wenger and we have a younger team, strong board, fantastic youth academy and a new stadium for 2004.2005.
We will be the biggest club in the country due to location and the rest – and probably in the top 5 in the world.
Manure beware!
8th February 2002.