Colney Creche 0 Manchester City 2
Koscielny lost this game.
He made a rugby tackle on big Dzeko after 9 minutes. Clear penalty, obvious red card, kamikaze defending.
You can always get a goal back. But if you\’re sent off, you can\’t get a man back.
Graeme Souness said it at half-time :“I think it\’s a sending off and a penalty. Koscielny panics and puts both arms round him.â€
Jamie Redknapp said, “In a way, it\’s a brave decision. I agree with Graeme. Mike Dean\’s done nothing wrong.â€
Arsenal are not a team.
Simple as that. They don\’t have a leader who can communicate belief. Without power players round them, the creativity or Wilshere and Cazorla is being wasted and will be wasted for as long as the burned-out Wenger runs this shabby outfit.
His 4-3-3 formation, using the pace of Walcott, is OK as an away system. As a home system, it\’s crap.
Bayern Munich will spank this shower comprehensively.
So will Chelsea next Sunday.
What about the rest of the game?Is that worth writing about?
Taking the penalty himself, Dzeko hit the keeper’s leg and the post and Szczesny was able to grab the spinning rebound as the ball bounced into his grateful gloves. Lucky Arsenal.
Mertsacker for Oxlade was the substitution I predicted. That was as obvious as the straight red from Mike Dean. Anybody could see that was the change.
After 21, Vermaelen switched off, the defence went to sleep on a free-kick and Tevez played in James Milner, who blasted his shot into the far side of the goal.
0-1 after 21 minutes.
Dopey defending, sloppy, flaccid, pathetic, abysmal, self-defeating, words fail me.
Season after season after season, Wenger’s teams can\’t do basic professional defending.
Then Dzeko scored a tap-in after Zabaleta beat Gibbs and crossed low. A Big Bosnian scored a Gerd Muller, tapped in a “little goal”.
0-2 after 31 minutes.
After 46 of the first half, Vermaelen got a yellow card for a late tackle on Dzeko and then my mate Kelvin phoned from the match.
I said: “Dump Wenger. Reverse his culture. Get on with it!â€
Kelvin :â€I don\’t think it\’s gonna happen,Myles.â€
“Course it is!â€
“I\’ll speak to you later,†he said.
Second half, Dzeko headed a Milner cross over the bar and Carlos Tevez surprised us by missing a one-on-one after Sagna and Szczesny had made it harder for him.
Kompany was sent off by Mike Dean in 75.
It was a bold dribble by Jack Wilshere but a bad dribble because Jack knew he had shown too much of that ball to Vincent Kompany, so the big Belgian knew he could win the ball. And Jack knew he was going to get hurt.
It wasn\’t a two-footed tackle.
I don\’t blame Citeh for appealing against their captain’s straight red card.