In certain areas of our play we’ve made great progressions this season, or retention of the ball has at times been very very good, resulting in our opponents chasing us rather than us chasing them. While it’s quite clear we haven’t yet worked out how to regularly turn this possession into goals it has meant that we’ve outplayed everyone we’ve played against in the league this season for long spells. The only exceptions to this have been Aston Villa and tonight's ’opponents, Arsenal.
Even in defeat to Man Utd at home and a draw against Man City we dominated the majority of the games and left them knowing they’d been in a real match they’d been lucky to escape from undefeated. Spurs away we played very well second half and didn’t deserve the defeat, Everton away we should have won. We’ve handed out beatings to QPR, Wigan, Norwich, Fulham and Sunderland, dominated Reading, Southampton, Newcastle and Stoke at home without scoring as many as we should have done. Chelsea away we had decent spells in the second half, Enrique missing a simple chance to win the game right at the death.
But Arsenal have been regarded as the best passing team in the league for the last decade and if there’s one side we want to show off against in my opinion it would be them. Ok, we want to beat traditional rivals Everton and Man Utd, and the new money of Chelsea and Man City, but it would be an accomplishment to take on the Gunners at their own game and come out on top. We were poor against them at Anfield early on this season and they deservedly won 2-0, that should be a good motivation for the manager and his players to put on a display tonight and I’m hoping we rise to the challenge.
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