Review: Fulham 0 - Arsenal 1

Yes, it's kinda late for a real review, but since I didn't really catch any more than the highlights, I found it a bit lacking in credibility to do a full review. So my lazy compromise is a 3 day late summary review, coupled with a look at all sorts of other yummy things.

The game then: Played mediocre. In a tricky away game. In a tricky away game where our opponents play really quite well. In a game we lost pathetically last season. Where we could've easily lost again this season. But no. This time, we had: a super keeper, a rare chance taken with top-notch class, a determined defensive display, and in the end, a really scrappy 1-0 away victory. I'll take it, yes sir!

Anyways, it's great to see Arsenal.com offering little "bite-sized" highlights, so have a look see. Just perfect, thanks! In case I haven't said this before, I love you, Arsenal!!!

The highlights probably will say more than I could. All I can say is, we've been at the wrong end of similar games and scorelines in the recent past, so it's about time we get an ugly 1-0 win.





What made our win so much sweeter was of course, Chelski getting whipped by none other than Wigan. haha! I remember as a kid, I had this strange logic. We beat them 4-0, then they go and beat Chelski 3-1, so all things considered, ceteris paribus, if we play Chelski next week, we should win 7-1. Indeedy.

Looking forward then, tomorrow's mid-week Champions League day, hooray! Hard to believe that of our 6 EPL games this season, 4 have been away from home. So it's kinda nice to see the Emirates on TV every now and then. It's been a long time, like friggin' two weeks since a nice comfortable home win, so I'm hoping for something like 4 or 5 again.

Which leads us to this story. The twit crashes his car driving along some country road with nobody about looks like. Oh well. Maybe he was working on his heading in the car. And in so doing, the twit has ruled himself out of Olympiacos. Just great. If it's not Theo's shoulders, Diaby's groin of glass, Eduardo's shattered leg, it's Bent Nick's car crash injuries. Someone take away his car keys! Speaking of Eduardo, Where's Eduardo? Have a look see. Hope he shows up by kick off tomorrow:



Here's my starting 11 for Tuesday in 4-3-3:

Mannone, Clichy, Vermaelen, Gallas, Sagna, Song, Cesc, Eboue, RVP, Eduardo, Arsh

I'd like to see Carlos the Jackal on the bench though. In the meantime, of course, Theo's not gonna play. According to Le Boss:

"Nicklas Bendtner didn’t participate [in training] because he had a car accident on Sunday. Fortunately he did no long-term damage but he was bruised and we thought it was best for him not to train. He should be back for Sunday."

I say again: idiot. Take the bus.

"Eduardo will be back in the squad for Olympiacos, but Walcott will not. He is available but he's short of competitive action at the moment - he needs a game, and we'll organise one for him. He should be back to normal again from Sunday onwards."

"Organise one for him". What does that mean? I thought we used to only do that in the playground with kids from the neighbourhood? Hmmm. Won't everybody else be like, playing with the boys from Greece? Oh well. At least he's back for Sunday.

Ah, till Tuesday then. In the meantime, I suppose I could tolerate Citeh v West Ham tonight. At least there's no Adebayor to watch.