Premiership ejaculation All over after twenty seconds
By Boris Mellor
May 5 2013
This game climaxed early, indeed the only game to be over after 20 seconds this season, with a fumbled early penetration of the QPR defence, and after that it was all grunting and groaning without anything further occurring to cheer about.
When the goal went in on 20 seconds my friend was ecstatic, he was expecting a goal rush, 5-0 to be précises, but I pointed out that on the occasions Arsenal score early the rest of the game is an anti-climax. I had, for some strange reason, predicted 4-1 to Arsenal, but that was on the basis of QPR scoring first. Syd the cabbie was predicting 1-1, which was far more realistic, and could even have been the result if Szczesny hadn’t made a couple of brilliant saves.
Indeed Woy was my man of the match; sure Walcott got the all-important goal, but never looked like scoring again. However with Arsenal playing without one real striker on the pitch, and none on the bench, it was keeping a clean sheet that was key for the 90 minutes + that remained after the lone goal.
It was hard a match to watch for the committed fan, indeed I know at least one who turned over to Dr Who, no doubt finding it more soothing for frayed nerves. I prefer to remain behind sofa being scared witless by the Gunners inability to kill a game off.
The game can be summed up as following, after a bright start Arsenal put the hand brake on, played lots of crab football and then became a little nervous, but in the end showed enough mental strength to gain three points. Not memorable but the three points will do nicely.
Wenger comment of the day
On if he can remember Arsenal scoring as quickly as Walcott did…
No. I can't remember. Unfortunately I waited for the second goal but it never came!
Match Stats
Shots QPR 14 Arsenal 13
On target 6 11
Possession 46% 54%
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013:05:14:23:04:14 by Padre Pio.
In fact only Man City have a clearly better defensive record than us - 31 goals conceded to our 36. Chelsea have conceded 35 but have played two games less. We may well end the season with the 2nd best defence in the premiership - something I'm not sure many of us expected earlier in the season.
Our goal difference (31) now is only two behind Chelsea (33), which might prove significant - if they lose to either ManU or Spurs, we may catch up with their goal difference. We are way ahead of Spurs (18) on that front.
It looks to me like we will scrape into the Champions League again, which seemed very unlikely for most of the season.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
There is no doubt that Arsenal have been using a far more restrictive approach on this run in, once we go ahead there is more emphasis on keeping a defensive structure than being gung ho going for a second goal.
*Signing Ozil is a signing Bergkamp type moment for Arsenal. It changes things utterly.*
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perhaps Bold is having influence after all, or was dropping of Vermaelen and Szczesny the key?
When the defence is good it's the Bould factor. When it's sh*t the blame lies with Wenger.
Think Wenger has started following Bould's approach again.
p.s. Bould must have organised our defence on the run to the 2006 CL final as well.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
i don't know if wenger and the club deserve 4th place finish. but when i think of it, WE FANS DESERVE THAT 4TH PLACE FINISH.
when i heard we scored the fastest goal, i was surprised we finally won that game.. i expected them to concede a goal and then go ahead toloose that game.. can't trust wenger and the boys no more.
Can We Now Trust The Process 🤔🤷🏿♀️ or Should We Still Remain Cautious 🙇🏿♀️
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perhaps Bold is having influence after all, or was dropping of Vermaelen and Szczesny the key?
When the defence is good it's the Bould factor. When it's sh*t the blame lies with Wenger.
Since the end of WW1, 1919, when the FA restarted its 4 tier football league, with Arsenal fc in the 1st div, there’s only ever been one club to have never been relegated from Div 1/ EPL.
Arsenal fc
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