Are they back I mean properly back

Are they back I mean properly back

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Does Arsenals almost symbolic victory this Monday finally show the breakthrough for a team who, despite brilliant football have been unable to secure a trophy for the past five years.A few weeks ago, West Ham played a very early save our season day, the result, an emphatic win. Have Arsenal done slightly the same thing here? In recent pre s conferences Arsene Wenger all but branded this game, save our title race, it worked. Arsenal were indeed a cla s above their London opponents. Chelsea, beinglacklusterin the past few games seemed Samuel Girard Men Jersey to rely solely on Didier Drogbas ability to shine against Arsenal. A decent early beginning for the visitors and Drogba skewing a shot wide spelled trouble. It was not to be as after twenty minutes Arsenal settled into theirrhythm and held the ball, creating, harrowing. A penalty appeal was turned down and Samir Nasri was denied acrobatically by Cech and still Arsenal pre sed. On the stroke of half-time Alex Song played a neat one-two with Jack Wilshere and finished, with theaplombandstyle a striker would have been proud of. Twice in two minutes at the beginning of the second half allowed Cesc Fabregas to stroke home from a Walcott cro s and then Walcott himself to finish beautifully after Michael E sien wasdispo se sed.What was wrong with Chelsea today?A lack of self-believe was the main problem for the Blues today. They relied heavily on Drogba, whose magical goal-scoring record against the Gunners was not put to show today. They desperately mi sed Nicolas Anelka on the right flank, who is more important than people may think. Malouda, who has flourished was absent and substituted at the beginning of the second half. Salomon Kalou was for the best part of the game, ineffectual to say the least. Chelsea were not carried by the driving force that usually is Michael E sien. He was simply not creative enough, not applying his amazing pa sing range to good mesure. Obi Mikel was poor in front of the defence, he was unable to cover for John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic and let the likes of Cesc Fabregas and Jack Wilshere in far too easily. Frank Lampard was mostly unable to make an effect as well. To his defence however, he has just returned from four months out and is far from match fitne s. Chelsea were definitely having an off-form day. An over reliance on Didier Drogba and a midfield unable to control, attack or defend effectively made Chelsea suffer defeat at the Emirates.But what was so good about Arsenal?Their pa sing game was as usual very effective. They seem to have the ability to pick each other out effortle sly, Cesc Fabregas pulled the strings from midfield and allowed space and time for his team-mates. Jack Wilshere was also able to deliver some piercing through balls, one in particular which just evaded Marouane Chamakh. Every man on the team seems to be able to play anywhere on the pitch, this fact was demonstrated by Alex Song scoring Anton Lindholm Jersey with a deft touch, one which a striker would have been proud of. Walcotts finishing seems to have improved as well, despite a poor first touch in the first half which should have been a goal he kept his head up and had a very good game. He cancelled out the threat posed by Ashley Coles runs and he harrowed and attacked the Chelsea defence with pace and direct runs. he scored a wonderful goal and added an a sist to complete a very effective display. This also seemed to be the day when Gael Clichy was not cro sing to the opposite corner flag and that Bakary Sagna was not hitting the ball to the first defender, in other words, the cro ses were on target for once.However, I think that Arsenals main strength last night came from the closing down of their opponents very rapidly and very effectively.Some like to state that Arsenal is the English Barcelona. In many ways this is true, a creative midfield, Matt Calvert Kids Jersey a game built on rapid pa sing, a questionable keeper and a two midfield superstars in Cesc Fabregas/Samir Nasri and their Spanish counterparts Xavi/Andres Iniesta. There is one main difference that can make the sides so different. I have watched Barcelona over recent weeks and noted that upon losing the ball they are very different from Arsenal. When Barcelona lose the ball they pre s very high up, very fast. They attack in packs, hungry for the ball. This would explain why they have such highpo se sionratingsevery match. In that respect, they are a cla s above.I am not comparing Arsenal to Barcelona, simply stating that in some respects they are alike.Last night, Arsenal did exactly that. They pre sed very high and outnumbered Chelsea in midfield. They won the ball instantly and then used it to attack, often with succe s. Chelsea were allowed little space or time, Arsenals young legs seemed too much for the much more aged Chelsea squad. Arsenal will have to keep up their impre sive pa sing and closing down if they are to win against Barcelona in the Champions League.Arsenal were good but Chelsea were dire, Arsene Wenger got it right. Is this enough for Arsenal to pre s forward and achieve the potential that Arsene Wenger has been talking about for many years now? We hope so.
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