Up The Tempo Lads!

At the start of the week i was happy when i realised that I could watch all of Arsenal's 3 games this week live on the T.V but so far we have suffered a frustrating 0-0 with Blackburn and a disappointingly embarrassing 1-0 defeat at PSV as Thierry Henry quite rightly says "they only had one shot" which is correct but the goalscorer Mendez should have been closed down by Toure and Senderos much quicker. This leaves only the Carling Cup against Chelsea this week and with Henry definitely not going to be involved it looks like another tough match but i will be rushing home from Portsmouth on Sunday to be back in time to see it never-the-less and the Fact that Mr Wenger says he will only play people who has played in the competition so far doesn't bother me as that actually only leaves Lehmann (who is suspended) Van Persie(who is injured), Gallas, Ljungberg and Henry - not as many as you may think!

So why have we been struggling to beat these medioka teams? To me and many other Arsenal fans I have spoken to its obvious. The answer is we have been playing at walking pace but when you consider in the team there is Henry, Walcott, Eboue. Clichy, Toure and Fabregas just to name a few we could out run any team in Europe as we show when we have conceded the first goal the pace shows and we get back into the game but as last night showed we cant always wait until we are 1-0 to start playing. At least in the return leg 2 weeks today at The Emirates we will start 1-0 down so we may be able to start with the fast, free flowing football Arsenal should and are capable of producing all of the time.

Good luck on Sunday lads!