For another trip to Manchester the gunners play well just to suffer another defeat and while suffering a lack of justice from the referee and lack from ... hem Lady Luck I guess.
We started very well the game. Gallas should have scored from Van Persie corner. And when City got a free kick on the right side of our defense, Micah Richards from an offside position heads a nothing ball towards our goal. I thought ALmunia could walk slowly to catch the ball instead he dived missed the ball who bounced off the post and on him for the opening goal.
After the goal things got even we still dominated the play and possession for the rest of the first half.
The second half started in similar fashion with us getting much of the ball. Rosicky made his first appearance in EPL since only God knows when and minutes after coming on he put his marks on the game. I though thought we substituted the wrong player. I thought he should have come for Diaby instead of Denilson. Anyway Rosicky found Van Persie on the edge of the City box and the Dutchman did so well: getting away from Lescott and finding the bottom corner for a splendid equalizer.
At that point Adebayor got crazy, he started kicking, stamping and I still could not believe how he finished the game. Actually I do know. Referees are incompetent in England. But there's another reason: the players don't make enough fuss of incidents. When Adebayor stamped Cesc I thought had it been Eboue Adebayor would be at least booked. When he kicked Song from behind I was sad to see Song resisting to show he is man enough. Had he rolled down screaming Adebayor was off instead Song was the one booked when he lost possession and kicked back the monster.
But you see him stamping Van Persie you do realize how much this Adebayor guy is an animal. That is nothing short of crimininality!
During all this period I don't know how we manage to not be ahead as chances were created after chances but when Cesc tried to find Clichy with a rather cheap pass possession was lost and when Richards beat Song on the left back position Bellamy put City ahead again. That relaxed the animal a bit and he was trying to mock or players dribbling left and right.
But if there was any doubt about the animosity of Adebayor it was cancelled as soon as he scored like all ex-gunners do against Arsenal. He ran 90 yards to provoke the away fans. You would think if not for the supporters that constantly backed him during his Arsenal days he would have too much respect to Arsène Wenger, the man who brought him when he was nothing roting the Monaco bench. He taught him, trained him and gave him the perfect opportunities to be a good player. For years he was a liability to the team but Le Boss kept faith on him and he eventually became good. He then offered him three times his initial salary from 25kp to 80kp per week! Calling this guy an animal is an insult to every single beast out there.
They eventually scored a fourth goal while we lost shape and discipline. Rosicky got one back and Van Persie found the post and had another shot just cleared. We had in the last three minutes or so enough chances to level the game but it was not to come.
I don't know why I still feel rather confident in this team but I had a good feeling about this season. We paly much better than last year and we can only get better with Arshavin, Walcott, Nasri, Wilshere and Vela still to bring more to the side. Another good sign is Van Persie finding his feet in the lone central role. He is being a revelation in the last couple of games.
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