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Arsenal and Liverpool Ready To Rule English Football?

Posted on by rico

Morning all.

Where would we be without the internet eh? Lost, absolutely lost I suspect and when the internet crashes, darn, Highbury House suffers with a later than usual post. I’m sure we’ll cope though….

Anyway, not a lot of news around about Arsenal and I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m still pretty cheesed off about last Saturday’s result and of course our injury situation. What a pickle we are in! Some good news though relating to Theo Walcott and Serge Gnabry who are both nearing a return. Fingers crossed Aaron Ramsey isn’t too far behind them.

Mesut Ozil as we know has joined the extensive injury list and in his absence, there has been many calls for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to take his place. To be honest, I’d rather he stays out wide as he gives us pace and directness but if Walcott really is ready to start, perhaps moving Oxlade-Chamberlain central makes sense. Right now it’s about getting the best from who we have fit and that number seems to decrease as the days go by and with one more international fixture to take place before we face Hull, goodness only knows who we’ll have fit next weekend.

Talking of the internationals, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been talking about how good it is to have so many club team-mates together when playing for England and he believes they can ‘do a Spain’:

Spain have a big influence from Real Madrid and Barcelona. When you go and watch Spain play it’s almost like watching Barca or Real at times, with the number of players they have on the pitch.

It is a nice thing to have that with Arsenal at the moment. You do notice a lot more of an English presence around the club, it’s hard not to. It’s a nice thing as an English lad myself.

You know all the foreign boys in our team are really good, but it’s really nice to see a lot of great English players in our team and then coming away for the internationals.

Just knowing each other, off the pitch and on it, does really help in gelling the team together.

The Germans and the Spanish have been able to do that. Liverpool have got a good number of players as well.

It’s not just those two clubs, everyone who comes away really does integrate well with the team and helps us to ­hopefully be successful.

Talking of Liverpool, having had such a great season last term, it’s a surprise to see them have just a slow start to this season and because of that, their odds to win the league have dropped dramatically.

Both club and country will benefit of course as the more players play and train together, the better the understanding will be.

Arsenal was able to brag that five players represented England on Thursday night, a far cry from those years when Arsene Wenger fielded an all foreign starting eleven.

The other big positive is it means there is a growing ­understanding between the players who are team-mates for both club and country and that showed when Danny Welbeck scored his goal:

When you train day in, day out with these lads, you get to know the way they play. You can’t help but take that into the international break when you come away.

When they’re all on the pitch with you, you do know their characteristics and where they’re going to pass the ball and where they like the ball to be passed. It definitely helps.

When I got that ball down the line I knew Calum was going to be able to find me first and foremost, and I knew Danny likes to make that run to the front post.

It’s the same for the ­Liverpool lads. They’ve been a strong force in this England squad for a while.

The training we’ve been doing. It’s not just the lads that train together for clubs, we’ve been working hard all week to get patterns of play together, we’re going to work on and try and implement them in the games and I think we did that.

Both Liverpool and ourselves might be having a frustrating start to the season, it’s quite clear that players from both clubs are going to be the backbone of the England team for a long time to come….

Have a good Saturday, what’s left of it……

rico

67 thoughts on “Arsenal and Liverpool Ready To Rule English Football?”

  1. Wath says:

    I am thinking you lot need to get together and open a wash n polish car biz…………. Enough knowledge between you all that’s for sure………!

    Morning afternoon evening where ever you may be…!

    Sorry about the lack of internet, technicians working on the fibre optic cable apparently..!

    Thanx Rico, I’ll do 2moro’s post seeing as I dropped you in it today.

  3. Ra says:

    I think when people say OX must replace Ozil, they don’t mean centrally. For starters, Wenger has only played Ozil centrally a handful of times, so really Ox would be replacing Ozil on wing. Jack will then play in the #10 role. Something like this:Sceza / Gibbs-Mertescielny-Chambo / Arteta-Ramsey / Ox-Jack-Alexis / Welbeck (That’s how I’d expect Wenger to line-up in Ozil’s absence, definately not what I’d prefer)
    I’d require a while post to explain my preferred XI (keepingg injuries in mind) properly but it would be something like this:
    Ospina
    Bellerin-Kos-Chambo-Gibbs
    Diaby-Ramsey
    Alexis-Jack(or Santi)-Walcott (or Ox or Santi or Campbell)
    Welbeck

  5. rico says:

    Ra – Chambers is banned for the next match. Re the post to explain your views, feel free to write on and email it to me… lol

  6. Wavy says:

    Potter, thanks for the hot water tip, it never occured to me. My dad once put a tin of Kiwi black shoe polish on a gas ring! It exploded and the juice went everywhere! My mother was furious, not unusual that, but you would be wouldn’t you? But hot water…..genius!
    And just to conclude, Autoglym wheel cleaner is the best thing since sliced bread. It cleaned 4 chrome wire wheels in the time it takes to suck an orange and drink a cup of tea. Previously it used to take 3 or 4 hours for each wheel! Absolutely fantastic stuff! And then preserve the wheels with a liberal application of WD 40. Job done!

    As for team England let’s hope our many reps in the camp return with a few new training drills and more importantly some new tactics! The whole team, team Arsenal that is, need a bit of polishing and buffing up!

    Good stuff Rico on such a waxy day!

  17. kene says:

    Walcott on the right, Sanchez left, Welbeck as cf with Ox behind him. Jack and Diaby(if fit) should play a holding role. I don’t really see Jack as no. 10. Ox, Santi, Ozil, Sanchez, Rosicky are ahead of him imho.

  22. Adam says:

    Not really Rico. Form is the great imponderable in Football. Ramsey has been awful this season and then he got injured. It’s the way it is. There is no unwarranted criticism intended. In England, you have a great season and you’re worth £50 million. You score a hat trick against Galataseray and you are the new Thierry Henry. Great players do it season after season. I hope Aaron gets his fitness and form back. We certainly need him to. Alongside plenty of others. Rosicky included.

  26. rico says:

    Exactly Bt. Perhaps if the manager and the owner put a bit more effort into their own job description, players would follow suit!

  30. sukky says:

    Rosicky is not in wengers plan this season,that’s visible enough.But ♍Ɣ question is,when players are not in your plan,why don’t you let them leave?Campell won’t get enough playing time(even when we could use him in some matches) and the lad wanted to leave but Wenger didn’t allow that.

  31. Adam says:

    BT. The Sun is just sinking beneath the garden shed so I have cracked open a rather wonderful bottle of Rioja. A toast to Rico and yourself and Sukky who has just joined us. I hope she sent you my e mail address. 🙂

  34. Bt62 Gooner says:

    Rico, surely you jest, it can’t be that long ago?
    Adam, it’s beautiful here, enjoy your wine, i am thinking cocktails later….lol

  42. Bt62 Gooner says:

    Sorry Rico, rippp was an exaggeration of rip, still confused?
    Sukky, and you still call him a friend, your to generous for your own good….lol

  43. rico says:

    I say that based on our current squad, if by some miracle Wenger signs a DM and CB at least in January, perhaps we may get 4th.

  63. Rick says:

    Potter on Thurs they beat Germany 1 nil.
    Hayden was captain and right back in both games and was very impressive.

  64. rico says:

    Bt, I bet Ches wasn’t in goal… lol

    Really glad to see Hayden and Akpom are doing well for the under 20’s, their Arsenal time must be close, very close…

    Morning all…

  66. rico says:

    I didn’t see it Bt but after I saw the result, I thought he must have been on the bench… lol

    Good for us though if he’s stepping up his game…

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