Hello Arsenal fans, I’m jtom, the administrator of The Clock End. I am an avid Arsenal supporter and would like to share my opinions on the club on this site. You are also welcome to share your thoughts in the comments section. I rarely miss an Arsenal match and post match previews and reports on every Arsenal match.
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Arsenal Koscielny was excellent today, dtmnnaoiig torres, and dealing well with sturridge when he came inside, the best CB on the pitch today. Mertesacker wasnt as comfortable, looking a bit prone to pacy attacks by chelsea and got caught out a few times in the first half. His positioning was bad too, and i think djourou would have been a better option next to kol. Djourou didnt looked confortable at RB, and especially against mata, chelsea’s best player, he looked troubled. He has positional problems, was reluctant to track mata inside, and didnt offer anything going forward, meaning mata didnt have to worry as much about tracking back. Santos looked poor too, and i think a poor buy (along with mertesacker), he was easily outpaced by sturridge, looked poor positionally and didnt really offer a consistent threat going forward (when sturridge wasnt going to track back, this could have a good strategy, his goal sort of proves this). His goal was very lucky, and put a gloss on a poor performance, arsenals worst player today. Song broke up play well, doing well to disrupt lampard and mata, espicially in the second half. He also kept thing simple (very much needed) and got forward on occasion to surprise chelsea. Arteta wasnt so good, he could have helped song out by sitting deeper today, to help restrict mata space in front of the defense. But his biggest problem was his passing. He needed to give arsenal some control over the game, but he was poor today and gave away the ball a lot, mostly by trying too many through balls, which isnt really his job, and was surprising from such a experienced player. Ramsey played well, getting into good positions (exploiting space in front of mikel, rather than going too far forward) and creating a lot of good chances. His possesion passing could have better, again like arteta, they both should have controlled the game more, and really arsenal were lucky to have won, could have gone either way really. The front three was excellent today and won arsenal the game, Van persie’s movement was excellent, his finishing even better, and his build up play showed chelsea what they were missing with torres. Walcott and gervinho made excellent runs all game and there pace terrified chelsea. And praise should go to wenger for his subs, jenkinson on for djourou helped arsenal, as djourou had been struggling, and rosicky for walcott was even better, as walcott looked tired, and rosicky helped keep possession well and helped press with fresh legs. Overall, arsenal won with a superior attack, spearheaded by the best striker in the premier league right now, and with a great performance from the back by Kol and from Song in midfield. arteta and ramsey could have controlled the game more (arsenal never had control really, and were lucky) and mert and santos had bad games (showed by 3 goals conceded).