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Although was quiet today, he protected Raylor all game and brought the ball out of defence at times when in trouble

Him and Collo had a great partnership today. Despite his one dangerous give away, he made some vital interceptions and blocks today. Noticed a couple of times when Gervinho/RVP broke through tracked them back showing good pace and ended up winning the ball and covering well. Even a year ago he would have dived in/ sold himself giving away a pen and/or red card but instead stayed on his feet. Hopefully is finally maturing into a good quality defender

Gervinho looks a good player when running at people but had no end product, 9/10 times gave the ball away afte taking on the fullback. Red card for him and yellow for Barton was correct imo!

Dont think Lovo touched the ball aftter coming on, but really think Best could become a very good striker given the chance.

Overall ws a good result today, would easily have taken the draw before the match. Felt Pardew got it right in terms of tactics today apart from up front. Team worked very hard and deserved the draw. Krul (8) looked very confident in goal, made an early flap at an early cross but look commmanding at came out very quickly. Was very impressed by the Collo and Saylor parternship. Collo(10) was faultless, enough said. Saylor(8) make sime vital block and generally looked good, however had one big mistake giving the ball away dangerously in first half. Raylor(5) was definatly the weak link, exposed by Gervinho early on, not a lb. Having said that he did make a couple of good takles and grew into the game as it went on Simpson looked alright, at times outpased by Gervinho but didnt back of quite as much as usual. The midfield worked hard, but first half were chasing the whole time with Arsenal having the extra man in there. However with Obertan coming on in the second half looked much more comfortable. Cabaye(7) was quiet in first half but could see glimpses of quality in second when he had some space, especially later on when he was given a chance to push foward more. Tiote(7) was excelent defensively but lapses of concentration meant he occasionally lost the ball with stupid passes. Barton(7) looked very determined today, almost too much today, seemed like he occasionally tried too hard ending up out of positon / loosing the ball but genrall play was good Gutierrez(8) impressed me today, although was quiet at times as he didnt create much today he really pretected Raylor today and brought the ball out of defence well at times releaving pressure. The strikers in the first half just didnt work. I suppose the tired the Arsenal defence with the physicalness but created nothing. Shola(6) tried hard and battled with the cb's but passing was terrible and had 0 chances. Ba(5) didnt have much to go on at all, found it hard to make space and when he did had nowhere to go so mostly lost the ball. Obertan(7) was really effective when coming on, his pace really opened up the defence but seemed to fade away later on, needs more time to progress.

I suppose he wears out defenders with his constant slugging/baging into them

Absolute hero, 10/10 perfomance

Hopefully the Shola Ba partenership is a one off just for Arsenal to bully their defence out the match

Liverpool 1-0 Suarez after 12 mins Edit: woops bit late

10th

Cant Gosling play the holding role? Maybe switch roles for this match

Hey Kasper do u reckon u could do one of Abeid? Because we could show it to him on facebook and see if he likes it :colo:

It wouldn't if the players were as pissed off as the fans. A lot of the players especially then new and youth players are probably still unsure about what is even going on, so for them to turn up to an empty stadium would definatly have a big effect on there morale and confidence

I still reckon M'Bengue is are repacement plan. The reported bid at the start was probably just a test the water bid to see how much they wanted. Then we will probably hold out for a bid for Enrique that can cover that + a bit of profit for Ashley.

It may have a small effect on Ashley, but it will have a bigger negative effect on the players

If only we had Leicesters money

Surely title needs changing after pardew quotes, "no concrete offers"

Guess they cant fully answer that untill transfer windows completed

Chelsea complete signing of Romeu for £4.35 million from Barcelona http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/04/chelsea-barcelona-oriol-romeu-signing

Ye it doesnt take into account wages and "agent fees"

Thats just ridiculous i reckon he is gonna make a big impact this year

U should sneak in Sammy on the NUFC information page under Legends

How pissed would Shola be if Sammy got then #9

Where did the story about him being in a hump about not taking corners and freekicks come from??

West Ham, Blackburn and Villa (or QPR) i reckon