Sagna Out To Prove He's The Best

Good shout GK. Fantastic show from Bacs, and he was our MOM tonight. He performs a lot better with support from Eboue down the right and that makes a huge difference to his attacking game as well. He joins in more attacks with Eboue around, coz of the defensive solidity and balance that Eboue lends to the side. I thought Eboue also had a good game overall (although if he hadnt been asleep for the cross that led to their 2nd goal, it would have been excellent).

Best right back ever. But Diaby deserves a mention. He was class. van Persie...two games running any time soon? ;-)

its not robins fault our midfielders can't even complete short passes that would support him

He isn't the first striker to miss a chance and it's hardly a criticism if RvP only manages to score every other game. He does try to hit the ball too hard sometimes though.

Can't wait til we get Eduardo back up to full 1st team fitness.

The things people will say to try and cover up what is glaringly obvious just so that they can try and please everyone with an honest and arsenal biased view...

Last I checked, a goal every other game is a pretty damn good strike rate for a striker. That would be 19 goals in a prem season.

better than boswinga??? do me a favour, take a sensible tablet!!

I never said he played badly. He played very well in my opinion. But the general idea that he rarely gives you two games in a row where he scores a goal highlights the inconsistant and mental nature of his game. We can blame the midfield but he had an easy chance to kill the game off and he missed it.

Ha Boswinga! Your having a ******** laugh mate

Tomf, what you said about Robin, geez can't believe it, just no way - for reasons Amos and TP mentioned above, won't repeat. As for Sagna, he's OUT OF THIS WORLD!! Yes, and 'this world' includes Bosingwa and Dani Alves. I also agree that Eboue had a good enough game, whether he helped Sagna or the other way around, I don't know. They're just fantastic playing together, especially considering that it's the strong Youngs he and Sagna were facing on that side.

Sagna is the best RB in the league defensivly and is good going up front. Bosingwa is more dangerous going forward, but id take Sagna over him any day

Why are you lot just ignoring a fundamental problem with van Persie? The guy does not score two games in a row. Newcastle and Blackburn... Our two easiest wins of the season. if he scored today we would have won. It's as simple as that. You can ignore this and either class it as stupid mumblings that are trying to find fault, or you can just class it as unlucky, but this has happened too many times now. One on one against Boro after winning us the match against Chelsea and he missed them both. Scored a great goal against Liverpool and he hit the post against Villa that would have given us the three points. I will agree, it is unlucky. But to ignore this would be stupid. Some strikers have "luck" when they play. Others call it finishing ability, I don't know. The terminology "doesn't give you two games in a row" is not as literal as said, but it highlights his failure to produce sustained finishing form which, over the course of a season, will lose/draw games for us, just as much as it wins. Every player has their own fundamental problems. Ade can't finish to save his life some times. he will go weeks without scoring. Then he will his a bliner four games running. Toure is as fast as anyone, but the guy doesn't know what he is doing half the time. Song has great defensive nous but has so little desire and effort in his game that he often looks like a liability. Diaby is the same but in an attacking sense (awesome yesterday). van Persie's problem is that he does not finish with any sort of consistancy. For whatever reason, it happens. He did not individually cost us any game, but he could have won two or more games this season but finished poorly. Again, I repeat, this happens to many strikers, Ade included, but that does not make it any less true.

Back on Sagna, do we have a song for him? Let's make one!

yes iceman" thats the player i could have been with" .............and lose 5times in the league already and fall in to 5th place..yeah right!!!!!!

You used a lot of words to say absolutely nothing there Tom. If RvP had scored we would have won and if Almunia had saved the penalty we would also have won. If a striker fails to score in consecutive games it is no more a fundamental flaw than if a keeper fails to keep a clean sheet in successive games. The individual performance in each game can be judged on the merits of each game but to create 'fundamental' flaws out of such a vacuous point is over the top.

Anelka gets world class service, van Persie has to do everything himself. If Anelka played in front of Denilson, Diaby, and Eboue I can guarantee you he wouldn't have those kinds of numbers. It's all about midfield with us. We have the same defenders and keeper we had last year. The difference is there is no Flamini to help them out. We don't retain possession in the midfield at all so our defence is constantly under pressure as compared to last year. Our strikers are less effective this year because they get poorer service than they did last year, this includes RvP who to me tried just as hard as everyone on the pitch. And HeathfieldRoad1874, you can have Sagna, but we need to get Young, Barry, and Milner in return!!

I was using Anelka as an example to point out his finishing ability alone. I admire his efforts around the box and tracking back. But once a player has a one on one chance or any sort of shootong oppertunity, the facts is that he has it. Lots of service or little at all. van persie missed the chance against Villa because he missed the chance, not because Lampard is a better player than Denilson. Same goes for Anelka. He scored his tap ins because he finished it, not because Deco is better than Ramsey. Him having 10 more chances is a sign that maybe Chelsea have better midfield players, but the goals scored and attempts on target tell you that Anelka is a better finisher than van Persie. And if van Persie scores six goals in his next two games we can start talking about how many games each one has played.

(Maybe not Clichy)

henry broke scoring records......was it 11 in a row or something like that...i cant quite remember...but rvp does miss a few ,he is someone who when he scores its seems like for me a surprise,where back in the day wrighty or henry you expected to score

I haven't seen Sky Sports give anyone a mark of 10 especially when the player's team didn't win the game. Sagna made me agree with SS for once. :)