Dila mshvidobisa Positivistas,
What a fine morning to be alive as an Arsenal supporter.
The milestone of Arsene’s 20th anniversary at the helm of our football club celebrated in glorious and emphatic fashion. An opponent club who have stood, and arguably still stand, for much of what is rotten in modern football flattened. The evening lit up by what is good in football, art, athletic excellence, intelligence, concentration, the unity of purpose of players working as one body, one mind.
Of the details of yesterday’s game against Chelsea? As I invariably say, you all saw it, but bear with me.
Three aspects of Arsenal stood out for me and each of which I think led to our overwhelming victory. First and foremost, an exceptionally disciplined defensive performance by our back five, aided by first Le Coq then Granit, in which no player lapsed. No one, literally no one, put a foot wrong until the 83rd minute when Batshuayai managed to nick the ball and break on goal, and Petr made his first save of the afternoon. 83 minutes! We tackled cleanly, we headed decisively, we cleared without hesitation, we ignored the Costasaurus and his increasingly absurd antics.
Many times have I, have WE indeed, seen a bright Arsenal performance undone by a silly defensive error, a half second of irresolution or a misdirected clearance. Against CFC, I hesitate to say, we have had a tendency more often than probably any other club over the past few years. Well not last night, not once, not one sniff of weakness. Entirely professional, not one petulant retaliation or response to provocation, we were faultless. That was an exceptional defensive base to build from.
And build we did. Second up two individual performances that stood out from Mesut and from Theo. The former has been ‘quiet’ since the start of this season, good of course but not quite the decisive game-changer week in and week out that we became used to. He roared back yesterday against a team that, in previous contests, he has found it difficult to get into the game against. He oozed class, he bamboozled, Ozil gave them the ‘eyes’, and they fell for them. My second individual award to Theo who played what was his best ever game last night. As an attacking player he tore holes in the visitors all night and was unfortunate not to have more than one goal to his name. At least as impressive when we did not have the ball TW was constantly busy, chasing, denying space, putting in tackles and working seamlessly with Hector.
The third block on which the victory was built was the strength of our bench and the timing and the quality of our replacements. Returning to point one, if we have suffered self-inflicted defensive errors our efforts in so many games have also been undone by a sudden injury and the exit from the field of a key (midfield) player. Often an exact replacement has not been available, the disruption has killed our positive momentum in the game and, in the end, it has cost us. Xhaka for Le Coq caused barely a ripple. Straight off the bench and down to work. A tough, tackling midfielder for a tough, tackling midfielder. Like a clock mechanism, old spring out, new spring in. If the change of Xhaka was enforced then the introduction of Gibbs and the stability that brought to the left hand side was freely chosen and beautifully timed. Iwobi was tiring, Nacho had had a hard afternoon against Willian. Whatever Chels might have made of opportunities down that side was snuffed out, and to his credit Kieran not only assisted with defensive duties but put in a couple of creative touches that nearly added a fourth. And young Kieran is another man who has found previous games against Chelsea ‘problematic’. Goodness me Arsene got his choice of sub and the timing right.
As you can tell the seam of superlative descriptors has been heavily mined over the past hour, or should that be descriptive superlatives – and why not?
We stride purposefully into the 21st year of the reign of Mr Wenger at the club. Let our pace be assured, and our heads held high. There are great days ahead.
Enjoy Sunday.
Positively Arsenal 
Thoughts of an old fart.
At my age, orgasms should be confined to the depth of memory. Shamefacedly I can admit that to experience ten in 45 minutes really was beyond my prowess. But yesterday proved it was possible. Different circumstances admittedly, but the experience was as good as any.
Major delight was seeing the God of justice rewarding Alexis for that near leg breaker suffered at the feet of Cahill sometime back. That was as much fun as Alexis’s delightful chip to put us one up. We had threatened previously with Santi’s shot being beaten away and that really set the mood. We showed a steely determination throughout and both our movement and speed of passing throughout the side was a delight. None more so than the move engineered by young Alex, Hector and Theo which brought our second a few minutes later. Theo had an outstanding game in both attack and defence. He well deserved this goal. In between our second and third goals we had Le Coq, who was also playing very well, injured accidentally and he had to go off and Granit substituted.
Moe joy as Chel$ki attempted to get back into the game but our back line with the Koshkod pairing working together wonderfully well saw off Costa and his cohorts to the extent that they did not have one shot on goal. It was good to see Costa get his come-uppance and really all we saw of him was the bad side which eventually earned him a booking. Not before time.
Then came our third. Mesut who was having a ball, skillfully wriggled his way out of a tackle, fed Alexis and then raced some 30 odd yards to get Alexis’s pinpoint cross to volley home. Ecstasy time again. 3-0 at half time and I suspect all of us wanting at least a fourth or better in the second half.
That unfortunately was not to be. Although Santi and Granit were in control we had a few come close but no joy. In many ways it “Was that good for you as well?”
But Petr had a shot on target to save and young Hector made the best tackle of the day when Koshkod made their only mistake to let Pedro go through clear. He’s no slouch and had at least a 3 yard start on Hector, but he was caught and cleanly tackled. Fine work.
Man of the match? All of them. Not one weak link.
Let’s hope we see more of this against Basel on Wednesday. Keep the faith.
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Oh boy. I’ve been looking forward to reading this since yesterday evening and it did not disappoint. Like Theo you left not one blade of grass uncovered. Rousing, cheerful, positive effulgence for a performance which deserved all the superlatives you care to throw at it. Thank you.
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Fucking marvelous Andy.
Just like Theo and his mates yesterday.
I love it when a plan comes together.
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Excellent A5. Thank you.
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FC could be out for a little while, looks like we’re going to see a mini-run for Xhaka and Cazorla at CM before Ramsey hopefully returns.
That stat about Alexis’ scoring ratio since he moved to AFC: very interesting.
Rewind two years to a beach in Rio:
“Hello Alexis. This is Arsene. I just wanted to say: You like to score goals, I like to see you score goals. Come to play at Arsenal and I promise you that I’ll help you to score more goals.
And there won’t be any clauses in the contract about having to pass to Messi haha. If and when you try to show off too much or ball hog I’ll only ever tell you off in private, it’s how we roll.
No. No sorry but on some issues you will have to compromise. Dogs are not allowed on the training pitches…”
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now imagine if you will, Theo had been sold in the summer, and was putting in the performances he has for us this season for a new club, all those that had demanded he be sold in the summer, would have been barking on about how this proves wenger is a bad manager.
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Brilliant Andy, great stuff – did a stirring and inspiring victory proud!
Staggering that even after that effort (from Arsenal) there are some all to willing to seek out fault and find an excuse to be anything other than totally behind the team they supposedly support.
Not only that but George’s taken a couple of unauthorised days of absence from Twitter.
*shakes head*.
Great piece from Steww yesterday, didn’t get time to leave a comment but really enjoyed it, thanks.
On to Europe my friends, on to Europe.
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High 5 to A5 for a right good write up, celebrating our Reds blowing the Blues away!
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I’m tempted to make a sexual innuendo on last nights performance but I’ll rather not. I’ll just continue imagining myself enjoying a smoke with light tremors still going through my body.
This is turning out to be quite a weekend. The high 5’s, butt smacking and smug tapping of our own shoulders are all deserved. Who knew that Arsène fella do tactics, that Theo is one fine baller and, as A5 said few weeks, Alexis know his to lead the orchestra. With the gorgeous one’s return from injury the predictable moaning twattering bunch will soon vehemently protest against any team sheet that doesn’t have Alexis as striker.
Enjoy the smugness and the chipperness the Arsenal brings to our lives PA-tivitas. Living in the moment is a glorious thing [banned happy yellow blob]
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well AA it is sad that arsenal fans are only too willing to seek fault in the players, team, management, now the question is do they do this due to the media, or do the media do it due to these type of fans. Compare the contrast of recent victories for both Arsenal and Liverpool over Hull and Chelsea
Arsenal beat 10 man Hull – player sent off for handball – it was only 10 man Hull, and needed a dubious penalty
Liverpool beat 10 man Hull – player sent off for handball – magnificent performance, title contenders, clear penalty etc etc etc
Liverpool beat Chelsea – Outstanding liverpool teach chelsea a footballing lesson, so good they made chelsea look bad
Arsenal beat Chelsea – Chelsea so bad they made arsenal seem good
we hear pundits, journos and commentators game after game remind us that Arsenal have not won a league title in 12 years, and “only” won 3 fa cups in that time
while we never hear liverpool have not won the league in 26 years, and have only won a league cup in the last 10 years
and don’t get me started on the way spurs are reported, justin edinburagh is their most successful player in the last 25 years – he won one fac and one league cup
they have won two league cups in Wenger’s 20 years at AFC, yet the media report them as if they are the more successful club
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Great stuff. A brilliant team performance. And some very special players in the mix, two world superstars, a truly exceptional RB,…maybe, a defending colossus, a talented quicksilver player with no football brain going into the form of his life, a brilliant keeper with the best backup gk in the league, the excellent new signings of 2016, Iwobi……all of them.
This result will give them so much confidence.
Great to see the ref do his job well, and not fall for any of Costas crap
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Truly a fantastic game. What a pleasure it is to read a great positive write up about a 3 nil win over that lot.
Gibbs is really making the most of these cameos he’s being given. What a pro, always been a favourite of mine love it and love the fact he’s still considered rather than the fan pleasing option of selling him this summer and replacing him with a new signing.
The back four are rock solid. I think merty and Gabrielle are going to struggle to get back in. The balance given by mustafi is something we’ve been chasing for a while I think. Is that fair.. but it could mean that Mertype may be the next in line for the captains curse that appears to be a real thing.
Theo was amazing. I mistook his trackbacks and muscling out players as Sanchez on more than one occasion. He’s looking revitalised.
It’s a bit early to start getting really excited but we are looking like the real deal.
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Ryan @RyanTomes 1h1 hour ago
Wrighty & Ferdy moaning about post match selfies has fucked me off, every fucking team does it yet we’re the only ones to get stick for it.
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Middlesbrough and Bournemouth the only two BPL clubs Alexis has not scored against, and he has not played v Middlesbrough yet
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We were indomitable yesterday. We could have scored at least six.
A special fuck you to that idiot on twitter who told me Franny Le Coq was nothing special at the beginning of the season. I hope he watched how our intensity dropped after he came out of the game. Twat.
Mic drop.
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Excellent A5,
A fantastic team performance and the fact you can pick out two outstanding individuals without naming the MOTM is testament to that. To be honest you have to dig deep to even pick at any errors of all the players yesterday. Arsene has always said most goals there are series of errors not just one and yesterday any mistake was covered brilliantly by other teamates such as Hector not even having to be in the picture to come back and make a fantastic challenge, Gibbo squeezing between two chelski attackers to clear and Petre making a brilliant one on one stop.
In defence we were solid, In attacked we flowed beautifully and in midfield we swarmed like a pack of wolves bitting ankles and nicking the ball away for another forward foray.
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There are idiots on Twitter?
We’ll blow me!
Next you’ll be saying many of them would have been happy if Arsenal had got rid of Theo and the Ox this summer.
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Excellent writing from Andy and Stew over the weekend.
It’s made a glorious afternoon yesterday last an entire weekend.
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Strange, the ex player come pundit obsession with selfies, which seems to have crept over to journalists.
What’s wrong with a photographic record of a great performance? Don’t recall anyone getting upset at similar antics by Trott, Kenny et al this summer in Rio, of record breaking England cricketers….Or is it just footballers who need to show this media imposed form of decorum?
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any of you who are on twitter have you seen the tweet with the stats that was going around a couple of days ago with this tweet from theo walcott back in july 2014. – I think is showed that in games Walcott and Alexis have played together in they have contributed over a goal a game – goals and assists combined – they had two goals and an assist yesterday combined between them
Theo Walcott @theowalcott 31 Jul 2014
Watch out #PremierLeague
Me and @Alexis_Sanchez will be a deadly force!! #afc #COYG #SpeedMatters
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a_o_b if I’m not mistaken the stat is that on average their are 6 mistakes made per goal. So some less and some more.
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his BPL record is 242 games(153 +89), 58 goals, 41 assists, with 350 games (220 + 130) 88 goals in total, but i have not got his total assist stats
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Theo is unique in the Arsenal team, Teams are about balance, and he gives it in spades when fit and firing..Just like Le Coq does,Its not all about some skills, it’s about having all the skills in one team.
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Great win and a great great second goal. Knowitalls will tell you we were gifted the first goal but it was result of the high pressure the players were asked to perform. Wouldn’t be surprised either if Sanchez was told to put some extra pressure on Cahill specifically. Wenger has given that kind of detailed instructions in the past. Anyhow, it was great to see the team carry out the tactical changes with such great professionalism. From high pressure in first half to compact defensive lines in second half, shifting to counter attacking which almost paid off couple times. And ending the game more balanced with the introduction of Giroud as game was ebbing out. It’s almost a shame we are not playing man shit next as with both teams in form it could have been game of season. But with a string of winnable games coming up we can build on our confidence and increase the understanding between kos and mus which caused the only faults in our game yesterday. Almost perfect as it is thou or certainly imperfect if you are a wob.
Oh and if I was a better person I would credit Costa for being the only chelski player to give a damn over ninety minutes but then I am I and he is, ugh, Costa.
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I absolutely love every Arsenal team, but this one more than most. Every player is a joy to watch both on and off the field.
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ozil gave his match shirt to this lucky young lad, and the delight of the boy was wonderful to see
http://i1.wp.com/highbury-house.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ozils-shirt.jpg?resize=300%2C182
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Yeah ed, was going to write there seem to be a connect between Sanchez and theo but didn’t want to make the post to long. An added benefit of playing Sanchez on top, like a Suarez, that probably will have influenced the managers decision. With theos increased understanding with bellerin I can’t see anyone dislodge him from the right hand side unless tactical reasons.
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PG, spot on, after the poor showing v PSG by Alexis, our boss was quick to put it down to Walcott missing the game, he said without Theo running in behind Alexis, our side lacked its normal balance. Theo knows to go central when Alexis goes wandering after the ball, and whats more is Theo wants to go central. Its a bit like how Ramsey gives us balance cos he wants to make runs past our forwards, something not in Cazorla’s game, just as some of his skill set is not in Ramsey’s game.
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I thought a sub was due when Iwobi came off but I was greedily thinking about an attacker like Perez. Gibbs was the better choice. Not even one of Pulis’ defence obsessed midfielders would have made that clearance Gibbs did.
Agree that Xhaka for Coq didn’t disrupt us much, but I think that might underestimate Coquelin’s role in establishing our position. He was immense. While Xhaka is a brilliant footballer with solid defensive instincts, I think Coq stands alone in his ability to close people down and stop them playing. His passing was also sharp and accurate.
Pretty sure Coquelin has played in nearly all our best games in the last 2 years- City away, Monaco away, Utd home, Cup final, utd in cup, Bayern home, yesterday- so we’ll have to see if any of our impressive replacements can help the team as much.
Exciting times anyway. I was just waiting for Giroud to get his starting spot back as I felt we were strongest with him, but yesterday for the first time I started thinking that might not happen for a while.
Then there’s Perez to consider, and Ramsey, and all with the security of having good players to come in anywhere if injury strikes. Lovely stuff.
All the players deserve praise but a special shout out to Bellerin here : what a player. What an asset in a team who like to push forward to have a sensationally fast defender to retrieve situations as he did yesterday. He might be our most irreplaceable player currently.
In this transfer-crazed world, I got huge pleasure out of Iwobi and Bellerin setting up that beautiful 2nd goal yesterday : spend some facking time developing youth players to fit your club, rest of the league!
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Expect many of you have seen Drogba’s arsehole comment to Walcott.
Not quite as clever as it seems when you consider almost every one of the chelsea players yesterday won the league two years ago, with Drogba playing a supporting role.
So, if we were the mice yesterday, what were those players? Ailing cats? Whatever mice prey on?
Yes, I can still get wound up by those bastards while I should be basking in contentment.
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Walcott and Alexis began a striking partnership towards the end of the 14/15 season, the stand out team performance being the FA cup final against Villa the best performance by any team in an FA cup final that many can remember – villa hadn’t yet sold Benteke or Delph and although not brilliant they were not as poor as they would go on to be – that final was also notable for a mature and assured performance from the WS, before he went to Italy possibly and hopefully to return older and wiser once Cech is ready to be his coach.
Walcott has proven he can supply Giroud, the most famous instance being the goal to celebrate Dick Law’s trip to Madrid and the complete and total humiliation of Daniel Levy and Tottenham (comedy levels never to be matched – we’ve seen some Great days in recent seasons).
Not forgetting Lucas Perez. Mancienne was highly prized played by the grit snorting experts out there. Once upon a time “Bruiser” and “Psycho” chose to play MM as their D**M opposite Mata in an U21 Toulon tournament final, even though they had midfielders in their squad who could pass the football and crazy shit like that (They lost). A promising performance from Lucas in the week? Interesting games ahead.
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Thanks to Andy & Stew for both lovely pieces this weekend. How about that performance last night? The trick now is to try & replicate it on a consistent basis,that’s very possible because of this squad that Arsene has assembled,I couldn’t pick a man of the match from any of them,they were all brilliant,subs included.
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Coquelin’s performance in th pre-season victory over the highly praised City was a signal of his good form, and the role he played in setting up one of the goals was a helpful clue for our blogging genius’ as to what he has been doing on the football pitch (playing football).
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Joel Campbell has lost his place in the Sporting team, he was subbed off at half time last week, and was an unused sub this week. Media very critical of his performance last week, and even the week before. Being slammed for being lazy and unfit, and unwilling to track back.
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Alex Iwobi: “We’re training very well and we’re just putting a lot of training into matches, which is on show today.”
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Guys (boys and girls included): what a perceptive review by A5 and wonderfully written. What a victory for the Positively Arsenal among us!
Ever since we turned our back on the virulent enemies of our greatest ever manager and their fickle Middle Of The Road enablers, this website has predicted the return of Arsenal to its pre-Emirates glory once our manager was able to overcome the financial sacrifices of a new stadium and the tidal-wave of external money gushing into the league via petro-clubs. It hasn’t been a straight metronomic rise, there have been surges and setbacks. Not only 3 FA-cups but, to use a software analogy, the gradual updating of our squad with the likes of Cazorla, Monreal, Ozil, Alexis, Cech, and most recently Mustafi and Xhaka is clear and present evidence that Wenger will once again destroy his opponents on the field or in the football establishment. Bring on Pep, Klopp, Conte or the Odious One.
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Thank you for your generous comments and many excellent further comments. After a win against Chelsea, particularly such a crushing win (and I heard Steve Macmannaman use the word “aplomb” twice on BT!!) it is hard not to feel pretty damn splendid.
I note elsewhere in the Arsesphere there are however those who do not share our elation. As I read in another context this morning ” their difficulty may be they think too much and feel too little”.
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Superb, Shotta.
I’m quite keen to read of any data you wanna get off your chest, this midweek, or anything, please. (You, Steww & A5 have become my triumvirate of tittilation, ta).
I’ve already got me coat.
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She has a lovely turn of phrase;
“Were we going to get the version of Chelsea from last Friday, or were we going to get the second half Leicester version from Tuesday night? I just can’t guess anymore. It looked as if actually had the potential to be a good match, but we had our answer inside fifteen minutes when we were already 2-0 down thanks to f*ckmuppetry of the kind of calibre that saw Napoleon march on Moscow wearing budgie smugglers and a sun hat.”
http://www.chelseasupportersgroup.net/2016/09/girl-who-likes-balls-6/?
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well anicoll I can’t help but think, going on how they react to everything good Arsenal do or achieve, that when we do next win the league, unlike many of us here, who will get that Anfield 89 feeling all over again, the uber bloggers and super fans, will have little or no feeling of triumph, elation etc, it will be all, “about time”, “why couldn’t they have do it years ago”, “at least now wenger will leave, the cunt”. The thought of them not going to enjoy it they way it should be enjoyed, will actually make it all the sweeter for me, and I would expect many others.
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what the fuck is a budgie smuggler
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Thank you Steww and Andy for the great pieces, they’re always a treat! What a team performance by the boys yesterday. I was amazed by our cohesion, the constant support shown by all our players towards each other, it was very impressive. I think that we’ re also seeing the big benefits of more financial powers that Arsene referred to a couple of years ago, we have as deep a team as I have ever seen which is creating competition for everyone and that is a very positive energy in a team. I am so happy for Theo, I’ve always liked him as a player and he seems like a great guy, very level headed. I could go through the line up, but to be brief, the entire team played to their potential and that was a joy to see.
As for mon ami Arsène, merci mon pôte! That anyone could think he is past it blows me away but then south of my border will soon be trumpistan….
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Ranty: I have something in mind. Stay tuned.
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Big up to the assholes who said we were going to beat all the minnows and then lose to Chelsea.
I’m playing this in my car all week.
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ha ha ha, the Sunday Mirror team of the week – no anti arsenal agenda here then
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anyone else notice in recent weeks how Wenger has constantly mentioned that we are getting to where we want to be – in regards to performance, squad quality, team quality – cos we have “closed the gap” financially, its almost as if he and AFC were handicapped significantly in the past, and that it affected the quality of player we could attract or keep. Strange that.
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Ro-sický @Brosicky7 2h2 hours ago
Iwobi is so clever. He turns down passes to big players because he sees something better. He has confidence to do what he knows is right.
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Budgie smugglers are speedos or similar trunks.
Except about the French invasion of Russia-Bony tried to start up a war to using Poland as pretext in order to make the Tsar sue for peace in order for him to stop trading with Britain (ok it was much more complicated but that’s for those with a nose for research can get down to the nits and grits). The Russians weren’t to into this crepe as they loved the French and often at the Imperial court Frenchi was spoken more than Russki and Frecnh stylings were adopted especially in Petersburg but still weren’t up for an invasion.
The Russian army retreated in a scorched earth policy after June 24th when the weather is boiling (budgies down the speedos boys!), which was a nightmare for the French as Bony’s policy was that the army had to be self sustaining,anyway it ended up in a big scrap at Borodino (in Sept-still boiling, but Autumn lasts about two seconds,so heer comes winter),which can be seen as a tactical win for the French army( what ever that means when 70,000 lie dead from both sides?), and a bit more at conflict at Semolino,Napoleon went on to Moscow(Sept 14th?), but the Tsar had done a bunk and the Governor (alright Guv? ows it fuckin’ going?) ordered the city to be burnt down and left Bony with it swinging in the wind.With nobody to negotiate with and whats left of the locals looting before the French Army can, while all along there’s a pretty blaze of the city (four fifths woudl be soon charcoal,ironically the Frenchies fought hard to fight the fire).
He tried to engage the Russians at Maloyaroslavets but couldnt get a real nibble ( not tonight Bony?,but still around 11,000 dead all counted) by now its late October and Russia likes an early winter ( although this one was mild by their standards).And having been picked on since June by peasants and Cossack’s the Imperial army was like West Ham, basically fucked ,having also had around 100,000 men made prisoner, and a stack all brown bread ( around 380,000 according to legend) so Bony and the boys start to move out, the long haul home (in horrible weather)across the steppes with the army facing sorties along the way and then several engagements by the Russian army until crossing at the Berezina which was a disaster ( perhaps 50,000 died on both sides).Bony heard of coup at home and left the Armée to its own devices ( later guys!).
However there’s been a bit more revisionism by scholars over the fact the French returned with more than 22,000 men(perhaps more like 110,000?) and it seems they came home with more as many units were simply scattered and collected later-Nay you say? Well thats what he reckoned. But who knows? Not me.But even so, plenty of people died for little reason (as per usual in wars) on both sides other than for psycho men starting scraps with each other which we learn about at school and revere and aren’t allowed to question in any real seriousness.
All was all over by December 14th. Then Tchaikovsky started penning a tune a few years later.
Anyway apologies for the shallow lighthearted view, but if you have a read about this episode in hsitory it isnt the collected meme.As life never is,somehow? Im sure Bony thought it would all be over by September (the girl form the Chelsea blog is right though in that the French were wearing summer clothing,as it was summer when it started and would be for a long time yet) and didnt expect scorched earth or the Moscow blaze or the Tsar just not playing the roles?
But this event in history had a domino affect…
COYG!
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Mills – I love the comparison between The Grande Armée and West Ham!
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