Too true. When your limping around the bottom third of the league you need a tight focus on the next three available points. Plus talking about winning things when you’re fifteenth just invites people to take the piss.
Looking at the next game you’ve got to be optimistic. Steve Bruce says that Sunderland are coming to attack, but without Bendtner and Gyan they are much less of a theat. But Sessegnon showed last time that he needs watching. Sebastian Larsson will also fancy his chances of showing Arsene Wenger that he made a mistake letting him go.
What Steve Bruce probably meant was that they are coming to string five feisty lads across the middle and hope to catch us on the break. So Arsenal are going to have to play against nine Sunderland players behind the ball for a lot of the game.
Hopefully we can move the ball faster than we have been so far and get more passes on target. If we can get the passes through to Van Persie and get Gervinho attacking the box we will be okay.
Most of the talk has been about whether Jenkinson will play, mainly because of the long list of alternatives reeled off by Arsene Wenger. I think he will play and that the manager was just trying to fend off another Arsenal crisis story.
This week of course we’ve not been the media’s favorite target thanks to Wayne Rooney and Wenger was canny enough to give the hacks a Rooney quote to help keep the focus there.
Anyway, the real debate amongst fans seems to be Arshavin v Walcott to play up front with RVP and Gervinho. My vote is for Theo, with Arshavin starting against Marseille, but it could be the other way round!
