It was Arsenal which first suffered a significant injury blow when the club learned on Monday that Denilson would be out for the next two months. Then Wenger announced that Bendtner had a major fender bender, crashing his Aston Martin on his way to training on Sunday morning.
We played beautiful football with a lot of attacks. Despite this, the match had the fans in tenterhooks and tearing their hair out in frustration for 78 maddening minutes. The veteran George Clooney doppelgänger goalie, who was the goalie in the Greek side that won the Euro 2004, was as good as Mannone was at the weekend. I was instantly awake when I caught the match, shouting at Diaby (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: he really was diabolical) among others. Then with twelve minutes remaining, Cesc threaded the ball to Dudú (not to be confused with their Dudu) who flicked it to van Persie and the Dutchman poked it home for his first European goal this season. And four minutes before time, Cesc (yes, he’s my man!) floated the ball to Shava who turned it in with a cheeky backheel. I love, love, love the goal. The win was an early gift to Wenger who celebrates his 13th year at the club tomorrow. Crazy or brave signing , he’s the longest-serving manager at Arsenal.
And so it was a Greek Tragedy to the visiting Greek side.
At training. Cesc looked like a Greek guy here, or even an Arab
Shava attacks
Cesc attacks
RvP celebrates
Shava backheels~~~~~~~~
Elsewhere there were natural catastrophes first in the Philippines when tropical storm Ketsana struck on Saturday. It has since strengthened into a typhoon and has hit Vietnam and south China. And this morning, a tsunami hit Samoa. My prayers and thoughts to all victims.
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