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Did someone say near the beginning that Porto have an outside chance of winning the Champions League? Well they do!
Porto are not a bad team at all, they have a very good attack, some defensive errors yesterday but they have Alves who is experienced and generally a very experienced team, with the Incredible Hulk on the bench to also make a difference. I seriously think Hulk should tattoo himself green! He would be an international superstar!
To say Porto are a good team shows how classy Arsenal were yesterday, they had full strength out yesterday bar Denilson, who I still am not a fan of yet, but he played well, there was no Eboue in the team which was good, as when he gets annoying he really gets annoying! Nasri and Walcott were the wingers who were immense throughout the game, especially Walcott, who looked like he was having fun racing everyone out there, Adebayor and VP used Theo’s pace really well, giving him impossible balls to chase which he did and always got there! His first touch is near perfect too.
Fabregas was the main man though, had control of the whole mid-field being the key for the first goal with his ball to Adebayor, who had great composure to pick out VP to get the goal. The whole game Fabregas was excellent, his passing was the top of his game and Porto just didn’t do enough to man-mark him.
The second goal was a perfect header from Adebayor and they went into the half 2-0 up, 3rd goal, quite funny actually, Van Persie somehow seemed to walk into the box when he clearly should have been tackled and toe poking it in to make it 3, Adebayor made it 4 with a penalty.
A funny moment in the game was when Carlos Vela dribbled all the way in the box, great little ‘Maradona’ run, passed to Bendtner, who began acting like a mad man, it seems like he was tackling him self, and then, the funniest thing, he kicked the ball out for a throw-in, while he was sick yards from Porto’s goal!!! Bendtner has improved but he does do things that make him look dumb at times. Last season he cleared a shot off the line, only thing was it was the oppositions goal and it was Fabregas doing the shooting!!
Great game for Arsenal, the thing is when the first half of the season goes as good as this they tend to crumble, but… they have a much better squad than last year, no worries about injuries now, they have plenty of replacements – Vela, Bendtner, Wilshire, Ramsay, and don’t forger Da Silva and Rosicky to come back, they may just have enough to get that trophy they need!
