Don’t Fear the Drogba
07. Dec, 2006 
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Ahead of our Sunday clash with the Russian giant Chelsea there is news from the camp of more center-back injuries. Johan Djourou picked up a hamstring strain and is fortunately recovering quickly. Hopefully he can make it back in time for Chelsea as we will already be strapped for support in the back line.
Toure will also be missing the match due to yellow card suspension but I believe Senderos will be back from his red card suspension. That still leaves us without a vital center back so Arsene might have to pull something special out of his magic hat.
With so much pressure boiling in the center back, how worried should we be about the currently on-fire Didier Drogba? Plenty. It’s like Drogba has an illness and the only cure is scoring goals. He just won’t stop. If the defense makes any defensive error to let him through we’ll be regretting it. Couple his fearlessness and determination with Shevchenko’s waning precision and the Arsenal is going to have it’s hands full.
The rest of Chelsea’s squad are to be just as feared. However, it’s quite conceivable for us to walk away with another three points after having done so at Old Trafford. Cashley Cole will be feeling the heat from the gooner crowd, especially with the aid of this fake cash. I sure hope that the cameras capture the mass bill waving that will be going on. It’s quite a nice gesture I think. He’ll be getting what he deserves.
I crunched some numbers on goals against for the Champion’s League. Not only did all the English clubs win their groups, but they also allowed the least amount of goals. You’d think these stats go hand in hand but thats not necessarily the case.
English Clubs GA Average: 4.25
All Teams GA Average: 7.53
Italian/Spanish/German/Portuguese (13 teams) GA Average: 6.38
I’m not really drawing any huge conclusions from this quite yet. Only that the English clubs perhaps played the best they ever have in the Champion’s League. Arsenal came away with the least goals scored against in the group stage of the competition.
In other, quite disappointing news, Juergen Klinsmann has withdrawn from the selection for U.S. national team coaches. This is a huge blow to U.S. soccer and leaves us really hanging. I don’t know why he didn’t sign, but it must have something to do with some matter that the U.S. Soccer organization was unwilling to concede.
That’s flat-out stupid, and I see this as a pretty big setback. We’ve got our first friendly in early January so we’d better set up something real quick. Since it will be such a rush, I’m sure we’ll make a horrible decision.
If you keep using words like ‘fear’ then you are bound to lose. Arsenal should start on the front foot and take the game to Chelsea, as against Tottenham. We have nothing to fear at all and I don’t think that it will cross the players minds for one minute. We have nothing to lose..they have a huge amount. The Sunday kick-off will provide us with an extremely important extra day of preparation. I believe that the last two weeks has been mostly about this game, and this is the one the team are really focused on.
Agree with ‘Frank’
Chelsea have it all to loose, we have everything to gain. With resting Henry we have pretty much said we are forgetting the title race, and going for the cups (he will be back in time for the FA and Champions league, hopefully) – so we almost have some breathing space – Chelsea have none.
Even a draw for them is not good enough – if we play just like we did at old trafford, or Real / Juve last season, we have more than a good chance of picking up some points.
Come on arsenal
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Try and show some class Arse!