Arshavin: We should have pressured Swansea
According to Andrey Arshavin, the Gunners failed to complete the job required to go on and win against Swansea City after Robin van Persie’s early strike.
The Russian, who gave an assisting pass to the Dutchman in that event, claims he advised his skipper and teammates to follow up the early goal by putting high pressure on their opponents whenever the Gunners lost possession – a tactic equivalent to that of Barcelona when they visited the Emirates stadium.
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But Arsenal failed to live up to Arshavin’s suggestion and at times even allowed their Welsh opponents to dominate them in possession in the manner which the Spanish giants did last year.
Arsenal’s Russian forward was a culprit for a disappointing away day himself, after a performance which saw him lose the ball on several occasions and misfire in front of goal before being substituted after only 18 minutes into the second-half.
But Arshavin claims his idea of how to maintain the lead against Swansea was not implemented by the Gunners on Sunday.
“After the goal I told him (Van Persie) and the guys that we had started the game well and so we should also press on for 10-15 minutes.” Arshavin said
“We should not have given Swansea an opportunity to play freely. Their team is well trained and well prepared. They immediately began creating problems for us when we ceased to put pressure on them.”
Arshavin’s contract at Arsenal will run out in June 2013, but Arsene Wenger has indicated that the Russian could be offloaded ahead of that time.
When asked whether Arshavin will be offered a new deal at the club, Wenger responded:
βHe is a bit older than Van Persie! (whose contract will also expire in 2013).β
totally agree.
If Arshavin’s performance is an example of ‘his’ idea of pressing on then god help us.
Agree.
Honestly I don’t know what the guy’s problem is. Whether it’s fatigue or just lack of interest or being shy of the crowd (haha π ).
It’s okay to miss chances and not score often but it’s not okay to not even attempt to win the ball. Whether it’s on the ground or in the air, he just stands there.
His words above are plain contradiction.
Arshavin is the most laziest players I’ve had the misfortune to ever watch.
Lack of pace, no interest in the game, head bowed looking at the floor all game, shamefull body language. I’d love to give him a good kick in for wearing our sacred shirt and disgracing it
try it in training first? hunt in 3’s, or do an Arshavin and look like a lost sheep for an hour until hauled off.
he can be a bit of a lazy git on the pitch but wenger hasn’t done him any favours, playing him wide left and using him as a sub so much. he’s a no.10 and a starter and needs to play with runners around him doing the legwork. he could give the team 30 assists and 15 goals a season if we used him right.
it’s not very egalitarian to say that one player should be let off from doing defensive work, but arshavin has the talent to make magic in the final third if his team plays for him. many other teams allow their most talented attackers to focus on attacking. it’s not unusual. if other players don’t like it, tough. creative talent in football is rare and should be respected.
i’m disappointed that wenger has marginalised arshavin so much. he built the team for fabregas, then made it play for rvp, and everyone else’s talent has been ignored. arshavin’s is the most talented of the other players and his talent is the most wasted.
i’m actually ashamed of how wenger has treated him. absolute waste.
you 100% right -arshavin creative player ,big talant ,but he not may play in defence,and he not winger -he second striker to help RVP
I can not but wonder if you are seriously referring to the same Arshavin that plays for Arsenal Fc or someone elsewhere. If you are actually talking about Arshavin of Arsenal Fc then you must be either having a big laugh or just back from Banana Republic, simple.
hi gunner17, am azgunnerz. Am happy u made d truth stand out. Also shows u watch with clean cut observance. Keep it up. I can rate arshavin as the 4th best player for arsenal. Behind wilshere,v.persie, vermalen. His counter wt walcott can be v.deadly but most @ tyms they are nt usd 2geda.
Gunner17, you actually seem to believe that tripe.
You are ashamed that,though obviously talented,the laziest Gunner if all time has not been treated like god…..I’ve heard it all now.
Seriously,watch Rooney,Messi etc,etc.
They work 5 times harder when off the ball than Arshavin,and are more productive when on it.
How you could even attempt to justify his failings defies logic and belief.
it’s hash to compare him to rooney and messi…of course he’s nowhere near their level.
what i’m saying is that he’s being underutilised. right now he might give us 10 assists and 5 goals a season, because wenger is not playing to his strengths. he could easily give us twice that, if not more, if we just played to his strengths a bit more. do you want him to produce more for us or not? i do. i want arsenal to do better.
some players give amazing effort all the time. others are a bit sensitive, and need some special treatment. arshavin is one of the latter. wenger has not shown the right man-management skills to get the best out of arshavin. look at what his former managers say about the matter if you want a third party opinion.
also, i wish we had more than one gameplan. all we seem to do is try to dominate possession with our barca-lite pass pass pass. it’s not that sophisticated to be honest. we always just end up forcing other teams to defend in two lines in their own penalty area, then we struggle to break them down, and then we give away stupid breakaway goals because we leave massive gaps in our defence for opposition runners to exploit.
i wish we could set ourselves up to be more defensive and play with 1-2 runners up front, especially in serious games. i think arshavin, with a tough hard-working defensive unit behind him and runners making runs in front of him, would kill for us as a counter-attacker. he would absolutely murder teams. he’s no good at jinking through 5 opposition players in a crowded penalty area. the way we’re set up to play now is stifling him, not to mention not winning us games.
Arshavin`s reputation and the respect he has earned as captain of his his Country and club, should have been implemented. He was patently correct in his assessment. This incident highlights the way he has been misused by Arsenal. Little wonder he displays a lack of enthusiasm occasionally.
the way wenger has failed with arshavin tells me that we shouldn’t worry about wenger leaving, whenever that happens. he’s a visionary in many ways but he’s still been guilty of glaring errors and amateurish failures. a new bogstandard manager who corrects wenger’s anoying little errors might do very well for us. i’m not calling for wenger to go, he has earned the right to stay as long as he wants. but i’m quite optimistic that someone can improve the team’s performance after he leaves. areas for improvement are not hard for a new guy to find.
I think arshavin will be a good assistant manager one day hes always analyzing these things.
I believe if david dein was at the club we would never be in this possition.bring back dein now and give us our beloved arsenal back
If Arsen wengcer did not sign experience player arsenal will be drop out in d champions league and d F A cup before transfer window close.
I don’t think Wenger’s going to spend any money. There is something seriously wrong with either trainig or the way we play because I can’t remember when we last had a full team out(how may years was it?) WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE SOME FEEDACK ON THIS
We need a more convicing forward line.
I would like to see Jack back, but would also like to see Arteta kept and Ramsey brought into the team at a reasonable pace.
I saw Arteta disposesed, chase after his oppoet and get the ball back, but saw Arshavin easily lose the ball and just looked dazed at where it went so let’s hear less talk of “attitude”. To be fair though Arshavin hasn’t beenn allowed to use his natural flair and maybe the frustration has worn him down.
final point…
has wenger ever succeeded with an established player he has spent big money on?
wiltord…reyes…arshavin
flop…flop…flop
wenger so far only seems to make big players out of guys who are not already established big names. he gives failures, nobodies and kids confidence to play at the top. he’s great at that but it seems that’s his only man-management skill. maybe he’s intimidated by self-confident established name players?
arteta might do well but it’ll be more about his quality than wenger’s man management..
i want the likes of hazard and gotze at arsenal but is wenger the right man to manage them?
If Arshavin is lazy, unmotivated and lacking confidence, should the blame not also fall at his manager’s feet. Isn’t that his job? And if it’s not working then he shouldn’t picked.
Replace players like Chamakh, Park, Benyanoun, Arshavin, Djourou, Gibbs, Squilacci, Denilson, Rosicky, Almunia, Fabianski, Vito Manone and Diably with someone much better than we have a chance to win something. Else we will sink together with these players. At the same time, please sack Peter Deadwood.
He certainly did not lead by example. Case of not practising what you preach!
Just cut the slack. The responsibility lies with the boss, wenger the manager, no one else; he alone must answer for the team’s performance.
Honestly, the club has an idiot chairman who (1) shows his lack of ambition with his recent remarks about not winning 4th place!! YOU WILL NEVER HEAR THAT FROM OTHER TOP CLUBS, EPL or otherwise!! And (2) his tolerance of mediocrity of wenger’s failures despite past success.
‘Arshavin claims giving Van Persie and Gunners advice which was failed to be taken’
Great writing mate…
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Arshavin has bags of talent and is full of goals and assist,do u honestly think he’d be in our beloved shirt if he wasn’t. He is clearly been troubled by something and that is showing in his game. Against leeds i thought he was one of are better players always a threat looking to create something. Then at the wkend wank. I would b reluctant ro sell him at the mo because he has everthing we need at the mo bags of talent exp and a potential match winner. I’d give him till the summer to prove us wrong especially with gervinho away and if theres no improvement bye bye little russian and hello someone worldclass and reliable or jus start playing ryo miachi gonna be a top top player
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We need to get rid of Arshavin, and make as much money as we can after the amount we spent on him. But that means waiting to the summer, we have a better chance of getting a better deal and who knows, he might pick up in the next few months.