Wenger reveals Song’s change of fate
Arsene Wenger has revealed he nearly sacrificed Alex Song in Arsenal’s vital comeback at Standard Liege yesterday.
The manager appeared to be pulling the strings on the sidelines and Song was the most likely man to come off as the Gunners chased an equalizer, but Wenger’s patience paid off dividends.
Incidentally, it was the combative Cameroonian who had the biggest hand in the goal that pulled Arsenal level.
Despite appearing in an offside position, Song managed to provide an assist for Vermaelen who poked home.
And Wenger revealed in his post-match interview that Song’s massive impact might have been undone by an attacking substitution he attempted to make.
“I wanted to put one more offensive player on and take Song off. When I saw we had a free kick I did not do it because I know Song can be dangerous on free kicks. Then after we scored, I did not make the substitution.” Wenger said.
It hit my hand heeheeehee.. Shhhh Vermaelen keep ur mouth shut!!
SONG IS SHIT
@James:u the one who’s shit
anyone who says song is shit is an asshole…in face the person is a product of a leaking condom…
….”despite appearing in an off side position”? Wake up Dude. They were both on side when the ball was played, giving them every right to go for the goal. Song played his part on the night. 7 on a scale of 1-10.
LOL! Bode. “Product of a leaking Condom”? Eh! eh!! Like PLC, right.
without SONG Arsenal suffers against good teams…matter of fact, we start leaking goals when he is off the pitch, just watch next time he comes off.
How is it that Song is shit when he had a hand in Vermaelen’s goal, James??
The board are shit sack them
“Incidentally, it was the combative Cameroonian who had the biggest hand in the goal that pulled Arsenal level.” – A bloody big hand!
Well we all need luck now and again. And we certainly got it last nite. But smiles aside we have a serious problem with conceding goals and wins like yesterday will only cover up the problem. FIX IT!!!!
One more thing. Arsenal need to buy a few more players. There a few players who dont have direct competition therefore are not motivated enough. I aint gonna name names but we need NEW BLOOD in the team. Just Look at the players with the best form. Vermaelen and Arshavin. They both have something to proof, have plenty of confidence and will always do something pivotal in games like Vidic or Ronaldo would do. TO BE HONEST the majority of players we have are AVERAGE its the way we play that makes us so good. INDIVIDUALLY are players are crap!!! Thats why they suffer when the move because people expect them to play like they did at arsenal but they never will because they are playing in a new style. Liverpool,Man U,Chelsea all have match winners… you know who they are. Apart from arshavin who could be named a match winner who else is there?
This team needs to play as a team. It’s tough when our original 11 has only played one game (Everton) and look how well they played.
This team is growing over the years and will continue to grow. I say you filed a full side against Wigan and get the win and get back on track. Then whooop up on WB with the reserves and then play the full team at Fulham and then play the “tweeners” agains the Wolves. Let Jacky, Fran, Sanchez and Gibbs lose and let’s see what we have in our bag.
Luck is luck gentlemen sometimes we have it sometimes we don’t.
I would also like to see one of our keepers to start making a push as Almunia doesn’t seem to know where he is.. I think that dye soaked into his brain.
lol.. why when the world is watching, dye your hair in that blatantly camp colour. Just because he is a footballer does not mean he can get away with that.
THE GUY IS A JOKE!!!! SERIOUSLY!! A VERY SOLID AND CONSISTENT KEEPER CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS WITH HIS HAIR. BUT ALMUNIA JUST LOOKS LIKE A PUNK WHO IS TRYING TO LOOK COOL.
get him out!! i think he would have more luck as a big brother contestant!!!
I loke that leaking condom phrase…i am going to use it so much….lol
james…..tell us all the reason….why you think song is shit…or you have nothing to say because you are a loooooooooooooooooooooooooseer…cmon gunners
All I have to say is that, Verm is the real deal!
Song has improved! It’s still early boys. We can only get better.
Go Gunners!
we still have a game in hand..Man U is going to lose, Spuds are going to lose, Pool has two loses..the only one I’m worried about is Chelski..hopefully they can get some ties and we can make some points up.
We need to win the next 6 games as they are all easy (or should be!)
if we go on a run of 4 or 5 games we will be right back in contention and ready to beat the shit out of the spuds.
Keep the faith and up the guns
SOOOOONNNNNGGGGG thats my main MAN. His head is always full of these stuffs, remember is HAND goal against WATERPOOL? 6-3 MAULING at ANFIELD? Common MAN score one of the Champions league FInal Goal with your HAND. AND Billy Scores the other with his ASS.
in my opinion! aluminia is not a good keeper..every goal we conceded was because of him…he looks lazy in the pitch..and makes some silly mistakes…
i agree with piken79, take song off and arsenal start leaking the goals. remember adebayor and co?
i think i can understand what happened in the liege game. lemme ask. the players know that this is a massive make or break season for them and they then went ahead and lost two consecutive games. they played well in the games they lost and you could see they believed in themselves. but when they soaked in two goals in 5 minutes, their confidence plummeted and they started doubting if they had the quality to earn any silverware.
they need to believe in themselves and realise that its not over till its over. i cant talk about the club and buying new players. maybe it is time usmanov bought the club and made it rain. even usmanov said that we lack a team capable to challenge 4 honours because our bench is lemme just put it, not there.
dont get me wrong. we have a fabulous and marvelous starting 11 but then when they are injured, we r sooooo exposed that we struggle to win games. the club and its directors must surely know that we have a history with injuries and they should anticipate them and prepare adequately.
james and co have really lost it. guys, although song sometimes makes errors on the pitch, remove him and you will never want to watch an arsenal match. when gallas and tv go upfront, who covers for them? this guy is gr8. he just needs to fine tune his skills. lets experiment by leaving him and and see what happens. and lemme ask, who can play his role? senderos perhaps? it is fool hardy to say that u dont see songs contrbution to our games.