Arsenal 1 Wigan 0

A short one today. I’ve been ill and still am so that explains the recent lack of activity and in particular lack of anything on the mid week Carling Cup result where we bowed out to Burnley.

Let’s get started with the whole Eboue episode then. He had himself a poor game but to be fair to him he had just come back from injury and was expected to play more than Wenger had probably wanted him to as Nasri got injured fairly early. He was also placed on the left flank, a position quite unfarmilar to him. The treatment he recieved at the end of the game was very harsh. It didn’t help matters at all, it merely took away all his confidence and after that he became a real danger. I’m pretty sure Wenger didn’t want to take off Eboue and subject him to the chorus of boos or rather, cheers but he was left with no choice. I was there and felt very sorry for him. I can understand those that booed though, it was a nervous last ten minutes and the fans took their frustrations out on Eboue which only made him worst, which then only made the fans worst. I don’t condone it but I understand it, it’s easy to get carried away in the heat of the moment. Coming back from that will take some character.

Where the other players were concerned, I was very impressed with Denilson. He was the outstanding player in my opinion and in a position which I don’t feel is his best. Van Persie looked lively and close to scoring. Cesc was also good, not at his best but good.

I don’t think we were that bad but it wasn’t great, was it? We created chances and should’ve finished a lot more of them off, which might have saved us from the nervy final ten minutes of play that inevitably followed. There’s still a bit of a dent in confidence around the squad (maybe because of what happened after the Man Utd game) but with three wins under their belt in a row (The Carling Cup squad being an entirely different team) hopefully that’ll get better and better.