Barnet 0-0 Arsenal – 15/07/06 – (Friendly) 15 July, 2006
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I went into the game expecting to see goals, what I saw was a 0-0. To be fair it was really our reserve side that we played with only really Alex Hleb who played the first half who would break into our first 11. The return of Jeremie Aliadiere was quite promising, he looked hungry and was a threat to the Barnet defense, his finishing wasn’t 100% and had a few shots hit at the keeper. The 2 Barnet keepers were excellent though, they were under constant attack from the likes of Aliadiere, Bendtner, Lupoli and van den Berg had a few efforts towards the end. He was played out on the right wing and made a few runs cutting inside he looked ok but is definatly one for the future. The game saw a dissallowed goal for each team, our one with an impressive finish by Lupoli, a shame he didn’t time his run as skillfully.
The other new man O’Cearuill had a reliable performance and looked good being paired with Zinedine Cygan at the back. The main thing that stood out for me though was Alex Song. Why-oh-why did Wenger buy him? he was terrible and gave the ball away all the time, and this was against Barnet. I really cannot understand him, he really was terrible. The referee wasn’t brilliant either, I saw countless handballs and there was a blatent push right in front of me in the area, but the referee wasn’t having it, I let him know he was wrong…
To be honest I didn’t really go to see an impressive performance, I wen’t to see Arsenal again, and so did a couple thousand others. The crowd support was quite good, espcially in the “North Bank’ who were quite loud at times, I was sitting in the South Stand which wasn’t a great laugh, I wanted to be up the other end singing. We played in our new kit which looks quite nice I think, I know people have said they don’t like the gold stripes but I do, I think they look quite good and the cannon on the back of the neck is a nice touch.
Overall I thought we weren’t bad, it was a good day out, below is a photo of my view. Next week it’s Dennis’ Testimonial that’s the real one to look forward too.
[...] Anyway, leaving those two cunts aside there’s not much going on. We drew our first pre-season friendly 0-0 against Barnet. A match report here. Very much a second string XI though as most of our lads are on extended holidays because of the World Cup. [...]
I always knew Alexander Song was rubbish. He is not Arsenal quality
[...] It was a fairly one sided afair, with the young gunners having the majority of the chances, check ou the full report at The Cannon. [...]
alex should be given time. even vieira didn’t look like a good player in his early days
Not sure I agree with that – Paddy looked awesome in his first game against Sheff Wed (even if he did look like Carlton Palmer – which WAS a worry!!)
We are the champions
Well it was a nice result actually! But I expected nothing short of victory. Well at least its the young reserve team.Nice one by Arsene! But I expect a much better reesult against AJAX since the Squad will be back 4rm their Holiday.GUNNERS 4 LIFE!!!
I will want us 2 sign SAVIOLA cos he will just be the perfect combination we need. I mean “SOUTH AMERICAN” flavor to our team. and also Creativity and Experience. The Guy is Good!!!