Senderos & Arsenal For The Title?
Phillip is one of the most frustrating players I have seen play at Arsenal - mainly because he can play well, its just the other 20% of the time where he gets caught out and looks awful.
Now i find it hard to argue with the big man Wenger, everything he’s done has been genius - the cole/gallas + £5m swap that left us with Clichey, Henry being shipped off before his pout exploded when a fellow player decided to pass the ball to one of his other 9 teammates etc. But I think the jury’s still out on Senderos. Too often in big matches he makes glaring mistakes.
Sure - look at his performance against Newcastle and he was strident. Even in the Champs League he was solid and made an effective partnership with Toure. But in the Premiership, he just seems out of sorts - is it that opposing teams in the league do their homework better? The ammount of teams I’ve seen trying to go directly through Senderos is on the rise - so it can’t be only me that identifies him as the weak link at the back!
Anyway - the point of this was to say well done (you wouldn’t have thought it) and well played. A much criticised player is Senderos - I just hope he can build on appearances like this and cut those woefull mistakes out of his game.
An interesting thought (606)-
Granted he is strong and ok in the air and does have some moments of genius (e.g. his clerance of the line yesterdy), but every time our defence gets caught out he always seems to be the cause (i.e not marking properly, or getting caught out by a ball over the top), he does not seem to have good ball control skills (terrible passign ability) and he is not the fastest defneder in the world. Indeed his demolition at the hands of Drogba in a previous season shows that against top class forwards he cannot cope.
I think though, as stated in the replies elswehere in that article - Drogba destroyed most centrebacks last season!
I think Senderos is currently a good player, but not great like the rest of the team around him - if he steps up to the plate though, Arsenal have a real chance of causing an upset in the league.
Speaking of which - the one thing that has kept me cautious about Arsenals great start to the season is the possibility of injury to Cesc Fabregas, and the African Nations taking two or three of our first team regulars away. However on the strength of Tuesday night, it appears Arsenal have the depth/strength of squad to cope with that. 9 changes to the weekend, and a team of essentially 2nd string players and we still beat Newcastle - and it wasn’t just the victory but the manor of the victory - the team were still (and did) trying to score in the dying minutes - such was the hunger and the belief.
I can honestly see Bendtner/Edaurdo slotting in for Van Persie/Adeybeyor and there seems to be an entire midfield waiting to burst through to the first team.
And then there is Gallas to cme back from injury…. the futures looking bright in red and white!
Filed by Kieran at September 27th, 2007 under Football