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Manchester City Vs Arsenal Preview | City Vs Gunners Preview | Man City Vs Arsenal Line Up

2010-10-23T00:26:00.000-07:00

Manchester City vs Arsenal, the match that gonna define the Arsenal season. City sitting in the 2nd spot with 17 points and Arsenal a place behind them with 14 points so a win can push the gunners to the 2nd spot and a defeat can down them to 7th this explains the criticality of this away fixture for Arsenal. But traveling to city and getting 3 points is a tough nut to crack, even the leaders Chelsea have gone there and came empty handed.
Differences of Manchester City and Arsenal:For me these are two most different clubs in the world. The one who had spend 400 million and the other 40 million on player transfers over the past two years. The one who plays the old school type of football and the other a most attractive football. The who's team chemistry is not so good and the other its the best in few seasons.

The Key Players:Manchester City:

The Key players for obviously would be their captain Carlos Tevez, he is in a tremendous f

orm this year, i see him as one of the contenders for the footballer of the year 2010. The wingers Adam Johnson and David Silva will be a cause of worries for the full backs of Arsenal. Yaya Toure, the players who Arsene should have brought could be the different between the teams.
Arsenal:

Again the obvious key player is the Arsenal captain Fabregas, he ca change the fate of any match he is in. Samir Nasri one of the stars of the season so far. Marouane Chamakh the bosman who is turning to be a key player in the gunners side.Andrei Arshavin even though he is not playing to his best, he is a match winner. Last but not the least Theo Walcott.
Verdit:
My heart say Arsenal but my head says Manchester city.

Fabregas back to his Fabulous Best | Fabregas's 50th goal for Arsenal | Francesc Fabregas Is Back | Fabregas's 50th Arsenal goal vs Braga Video

2010-09-16T10:59:00.000-07:00

It was always mater a of matches for Fabregas to get back to his fabulous best. After his injury in the late last season he was a more of a bench warmer in the world cup and his form had hit a new low in the opening couple of matches, but with his commending performance in the last couple of matches he is well and truly back to his fabulous best and full stops all the rubbish regarding his commitment for Arsenal.

In his last night's heroics he also recorded his 50th goal for Arsenal, a tremendous achievement accounting his age into consideration and a self less player like him. Arsene Wenger in his post match conference hailed his star playmaker and expressed that "Fabregas had taken an another dimension". Andding more to it he shared hes pleasure when he saw how Fab choose to play Vela insted him slotting a Hat-Trick. I was always a greate admirer of his self-less play, he always plays everyone in, his captain's arm it also added to this i guess.

Bizarre weekend for Bookies and Predictors | All League results of the week | Premier League Results for the week

2009-10-25T11:23:00.000-07:00

This week in Barclays premier league certainly will go down as one of the bizarre weekend for bookies and predictors as we got to seen the exact opposite of what we all thought that would happen. Just run through the all league results of the week...

West Ham United 2-2 Arsenal
Manchester City 2-2 Fulham
Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United
Bolton Wanderers 3-2 Everton
Chelsea 5-0 Blackburn Rovers
Burnley 1-3 Wigan Athletic
Birmingham City 2-1 Sunderland
Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Stoke City
Hull City 0-0 Portsmouth
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa

Of all the 10 results Chelsea's win is predicted rest all are a real surprise. Bookies would have been bank robbed if they had recent results and form as criteria. Starting from Spurs Vs Stoke, who would have bet for Stokes away win, considering Spurs form and dominance in home ties. Burnley, lost their first home match. Manchester city drew 2 2 with Fulham, who a not a great away side. Arsenal drew West Ham away, after leading 2 nill for 2/3 of the match. Boltan conquered Everton in one of the most entertaining match. Sunderland lost to Birmingham after their last week heroics against Liverpool. To some extent Liverpool's 2 nill win against Man u was also a surprise result, where odds where completely tilted in favor of Man U.

I have seen some surprise here and there in the week, But never a week full of surprises like this. This goes on to show how competitive the league is, even competitive than last year. I predict that the champions will be determined in the final day with 2 or more teams in contention.

Arsenal Vs Blackburn Post match review | Arsenal 6 Blackburn 2 | Fabregas’s fabulous show | Watched by Thierry Henry, the future Arsenal Manager ?

2009-10-04T11:44:00.000-07:00

Fabregas, is the word I should start for this post match review. He created all the goals until he was out there, making this his best performance statistically on the “d day” for Arsene Wenger. 4 assists and 1 lovely left foot volley and nearly 100% passing, what more you can expect a playmaker to do? And his emotional celebration of kissing the badge was icing on the cake, showed how much he loves the club and how much he is committed to the club. This match marks the land mark for Arsene Wenger who is now the longest serving Arsenal manager. But he didn’t have the perfect start as gunners went a goal down inside 10 minutes and after Vermaelen’s equalizer Blackburn Rovers again went down thro a Gallas deflected goal. But Blackburn was never a match for the quality of gunners as they could only watch Arsenal storming ahead. There was never a question on the quality of Arsenal, we all admire the kind of football gunners play, but today they showed immense character and determination, we have to thank Blackburn’s players for scoring the goals and putting the pressure and bringing the best out of the lads especially from Fab.
Player Ratings
Mannone 5: Made 1 or 2 diving saves. He has all the talent of representing a top premier league team, all he needs some experience, his lack of experience in decision making resulted in 1st goal. A lone spell to a lesser team in premiership will come good for him and the club
Sagna 5: Didn’t cover his ground resulting in a goal, may be not his fault it might be the team tactics of over attacking the full backs making him and Clichy look stupid at times.
Clichy 6: Made few cross here and there, luckily he didn’t have a swift attacking winger to mark.
Gallas 6: Solid, but unlucky to get a touch in Dunn shot that resulted in 2nd goal.
Vermaelen 7: Showed determination to make up for his mistake by scoring a fabulous 30 yard strike and continuing his scoring form for which he should thank Arsene Wenger for giving a free role, not many managers will give a free role to a center back.
Song 5: Lack of determination in defending a counter attack resulting in 2nd goal.
Diaby 7: Even though his passing wasn’t upto gunners mark, he did well in role he played thanks to Wenger for not playing him wide. He made life easy for Fabregas.
Fabregas 10: Brilliant with his killer passes and deft touches as usual. This is his best performance statistically.
Rosicky 7: Played as expected in his first start of the season, he was brilliant with his swinging balls and runs into the box and he also came very close to score.
Arshavin 7: Converted a brilliant ball from Fabregas
Robin van Persie 7: I liked the way he touches past the defender to score, he is doing it quite often these days.
Walcott 7: Scored in his first start of the season
Ramsey : Wasn't out their enough to rate
Bendtner 7: Scored a stunning goal in the dying minutes

Man of the match: Fabregas quite easily

All this watched by Arsenal all time top scorer, Thierry Henry, Who is in the headlines after his comment on returning to Arsenal. And all the football pundit and football tabloids across the country hint him to succeed Arsene Wenger. Which would in fact be great for the club and Arsenal loyal Henry. It was really wonderful to see him laugh with satisfaction and clap to salute the performance of the gunners. I cant see any other to succeed Arsene Wenger.

And the best goal celebration of FIFA World Cup 2010 Goes to...

2009-09-22T02:14:00.000-07:00

FIFA has announced that it will award for the best goal celebration of the coming world cup. This news came just one day after Craig Bellamy goal celebration cost Manchester city 2 points (according to officials). I really felt sorry for Man City and Bellamy, that they went on to lose the match, even though they are arch rivals to me the Arsenal fan after that 4 - 2 thrashing, simply because they were brilliant that day, they came back 3 time to equalise and Bellamy was simply outstanding with his cool finishes, hope that Robin Van Persie saw the video and took a cue of how to finish!

So, coming to the goal celebration award, will it be the baby act of Torres or the job done of Gallas or acrobatics of Nani or archery of Guiza or boxing of Tim Cahill or rounding the ears act of Toni or any samba dance (definitely not the Adebayor's celebration) could win the award. I started to believe that players would also practice for goal celebration. But they have to remember not to take their shirt off (which results in yellow card) or celebrating in front of opposite fans (which will result in match bans) and make it short and simple (avoiding Bellamy incident).

What went wrong for Arsenal and my Comparisons | Manchester City 4 Arsenal 2

2009-09-12T22:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was really a disappointing day for Arsenal and me. Arsenal were thrashed 4 - 2 by the rich boys. So what went wrong not only for Arsenal but also for my comparison.

1. The inclusion of Nigel De Jong, we was completely brilliant yesterday, he used his strength to good use to keep Fabregas quite. If he didn't start, things could have been different.

2. Left Winger of Arsenal - In absence of Arshavin, his replacement Diaby was a completely waste. He failed to test the wing backs which i considered the weakness of Manchester city. I was surprised that he played full 90 min. May be he is a central midfield player thats why he lacked the qualities of a winger, in that case Arsene Wenger could have started with Eduardo he showed in the recent past that he can start in the left side of midfield also.

3. Fragility of starting line up - On the closing 30 min Arsenal players were completely fragile that resulted in 3 goals, were as citizens were full of energy even though the international break was for both the teams.

4. Joleon Lescott - He played as good for his price tag. He blocked every ball inside his penalty area. I thought he would lack confidence after the opener at Goodsion park, but he was exactly the opposite, he was full of confident and won tackles comfortably.

5. Central forward of Arsenal - Robin Van Persie is not a ideal central forward, he lacks strength. But he is the ideal Left Winger, he can do great wonders in the left side of the pitch rather that at the center, remember he was the top assisting player of 2008 - 2009 season. So arsenal definitely need a Strong, Solid Forward, hope Wenger gets some in the January transfer window.

Eventhough its a humiliating defeat for Arsenal, there are few positives. Robin Van Persie scored his first league goal of the season, the only forward to score for Arsenal this season so far. Thomas Rosicky's first goal in his first match in 18 months. And Remember last season after Man City defeat, Arsenal went on to be unbeaten for 19 games. Hope that winning streak continuous this season also.

Manchester City Vs Arsenal | Manchester City Vs Arsenal Preview | 4 3 3 vs 4 3 3 | Arsenal 2008 vs Arsenal 2009

2009-09-08T08:04:00.000-07:00

This week end, Arsenal play with against Arsenal 2008 .. er .. Manchester City at City of Manchester Stadium. Both the club's fan will be eager about the out come of the match, as this Manchester City's first quality test and for Gunners its a match against two alums of Arsenal, Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure. It would be interesting to see Gallas marking Adebayor and Toure marking Robin Van Persie. I call this match as4 3 3 vs 4 3 3, both the teams have applied this attacking formation this season and have been successful too, but Arsenal leads in the total goals scored list and Man City have 100% win record. So rather than predicting formations or results as usual, I gonna compare the teams so that you can come to predicting terms.

Goal Keepers - Manuel Almunia Vs Shay Given, Both are very experienced and solid goolees, no one edges out.

Central Defence - William Gallas and Thomas Vermaelen Vs Kolo Toure Vs Joleon Lescott. Gallas and Vermaelen are in their form of their lives scoring goals as well and its vise versa with Toure and Lescott, Lescott especially is totally lacks confidence after the opener against Arsenal.

Wing Backs - Gael Clichy and Bacary Sagna Vs Micah Richards and Wayne Bridge. Clichy and Sagna wins hands down, its like competition of the best vs the rest.

Midfield - Fabregas, Denilson, Song VS Barry, Ireland, SWP. This is the victory defining competition. Man to man comparison, Song Vs Barry, Barry wins. Denilson Vs SWP, both are different type of players difficult to compare. Fabregas Vs (Ireland)^2, Fab wins. But if Fab is not playing, Denilson Vs Ireland, where Ireland wins.

Forwards - RVP, Bendtner, Arshavin Vs Adebayor, Tevez, Robinho. Adebayor Vs Bendtner, Ade wins hands down, I'm sure he gonna score against his old club. RVP Vs Robinho, even though Robinho has all the talent he dosent have mental strengths, like determination, consistency and etcs, that's why RVP wins. Arshavin Vs Tevez, there is no comparison, Arshavin wins hands down.

Even though I'm Arsenal biased, most of the football geeks will accept the above, simply for the quality Arsenal posses. Its not about win, points, silverware its all about how you play to win, thats why we follow, love, live Arsenal forever. Money cant buy quality or Wenger, hope that the Rich Arab realises sooner before he gets transfer ban.

Joomla and SEO | Does Joomla Helps SEO?

2009-09-03T02:16:00.000-07:00

How nice it would be if all the pages of your site get indexed without any SEO effect, that what happens with a site is developed with addition of JOOMLA, the content management system. Check out this site Skandagroup.org, this site developed in PHP has Joomla in it, now go ahead and check cached snapshot of the page of google toolbar for all the pages and you can see that all the pages has been cached by google that is indexed by google.

Joomla makes made search engine optimizer's work easy, rather than waiting for the inner pages to getting indexed or making some submissions to get indexed. But there are some minuses as well, there are some concerns like we should have limited contents, loading speed of the home page, etc. But anyways it is a break through technology in SEO consiering the fact thet Joomla is a open source.

Manchester United Vs Arsenal 2009 | Arsenal formation against Manchester United | Arsenal Starting line up vs Manchester United

2009-08-26T07:31:00.000-07:00

This week end Arsenal ill be facing the defending champions or you can call them as depleted champions Manchester United at Old Trafford. Last season arsenal scored 4 out 6 points against Man U in league fixtures, this season with few star players missing in there squad, it will be interesting to see how gunners will fare this season. But the only negative thing for gunners going into this fixture is the absence of Francesc Fabregas, who could be out for up to 3 weeks. So its sure that we can't expect creatively brilliance in the midfield that produced score line like 6 -1 and 4 - 1 and also Arsenal are playing away from home against the champions, so we could say that its really tough for Arsenal to get a result and make it 3 out of 3 win this season. But don't underestimate them, Arsenal have quite often proved wrong who wrote them off.

Staring from current squad players, former players, football pundits and fans all over the world have prised Arsene Wenger for the new formation that he applied this season. But I seriously doubt that the formation would work without Fabregas. Against Man U in there own backyard, the formation should be more defensive. So i have gone for 4 2 2 1 1 formation.

Alexandre Song and Denilson play as two defensive midfielders, thats the best role that they can play rather that expecting them to be Fabregas. Theo Walcott should be fit in time for this game, but that is only my guess. So I have placed him as the right winder with Andrei Arshavin being the left wingers. Eduardo is the center forward accompanying this above him is Robin van Persie. The game plan is wings, we have got two great players playing in those position, let them create chances and our strikers finishing it, because Man U have two wall in the form of central defenders, its really fought to get past them but the wing back are not that convincing enough so we can expect something out there and let Song and Denilson win possession and feed the wings. I really convinced that Arsenal would at least get a point out of this, even without Fabregas simply because. Compare the midfield of Man U and Arsenal you will agree with me.

Arsenal Vs Portsmouth post match review | Arsenal 4 Portsmouth 1 | Fabregas injured | Francesc Fabregas injury 2009 | Abou Diaby scores 2 goals

2009-08-22T09:58:00.000-07:00

Comprehensive performance but not as comprehensive we all wish for, was the performance of gunners against Portsmouth. Even though the score line is 4 - 1 in Arsenal's favor, there are still some concerns like Strikers not scoring, defense of dead ball, complacency and injuries.

Arsenal started the game is the right frame of mind, we can see the confidence and belief in the squad. They kept possessions as usual, passed brilliant in fact some were 100% accurate and most importantly believed in each others abilities. Fabregas started the days proceedings with a lovely loft to Eduardo who stated today, he showed as why we all rate him so much with a brilliant ball to Abou Diaby who thundered one in the top right corner even though David James got a hand to it. A classic Arsenal counter attack made the score line 2 Nil, Diaby scored the second too.

Diaby playing in his 100th match for Arsenal had all the luck and scored 2 goals in span of 2 minutes. Manuel Almunia then made a casual effect to clear a cross but Kabul made full use of it and made it 2 - 1. Almunia could have done better should have seen Kabul coming and jumped in front of him, rather he collided with him.

The score could have been even more flattering for Arsenal, David James showed why he still the England No.1. He made a string a fantabulous saved to keep Robin Van Persie Frustrated. I'm really amused by the reflexes of the nearly 40 year old goalie. Fabio Capello who watched the game from the stands, should have been a happy man. But his happiness was short lived as James was replaced Injured in the closing stages.

William Gallas scored in the 3rd consecutive match of the season when he deflected home Vermaelen's cross in a awkward way. Its always good to see the center backs coming up and scoring consistently. Aaron Ramsey who substituted Fabregas in the half time scored his first premier league goal to seal the game for the gunners.

Man of the match : Abou Diaby (but for me it is David James)

Fabregas who started even though he was injured was taken off during the half as it had worsened. Its Hamstring injury, he will surly miss the return leg of champions trophy match against Celtic. Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope that he is fit in time for the match Against Manchester United.

Arsenal FC Formation for the game against Portsmouth | Arsenal 4 1 2 2 1 Formation | Arsenal FC Starting Line up | Arsenal Vs Portsmouth Preview

2009-08-19T09:33:00.000-07:00

After a hell of a star in the Season opener match Everton (won 6 -1) and in Champion league Against Celtic (won 2 -0) both away, Arsenal play Portsmouth next up in the Emirates stadium. So i come up with a formation that better suites the current players.

I have gone for a 4 1 2 2 1 formation, its the mix of 4 5 1 (defensive) formation and 4 3 3 (attacking) formation, for the reason that the formation is neither defensive nor attacking.

Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Thomas Vermaelen and Gael Clichy will continue to be the defensive wall, i hope that the form and fitness remains for the rest of the season. Alexandre Song is the defensive midfielder with Cesc Fabregas and Denilson as the central midfielders, I'm pretty sure that they can recreate that they have done in the previous matches not only for the match against Portsmouth but for rest of the season.

Robin van Persie and Andrey Andrei Arshavin are the Left and Right wingers or can call them as strikers. The best word to describe their position is 'supporting midfielders', i feel that thats the best position that suits them, both brilliant dribblers and intelligent passers. Eduardo plays up front, he is the best finisher we have got and he is not injured so why waste him. Many say he is not tall enough to be a striker, but he is a different bread of forward with grate amount of striker instinct which we recently saw in the match against Everton and more over we don't need them to be tall as we got out defenders will be come attacking and scoring in the dead ball situations. I predict a thumping home victory say 3 nil or 4 nil kind of victory.

Everton Vs Arsenal Post match review | Everton 1 : Arsenal 6

2009-08-16T03:12:00.000-07:00

In the day of home side upsets there came a match of home side humiliation, Everton trashed by the Gunners by a score of 1 to 6. Everyone thought the game against Everton at Goodison park is a tricky opener for club that has lost some good players in the recent time. But as Arsene Wenger expected the young guns of Arsenal showed vast maturity comparing to the last season, Alexandre Song 21, Denilson 21 and Fabregas 22 in the center of midfield sparkled and kept possession and most importantly converted chances into goals. The 25 yard stunner by Denilson started proceedings and brought confidence in the players and 5 more goals followed. The premier league debutant Thomas Vermaelen scored by from a Robin van Persie free kick, Gallas scored from Fabregas free kick and then Fabregas himself scored twice one assisted by RVP, other assisted er.... threw by Manuel Almunia who cleared a corner at his end and Fabregas dribbled from his half to the other and scored from 20 yards and went to his team bench and asked for the special jersey of Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque, who died recently, to triduted his goal to his sole, for someone who is not even his team met to do something awesome. After that Eduardo came from the bench to score a post rebounded ball from Andrei Arshavin, that marked his comeback goal after that horrific injury that kept him away for 18 months. Here follows the individual ratings of Arsenal FC players
Manuel Almunia 7 - A Quite outing for the Arsenal No. 1, but his positioning in the dead ball situations were pretty impressive, knowing Evertons are pretty really good headers he came out and kept positioning and saved few shots here and there
Bacary Sagna 6 - Ordinary and nervy at the start
William Gallas 7 - Converted in a free header, but there are still concerns in his defencive abilities
Thomas Vermaelen 9 - His quick reflexes came handy in the early part and scored again in a free header but I'm really impressed with his jumping even though he is not that tall he jumps too high. But at the end he could have done better to stop the one solitary consolation for Everton.
Gael Clichy 6 - Ordinary
Alexandre Song 7 - Solid, won possessions for the team, solid inside the 'D', he performed the defensive midfielder to the perfection, i hope he is consistent for rest of the season.
Denilson 10 - Scored a stunner and listed the mood of the players around, saved a definite goal, passed well and won possession what more we can expect from a midfielder. In the processes silenced many fans and Arsenal Fan Bloggers, who had always doubts in his quality.
Cesc Fabregas 10 - Two goals two assists, Fab back in business in the new season. He left me wondering what will happen to Arsenal if he leaves.
Andrei Arshavin 7 - Quite outing according to his standards, but showed his immense creativity on that brilliant strike that hit the the post.
Nicklas Bendtner 7 - Played as the right wing, Instrumental in the first goal, showed how good dribbler he his dribbling techniques that left two opposite players standing.
Robin van Persie 8 - Continued from where he left the last season, 2 assists to his name.
Substitutes
Emmanuel Ebour 6 - Noting important to say off
Aaron Ramsey 6 - Noting important to say off
Eduardo 7 - Scored a post rebounded ball.

Man of the match : Denilson

On the whole Arsenal players played like a team since there aren't much change to the squad and also most of them are at the club for couple of season, so they believe in each others abilities and the young guns have matured over the years and Gunners stand in chance to compete for the championship

Michel Schumacher calls off his comeback plans

2009-08-11T22:37:00.000-07:00

The recent development in the Ferrari camp is that Michel Schumacher has cancelled his comeback plans due to his neck problem that he sustained during a bike race. This news shattered the hearts of millions and millions of fans all over the world like me, who all thought we could see him driving the red vehicle again.

I guess its the time to move on, its really unfair to expect a 40 year old to compete with the younger lots, even though he is a seven time world champion. I even started admiring another driver, that Sebastian Vettal, ever since he won rain race with a tail-ender car Toro Rosso. The 22 year old has all the incredience to be a great driver. May be in couple of seasons or so we can expect him to drive a Ferrari with Schumi's strategies.

How to make google crawl the inner pages? | How to promote inner pages?

2009-08-11T00:01:00.000-07:00

If you are new to websites and SEO, the million dollar questions is, How to make google crawl the inner pages? or How to promote inner pages, so you all find it easy to crawl or promote the home page by directory submissions. And you find it difficult crawl or promote inner pages as directory sites won't allow the inner links. There are various techniques you can follow like

1. Social Media Marketing - Post about the inner page in some Social Media Sites like Orkut, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkenIn, MySpace etc. Also try Yahoo Answers, Wiki Answers and Yahoo Groups and Google groups, since we can create post directly in a search engine's products.

2. Forum Profile Creation - There are some thousands and thousands of Forum, select the appropriate forums and register in it and create profile with the signatures with link to the inner pages.

3. Pay Per Click(PPC) - The most easiest way to make the inner pages crawled is doing PPC for the page. Just go to google adwords and select a keyword appropriate to the page that has very low Cost Per Click(CPC) and run the campaign for few days. After couple or so days open the that page and click the "Cached Snapshot of the page" button in the Page rank in the google tool bar, you can find that the google search engine has cached that page. Its true, it worked for me, belive me and just try it or you can go ahead and do the previous techniques it will definitely work but its time and effect consuming.

Michel Schumacher is Back, and for me Formula One is back

2009-08-03T01:38:00.000-07:00

I was one of those guys who couldn’t see Formula One in the absence of the seven time world champion Michael Schumacher since. I was convinced that FOne wouldn’t be the same without him and I didn’t see F1 ever since Schumi retired in 2006. I’m one of the ardent fans of his with room full of his posters, desktop full of his wallpapers and ready to fight with any one who questions his talent or anything of the matter. I even remember quarrelling with one of my best friends who questioned his sportsmanship. So for me Schumi’s comeback is like digging F1 fan in me out of the grave. I was waiting for this August 23 ever since 2006.

For what had happened to Felipe Massa in the last race, it’s really unfortunate for him to get a hit near his left eye by a spring from his fellow country Rubens Barcelo’s car. But many selfish Schumi and even Ferrari fans like me are celebrating, even though he is not gonna race the whole season. Seeing Schumi back vrooming a red v8 engine car will bring back what’s missing in those thousand and thousands of his fans when they see a F1 race again, it will definitely bring tears in Roger Federer kind of guy. And may Ferrari rise from the ashes of a disappointing season and unfortunate last race!