PL: Arsenal vs Fulham | 23/08/05

[kiddou]

Something I really liked: Fabregas' pass to Henry when he scored his first goal of the game. He flipped it over the defenders and put it in a great spot. Great pass, great first touch by Henry, great finish.

as far as I can remember it was Reyes who set up Henry for the first goal.
The second was an assist by Flamini.

 

[kamikaze80]

yup, it was reyes.

 

[The Mini]

How about we retrain Pascal to be a target man, would bring in the headers certainly.


No, I am being serious.

 

[James]

I remember when we first signed Pascal, and Wenger just used to stick him out wide for the last few minutes, for Jens to hit with the big boot.

 

[mood]

I used to call Pascal.. Zinedine Cygane among some other friends (sarcastically). Did we jinx it to our benifit?

 

[Spike]

Wow, what a game. The highlight of it for me is the Cygan double, no doubt was it a surprise.

A good win, and confidence flowing again, I now hope to see us back at the top where we deserve to be not too soon.

 

[MAK]

Cygan scores twice. I'm really not sure what to make of that. Yesterday the Boss says that he won't drop Senderos and then he does and then PC scores twice. Someone is having a laugh alright...

 

[James]

That's my main concern from todays game. The fact that AW not only dropped Phillipe from the side, but from the entire 16. Surely can't do his confidence the world of good.

 

[OneProudGooner]

Yea but remember who saved us against Pompey away last season.. and what a shot that was :shock:

 

[Spike]

Chants sung at the game today that were dedicated to Cygan:

There's only one.... Pascal Cygan
One Pascal Cygan
Walking along, singing this song
Walking in the Cygan wonderland

We got Pascal Cygan
We got Pascal Cygan
We got Pascal Cygan
We got Pascal Cygan

One Pascal Cygan
There's only one Pascal Cygan
One Pascal Cygan
There's only one Pascal Cygan

Cygan! Cygan! Cygan!


And it was hilarious at the end, when the crowd were cheering his every touch, I'm sure this does his confidence good.

 

[James]

I was in stitches watching the stream. Pascal definitely seemed to be loving every minute of it towards the end. Was a nice touch.

 

[Anonymous]

did Hleb play on the right wing? and did Silva play RCM?

 

[Spike]

Hleb started on the right, but switched to the left in the second half.

 

[Anonymous]

so was he more effective on right or left wing?

i always believed he'd be better on the right wing.

 

[OneProudGooner]

I believe he would rather come in on his right foot from the left.

 

[whoztheman]

bergkamp was great yesterday.....maybe wenger should play him every home game....reyes, cole, hleb, henry, bergkamp, cygan were great in that order....toure and lauren did their usual stuff....gilberto needs to keep hold of the ball longer rather then get nervoues every time a player rushes towards him.....

first half we were piss poor...worse than against chelsea i thought.....players are just revving up thier engines..they were rusty till now guess.....

our title hopes remain....

 

[chandraraj]

cygan my hero!
how about cygan for captaincy! (just wondering)

 

[Jasper]

For a moment, I thought everyone on the team would receive a yellow.
5 yellows in a game has got to be a record.

I was scared Bergy might have been red carded along with the others.

The linesman's calls were ridiculous. On the halfime report the commentator even said Bergy had to do something to support and defend the team.

 

[gunner_down_under]

haha....love all the posts about Cygan.....

felt sorry for Lauren though, his 100% record with penalties is gone, but I'm sure he'll be taking it the next time henry goes down in the box....i'm hoping at least!

Reyes was brilliant the whole game.....

Hleb, is it just me or does anyone else feel that this guy could dribble through the whole team if he wanted to but he tried to play "arsenal-style" and passes it to others??.....class though!

does anyone else notice how all the commentators go on an on about how arsenal are trying to walk the ball into goal?

 

[Muppy]

**** Baptista and Owen, we should convert Cygan into a post man!