The Arsenal Column

Arsenal Analysis and Tactics. All views expressed are those of Pat Rice. (Disclaimer: they are actually not his words).

Posts tagged “Rosicky”

Aaron Ramsey can look back at a solid season

It can be hard to deconstruct the impact that Aaron Ramsey has made this season because it came at a time when Arsenal were at their worst. But when they began to improve, Ramsey was central to it in an unheralded manner. His drive was crucial at an aesthetically bleak period in Arsenal’s season, especially [...]

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Eight points on Arsenal 2-1 Sunderland

Isn’t it nice to have normality for once? In a sense, this was a typical Arsenal home performance. They dominated the first quarter of the match and for all the world looked like their technical superiority will run wild before a chronic aberration before half-time contrived to throw open the game. The rest of the [...]

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Tomáš Rosický gives Arsenal control of their own destiny

The selection was almost un-Arsenal like. Two holding midfielders – even having factored Arséne Wenger’s loose description of the role – and two wingers, this was an Arsenal side sent out to play with the circumstances. In truth, the selection was determined more by the spate of injuries the side has suffered since the start of [...]

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