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49 unbeaten seems a long time ago
(Written by Arthur Antunes Coimbra)Football has the habit of mocking those who claim to be prophets of the game. Who can forget the moment when Brian Moore asked Kevin Keegan live on air if David Batty would score in the 1998 World Cup penalty shoot-out against Argentina. Keegan said confidently that Batty would, whereupon poor Batty failed, and England were eliminated.
Several weeks back Arsenal demolished Reading at the Madejski Stadium, and the plaudits where hanging from the rafters. "They were fabulous. In Henry and Fabregas I think they have the top two players, possibly, in European football, playing right at the top of their game. They were a pain in the arse all night. Their football is more fluid, I would say, than Chelsea's or Manchester United's. It’s pleasing on the eye and they have a sharp point in Henry, and then you wrap their quality around him. It’s inspirational, I must admit. Big, big respect to the way they played against us." That was Steve Coppell’s assessment.
A month on and everything seems different. Since that result the Gunners have drawn with Everton (home), CSKA Moscow (home) and Newcastle (home) and lost to West Ham (away) and Bolton (away). In total they have drawn four matches at home , and lost three matches away already this campaign.
It would be very easy to hyperbolize that the end is nigh. However, having learnt from the mistakes of others, I appreciate that only a quarter of the season has passed and Arsenal maintain sixth place in the table, they are on the verge of progression to the next stage in the Champions League and they are still have both domestic cup competitions to pursue.
But in the season which has seen the transition from Highbury to the Emirates, Arsenal's fortunes have not been smooth sailing. They trail Chelsea by 10 points and United by 13 in the Premiership. They have stuttered to qualify in the Champions League from a poor group. And with Liverpool in the Carling Cup, continuation in the competition is by no means assured.
A few seasons back, the sports pages were full of stories of Ferguson vs Wenger. Nowadays the brawl is between Ferguson and Mourinho. A few seasons back we were all talking about Arsenal’s historic 49 match unbeaten run. Nowadays it comes as no really shock to hear that Arsenal have lost again at the Reebok stadium.
The quality of today's Arsenal squad is of lesser quality than past seasons. Fabregas and Silva are not yet Vieira and Petit. In the past week, Eboue has allowed both Dyer and Anelka too much space, which in both instances was punished. And despite it still being early days of their Arsenal careers, neither Rosicky, Baptista or Adebayor have had the early impact which Wenger would have desired.
Following the victory against Hamburg, Wenger commented that a pleasing aspect of the performance was that "It will convince my players not to make an obsession of conceding the first goal and think, 'Here we go again'".
Looks like he spoke too soon.
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