POMPEY 1 ARSENAL 4
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What were the highlights of the Pompey vs Arsenal match?
So Pompey won Arsenal 4. And you've got to look on the bright side. I mean, normally if you got stuffed 4-1, you'd be hanging your head. But the fact is that it wasn't a bad performance. Although I, for one, think that they kind of sat back a little bit and let us play a little bit of football. And we did. Our problem with our goal was only that we scored it too early. We'd have liked to have scored it in the 42nd minute with the score at 0-0 than two minutes in with the score at 0-0. But it was a beautifully worked goal. And the person who will probably be forgotten in it all because he doesn't even get the assist is Blair. who found himself in a little bit of space, but with two men closing him down.
And you don't normally get a meaningful cross off if there are two men closing you down, but he did. He worked some space for himself, got it onto his preferred right foot, and slid a really meaningful pass along the deck and into the box. I didn't see at the time who it was who had the excellent shot that produced the parry from their keeper. It might have been Chaplin. It might have been Segacic. Whoever it was got off a terrific shot at exactly the right height for the goalkeeper, though, shoulder height. So made a spectacular dive, made a spectacular parry. Should have put it behind for a corner, really, to be on the safe side. As it was, I'm sorry, I've got the end of this cold that everybody's been having.
I might sneeze in a minute, and if I do, I'll just get on with it. But at least you're not going to get it at this sort of distance, dear listener. So, yeah, who better to finish that move off and get back on the score sheet? And didn't he look delighted? Not relieved, actually. The look on Colby Bishop's face when he buried that chance and swung away to celebrate with the muscle man, Mr Atlas, pose that he's done before... He was saying, that's what I do. And none of us, including myself, must ever forget that. That is what I do. I'm a predator, as well as everything else. And I've just devoured that. Pounced on it and devoured it. Killed it with one shake. into the back and he picked his spot quite carefully because the keeper was recovering an Arsenal defender was closing in he knew exactly where he wanted to put it to make sure that neither of those stood a chance and that was what he did and if you're a good striker which he is sorry this cold I'm just going to persevere though
Sorry about that. But the great thing about this type of broadcasting is that all of reality is here. It's been a freezing, rotten, damp day, and you didn't need me to tell you that. The players just got on with it, to their credit, and so did the two managers. I thought Arteta was very defiant about not wearing a hat, even though he had that head of hair of his, which is almost getting famous in its own right, isn't it? Covered in a thin film of misty rain. But you're not going to wear a hat if you're spending that much money on your haircut. And he has it very nicely cut, doesn't he, the dear boy? Massino looked the part as well. And he looked more relaxed than I've seen him for some time on the touchline, even though we ended up being given a little bit of a run around.
But I think, and I'm sure you agree with me, We don't need to spend too much time on the Pompeo conceding too many goals from set pieces, especially corners. Why? Well, because they were actually better than us in every department. They were more athletic than us. They were quicker than us. Their feet were quicker than us. Their thinking was quicker than us. They were stitching together little tiny triangles of movements. They knew where everybody was. They knew how to pass it to them. There were very few balls from them that turned into 50-50s for us, whereas a lot of our short passes turned into 50-50s, which they won more often than 50-50. They're a very, very good side. They are the best side at the moment by some distance in the best league in the world, which goes on getting better and better.
So it's possible that the Premier League is now better than it's ever been.
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