Thierry’s Early Goal
42 comments September 22nd, 2006
The returning Thierry Henry is in no doubt about what Arsenal require against Sheffield United tomorrow: an early goal. Henry, who has beek speaking about Arsene Wenger’s decade at Arsenal, said:
“We just have to score early then finally we can use the width of the pitch and try to play the game that we can.”
He’s right. Both Aston Villa and Middlesbrough got the first goal in our previous two games at home, and were subsequently able to sit back and defend. If we were to take the lead, they would be forced to come out and attack, leaving us with the room to counter-attack we so desperately need.
There’s no doubt in my mind that we’re the stronger side, and should things go to plan could run out winners by a significant scoreline. With Adebayor’s confidence on a high, and the return of Thierry Henry and Robin van Persie, our goalscoring potential in enormous. Anyone whose watched Arsenal this season has said that one unfortunate opponent is due a thrashing: tomorrow could be Sheffield United’s unlucky day.
Kolo Toure has been speaking about Johan Djourou, who is set to keep his place at centre-back. Julio Baptista, whom Real Madrid have confirmed may well remain at Arsenal beyond this season, is likely to begin on the bench.
Sorry for the brevity of the last couple of updates – moving house is proving a real distraction. Come back tomorrow evening for a full write-up of the game: I really do think we have the potential to blow them away, though any sort of win would be fantastic.
