Arsene needs a win as much as anyone right now
201 comments March 13th, 2007
When the ever resourceful Arsene Wenger is forced to admit, “I’m a little bit lost at the moment”, you know that all is not well at London Colney. Truth be told, Arsene’s Arsenal just aren’t used to this. It’s still March, and yet there’s no realistic chance of any silverware come the Summer. It’s hard to remember a time when that’s ever happened before.
Certainly that’s a testament to the man in charge, but it’s also an alarming wake-up call to just what has happened this season. We may be in transition, but at least last year we had the consolation of the Champions League Final. In order to stop our season from fading into disappointment, and Arsene from being found in a dark alley muttering “I’m a little bit lost at the moment”, we must go on a decent run and make a statement that we are capable of challenging for next season’s Premiership.
If we are to do that, we could do worse than listen to William Gallas:
“People say Arsenal produce beautiful football and that it’s a pleasure to watch us as we create lots of chances, but I look at the statistics. We don’t often score more than one goal in a game. If we can manage to fix that problem next season, we will be really strong. At present we don’t have enough of a killer instinct in front of goal.”
Tomorrow night, at Aston Villa, it will again fall to Jeremie Aliadiere and Julio Baptista to fix that problem. If they’re serious about being at Arsenal next season, they need to start producing the goods.
Finally, congratulations to arseblog – it’s been awarded the prize of Best Sports Blog at the Bloggies – a brilliant achievement.
