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Matchreport, ich hab mal nur das mit Rosicky:

By Richard Clarke

A spectacular goal from Robin van Persie secured all three points for Arsenal at Charlton on Saturday.

The Frenchman made one change from the side that had beaten Porto in midweek. Tomas Rosicky dropped to the bench and Freddie Ljungberg came in.

Fabregas, substitute Tomas Rosicky and Henry forced further fine saves out of Carson as Arsenal piled forward in the closing minutes. However they never managed to find that third goal.
In the end, two were enough.

er kam in der 77. Minute.................

nicki · Experte Beiträge: 4760

nicki · Experte Beiträge: 4760

das nennt man dann aufsteigende Tendenz

wie würde das wohl beim bvb aussehen???????????

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Czech mate
22 September 2006, Andy Summers
The multimillion pound purchase of Tomas Rosicky this summer was greeted with much enthusiasm by the Arsenal faithful, and his stunning 30 yard strike away to Hamburg heralded his ‘arrival’ as an Arsenal player. The little Czech has already endeared himself to a fair percentage of Arsenal fans who note in him the essential attributes of a typical Arsene Wenger signing; quick, technically accomplished, and a visionary in possession. With this in mind, I shall take the opportunity to consider how, and to what extent Rosicky shall impact upon our attacking play over the course of the coming season, and the manner in which he will develop into our current midfield set-up.
To provide a little background to the article my, and indeed many Arsenal fans' first viewing of Tomas Rosicky came with a 4-2 win at Highbury in a Champions League tie against Sparta Prague some years ago, a game in which the teenage Rosicky netted an extremely well taken goal in the latter stages. This was the first glimpse of a player with exceptional ability, and I have followed his career in the Bundesliga with avid interest since that day. His signature delighted me, even though I was initially skeptical that he was indeed to ‘replace’ Robert Pires on the left of midfield. This skepticism, naturally, has eroded as we’ve seen Rosicky primarily utilized in this position to date, and it is a certainty that will continue wide on the left.
It is to the aforementioned Robert Pires that Rosicky has drawn the most immediate comparisons stylistically. Like the Frenchman Rosicky is one of those rare breed of players that make football look so simple. In possession he is a ball artist, with decisively accurate passing over short or long distances, and with the vision to pick out pinpoint through balls akin to Pires at his peak. Rarely conceding possession cheaply, Rosicky is in perfect symbiosis with the retention of possession philosophy that Arsene Wenger shapes his teams by. For his size he is surprisingly tenacious and is not knocked off the ball easily by more powerful players.
Simultaneous with Rosicky’s technical accomplishment, the other notable weapon in his Arsenal is his ability to shoot effectively from distance. As earlier mentioned, this was strikingly evident against Hamburg, and many a fan will have noted his prowess for the Czech Republic in the recent World Cup, particularly his two long-range strikes against the USA. It is surprising to note, therefore, that there is something of a disparity between Rosicky’s goal productivity for Borussia Dortmund and that for his national side; 19 goals in 149 Bundesliga games, with 5 being an individual season record is nothing startling on paper, whilst his record for his country is a particularly impressive 17 strikes in 54 appearances. The reason for the difference, I would suggest, is that Karel Bruckner knows exactly how to utilize Rosicky to the best of his talents, whereas at Dortmund Rosicky has featured in a variety of roles, with his consistency and productivity hindered as the German side have lurched from one crisis to another in recent years.
Therefore Rosicky can, and should, provide a regular source of goals from midfield this term, and particularly over forthcoming campaigns. Given the relative scarcity of goals in the current Arsenal midfield set-up, I would suggest that Rosicky needs to develop into a player who can provide approximately double figures consistently each season, in all competitions. With the shooting ability and power that he possesses, Rosicky offers a different manner of long-range threat than Pires did, who was much more a finisher of moves from anywhere inside 20 yards, his curling shots an epitome of his style.
A further particularly salient advantage that Rosicky offers is his pinpoint delivery from set-pieces. Arsenal’s lack of threat from corners has been palpable to see for quite some time, with numerous players failing to offer regularly excellent delivery. You only need to look at the woeful delivery in our home tie to Aston Villa to note this point in microcosm, with corners hit too short, too long, too close to the keeper, few actually offering a bona-fide opportunity to score from. Perhaps our best corner taker, Jose Antonio Reyes, has exited the club. It is not hard to envisage a situation where Rosicky’s deliveries are advantageous to the aerially proficient players we possess; namely Gallas, Toure, Senderos and Gilberto. Assuming that Henry is willing to give up possession of left-flank corners that is.
To turn the discussion to a tactical aspect, how can we envisage Rosicky to develop into the footballing style in which Arsenal operate? The loss of Ashley Cole and Pires has rendered the most devastating left-sided combination in Premiership history extinct, and it is largely at the hands of Rosicky to develop a threat from the left of midfield that Jose Antonio Reyes never quite consistently managed. In all probability Rosicky shall be partnered on the left flank by Gael Clichy, when the Frenchman has recovered from injury, a player who himself is oft viewed as a clone of Ashley Cole. To me the similarities between the Clichy/Rosicky axis and the early days of the Cole/Pires partnership are striking. Rosicky is most adept playing centrally, his natural position both for the Czech national team and previously at Borussia Dortmund. We have already seen numerous instances where he will look to drift infield and dictate the tempo of possession, and thus allowing Clichy to offer a wide outlet. This is reminiscent of Pires’ central influence and Cole’s supporting plays down the left flank, with the two players interchanging possession beautifully. If Clichy can develop an understanding with Rosicky over time I see no reason why our left flank would not represent something of the devastating threat as previously, with Clichy’s energy and support allowing Rosicky to take a more infield position and unleash his trademark thunderbolts or use his vision to supply our strikeforce.
We do have one obvious danger, however. A danger that has previously been discussed many times over by Arsenal fans. With Hleb now the favoured option on the right of midfield, and Hleb also being a player very similar to Rosicky in that he will look to drift centrally to influence proceedings, it becomes far too congested in the central areas. Even more so if the opposition is set-up with a 3-man central midfield. This congestion and lack of width allows the opposition to compact their defence, somewhat negating the penetrating through balls offered by Rosicky, Fabregas and Hleb, and making it far easier to break up the pattern of our possession. Just as negatively, the over-presence of team mates centrally stifles the potential impact of Cesc Fabregas, a player who is the driving force of our attacking midfield and needs as much space as possible to harness his incredible vision and passing ability. If we spread play, Fabregas finds it easier to penetrate defences, and checking his breaking runs becomes more difficult for our opponents.
The presence of two such attacking fullbacks as Clichy and Eboue can provide the width we need, but the onus must be on the two wide midfielders. Of these, I would suggest Hleb should have much more responsibility to stretch opposing fullbacks. The reasons for this are numerous; as mentioned, Rosicky is more proficient at striking from distance, and he should be given priority to cut inside and unleash potshots at goal. Not to mention that Rosicky is playing off his favoured foot and it is much easier for him to shoot and/or interchange with the strikers than it would be for Hleb cutting in from the right. Furthermore, by staying wide Hleb is also dribbling off his favoured foot, and he should be disciplined to offer better and more frequent width, utilizing his dribbling ability, technique, control and his pace to stretch fullbacks and provide a supply of crosses and/or cutbacks from the byline. If Hleb remains wide longer it also eases the burden on Emmanuel Eboue, a player who needs to refine the balance of his game in order to become a top class fullback. If Hleb is wider, it is easier for Eboue to pick and choose when to run beyond, rather than seeing open grass and viewing it as customary, in the typical enthusiastic manner that we are used to from the young Ivorian.
Returning to Rosicky specifically, what can we realistically expect him to produce over the course of the next 9 months? Even some of our most decorated players of recent years, chiefly Bergkamp and Pires, took between 6 to 12 months to truly ‘settle’ in the Premiership and begin to illustrate their talents. Personally I have high hopes of the young Czech this season, and would expect him to pitch in with at least 7 to 8 goals. I don’t envisage Rosicky needing too much time to adapt to the English Premiership. Erroneously our league is often viewed as the last bastion of fast-paced and physical football in Europe. The Bundesliga however, Rosicky’s stomping ground for the past half a decade, offers a comparable style of football and I think the natural tenacious persona of the little Czech will see him adapt to the Premiership in short order. Consistency, though, is something more difficult to reproduce, and it shall take a little time to develop an understanding with Gallas (and then hopefully Clichy), the rest of our midfield, and of course the runs of our strikers. But frankly, with the possible exception of Barcelona, there is no better stage than Arsenal for Tomas Rosicky to play his football. Wenger requires players of Rosicky’s ability to realise his philosophy, whereas I think Rosicky requires a club of Arsenal’s style to finally achieve what I’ve always believed; that he is a potential world class performer.
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nicki · Experte Beiträge: 4760

Arsenal verliert gegen zsk moskau............

serie gerissen, wer hätte das gedacht, hat jemand etwas mitbekommen?