Ratings - Arsenal (A)

[yiddo37]

I don't see how anyone can blame any keeper (Lloris/Friedel) for goals from shots that go through defenders' legs? Look at Schnezny or whatever his name is when Lennon shot through the defenders' legs in the 1st half, he just stood still and that was from about 12 yards not 6 or 7 that Lloris had to react to. The ball is virtually past you before you have time to react as you simply don't see it.
Giroud's goal and Walnut's goal were in before he could see the ball and Podolski's was mean't as a left-footed shot to Lloris' right until he skewed it against his right foot into the other corner, how is any keeper mean't to save those?

 

[zin]

Arsenal (A) 5-2

Needless to say not the best game to remember. Poor performance in the number of ratings for TFC, shame on you however GG has given us a good sample, resulting in believe it or not, not our worst rated performance of the season. That accolade still belongs to the Wigan (H) game, just about, with 5.36. This game was a 5.37. Lowest rating received was 4.29 and highest was 6.36.

Only Sandro managed an over-7 rating in this one, getting his second MOTM performance in a row following the Emirates Marketing Project (A) game. Is it safe to say he's our man for the big games? Our second best player behind Dembele vs Man Utd (A) as well.

Lennon's poor form continues, just about avoiding a sub-5.5 again with an exact 5.50. However Dempsey's unwanted record of lowest rating throughout the season (3.63) only lasted for one game with Adebayor's sending off giving him a 3.30 and a drop of 4.01 from his previous match against Emirates Marketing Project (A). Dempsey himself got his highest rating in 4 games with his 4.92. Defoe drops a whopping 3.76 from his Maribor performance as well resulting in our strike force being somewhat impotent in this game.


New lowest ratings of the season (previous worst in brackets)

Naughton 4.41 (5.43) - worst rating for the second game in a row
Huddlestone 4.85 (5.08)
Adebayor 3.30 (5.14)


New sub-5.5s (and number of them this season in brackets/games played)

Walker (6/17)
Dempsey (6/11)
Defoe (5/15)
Gallas (4/12)
Huddlestone (3/10)
Adebayor (3/8)
Naughton (2/6)