I must say fair play to Dirk Kuyt, I do knock him a bit but i can't knock his workrate and i think that really helped us get the result tonight. He got his goal and that's something I'd like to see a bit more from him but he's adapted pretty well to the wide position and I think with the squad we have he probably is the more viable option.
Mascherano had another sterling performance and he really is making his name as the best DM in the world, during the match you could see Arsenal had basically given up on penetrating through the middle and it was because of that man, immense.
Couldn't argue with Torres' performance, he worked hard but arsenal looked to mark him out of the game. That's not necassarily a bad thing though, he is preoccupying the two centre backs for the whole game and thats creates for pace for other players. He didn't score but that doesn't make it a bad performance and when people say he doesn't do it against the top teams (just the 1 against chelsea) I get really angry, the reason he hasn't scored against them is because he is being marked in these games by two really good defenders and generally not much ball is being given to him.
Anyway very pleasing result tonight, definately advantage us to go through to the next round, it is only half-time though.
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