Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has praised striker Olivier Giroud for his all-round ability following the 2-0 win over Aston Villa.
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Aaron Ramsey has backed himself to be the answer to Arsenal’s central-midfield crisis, and in the space of 12 first-half seconds at Villa Park he walked the walk to match his talk.
The players have now been reacting on Twitter after the game with Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsey, Petr Cech, Hector Bellerin, Per Mertesacker, Calum Chambers and Mathieu Flamini all uploading messages and photos to the social media network.
“For me, he was Man of the Match”, Sky Sports pundit said.
France global Olivier Giroud scored the opener from the penalty spot seven minutes into the game after Theo Walcott was felled by Alan Hutton.
Aston Villa were beginning to show why they were in last place.
Villa manager Remi Garde was Wenger’s first signing as Arsenal manager back in 1996. “He is questioned sometimes but finally the numbers get people to realize he is a good player”, Wenger said. He has improved, his link play is better and when we have the option for a long ball he is a very interesting option.
They have now gone a club-record 15 league games without a win, remain eight points adrift of safety, and Rémi Garde could be forgiven for privately wishing that Arsène Wenger, his old mentor, had talked him out of, and not into, this thankless job.
He is still however reportedly very serious about getting in some reinforcements for the squad in the January transfer window especially with the many injuries the team seems to be dealing with at the moment. “He is also mentally very strong, too”.
Ramsey started the move that led to his clincher with a tackle on Idrissa Gueye deep in his own half and darted 70 yards to finish it after Walcott had released Mesut Ozil and the Germany playmaker – recording his 13th league assist of the season – unselfishly squared.
Scott Sinclair then wasted a golden chance on 57 minutes when he planted an unmarked header over from six yards. “Maybe we were lucky with one or two opportunities for Villa, but overall it was a controlled performance”.
(CNN)Arsenal emerged as the new leader of the English Premier League Sunday in the closest title race for years with just four points separating the top four teams going into the busy Christmas period. “We’ve not turned the corner… we want to be (like) this every week and that only comes on a platform on a bed of hard work, attitude and commitment and discipline”.
“In the second half it was a good reaction”.
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Hernandez’s goals at the BayArena sealed Leverkusen’s valuable victory which lifts it up to sixth as it claimed only its second win in its last nine games. “We were all in the game, we were all concentrated to get this one point at the end and it felt like three”.
