Arsenal is struggling at the top of the league. They were on top of their form a couple of months back but after that  other teams have learnt to thwart their free flowing style.

Come to think of it Arsenal score a lot of their goals by quick  and fluid passing right into the penalty area. How do you counter such brisk passing. Simple,  flood the area with bodies at least one will be able to get a leg on a cheeky pass about to be pushed into the goal. Thats what all the teams playing against Arsenal are doing. Even teams placed at the bottom of table have sufficient defensive talent to choke any Arsenal advance. Thats why they are ending up with draws against teams  10 to 15 places removed from them.

Arsenal is still pretty successfull in the European arena, because most teams the European teams have not played many games against them and are still as yet to learn the counters to the fluidity.

Other teams like Manchester United have incorporated both quick passing and quick deep penetrating strikes with long range shots, which is giving them good results. Arsenal players meanwhile are continuing to look for the perfect pass, which will enable them to score that perfect goal, instead of improvising on even a quarter chance.

Even though I am big fan of Arsenal and their game but they need to capitalise on even small chances, instead of playing ‘passing the parcel’ at the Goal mouth, if they are hoping to finish the season with a top spot.

Arsenal is the best team in the premiership. For once we have a team in EPL that plays with the flair of the Brazilians, without too much fuss about style and selflessness and precision of the Germans. Otherwise till four years back when Arsene Wenger’ efforts started bearing fruit, EPL was mostly watching burly guys trying to push each other off the ball.

Arsenal has refreshed English footfall and turned the tables on people who thought bending like Beckham was the best thing you can do to a football. Now you have diminutive guys like Hleb and Rosicky scooting past large bodies in their path.

Only concern is their goal scoring ability. Many a times they are the better team but are coming of with silly draws at the very last moment. All praise to them for not loosing cool till the last moment, but why not convert some chances. Again they have started relying too much on one person, which is Fabregas, like last year when Henry used to score most of their goals

Of course as a ‘keyboard’ player, manager and a very active fan I am well within my rights to comment on how they should play.