"It feels so good scoring in an Arsenal Shirt Mahn"
"Ozil welcomed his former team mates but apologised for having no presents for them...please, do them the honour of receiving your first Goal, Mesut."
"Hopefully Giroud will get a post birthday goal and Ramsey continues his rich form in front of goal."
All quotes from yesterday's blog. Did the boys read it? hehehe, I doubt that.
Celebratory mode indeed. The Arsenal really showed the boys from Naples what we are made of. Fast pace and intelligently played football. It took as long as 5 minutes to take the lead as Giroud did a fantastic job to play Ramsey through and the former saw Ozil running with his hand up asking for the ball, and boy did he get it. O-Zil to the Gunners. 1 nil. Giroud showed how much of a hustler he is through out the match and one of his worrisome moves in the opponents corner led to an interception which he passed to Ozil and the german did what he knows how to do better than most, "When you got a problem, just call on Ozil, he will assist you" that was one of the finest tweets from last night. Giroud did well to lift the ball past a diving Pepe Reina and 2 nil it was in 15 mins. We could have scored more as we ran Napoli out in the 1st half. The score remained the same till the end but Arsenal were never really threatened in a match most pundits said would be our 1st real test after our 1st real test vs Sp*rs.
Two things came to mind yesterday.
1. Wenger Loves Ozil...did you see his celebration when the German scored?
2. Since the beginning of the season, Arsenal have taken the lead in every single game.
So here are some interesting numbers I conjured up.
10 - Number of Consecutive matches Arsenal have won this season (Including the PK's vs WBA)
10 - Number of players to score for Arsenal so far
11 - In all Arsenal's 11 matches. Arsemal have taken the lead.
5 - 5 of those games Arsenal have scored in the first 20 minutes.
5 - Number of games it took Mesut Ozil to score.
1 - Arsenal's position in League and UCL tables.
42.5 - Number of millions of pounds it took for Arsenal to get a cute German guy who finished with aplomb last Night.
We are now in a great position and the good thing about the double header with BVB is that we are first at home, a good result will give us added confidence going into the second leg in Dortmund.
Nice to see Ozil score his first goal, Ramsey didn't score but he had a very very good game last night as did Giroud and the rest of the team behind them.
Next up is West Brom in the EPL. they beat the champions away last time out. I don't expect any negative pundit to use that as a reason to say they are our 1st real test after the other 1st real tests.
Till tomorrow then.
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