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I largely agree, JR.
Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City all started the season with new managers. Arsenal – still under Wenger – appear to be in long term decline.
Tottenham sold Bale and, with the proceeds, should have asserted themselves this season. Instead, they squandered the money and sacked Villas-Boas. Liverpool, out of the title race for the last four years, have been rebuilding under Rodgers.
Everton, under Moyes, were able to finish above a disorganised Liverpool in the last two years. This year, although Liverpool have recovered, Manchester United and Tottenham have slipped.
This has given Everton the opportunity to compete with Arsenal for fourth place, and Martinez has seized the opportunity.
Gary Neville shows how Everton drew the Arsenal players out of position. A wrong decision by one player undermined the whole team.
Rosler is very keen that his players know who to mark. And he tells them when he is not happy!
Wenger has a week to work on his plans for the semifinal. Rosler must deal with Millwall before turning his thoughts to Wembley. Still, he should be able to exploit some of Arsenal’s indecision.
Un-decided as to how much he would rotate his squad during the increasingly heavy fixture period, Rosler added:
“We weren’t at our freshest in the second half against Leeds and it showed because we didn’t have enough options for the player in possession. We’ve also seen evidence of that in the stats we receive and the physical stats are not at the level they usually are.
“Rotation may or not be the case for tomorrow, it just depends how ready certain players are. No matter who is included in my team tomorrow, I don’t think anybody can be considered to be a surprise because we have a very strong squad as a lot of people have highlighted.
“We are facing a Millwall team who also have a very strong squad in terms of numbers, in fact they have more numbers than we have. Millwall make a lot of changes so that is something we need to be aware of, they have put themselves in a good position to survive in this division, but we need to make sure we keep our run going.”
Read more at http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/news/article/14-04-07-uwe-roslers-millwall-preview-1474248.aspx#m5DBO51QR7AsogOV.99
Waghorn, Tunnicliffe and Kiernan are cup-tied, so are likely to be in the squad tomorrow. Collison, however, is eligible for the semi-final.
I met a man on his narrow boat at Rufford Lock. He was a summer visitor.
He spent the summer cruising the canals, then flew to Lanzarote for the winter.
If we hadn’t been relegated, then we wouldn’t be in the running for the play-offs!
Thank you, Roberto.
Roberto would certainly need a bigger squad to compete in the Champions League and the Premier League.
Roberto would have to master squad rotation quickly too. Neither he, nor Rodgers come to that, have much experience of this. Moyes is getting valuable experience of it at United this year, just as Rosler is at Wigan.
In future years, Arsenal, Spurs and Manchester United should be able to offer greater domestic competition as well. But a higher league position, the Champions League, greater television fees and bigger crowds should all bring in more revenue for Everton.
Arsenal are clearly vulnerable at the moment. Even so, it will take a good performance by Wigan to overcome them.
Arsenal were outplayed at the weekend, but it was an exceptional performance by Everton. Ramsey and Oxlade-Chamberlain came on as substitutes for Arsenal and brought more energy and enterprise.
And Martinez had a plan! He played his powerful forwards (Lukaku and Mirallas) down the wings against the full backs, and his small, nippy forward (Naismith) in the centre against the centre backs. Out of possession, they all dropped back to frustrate Arsenal in midfield.
I don’t think Wigan could imitate that, but Wigan could match Arsenal in midfield, and McManaman, Powell and perhaps Fortune could pose some problems for their defence. McManaman should be able to take on Monreal and beat him; I’m sure that Wenger will be desperately trying to get Gibbs fit to play.
Tomorrow’s team against Millwall should give us an idea of Saturday’s team too.
The honeymoon will soon be over for BOB !Everton have won six games in a row.
Everton 3 Arsenal 0; Everton have beaten Arsenal for the first time since March 2007.
Everton have taken 63 points from 32 games. In 2004/05, they finished in fourth place with 61 points. Osman says; Back then, we were a team out of possession. We’d basically let them have the ball and score on the counter-attack. This season, we are a possession team whether we win or lose.
