David De Gea vs Wojciech Szczęsny

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Fabregas, Bendtner, Wilshere, Adebayor, Van Persie...

A fine bunch of lads excepting Adebayor for obvious cnutish reasons.


Surely Bendtner is more comedy value than anything else?
 
I've never really got the Fabregas hate.

Henry was just painfully arrogant though, you can't understand how he's viewed from the outside when you've grown up viewing him from the inside. Cue gay joke.
 
Probably mentioned it before but a girlfriend of a friend of mine (yeah I know) befriended Fabregas and he sounds like a genuinely nice bloke.

I know nothing about any other Arsenal players other than what I read in papers/twitter and the way they come across on the pitch. On that basis, Wilshere, Van Persie, Bentnder, Adebayor and this Chezney bloke are all complete thunder-cnuts.
 
Scensy save was good but oh my god he was so far off his line it was ridiculous. Watch it again.
 
alastair said:
Fabregas is a nice bloke who enjoys pizza.
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alastair said:
Bendtner is mis-understood.
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"If you ask me if I am one of the best strikers in the world, I say yes."

"The biggest thing I miss because of football is that I really, really love to go on a skiing holiday but as long as I have my career, I can’t do that because of the risk of being injured."

alastair said:
Wilshere's a top bloke who takes pictures with his fans and stuff.
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alastair said:
Van Persie seems friendly too.
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alastair said:
Don't really understand why Henry is a twat either to be honest. I get the other three.
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Sharky7 said:
Yep, and that was some penalty save!
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It was very good. Also quiet illegal. Few refs decide a retake for a keeper moving off his line before the shot is made, to be fair, but he was quite off his line by a long way and it helped him a lot.
 
Good solid start to the season for him, he has looked very good so far. To be honest I was quite impressed last season so has carried that on and looks to be building on it. Much more challenging tests to come but so far so good.

Commadus said:
Scensy save was good but oh my god he was so far off his line it was ridiculous. Watch it again.
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Just watched it now and hardly seemed off his line at all. Was a world class penalty save, it was struck hard and at a decent height and in the corner but got a solid hand behind it to push it over the bar.
 
Brwned said:
I've never really got the Fabregas hate.
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It shouldn't really be that hard to understand why United fans dislike him after the whole pizza bollocks
 
Both are extremely fortunate to be getting their chance behind excellent players at highly rated clubs. Many better keepers throughout time have never been afforded such opportunities.

Too early yet, however if pushed, and based on what little I've seen of both, the Arsenal keeper looks better.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
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What's De Gea got to do with Szczęsny saving a penalty?
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He didn't save a penalty yet? Or at least didn't turn a match around for us?

SharkyMcShark said:
Arsenal fans are big proponents of zero sum games in player comparisons.
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What Arsenal fans? Szczęsny did something as good as a goal, and deserves a point for it, De Gea didn't yet..

Which part of that you don't understand?
 
I think Szczesny is a fine goalkeeper,he's young but he got the temperament and arrogance. He seems like more of a winner than Fabianski and definately Almunia, and he's technically a very good keeper.

What De Gea has done so far in England isn't great, but so far is at the moment three matches.

What he has shown though, as evident against Spurs, is he's got a great technique of catching the ball without giving rebounds, he's fantastic with his feet, possibly even better than VdS in that aspect (:eek:) and his distribution is very good. He also seems to have the balls to get over mistakes, if the Spurs-game is anything to go by.

He needs to work on getting down quickly, interestingly at times if Van der Sar did let in soft goals those would be the kind of goals he'd let in(although very rare, and he was good in general at getting down to the ground). De Gea is a very good shot stopper reaction-wise, as we know.

His biggest area of improvement is in the aerial work, and this is true in Szczesny's case as well, although the PIG could do with working on his distribution as well.

For me I think De Gea's got the bigger potential, but Wojciech looks a very good keeper at this moment in time and will only get better. Plus De Gea's the most expensive keeper in the british game so he bloody well should be talented.
 
As I said this thread is ridiculously premature in terms of both keepers. Neither of them have a full season under their belt at their respective clubs and one of them hasn't even been here long enough to be able to hold a conversation in English.

A thread like this should have been put together at the end of the season at earliest, any talk about one getting the upper hand over the other before then is just playground talk and not worthy of adult conversation.
 
BAMSOLA said:
Spoke too soon.
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Actually I posted it after Arsenal's goal, but it doesn't matter.. It was a big save, and a game changing one.. 1-1 is far different from 3-1.. (Unless we really mess up in the second half).

He deserved a point for that anyway..
 
I've said it before in another thread and I'll just repeat it here.

Both players are at the perfect club right now, Szescheny with his arrogance will allow him to not get too down when Arsenal concede and concede they will because their defence isn't as good as ours. His goalkeeping techniques are probably more polished than De Gea now and it's good since he'll be bombarded by every half-decent striker who wants to take a chance against Arsenal.

De Gea can take his time as he'll be rarely tested when our defence is back and his superior distribution skills plays with our club style of quick counter attacks.
 
I thought Szczesny had a poor game today. Should have done better on half the goals, and has to take some of the blame for such a poorly marshalled defence. I'm yet to be convinced to be honest, he's certainly far from the finished article some of the gooners have been pretending he is.
 
kouroux said:
Chezny should have done a lot better on the first goal.
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I think this is the only goal he should take blame on.

The rest where all very well hit and placed shots. The first goal he needed to take charge for definite.

Other then that though, he saved Arsenal from a double figures scoreline.
 
Even the first goal was a massive cock-up between Djourou and Koscielny but yeah, he could have taken charge there. Can't see Schmeichel or VdS conceding such a goal, even if the defenders in front of them are spastics.
 
Danny1982 said:
Actually I posted it after Arsenal's goal, but it doesn't matter.. It was a big save, and a game changing one.. 1-1 is far different from 3-1.. (Unless we really mess up in the second half).

He deserved a point for that anyway..
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Fair enough, I was disappointed with his part in Arsenals first but he recovered well and made some top saves.
 
vuc said:
I believe the set-piece blame lies with the wall. Both free-kicks are prevented if the wall jumped.
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Both freekicks could have been prevented if he just ordered a defender to cover the line, it will at the very least force Rooney to question whether to aim straight at the keeper and hope for the ball to spill for a possible rebound or risk the ball getting blocked on the line by the defender.
 
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