Yes I enjoy the tournament, yes there is good opposition, but really does anybody not involved in the tournament actually care about it no, lets be honest for a second would the Emirates cup even exist if Arsenal didn't have a "break up" with trophies in my opinion I doubt it.
On a lighter note we won GET IN!!!!, but seriously unfortunately for the first time in its four years existence I was unable to attend and I was pretty gutted about that however after seeing the results out of 4 games there was only 1 win it seems that the highlight of the tournament yet again belonged to Jack Wilshere and his magnificent volley that was superbly tipped onto the bar.
At the end of a what should of been a spectacular tournament Arsenal narrowly held of a late surge from Celtic to lift the pre-season tournament in a 3-2 victory, arsenal took a 3-0 lead with goals from vela, sagna and nasri. after a very silly penalty given away by Wilshere, it was sent a mile over the bar by exit man city striker Samaras, Celtic rallied to pull it back to 3-2 but to no avail.
On the opening day we saw Chamakh net for the Gunners on his home debut with a nice finish, and a Pato ruin everybody's day and equalise for AC Milan, after Celtic succeeded that day to stage a late comeback and draw 2-2 with Lyon.
Something I did notice was Theo Walcott being so much more decisive on the ball, making a lot of good runs and delivering the goods, and at one point I recall him cutting apart the Celtic back line driving to the line and pulling the ball back to the penalty spot but nobody was there, something that bugged me about the commentary on the games was that they said on that occasion Theo's ball was not good enough I beg to differ I think it was a great ball he put it where any good striker should be waiting.
Yet another good tournament for Jack Wilshere who has been the main story for the last 2 years with Emmanuel Frimpong putting in some good performances, but what made me happy was Chamakh showing he is willing to chase the ball upfront track back and has good positional awareness.
But for now that is all I have to say on the Emirates cup and hopefully at the end of the season it will be a slightly more significant trophy they are doing a lap of honour for instead of this.
My next piece will be on my predictions for La Liga till then its been sweet
Matt
