http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429’s Wojciech Szczesny promises to come back stronger than before – English Premier League news
Arsenal’s 20-year-old shot-stopper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wojciech-Szczesny-c36998 promises to be better than ever before as he patiently looks on from the sidelines due to injury.
The youngster is expected to be out of action for at least 6 weeks after injuring his finger against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 FC in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League fixture.
Szczesny’s departure saw Manuel Almunia called up into action as early as in the 20th minute and despite the Spaniard’s attempts, Arsenal found themselves knocked out of the tournament with a 3-1 score line on the night and a 3-3 aggregate.
While the young Polish has been impressive in the ongoing 2010-11 season and has often exceeded expectations based on his relatively young age for a keeper, Szczesny has not had a clean slate heading into the European fixture.
The 20-year-old, despite his brilliance, has exhibited signs of inexperience in some instances. A noteworthy example could be the second goal that virtually gifted the Carling Cup to a spirited Birmingham City at Wembley recently.
Gunners manager Arsene Wenger finds himself weighing his options with a less-than-consistent http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-Almunia-c23386 who suffers from a similar case of inconsistency and lack of decisiveness as only recently, his poor performance put West Bromwich Albion 2 goals
up at the Hawthorns.
However, while Wenger could be noted for his ‘faith in young blood’ policy, the Frenchman has recently looked to recall former Gunners to help his side. In the previous season, it was in the shape of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sol-Campbell-c33757 and this time, it is in the form of the 41-year-old
veteran http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jens-Lehmann-c18297 aka ‘Mad Jens’.
While experience might turn out to be a quick fix this season, Arsenal are in need for a long term prospect to compliment their hunt for silverware that has evaded them for nearly 6 years now. Szczesny, with a little more experience under his belt, might
be able to be that missing cog.
Looking at the future, and reflecting upon life on the injury table, the Polish keeper said, “If you lose a game, you can pick yourself up as you know you have another one in a few days and need to recover - but when you are injured, you cannot just miraculously
come back, you know it will take some time to get fit and you won't actually have a game for a few weeks, so that is the biggest challenge.”
“But I am confident I will get through it and come back stronger than ever,” he added.
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