Kieran Gibbs – It’s all thanks to Bouldy!
Kieran Gibbs Hails the Bould effect by AM
Arsenal left back Kieran Gibbs has come out and praised the impact that Steve Bould has made this season on Arsenal’s defense.
Arsenal have conceded just three goals in six matches so far this season (in all competition) and statistically hold the meanest defense in the Premier League along with Chelsea. In fact the three goals that has been conceded are – one conceded due to a goalkeeping mistake, another from a penalty while yesterday Manchester City scored from a Corner.
Most of the credit for this significant improvement at the back is given to the arrival of Steve Bould. The former Arsenal defender, who replaced Pat Rice as Wenger’s assistant is believed to have helped the Arsenal manager in organizing the defense. The Gunners have defended set pieces superbly this season (one of their biggest weak point last season), and have only conceded one goal from set pieces so far.
Kieran Gibbs, Arsenal’s left back, has hailed the impact of Steve Bould on the side. The defender said that Bould has introduced new training routines and gives attentions to minute details. Gibbs has also expressed his gratitude to Bould, who was incidentally the person who recommended Arsene Wenger to promote Gibbs into the first team.
“You look at last season, we conceded too many goals and we knew we had to improve,” Gibbs told reporters.
“We just looked at where we were going wrong – and attention to detail comes into it a lot with Steve Bould. He’s very focused on the small things.
“He played quite recently and we do a lot more stuff by splitting the team into separate training sessions. We are getting a good understanding.”
Gibbs was particularly grateful for the influence of Bould given that the former Arsenal defender recommended to Wenger that the full-back be promoted to first-team training after impressing for the club’s youth sides.
“Steve was the one who said to the boss to put me in to train with the first-team for the first time,” he revealed.
“Now he’s working with us I want to show him my appreciation for what he’s done and how he helped me. I feel I want to give that back and show him he was right in what he did for me.”
Next week Arsenal takes on Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium. It will be another test for the defense, which will come up against one most expensive attacking quartet in England at the moment.
Bould’s influence is undeniable, but I’d like to throw some credit in Wenger’s direction too. Jenkinsen has been fantastic. I was one of those fans calling (practically screaming) for us to sign a right back this summer to cover for Sagna. I just couldn’t see Jenkinsen ever developing into a top class right back. He’s got a ways to go, but now I can see it.
Wenger obviously saw something that many of us could not. It’s kind of humbling. Wenger basically plucked Jenks out of nowhere. Amazing.
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2 goals in 5 games in the league against some good teams. lol and the 2 goals were conceded becuase of keepers error.
Strongly belivie that we will concede less than 30 goals this season in the league and score around 70-90. coyg !!
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Singing of the season = Steve Bould.
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Conceding 15-20 less goals this season would make a huge difference, bould has been magical with our defense so far
Let’s keep this up!!!!
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Lets just hope that our finishers polish up and theo must sort out his future because wenger has never give in on player’s demand.
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With jenks form,bacary is in trouble and is gud for the team to compete for starting places
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We did look a bit silly though on that corner with zonal marking, we can improve the technique i guess. So far the main surprises have been Jenks and Gibbs giving great crosses as well as tracking back and tackling well, it was like watching two Ashley Coles Sunday.
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Guys what do u think of theo,yes hes a good player.but how many matches in a season he plays at best?yet he wants 100k per wik.i dont c him playin for long in our nice jersey.BY THE WAY UR CRITICSIM IS WELCOMED
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Take a bow Gibbs! You now join an illustrious list of top quality left back to play for arsenal.
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End of season target- reduce conceded goals by 50% of goals last season D end of 2012/2013 season.
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Gibbz is a world class fullback…he just needs to do 2 more things….sign a new 8 year contract and put on some weight, not too much to compramise his speed…but just enough to bully some of the stronger opposition…but his reading of the game and pace in attack and defence is exellent…COYG
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Bould deserves all the plaudits. His touch is very evident on the huge improvement of our defence. I watch our matches these days in more relaxed mood. No more heart-in- mouth when we are defending set pieces… BIG UP DUDE!!!
I can smell trophies… COYG!!!
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i know its off topic but anyone else seen the news on theo check out the BBC sport football homepage !!!
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Tanx to Bouldy, very proud of you.i like to meet prof. Wenger. He is a genius.bringing something out of nothing.
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The entire Arsenal team has stood out this season. Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs (and Koscielny) have all formed the best defence in the league (so far anyway)
Arteta, Diaby, Cazorla, (Ramsey?) have showed they are on of the midfields (if not the best) in the league
And once Giroud starts scoring, we will have a great attack
Title challengers and I fully expect a cup this season (out second team isn’t too far off our first)
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I think Finland is pretty mad they couldn’t get Jenks to commit to them when they had the chance.
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The test will come when we only have one recognised CB and players playing out of position, i think only then we will see if Boulds working on offsides,corners and positional awareness truly is a master stroke, im obviously delighted with steves impact thus far but i cant help thinking that our defensive problems last year were mainly down to the fact that we rarely had a settled back unit, i have always believed that our first choice defensive unit are quality players as Wenger rarely gets it wrong.
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I am really proud of Steve Bould, He had made us proud with our rocky and unbeatable defence.
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I never thought Jenkinsen would be as good as he is this season. I was wrong! Goodluck Jenk!
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All things works on to good for Arsenal AMEN
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Finally some positive talk on the site… Everything about Arsenal is feeling good at the moment , while thereby of football is going crazy Arsene still brings stability, I understand the praise of Steve Bould but let’s not forget it was our manager that appointed him as coach also , I don’t want to get carried away but anyone can see there is a change in the club as all-round unit , from the back room to the pitch.
If you look at our squad, we really can stand toe to toe with anyone and quite frankly our skill level has the rest of the league running scared … I feel it is like the old days when every team’s first thought was not playing football but thinking of a plan to stop us playing our A game
Good times for Gunners – I know you feel it to….
Note … What happened to all those calling for a new manager, show yourself hahahaha
COYG’S
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The air of optimisim is really strong and that is great for the start of the season. I am also glad that arsenal is finally willing to pay a little more to get top class players. Podolski and carzola are top class and if city or chelsea had attempted to sign them, they would have paid double the price. Good job wenger. Keep it coming.
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Well if you look a bit at end year statistics, you will notice how Arsenal was always among the top teams in achieved goals but conceded at least 10-15 more hence the 10-20pts gap behind the top spots.
If we keep up the firing power and good defensive work, we’ll be in the race for the championship. Quite simple, isn’t it.
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I wasn’t sure about Gibbs and Jenkinson last year but they’re really coming of age under Bould. Let’s hope they keep getting better and don’t get injured!!
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Jenkinson and Gibbs were never a doubt for me. The added thing about Carl is he can play CB too and DM and very well on the right wing.
Bould is trying to instil the George Graham defensive philosophy. Give credit where it’s due. Bouldy at Sunderland improved the defence too with his nous. Bouldy was one of the famous back 4. people think it was Keown, but it was Bould with Adams, Dixon and Nutty Boy.
This defence will be judged by me in January … the points are usually dropped against lesser teams and this is usually because of mistakes and the trend is still happening. Focus and concentration is what we need to be working on. Our entire scarcity of silverware has been down to mistakes over the last few seasons. The technicality of players and skills have been there in abundance, but mistakes cancel it all out. Arshavin’s disheartening 4-4 absurdness at Anfield springs to mind, as does Mad Jens in the CL final when he necessitated Bobby leaving the pitch and the collision of Scezzer and Kos in the League Cup final. Missing centre-Halves who are playing too forward like Vermaelen and Gallas need a mention and our weakness against set pieces has for years been the most targetted and exploited tactic against us … it should have been addressed long before now.
A good yard stick is the Stoke game. That teams only game plan is thuggery and set pieces and they’re masters at both … but we sailed through that game.
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The toughness in him is very obvious now, full concentration both when defence and attack show his maturity.
Steve Bould as a defender notice him early and it’s good for him to appreciate Bould involvement.
Anyway Arsenal always produce top class left full-back.
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The only problem now.. what if anyone injured?
Looks at the bench, scary thought of Djourou there…. look forward, not much strikers too.
Midfield is okay with upcoming stars, defence has Miquel and Yennaris who is still unsure.
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Off topic but i’ m very glad that we hav proved that RIP is not bigger than Arsenal.
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Rumours this morn that inter are sniffing after sagna! We need to tie him down to have top quality starters understudied by decent back up.
Gibbs/Santos
Sagna/Jenkinson
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