The Season Arsenal Played the Most Beautiful Football in the World
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Highlights of Arsenal's 2007/08 season.
Music: Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'un autre été (Klangkuenstler Remix)
Clairity - Don’t Panic (Stoto Edit) - Sport
Arsene Wenger's contribution to Arsenal's history cannot be overstated. He is Arsenal on two feet! A real football legend. It makes me so angry to hear some frauds wipe off the efforts of years claiming "he's been bad since 2015". Some even claim he's been our problem since 2006!!! All those years of fighting, keeping the club steady and playing great football on no money and debts yet some are that ignorant and ungrateful. The least he deserves is for the whole stadium, that he built, to be called The Arsene Wenger Stadium.
I agree with everything except the name. I think it should he called "New Highbury". I hate the name Emirates, it makes us plastic
@@kaissersreich New Highbury doesn't sound great honestly. Highbury wasn't even the stadium's name it was where the stadium was based. I personally always liked stadiums that are named after people more. It feels like a name that summarizes a huge part of a club's history like Santiago Bernabeu, Giuseppe Meazza and Vicente Calderon back in the day. Now lately there are the likes of the Johan Cruyff arena and Estadio Diego Armando Maradona and none of these men did for their clubs as much as Arsene Wenger did for us. He deserves it and it sounds great. It immortalizes all he did for us. I also fully agree with Emirates making us sound plastic and hope they do not renew it next time.
The name of our stadium is Ashbaton Grove; due to contractual agreements for it is called emirates for some years.
@@davieabsonvlog2656 Ashburton, yes.
The major problem in arsenal is. owner.. kroenke..he come to arsenal since 2007 but since then arsenal become more and more medioker team...bad management...selling arsenal super star..and bring mediocre player...if mansour(mancity owner)/ Roman Abraham is KROENKE..maybe they will bring us super star player to make arsenal biggest team in the world...
80% of this video mostly highlights of Hleb's brilliance. One of the most underrated Arsenal player of that era.
Agree was not same player after he left for barca, same with song
Yep, he destroyed Liverpool and I'm not even mad.
Hleb's dribbling skills is so underrated!
@@craigobrien31 He went there to be a bench warmer. Regreted it as he stated may times, that move ruined his career.
I can’t believe we sold him Cesc Helb rosiscky n flamini
Watching Eduardo breaks my heart. I’m convinced he was going to go on to be one of our best players ever
Same to me Daniel Ohio
Yh well truth be no one could match our technical players and team play so pathetic pork pig british corrupt bastard referees (who hated Arsene) allowed opposition to kick out extraordinary players off the park and get inured.
Rosciky, Hleb, flamini, Diaby all midfield and got serious injury?? Coincidence?
Ref did job to help club like ManureUrine Marinated simply Arsenal midfield was too good.
Oh and don't forget serious injury to Ramsey (also midfelfider) and Eduardo too. Shocking injuries.
Most referees and pgmol, coward webb, Mike deane probably like fergies farts after games. Mike riley definitely did.
Wenger ball gave me joy even when we were losing I did not even know.... Football is indeed an art and Wenger was the best artist I know
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
Wanna cry for Eduardo injury around 3hundred times. We should be the champion
Diaby/ wilshere/ eduardo😭
Brilliant players under Arsene Wenger.
Horrible injury set backs
He was a great finisher
Diaby too :( great player
We saw so many stars and soldiers fall because of injury. Arsenal history could have been completely different. 😢
At the end of the day you were 4 points short so you didn’t deserve the title
Surprisingly, this was the season right after Thierry Henry left for Barcelona.
And when Henry was asked about that, he said that maybe he was holding the team back bc he was always screaming for the ball and his teammates were pressured to pass to him even though he wasn't in the best position. I think Arsenal really became more cohesive as a team and relied on many players, as opposed to just Henry.
Also, fuck Martin Taylor for that tackle.
i agree with you, altough thierry's leadership would have been important that season
What tackle
Towards the end of Henry's arsenal career, he was inhibiting the team. If a player didn't pass to him and the chance went missing, they'd be berated. Henry needed to leave to let his teammates flourish.
@Jack Wiliam That all might be true that he would berate his temmates and demand the ball but I would 100% want a forward who demands the ball than one thats afraid or passes too much that being said, I agree he needed to leave to have his eyes opened up a bit.
Fuck every referee from then. The Arsenal are soft, sorry about your broken leg, years... X
Cesc was so good, unreal final passes. Crazy to think we had so many talented attackers in one team and didnt win anything. Cracking football we played
I loved your statement...We played... Yes, as Gooners we played with this team ... Wonderful memories ... A beautiful dream.
bang average keeper, shaky defense, injury problems and shallow squad depth
My Favourite Player of All Time:
● Fabregas was 17 years old during virtually the entirety of his breakthrough season of 04/05 and made 33 league appearances (24 starts) in a side just off the back of winning the previous seasons league without losing a game, finished 2nd in that current campaign and won the FA Cup. Just let that sink in. Absolutely frightening 😲.
● Youngest Arsenal goalscorer:
(16 years 212 days v Wolves Dec 2003)
Youngest Arsenal goalscorer in League:
(17 years 113 days v Blackburn Aug 2004)
Youngest Arsenal goalscorer in Europe:
(17 years 217 days v Rosenborg Dec 2004)
● Only he and Evan Ferguson have 10+ goals/assists to there names as 18 year olds in the Premier League era who weren't from England. Had to get that one in as an Irishman 😄.
● Statistics show that in the five years prior to Fàbregas's departure from Arsenal, Fàbregas created 466 goal-scoring chances, made 86 assists and scored 48 goals, all three statistics topping those of new teammates Xavi and Andrés Iniesta, despite both having made more appearances in the same period.
● 09/10 League Season: Apps: 27
Goals: 15
Assists: 15
Who knows what numbers he would have finished with that season if he'd avoided a few niggling injuries during the first half of that campaign and not fractured his leg to Barca in March and been ruled out for the remainder of the season. I've no doubt that he would have comfortably broken the record of 20 assists in a PL season and in all likelihood would have 20+ League goals to his name alongside it. All from CM at 22 years of age in his second season as club captain as well it's worth noting.
● All time leader in history of assists for Spanish national team.
● Most assists as a CM in the 21st century ahead of the likes of Lampard, Gerrard, Iniesta & Xavi.
● Only player in PL era to record 10+ assists in 6 separate seasons.
● 2nd All Time Leader in assists in PL history to Ryan Giggs who spent 9 and a half more seasons than him in the PL .
● Made captain of Arsenal at the tender age of 21 as well. He was absolute magic
This is the season I started supporting Arsenal. Eduardo-what a clinical finisher
Will we ever get this arsenal back? This is the club I fell in love with
hopefully with arteta!
No we won’t but with arteta we could possibly win much much more.
@@josephschneider8930 I agree 100%. I don't think we will see this playstyle (I mean it is called "Wengerball" for a reason) but I do think Arteta will improve our team and bring us back into the top 4 eventually.
@@TyEats0031 not when David Luiz is our defender
@@dr.hero18 we will be fine, hes ok for now and next season.
Really wished Cesc won a trophy as captain of The Arsenal. My favourite player growing up and he deserved it more than anyone
rvp adebayor
@ Alex George agreed, he was world class for us.
Me too man. I was 8 that time. I wanted to be a midfielder like Cesc. After he left Arsenal, I became a forward. I am now 20 still trying my luck in lower league clubs in Uganda. But boy were those guys a joy to watch. Walcott.
@@izzie.12 ay good luck my g, hope you’ll make it
@@samkomolafe923 van persie would have won trophies with us if he stayed at Arsenal.
I'm a Liverpool fan but watching this Arsenal was pure joy. They played one touch football like no one else
Don't be sad it ended, be happy it happened and most importantly, be very grateful you witnessed it
Eduardo was pure quality. Such a shame about the leg break, he would have been a legend for us! Same with Diaby!!
True. Diaby was great player. Really sad to his career finish in a undesired manner
It made me soooo sad seeing Eduardo and all of his goals.
yes, yes, yes. such a great great finisher.
Diaby could have been among the footballing greats if he didn't suffer so many injuries.
Injuries to those 2 costed us the League that season
Hleb and Rosicky were so underrated. For me, they were 2 of the best football technicians to ever play for the Arsenal
Building there stadium ruined this club, so many players sold to balance the books. Hleb was a total genius along with Rosicky. We had a team of youngsters ready to push on, but sadly the heart of the team got sold, and players just had so many injuries, which I think was because of the way we played. This was a great team but that stadium and the debt cost this club in the long run, and now we're seeing the fall out from it.
They were awesome but how about Carzola, Berkamp, Fabregas, Ozil? Carzola is my personal favourite, the guy was just a genius on the ball
The whole team was just so special and will always hold a place in the fan's heart, Wenger was like their proud father watching them play with so much swag. Even the defensive players like Song, Denilson, Toure played with more courage and creativity than any of our current players...
Carzola?
really? 2 of the best technicians? what's with your memory, dude? Bergkamp, Fabregas, Henry, Pires, Santi are sky higher than Hleb and Tomasz.
I watched almost every game
That season… this season is the one that hurts me the most looking back on it. We had such an amazing young squad that was finally finding its rhythm and then Eduardo’s leg break.. the bull**** penalty against Liverpool in the CL.. league form dipped bad after that Birmingham game… losing to United in the fa cup I believe… and yeah it hasn’t been this good for the club since… 15 years later and this team to me is the last one that was truly world class and a champion contender
We're back finally and we as fans have deserved it so much
I think the biggest frustrating thing then was not being able to invest in good quality players. We often had to find players that no one heard of or there weren't much competition getting them. Wenger focused more on getting good attackers but defence was very poor. Wenger did so well with what he had back then. Imagine he had this squad we have now.
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
I’ll never forget this season for as long as I live. Honestly thought we were going to win the title that year if it wasn’t for Eduardo’s injury. This season hurt more than the Champions League final defeat.
Bullshit lol. There’s no way in hell you were coming close to United that season
@@indanijosh9960 I remember it like it was yesterday, mate. Look it up 👍
This team was one of the best in Europe, if not the very best. Eduardo's injury ruined everything for us. We could have won the league and champions league this season.
@@fatmatabellay start of the downfall
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
Cesc's passing, Hleb's video game close control, Rosicky's slick one twos and quick ball movement, Van Persie's technical excellence, Sagna's consistently good defending.
This squad should have won the league. My biggest disappointment beside Paris 06
Hate to mention it but Adebayor was a beast too
My sentiments exactly
Don't forget about Flamini, a workhorse in the midfield.
Eduardo instinct. His killer touch was badly missed when he got injured,him and adebayor had a good partnership
How do you praise all of those guys & leave out Adebayor? Probably your best player that season.
As a Manchester United's fans, I really admit that Arsenal on that era was absolutely brilliant
Bro I am a united fan as well but honestly I dont think sexier football has ever been played in the bpl than this arsenal team
@@ebrahimjamshid8328 hell yeah
And yet we got 1 point from 6 against your lot that season. And we were lucky to get that one honestly.
My friend, a man u fan, used to fear facing arsenal l then! Funny though, man u n chelsea always won
@@kimothotheuri3599 Now, Arsenal play well against the good teams but bad against the other 14 😭
The first six months of that season was some of the most beautiful football I've ever seen and I saw the 97-99 and 01-05 sides. The 07/08 side was special and up until the incident was the best team in the league while also being the youngest. 98/99 and 02/03 were difficult because those teams were great but the 07/08 really deserved the league at that point (and to go farther in the CL). After 25 years of supporting Arsenal that is the season I rue the most and the season review Ive watched the most after 97/98 and 03/04.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks like that.
I always remember this team very fondly even though a lot of Arsenal fans describe it as a "loser team". I don't care.
That season they really showed something special, special energy, special chemistry...
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
This season is so similar to 07/08,playing great football,1st place(for now). The issue is we don't have squad depth that season. But mentality? there will be no more Gallas issue
This is so painful to watch. The players in this Wenger team weren’t afraid to try attacking football, he gave them the confidence to express themselves, create 10-12 chances in one half, try fancy flicks or passes into the channels and between the lines or even taking a player on.
Now it’s all safe and efficient football, sideways and backwards unless there’s a completely open forward pass because you’re worried about losing the ball even in the final third.
This is why I like and always back players like Pepe or Aubameyang, they get stick for always losing the ball but at least they’re trying to make something happen.
Yea but what you're leaving out is that we aslo played sideways and backwards under Wenger. Yes! This video is awesome but it's a compilation of when moves clicked perfectly in place. Some of these matches we even lost,like the match in the thumbnail. We didn't even win a single trophy through this period. I get nostalgia can make you see things with rose tinted glasses but come on... Beautiful football is not a lost art and with the way our next gen is playing rn, I can have hope of the flawless magical game returning
@@thezoid.withfreaky6204 If you look how we played under Emery and under Arteta (no disrespect to them as coaches) and how we played under Wenger you’d see that we barely played sideways and backwards in comparison. I don’t know how old you are or how much of Wenger’s Arsenal you watched but we ALWAYS created chances. If anything we were *too* attacking, and when we had a squad of players struggling to compete we left ourselves open a lot, got thrashed by all the elite sides.
Also I know we didn’t win a trophy during this time but it was the right way to play and it was expressive. Barcelona played the exact same way bar the fact their players were 10x better than ours. Nowadays we have the odd game where we scrape about 5 shots and 2 on target in 90 mins, that never happened under Wenger. THAT is sideways, play-it-safe football.
Watching this video is a breath of fresh air, this is the football Arsenal are known for, call it nostalgia or whatever you want but I was way more excited and on the edge of my seat during games 8-10 years ago than I am now.
@@MarceloDinoYT the side Wenger built for the season shown in this video was the last one of real quality. Everything just clicked, I loved it, but a lot of the key players left soon after (Flamini, Hleb, Adebayor); we couldn't replace them and arsenal gradually declined from there (over the course of 11-12 years!). This was the last display of Wenger's genius, he was unlucky, but it was the turning point - had he kept a few of those players a bit longer, and/or maybe were it not for Eduardo's injury, I'm quite sure everything would have been different.
@@thezoid.withfreaky6204 we used to lose but used to go feeling entertain with beautiful football
@@thezoid.withfreaky6204 and now with the backwards and sideway passing is just unwatchable imo
This era of Arsenal was the peak of the beautiful game. No team in the PL played with such fluid passing, that was so mesmerizing to watch them with their swashbuckling style. Arsene Wenger was all about attacking and fluid passing, it is amazing how he got the best out of all these players. I was fortunate to be able to watch them play at this level.
West ham
Players like Alexander Hleb truly made me fall in Love with Arsenal FC. I love this Club Arsenal_For_Life!!!
Such an elegant baller. He was top drawer technically. His balance, close control, vision, disguise, feints and swift drops of the shoulder that he would do when he was dribbling were great to watch. His timing and weight of pass as well were excellent and he was brilliant at creating space for teammates to run into by drawing opposition players towards him when he was in possession of the ball. He's on the record publicly as well saying that the worst thing he ever did was leaving Arsenal and going to Barcelona or something to that effect. He doesn't get talked about enough by fans when talking about this period. Most fans from other clubs probably don't even remember him. Very underrated and underappreciated.
@@oisin5684 100% Facts
This almost brought tears to my eyes. We were definitely playing the most beautiful football in the league at this time. What really let this team down was the goalkeeping and centre back positions.
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
Crazy to believe it's been 13 or 14 years now but it honestly feels like just yesterday we were battling for all four trophies, playing the most attractive and deadly football on the planet. This was my favourite season as a Arsenal fan, barely any weak links in the team, every player brought their own individual quality to the squad.
I pray one day we will return to the total football style and show the world who we really are.
COYG forever
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
I quite simple do not understand how good cesc fabregas was at the age of 20! He was dominating midfields since he was 18. so rare to see players so young be so consistent
yeah he was another kind
Imagine If sosial media was as big back then as now, he would have got enourmos amount of praise!
@@niklas1727 yeah unfortunately today's kids on social media don't recognize him and even think david silva was better than him in the pl
We could have had it all 😭
rolling in the deep~
No, you couldn't... Remember when you all want wenger out... That day the time when you all don't deserve this kind of football anymore...
@@Bapakbuaya.01 true
@@Bapakbuaya.01 lol
@@Bapakbuaya.01 wenger was also to blame for not wanting to buy quality when needed.
Bring back this arsenal FFS 😭😭 the kind of football we used to take for granted, how much I wish seeing us play this orgasmic football again
Never knew how lucky I was to get to watch this team every week
Yep losing a match was an absolute travesty, now it is normal for us. Tragic
But this team won nothing
Adebayor and Van Persie two phenomenal strikers for Arsenal that will never be celebrated properly by the club. What a shame.
Van Persie yes. Adebayor wasted too many chances. We would have won the league if he was clinical
No one likes them because they left for a rival club, especially Adebayor. I like them both but I'll never forgive them about that
Abebayor was a merc so no respect due. RVP gave us his best for many seasons so I totally respect his choice to move for trophies just a shame it was to Man U.
Well, they chose to be a d*ckhead about it. So, no complaining.
I'll always salute RVP because he spent 8 years with us, and tried his hardest. Adebayor had one good season and shipped himself off to the oil ship that was Man City. There's a complete difference.
The current team doesn't need to analyze matches of the our rivals, they need to watch this video in order to recover our identity!!!
I'm still incensed at how we didn't win the league this season, I'm still haunted by the Eduardo injury game the killed confidence, then 5 consecutive games without a win and 1 win in 8, the Liverpool game with Babel's dive for a penalty in the CL. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong
Tears in my eyes, poetry in motion. Eduardo’s injury was so unfair, it was suppose to be a beautiful story
Yeah. Birmingham ended Arsenal's season in that 2-2 draw with the tackle on Eduardo.
@@babsknight I always wonder what might have been if we had won the league that year cause key players like Cesc, Van Persie etc would have stayed on and we’d have definitely gone on to challenge and most likely win another or a few more
@@babsknight no. because clichy didn't do his job.
we were leading 2:1 against 10 men. please stay serious.
@@jeannotschumacher1024 Ok. And Arsenal drew 4 consecutive matches after that. Was it Clichy's fault as well?
This was the team that replaced the invincibles: Diaby and Fabregas were Viera, Adebayor was Kanu, Van Persie was Bergkamp, Hleb was Ljundberg, Denlison was Gilberto, Rosicky was Pires, Walcott was supposed to be Henry but was more like Wiltord, Gallas was Campbell, Eboue was Lauren, clichy was Ashley Cole, Toure was Toure, Almunia was terrible. No Martin Keown maybe thats why we fumbled lol
We still had Lehmann that season so you can add him as well. He was dropped for Almunia after like 2 league games and never got back in the team for an extended period of time unfortunately.
We fumbled because of the injury and then it slowly fell apart. Hleb, Cesc, Adebayor all left. Dismantled us and Wenger was hurt.
do you notice mate that you mention no defensive midfielder of value.
Almunia remains the worst goalkeeper I’ve ever seen. And I include the Sunday league goalies I saw during my playing days. He was utter utter shit. We got him from the Spanish second division - which is of a farcically low standard.
He had never played a high level match before. I don’t know was it nerves or what but he did around 5 crazy things every single fucking game. These included but are by no means limited to
1. Come charging out of his goal for no reason.
2. Forget to cover basic angles and this leave a huge area of the goal for the forward to score.
3. Not come charging out when it was necessary.
4. Dive in a super man flying kind of way and let the ball go under or over his hands. ( see CR7 goal in ECL SF match although he did this regularly)
5. Throw the ball out incredibly quickly in the final seconds of a Match that we were winning by a goal. Often this throw was to a player surrounded by opposition players.
6. Not throw the ball out quickly when we were losing. In fact then he would take all day and eventually kick the ball into touch.
7. Set up a wall and then stand right behind the wall. The wall is meant to allow you to guard the other side you CLOWN.
I’ve no idea how he managed to make a career at a top club for so long.
United - post Schmeichel, who in his peak remains the best GK I’ve ever seen - struggled to find a replacement. They had some shockers but Ferguson always got rid of them. Many of them got 2 chance. Make one mistake, okay. Make 2 and it was see ya. You’re not cut out for a top club. And they were gone. He put up with Barthes for 2 seasons and got rid. Wenger had this pride thing about Almunia. He kept him for fucking ages.
He cost us COUNTLESS games. He was truly, truly an awful player.
Gallas was shit bro😂😂campbell was incomparable
man, this brought me a beautiful memories back then. its true that we dont get a cup to show but that 07/08 season was the most entertaining time since the invicibles season 😭😭😭😭
Loved that side of 07/08. The football that season going forward with the likes of Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb, Walcott, Van Persie & Adebayor was absolutely scintillating. The precision of those intricate & incisive one touch/two touch interchanges, movement off the ball and build up play in the final third at times was utterly breathtaking. That was by far my favourite time being an Arsenal supporter in terms of that electric style of football that we used to play. Just a shame we couldn't get over the line and reward all that exceptional free flowing attacking football with a Prem title at the end of it:
●Going into that Birmingham game which Eduardo broke his leg in we had the opportunity to go 8 points clear as it was an early Saturday K:O on the 27th G/W before everyone else played.
●Including the Birmingham draw we drew 5, lost 2 and won just 1 of our 8 league games in that period which ultimately cost us the title.
●Finished on 83 points (4 points off Man Utd). The 2 we lost were 6 pointers against Man United and Chelsea respectively as well to make it even more painful.
Even if we'd just managed to beat United during that horrific run of results it would have hypothetically meant that we would have won the league in hindsight if the 3 points went the other way although obviously I appreciate the entire dynamic of the run in would have been altered by those chain of events. Fine margins. We completely imploded from gameweek 27-34. What could have been 😔.
Football is ALWAYS beautiful at ARSENAL ❤
Everyone talks about Eduardo's injury killing our season which has merit as he was in sensational form but rarely do people mention the fact that Van Persie only made 15 appearances in the league that season due to injury, and scored 7 goals! If those 2 had stayed fit, along with a brilliant Adebayor the sky was the limit 😔
Exactly, can't stand people that says "RVP only had 1 good season". Duh, cos he was always injured! Whenever he was fit, man scored goals. Look how awesome he was when he stayed fit for along period of time.
@@ashleythomas4112 Yeah rvp has one of the best g+a per game ratios in epl history (fewer games than most near the top but still crazy good)
Very very true RVP was sensational that season
Mixture of happiness because of style of football we played and sadness that we were so close to winning the title.
Bittersweet
4 points if we beat Portsmouth and BRUM WE WOULD HAVE DONR
With William Gallas as captain was never going to happen. He should never have been captain or signed by Wenger.
Also with Almunia in goal we was never going to win the league.
Hleb, Eduardo, Rosicky, ADEBAYOR, LORD Bendtner, Cesc, Diaby.
They weren’t special to the world…But they will forever be in THE Arsenal history books.
Wengerball is why I fell in love with this club. Arteta is bringing it back!
( 07/08 season ) In my lifetime this is the best Arsenal team I’ve ever watched. I enjoyed watching this amazing group of players perform at these high standards. Most beautiful and satisfying football we’ve had in a long time . Damn, do miss these days. Cesc Fabregas, Alexander Hleb, Van Perise, Adebayor, Thomas Rosicky, Flamini, Kolo Toure, Bacar Sagna, Theo Walcott, Arshavin, William Gallas, Gael Clichy, Edouardo, Danilson, Diaby, Fabianski. Amazing Memeories I will always cherish 😢🤧
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It wasn't just the eduardo injury, it was also some horrible refereeing decisions that cost the team badly that season. The game that Eduardo got that injury, Birmingham also got a penalty, that was NEVER a penalty, if Arsenal won that game like they should have, it may not have affected their mentality as much. Then there was the UCL quarter final vs liverpool - where blatant penalties were not given to Arsenal, like when Kuyt pulled Hleb at 3:50. Completely dominated vs Liverpool in both matches, after beating Milan, and were so unlucky not to get to the semis. Who knows what could've happened from there.
Still, some of my fondest football memories, it was so thoroughly entertaining every single match
Spot on mate
You finished 3rd in a season where Ronaldo tevez and Rooney brutalised the league and won the European cup / prem double.
Pretty in failure sums it up
@@alansouthall8221 "brutalized the league" yet only won by 2 points, and only 4 points above 3rd. Managed to scrape a UCL coz Terry slipped. Great side of course, but nowhere near as dominant that season as people these days like to think they were.
@@Moosterton i mean you lament them for only just winning the league, and only just winning the CL, yet you came 3rd and didnt make the semi's.
as a neutral your side of 07/08 and all around that era is not seen as some great side who were unlucky - ala holland in the 70's - you are seen as a flawed, pretty to look at, but mentally weak team who came up short against an iconic united side that managed to get over the line when it mattered.
@@alansouthall8221 Im not lamenting that United side lol, just putitng things in context. Yeah, I agree there was mental weakness that cost them, there were a ton of young players, and some real dropkicks like Gallas and Bendtner. That being said, you're underplaying how good that side was. Just because they're not regarded super highly these days, doesn't mean they weren't unlucky or underrated.
They were objectively pretty fuckin unlucky vs liverpool in the ucl. Bad refereeing calls change results. It's not like there are 1000 games in a season, where it's all likely to even out, sometimes teams get unlucky af. In at least one of the games vs United in the league, you could argue that they deserved to win given the chances created, tho u could argue that they should've been stronger and finished the chance. - Then of course there was that game vs Birmingham with the horrid penalty decision, and the Eduardo injury which shattered the team's momentum (tho calling Eduardo's injury unlucky is being kind, teams back then set out to kick the shit out of Arsenal, it was only a matter of time, as seen when the same thing happened to Ramsey and Diaby in the next 2 years).
The following seasons, I'd agree, luck wasn't a major factor. But that 07/08 team, I will maintain was a great side, the best Arsenal team following the invincibles (were more fun to watch tbh), and were unlucky not to win something.
People dont understand how much I miss Wenger, he was just so different and creative
He died after 2006
@@KimzYt1 lol with another we would surely fall down. After 2006 he had to deal with the lack of money by developping young players and he did that successfully. The problem is when the club regained its financial stability they didn't support him as the team was playing well, attracting people and going to Champions League every year.
The club started to die in 2007. Wenger slowed the process
You don't get how frustrating it is for me to see people, even still after what we've seen during the last 2 years, still blaming Wenger for whatever the hell the club is going through. He had one or two bad seasons at the end, and I'd easily argue it was probably due to the fans being so toxic towards him, but ge still managed to keep us afloat without any financial help almost, at the highest level, playing quality football year in year out, and actually competing. Now anyone would give anything to go back to this, yet still spit on Wenger's name while doing so. It's actually disgusting for me how he has been treated.
@@Ibrahimhr10 people are so ungrateful Wenger was still the best to ever done it
Minus Henry, Pires, Berkamp and Viera, Arsenal were still top notch, Adebayor, Cesc, Eduardo, Van Persie and the rest, they were also a special bunch, really missed all of them!
Henry made me pick Arsenal but Fabregas and this team made me fall in love with what football could be. The heartache at the end of that season made me forever connected to the club. I hope we can finally end the heartache at the end of May.
Helb, Flamini, Rosciky, then CESC at the heart of everything. We may never see that game again
Hleb for me made arsenal thick.
The real Arsenal ended the moment Fabregas left. It just hurts to watch the football that my favorite team is playing at the moment. Dude, why did you make me cry again?
The real arsenal ended when they left Highbury. The fact that we never won the league or a European honour in the Emirates era is shocking.
@@paulypaul111 Yet, we're still in the emirates yannknow
Agreed, Arsenal was never the same after 10/11, i never really had hope after that.
Always felt with Cesc we could compete against anyone.
What happened to the most beautiful club in the world....tears and memories..thank you Wenger...and David dein
Those passes from Fabregas made me fell in love with Arsenal.
This was Arsenal. Full of technical magicians
2007/08 was peak Wenger-ball! Arsenal went undefeated at home the whole season. On top of the league until March, but finished 4 points away from being champions.
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Just shows how good Manchester United were at the time 🤪
Since fergy united have been so shite
@ iGooner Truth, was that when Eduardo got injured and our season fell apart?
@@initman01 Yes, it was that season.
pep destroy football
Imagine the names on the sheet compared to today yet wenger turned then into world class sometimes. Whenever we were in attack you just felt like we could score at any point. I miss these times
Arsene was a true footballing genius and a gunner at heart, any other manager would've left for glory but he stayed on. A true club legend!
Rosisky, Eduardo and Fabregaas made me fall in love with Arsenal, at his peak Fabi was better than Bruno, Debruyne and Silva combined. Wrra a player
Bruno he is just penalty master cesc , de bruyne are on different level
Word! He is almost my favourite midfielder of all times!
Okay I loved Fabregas so much at that point but better than DeBruyne and Silva combined? Think that's a tad too much there 😉
@casuals clobber All these 'cause some random individual has a different football opinion from yours -- "opinions are like armpits, everyone has them and many of them stink".
@casuals clobber Meh.
Eduardo 💔💔💔😭😭😭, we Arsenal fans will never forget.
Back when premier league was top heavy, now there's so many more competitive teams. I feel it though this coming season with all the new signings and Gabriel Jesus leading the line we can have a special season COYG!
Look at all of that movements our players did back then, with or without the ball when we attacking. Now everything is so static. This is down to manager instruction and training.
Eduardo And Diaby were pure class , first rate players , damn those injuries that held them back and ruined their careers , shame
You mean the opposition cloggers that ruined both their careers? Dan Smith was doing customer services in a call centre a few years later, and Martin Taylor was a donkey!. Absolute shitebags!
Watching this video brought tears to my eyes, what a period we lived there
Will never forget those players 😭😭
"Eduardo in again"
"He doesn't miss does he?"
Feel like shit, just want my Arsenal back... 😢 😭
Ah, the good ol’ days when Arsenal were known to take the ball all the way to the kitchen😌
now we can’t even get inside the house
This made me tear up. We were electric. Wenger was a magician. How I miss the Arsenal of old.
Eduardo, Diaby, Rosicky if only they are not injury prone Arsenal will win the league
Diaby would have been a monster if not injuries, he had EVERYTHING required for modern football!
We were five points ahead of second placed Manchester United coming into the last EPL match in the month of February - the match that Eduardo suffered that horrific injury - but at at the end of the day Man U carried the day. It still hurts me to date to remember how the title slipped away that season. If only we could keep fit at least two of those players the entire season.
i remember this season. it was a dream watching Arsenal until Eduardo gets the horrible injury. What a pity. Still beautiful Arsenal.
Good old days. This was the Arsenal I fell in love with and supported.
Adebayor at his peak, van Persie, a young Bendtner and Eduardo up front, behind them Cesc, Rosicky, Hleb, Diaby. Toure, Sagna, Clichy at the back, how on earth haven‘t we won anything back then ? 😭
Injuries always destroying our dreams about trophies
Injuries literately removed some history from our club. So much heartbreak for an Arsenal fan. Now we don’t even resemble what used to be beautiful Arsenal play style. I hope we can find ourselves again.
Rooney Ronaldo and tevez
Because Dirty money entered the league.
easy. no steel in midfield.
typical arsene team from 2006 on
Takes me back to the days I used to play FIFA 07/ FIFA 08 manager mode with Arsenal on my Playstation 2.
And had to save my progress on a 8MB memory card 😁
You just described my childhood during the late 2000s 😅
Arsene is Arsenal. The fact he hasn’t managed another side just buttresses this. Love him.
Cesc, Hleb and Rosicky combination was pure silk.
Low key Eboue had his moments.
Van Persie and Adebayor could have been legends but it is what it is.
Adebayor on his day was a player and a half. Some great play that season from arsenal
That was my Arsenal. I miss it so much. Fabregas, Rosicky, Diaby, Eduardo,Sagna etc.😢
Still believe Arsenal sincerely deserved to win the league that season. It was constant slow decline from that point. Eduardo’s injury was not just a season changing, it was a landmark of an era to come
I have been looking for this comment...
Bendtner (when he was good), Theo, Song, Adebayor, Nasri, Hleb, Sagna, Eboue, Clichy, Toure, Fabregas, Robin, Eduardo, Diaby, Rosicky, Flamini... honestly, what a team. Absolute genius from Wenger and we didn’t even realise it. A team like this is special and had they stayed together and grew who knows what they would’ve achieved. On top of the injuries to Diaby, Robin, Rosicky, Theo, Eduardo...
Incredibly upsetting to think how underrated this team actually was and still is.
Tears in my eyes! We really miss this real Arsenal.
arsenal's biggest strength 07/08 was the movement without the ball. Every time we tried to go forward, the players would have 2-3 passing options thanks to teammates making runs into spaces. It was fluidity in motion, and brilliant to watch.
I'd love to see someone make a video of that some day. Not just for the goals but even when we didn't score the play was beautiful to watch. 07/08 is still the best Arsenal team for me since the invincibles.
Arsenal nowadays is painful to watch.. slow passing, no movement off the ball.. cross into the box for no one, lots of passing between defender and launch a longball for attacking players.. lots of hope for arteta but let be honest, he will be sack after next 1 or 2 season
Seeing Eduardo here just breaks my heart what a player he was and could’ve gone on to be he was robbed of a brilliant career with us 😢
Everyone rightly talks about the invincibles but the Cesc-led era was beautiful. Wenger-ball was just exquisite.
Hleb was one of the most underrated players to ever play for us. He was the one who connected all the dot with our flow play back in that era, but because he was quiet he just goes under the raider.
Such an elegant baller. He was top drawer technically. His balance, close control, vision, disguise, feints and swift drops of the shoulder that he would do when he was dribbling were great to watch. His timing and weight of pass as well were excellent and he was brilliant at creating space for teammates to run into by drawing opposition players towards him when he was in possession of the ball. He's on the record publicly as well saying that the worst thing he ever did was leaving Arsenal and going to Barcelona or something to that effect. He doesn't get talked about enough by fans when talking about this period. Most fans from other clubs probably don't even remember him. Very underrated and underappreciated.
This pain will stick in my life forever. How we didn't win that season. Probably in one parallel universe, I will be born again and see arsenal see winning the league that season. This hurts me so much
Don't worry we'll rise again one day
Chelsea and United were better than us. It’s the season that Leicester City won that hurts.
Not even in your worst days I doubted your love I will never abandon you and I will stop supporting you ... Nothing explains how much I love you Arsenal even though it is my point of stress and sometimes frustrations the feeling will never die inside me ... ⚪🔴🔴🔴⚪
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this was really the year given as a gift for those who lost their soul for football....and ARSENE and ARSENAL are the creature of beautiful football. # gunner forever
My heart bleeds everytime I see Eduardo da Silva, how good he was before his horrific injury. Even Adebayor was a good striker before he became the clown of the football world. Good old times. Too bad these seasons ended up with empty hands....Especially this one. We bottled the league after Eduardo's injury.....
Will never forget the beauty of this season and the pain in how it ended!
This was also the season when opposition's would kick and break us while the referees would just wave play on.
I was in the Law School. Away from watching football as much as possible to avoid affecting my studies. Only always checking out highlights. But boy! Arsenal was imperious through out that season - three world class strikers - Eduardo, Adebayor and RVP, with the support cast of Fabregas, Diaby and Flamini in the midfield, Rosicky, Hleb and Nasri in advance position behind the forwards. And then Eboue, Walcott, Bendtner, Toure, Clchy and of course Almunia in the team. So glorious!
As an Arsenal fan in 2021 this is very depressing to watch and remember how good we used to be😢
07/08. Best yet unluckiest season after invicibles era. Always confident when we played, even in away matches. Playing football like futsal. Short passes much of movements!! Midfield were solid with hleb cesc flamini rosicky. Its all went down after eduardo's injury. And oh yes, ryan babel DID A DIVE at anfield, comparing Hleb clear pen from prev leg at emirates. Ppfttttt
A forward selection of Adebayor, RVP, Eduardo, Walcott and Bendtner - how on earth did we not win the league that year?
Only RVP and Eduardo were quality. The other 3 were not, that's why they didn't win the league
Adebayor, RVP, and Eduardo were killing it until the incident knocked Eduardo out and RVP had his usual injuries. Birmingham changed everything. There was a palpable foreboding sense after that match that something wasn't right. Still they kept it close to the end.
@@dannraihan5671 Man that some serious disrespect to Adebayor guy scored 24 league goals that season.
With this understanding and telepathic passing system any body can score in the Arsenal side. Lavish extra ordinary passing skill.
Win or lose we were always entertained. We also appreciated the team play/togetherness and the skills on display Everytime #WearetheArenal
Diaby, probably the most gifted player I ever watched. Injury robbed his career
My favourite Diaby moment was when he kick John Terry in the head in the league cup final.
He was so good that during a game against Liverpool at Anfield Wayne Rooney tweeted during the game " Diaby, what a player I wonder why he doesn't play more" I can't recall Rooney ever tweeting about a rival player like that
I remember this season like it was yesterday, we were doing incredible things at the same time Ronaldo and Man U were finding form, I believed our team was strong enough to win the league but that Birmingham match came, Eduardo got injured, Clichy fumbled and Gallas cried lool, we were never the same again after that.
and why....arsene couldn't teach them how important proper defensive play is and allways will be.
Perfect summary of Arsenal in the last few years
The 2007-08 season was just magical to watch...Fabregas at the helm of the tiki taka art. ❤❤❤
In every move arsenal made, The master passer Fabregas was involved. That guy was phenomenal...he is with no doubt the best CM Arsenal has ever had. I truly miss his skillful art of passing and flicks....TRUE MASTERCLASS. I WISH TO MEET HIM ONE DAY
I'm cry watching this video. Really miss this Arsenal !! Tks for making this video.
Beautiful video! I miss old Arsenal play style of beautiful runs and unselfish one-touch passing. I wish Cesc Fabregas had never left Arsenal! 😢
This was e year I was born and I wish I saw this. That team deserved to win the premier league
Every damn league...
You were born in 2008 and you have a phone and a CZcams account? I need to speak to your parents sir
@@MSami-fe6uj I’m 12 and I have the I phone SE and In a month I will turn 13
@@MSami-fe6uj cringe
Tears in my eyes😔. I loved the clip, good job on the music.
Dear Video editor, thank you for the good memories.
Eduardo before the leg break was seriously something else.
Thank you for creating this beautiful video ❤️. I'm so glad it popped up as a recommendation!
Lovely song and video bring my memory back. Nostalgic!
Deserved the title that season man, fools now will look at Wenger's last two seasons and diss him. Totally unfair ugh