What must Arsenal do to beat their Bolton bogey men?

Touré is an enormous presence, an attacking midfielder - turned - defender who has pace to burn. An electric warrior, gigantic. Poor headers? Get real. He's the most consistent Arsenal performer for the last two seasons, and he doesn't deserve any stick. He marshals the defence like a true Tony Adams.

i take your smugness a little offensive considering your little old club have done nothing to justify you being mentioned in the same breath. Henry might just ram your words right down your throat when we put you out the cup, Mark my words

First of all mate type in English. Criticising Toure?? You having a laugth? Hes a rock, hence he hardly ever gets rested. What planet are you on? and too be fair to Bolton i think they get to much stick, and i believe they are capable of playing football. And an ingridient why we didnt perform was Theo not keeping his head up? Id rather read an article by Gary Mabbett, and hes a muppet. Enougth said i think.

right! i think i've found the solution...dribblers, what i noticed more bolton is that they find it hardest to catch players with the ball at their feet....our best moments came from the couple of times when theo and adebayor ran their defences and it occured to me that when they did that only faye and meite could keep but that was only on a few occassions, apart from that we tried to play our normal game, one-two's on the edge of the box in the final third which bolton have been drilled in learning how to deal with, the middlesbrough game was not a fluke, downing killed them coz their right side is the weeker side, but we hardly ever ran at their right bk (hunt) at the emirates that's why rosicky and fabragas had such a bad game against em, they love to play slide rule passes and one-two's, diaby would ran at em through the middle! theo on the left side would've run at hunt and skinned him all, eboue as a right winger would deal with gardner or any1 else they had at left back henry and adebayor dribble anyw

Beating Bolton is not rocket science. Chelsea & Man U beat them every time. In fact i saw Lpool beat them 3-0 in the new yr & it quite easily have been 6-0. I'm not saying Bolton aren't a good side, they quite clearly are. However if we match them for commitment & win the 2nd ball & sort out defending set pieces we will be ok as we have the better ball control(as long as we don't let Flamini hold on to it for too long). Now that the Spuds are out of the way i think Denillson should feature more at least until Hleb & Eboue are back. I agree that the Henry -Adebayor is hot & cold & is not the remedy for the loss of RVP. I hope we play 4-5-1 at the reebok so we are not outnumbered in midfield. Either way we need to exorcise this ghost once & for all and expose it for the myth it is!

If the key to defeating an opponent in anything is to do what your opponent doesn't want you to then Arsenal's style is the most obvious opposite to Bolton's pre-determined way. 1Get the bal in the air enough times to not allow Arsenal to get into a rhythm(which Arsenal did do in the second half as they pushed at high tempo for an equaliser), 2break the play up with freekicks-for and against- 3defend narrow and attack with width-Arsenal'swide play isn't on the same page as Man U and Chelsea play the same formation as Bolton but have much better players so both these sides beat Bolton regularly.Liverpool too don't have enough quality wide,but in their New Year's Day win they got all their goals from crosses 4 Mentally Wenger has decided he doesn't like it and that has fed its way down,similarly Benitez has that problem Allardyce is a tactical mastermind who has the mandate from a smaller club to play any way he wants as long as it wins most of the time and he plays a controlling,keep it tight game.Spurs'

I don't think it is reasonable to disparage Bolton for their tactics. Would you, if you were Bolton, play against your strength and to your opponent's? That wouldn't make any sense. I think we should understand that with Bolton's size and budget they should be applauded for their results, but not mimicked. The question for Arsenal is how to deal with it. I don't think the answer is to try and play Bolton's game - that is the same fallacy as above. I think the best tactic is to try and play our game only at an even higher tempo. Keep the ball on the ground but run Bolton ragged. Let them go to ground trying to get stuck in after the ball is gone already. Don't try to out Bolton Bolton. Don't despair lack of scoring in the first half but plan on tiring out the defense for the second half.

You must have a hell of a short memory. I don't! 1971 arsenal double team, Radford and Kennedy up front. Nobody could cope with you in the air. Result: You won the league. Back to Emirates Sunday, I was there. Where you?Who played the long ball stuff? Arsenal did. Who scored the goal after a flowing move? Bolton did. Who scored the scaggy fluke following a hopeful cross? Arsenal did. Will you please stop moaning on about how a small team with a fraction of the resources at your disposal repeatedly stuffs the boys from Islington/Holloway/Highbury. Shithole whatever.You should beat Bolton 100% of the time, but hey, you don't. I'll also tell you something else. If Big Kev Davies is fit for the replay, we'll beat you again!!! Its a pity thast the best ground in English football is reserved for you clueless t**ts.

Arsenal scorn Bolton’s tactic as Ugly Football beating Beautiful Football. They try to make us their sympathizers by saying “See how I try to entertain, but Bolton are ugly as crap”. I think Arsenal’s argument is crap. Man United play equally beautiful football and end up spanking Bolton everytime they meet. The reason why Bolton can get the better of Arsenal and not Man Utd is that the Arsenal players are too predictable. And they hardly ever take an “ugly” pot-shot at goal. Every Bolton player knows Arsenal will never play wide and cross in. And they also know Arsenal love to play pretty patters around their defence in hope to play THAT perfect ball. Man Utd do not indulge in such extravagance. They play hard, they shoot fast and they win. So long as Arsenal don't want to do that, Bolton will keep getting the measure of them.

I am a big arsenal fan for many years past and many years to come living in Namibia (africa). But I also want to add to our games always against our enemy bolton. I don't know why we use to play differently against them. Why can't we subbotage them one day 10-0. For our dream to come true i hope Henry must improve his game against them and play like he did in 2003/2004 season against Leeds. Our midfielders must also shot from far and Gilberto Silva must polish his long lange shots. In addition, i hope we are just very unfortunate when we are against them because every time , thay have to find us with four to five players sidelined. I wish we will destroy them 4-0 in this FA cup replay and in the league. Thank you

Hey you stupid Arsenal idiot. We do not play long ball and judging by your awful record against us you cant cope with us as a team. If you played us every week you would probably get relegated. It becomes all the more absurd when our goal was a wonderful passing move and yours was a lucky set piece. And don't insult us with "the likes of Bolton crap". God some fans are so stuck up their own backside it makes me sick.

it appears bolton have really done a good study of how arsenal plays, but the gunners have not done so in turn. it is high time arsenal learnt to be ruthless against them in front of goal. arsenal can not continue to complain about long ball tactics which bolton use without doing something about it. in the last 10 minutes against manchester united two weeks ago we used those long balls and it worked. it nice to play watch free flowing football but not when you are up against those who don't care about intertaining fans.

arsenal shoud look for defender like toure, becase no one to help Toure is alone if they can get same one like toure there will be no problem to arsenal any more, and Lee-man shoud not go,