Whilst most of his Arsenal team mates are enjoying holidays, Carlos Vela’s long season continues as he helps his native Mexico to try and qualify for the 2010 World Cup. He was in action again tonight, in the return leg of the CONCACAF division match against the lowly Belize.
The first game last week was a tough and physical affair, but late strikes from Carlos himself, and a Jard Borgetti penalty saw a 2-0 away victory. The Mexicans made tough work of the fixture, but eventually got the job done ahead of this evenings home clash in El Volcan, Monterrey.
Caretaker boss Jesus Ramirez switched the side again, bringing in Fernando Arce, and Cesar Villaluz. But the inform Vela kept his place as the loan striker, looking for his third goal in as many matches. There was no place in the squad for injured duo Giovani Dos Santos, or captain Rafael Marquez.
Match Report
Mexico have discovered in recent weeks the importance of a bright and offensive start to their games, and that three game trend continued this evening. Belize were setup with two solid banks of four, but Villaluz still found space to force the visiting keeper Orio into action.
Then Arce broke away from the Belize back line, and poked the ball through to a tightly marked Vela on the right hand side. He dropped his shoulder, cut inside, and drilled a pin-point left footed effort into the near corner to give Mexico a seventh minute lead. He raced over to close friend Andres Guardado and preceded to dance with the Deportivo man, as the home fans went wild.
Just after the re-start Vela was looking for more goals. He raced clear down the left, but twice saw his cross blocked and deflected away. Villaluz then played a superb drilled cross into the area, and Carlos managed to flick the effort goal bound only for Orio to parry it right back into his path again. With little space Vela improvised and saw his backheel hit the post, before being cleared away.
Mexico were rampant, and with just 14 minutes on the clock should have doubled the advantage as Guardado’s cross found Ache in the area, only for him to stumble and miss the ball. Orio then had to come crashing out of his box to stop Vela again, as Mexico went in for the kill.
Next came another fantastic chance as the home side looked to press the game once more. Salcido picked out Arce, who clipped the ball through for Villaluz in the area, only for the sprawling Orio to block the shot. Guardado smashed the re-bound into the advertising boards.
After a short spell of possession football, Mexico composed themselves for another wave of attacks to probe the delicate Belize defence. Magillon, Vela, and Arce played a neat one touch passing move, before the ball was whipped across the goal, and put behind for a corner. Arce took it short to Guardado, who tried to shoot from a tight angle, only to see his effort fly high and wide.
Carlos may only be 19, but he is undoubtedly the star of Mexican football, and with the fans chanting his name, nearly bagged a second. Pineda floated a delightful cross between the centre backs, and as Vela tried to flick the ball beyond them, ran out of space and on rushing Orio gathered.
Guardado received possession 50 yards out, and preceded to stroll forward. Beating one, then two, before cutting inside and clipping a right footed effort towards Vela, only to see his shot deflect off the centre back and wrong foot Orio, before creeping over the goal line.
2-0 on the night and 4-0 on aggregate, was more than comfortable as Mexico strolled towards half time.
Guardado was desperate to add to his account, and saw his 30 yard drive clawed out by Shane Orio. The Belize goalkeeper has continued his excellent form shown in the first leg, and had certainly stopped his side from an even heavier defeat.
With half time just minutes away, and Belize tired from the intense heat and having to chase the ball all game, Mexico and Vela brought out the party tricks. Some exciting tricks and flicks were on show, with Vela showing his technical aspects with step overs and clever backheel passes.
Although the tricks were excellent to see, they were not just used to show off or embarrass their opponents. Pineda found Vela, he layed the ball off to Villaluz, who poked a through pass for the arriving Fernando Arce to smash beyond the stranded Orio. 3-0 and game over in first half stoppage time.
Half Time – Mexico 3-0 Belize (5-0 Aggregate)
Belize began the second half with a much more determined attitude, and looked to try and rescue some pride. But as they advanced, Gonzalo Pineda dispossessed Simpson with devastating consequences. Vela rolled in Luis Perez on the right, he danced beyond the full back before picking out Fernando Arce 5 yards out, he placed the ball beyond the keeper for his second of the night.
Osioro then came on following an injury to Guardado, and then the two goal hero Arce was withdrawn in place of Mexico’s all time leading goalscorer Jared Borgetti. The old master Borgetti would join the young apprentice Vela in attack.
A naive Belize ventured forward again, and were once more caught out. Vela’s right wing cross found an unmarked Villaluz on the penalty spot, he took a touch before crashing his strike off the up right. A lucky let off, but Mexico sensed yet more goals.
Carlos had now cropped up on the left hand side, he jinked past his marker before slotting Pineda in on the edge of the box. He teed up a shot before squaring for Villaluz who was crowded out.
The fifth goal would come on 57 minutes, as the excellent Pineda strolled forward and floated a deep cross onto the head of the veteran Borgetti. He clipped his effort high over Orio in to the top corner for his 44th International strike.
More changes came with Naelson replacing Pineda, but unlike most matches, the adjustments in playing staff did not disrupt the flow of the contest. Both Osioro and Borgetti would go on to miss simple chances, before a thunderbolt shot from Vela flew high and over.
For those people who disagree with the claim “Wenger Knows”, you are simply wrong. Carlos had now cropped up on the wing, and was looking more like the player we saw towards the end of his time with Osasuna. Everybody seemed convinced left wing was his best position, but since returning to his previous striker role, the area Wenger says he will deploy him in, he looks different class.
Brilliant Borgetti would net twice in stoppage time, first slotting home Osioro’s cross in the 91st minute, before smashing a left footed solo goal in the 92nd. A truly amazing way to cap of his final appearance for Mexico.
Three goals in three games at International level is outstanding whatever the opposition, but there was the general feeling Carlos could have got more. After all we are yet to see him bag two goals in a match. But another hard working, and all together exciting display from the Arsenal man. His summer is now over, and he can finally go and relax before pre-season.
Viewers of TV Telemundo voted Vela as the second best player during the game, with Andres Guardado collecting the MOTM award.
Full Time – Mexico 7-0 Belize (9-0 Aggregate)
Goals
1-0 – Carlos Vela (7)
2-0 – Andres Guardado (33)
3-0 – Fernando Arce (45+1)
4-0 – Fernando Arce (47)
5-0 – Jared Borgetti (57)
6-0 – Jared Borgetti (90+1)
7-0 – Jarde Borgetti (90+2)
Article By – J.Sanderson
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J, do you think with his string of consistently top class performance on the international stage are indicative that he’s maybe already ready to make an impact for Arsenal come August?
He is ready mate. I mentioned towards the end of the season he looked off form, but at Mexico’s training camp he has bulked up.
He is ready, just need Wenger to give him a chance now.
Do you think the rumours about selling Ade to Barca/Milan are true? I am getting genuinely scared that they are, which I feel would be a huge blow to the progress of the squad.
I am 99% sure Emmanuel Adebayor will be playing for another club next season. If we are getting 30€ for him then frankly thats amazing business.
Every player has there price, and if we can stupid money for Adebayor, why not splash it on a better replacement.
Bendtner & Vela will be hoping they is not the case though :)
So you’re happy about the rumours? I just think the gesture of our top goalscorer, who’s repeatedly come out to say he’ll be staying with Arsenal for many years and wants to win things here and improve under Wenger, will be a huge blow to our morale and solidarity. Plus, I know Ade’s not world class yet, but, like I’ve said before, I don’t think anyone else can offer us what he does. Say what you will about Ade, but he’s a warrior, and our team needs those. Even if we do sign Villa or Eto’o, it will be a step backwards for a while. Please tell me I’m wrong!
99% sure. Who the hell could come in then? I would want Ade to play one more season before he moves on. The team knows each other very well, it will take some time for new guys to get the chemistry right.If he does go, i hope etoo’o and Roque Santa Cruz are NOT the players coming in. Adebayor should talk a chill pill and stay.
Im not happy with the way its come out. All over the press is a dirty way of doing things.
I have always liked Adebayor, but i think he needs somebody alongside him a big name. He is a worker and the occasional scorer,i dont like the idea of him being number one striker.
Adebayor has done little to stop the speculation with his recent comment, so he has no intention of staying here.
Nope, ur right Trevor B, he’s a warrior like no other. Bendtner is lazy IMO and will not offer the same workrate as Adebayor. I hope this rumpour is wrong guys, I really do.
Occasional scorer? The guy scored 30 goals last season JS. It was his first season leading the line. After a season like that though, he must want a serious pay raise. Have u heard anything as to who might come in JS?
In regards to a replacement.. Wenger will have somebody in mind, look at the Eduardo deal..
He came out about a week ago to rubbish the rumours and say that he’s going to stay here for many years…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/arsenal/article4083286.ece
Although you can never trust a player’s words, he did seem pretty genuine about it.
Derrick he scored 30 goals yes, but he should have had 40-50 with the chances he had. Even Wenger admitted he didnt think he would get that many.
Look at how good him and Henry together was, Adebayor would make chances and occasionally score them and it was incredible. Adebayor as a loan striker and our mains scource of goals is scary because when he is 1-1 i and many gooners just dont have alot of confidence in him.
But 30 goals is great, and i think he can get better and better, but clearly he does not want to stay here and develop
trevor he told the media yesterday he would be open to a move to Barcelona, if he wanted to stop the speculation he would say no i want to say.
He did not say that, he is enjoying this speculation
Maybe he’s just hoping for the pay raise that he probably deserves.
On an unrelated note, why are all Arsenal players incomplete?
RVP is a cobra in front of goal, but moves just as quickly and doesnt even understand that it is a team game.
Cesc with his lack of physique to defend, and lack of pace to attack is another serious disjointed piece in the puzzle. He was running around like a lost puppy for Spain, contributing little in attack and defence.
Similarly, Adebayor has tremendous workrate and good technqiue, but doesnt have the basic strikers instincts.
To get this lot to almost win the league is some achievment from Wenger.
Sometimes I just feel
Podolski>RVP
Kaka>Cesc
Drogba>Adebayor
because although the Arsenal players have more potential, they just arent as well balanced ‘proper footballers’.
Most of all im f**ked off that every single summer we seem to lose a key player to Barcelona or another club.
Wish we could grow the team instead of having to replace players all the time,
Exactly! I feel like we aren’t treated as respectfully as some other clubs, and our players are constantly being wanked over overtly and disrespectfully by the directors of other top clubs, mainly Barca and Real Madrid.
Somehow, bar our truest gooners (Clichy, Fabregas, Toure) our players aren’t convinced by Wenger, or our club’s future, or the wages we offer to stay. Wenger is a manager who meticulously builds a squad, and the yearly departure of some of our most important players sets us back another year or two every time.
totally agree Trevor, it seems its one rule for one and another for Arsenal.
Premiership may be the best League in the world, but it seems Spain is where the money is.
Another worrying thing regarding Wenger and replacements is that he’s always quicker to promote a youngster from within that to spend on a known quantity. For instance, he rubbished buying a striker this summer, not because he didn’t feel like it would improve our chances of winning the title, but because it would hamper the development of Theo and Bendtner. For christ’s sake, we are a top football club, not an academy or a feeder club. Whenever one of our players starts to come into his own and showing the world his class, he’d rather play somewhere else (Flamini, Hleb, Adebayor, Anelka, etc)! I’m sorry if I’m being a doommonger, but I’m totally bummed about these Adebayor rumours, and I really hope Wenger grows some balls and protects our players, and that our players exhibit a modicum of loyalty for once.
Not Spain, just at Barca and Real? No matter what happens with the sqaud, next season is a VERY important one for us. It can’t be another building year, if we don’t win a MAJOR trophy, then I don’t see us holding on to our starboy Fabregas. The guy is a winner. We have to start winning!
Sevilla and Atletico Madrid are rich clubs too, Atletico can command top wages.
Other that that i agree
Wenger wouldnt sell Adebayor if he didnt think it was the right time – Just like with Henry, Viera etc. He probly already has a replacement in mind – Probly one of Podolski, Villa or Santa Cruz.
Adebayor has been great this season, we would have struggled without him but a fit Robin van Persie could go a huge way to filling his place in the team.
It also pisses me off that every year we loose a key player, we are not a feeder club and Barca must get that in their heads.
Wenger has a master plan, getting youngsters together, building the team and if a few years we’ll be unstoppable. And these ungreatful bastards (hleb, flamini, ade) go and wrech it. Look where theyd be hadnt wenger brought them to Arsenal.
It pisses me off so much and i hope Barcelona realise all Adebayor faults after wasting 23million on him.
I generally agree Matt, but how could it possibly be the “right time” to sell Adebayor? He just turned 24 for god’s sake, he had his break out season, he’s not nearly peaked yet, and he just scored 30 goals for us!
Podolski is a tournament player. He was very average in the bundisliga last year. Santa cruz had a good season , but one good season does nat a successful career make. he is a little over average at best.He reminds me of Gilardino, good in smaller teams but shows his inefficiency in big ones. Why do u think he got sold by Bayern Munich?
Hey mate, these match reports are great but do you think when you do them in future you could perhaps put Vela’s name in bold type in the match reports as well as the word goal when he scores a goal? It’d just help a bit if someone’s in a hurry and just wants to skim read about Vela’s play in the match. Just a suggestion.
Cheers.
great report mate.. i’m really impressed you get the time to do this stuff in spite of the euros and whatever your real job is. respect!
Ade will go, almost no doubt in my mind now. But I am not worried at all. I expect Wenger to have a replacement already lined up. If that will be Villa or some unknown player from the Czech league, I have no idea. Maybe he just promotes Barazite and we will be fine. Either way, I know Wenger will do what he thinks is the best for the club, in the short as well as long term. I think that Dudu, RvP and Bendtner can well take care of the striking roles together with Vela, Walcott and Barazite as back-ups.
When Ade leaves, it will still be more important to get a GK, CB and DM then to find a replacement for the Togolese. Another good thing about him going away is one less player we miss during the AFC.
Let’s say… If Ade leave… And no replacement has been brought into the team. Can anyone replace Ade? Bendtner? And is Barazite good enough for the first team? I admire Adebayor’s 30 goals and workrate last season,but the number of chances he wasted was serious issue, his frequent inconsistency made Arsenal played like without a striker sometimes.If he could correct his weakness… He could be a world class…
AusGunner – sure.. thats a great idea i will implement it in the future.
PD- cheers mate glad you enjoy them :)
We need a goal poacher with serial killer instinct… We didnt see much of Eduardo as his injury brought his season to an early end.Maybe Dudu possesses the Instinct. And yet our no.9 was left unsolved.Wish Dudu could exorcise the no.9 next season.
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I am very proud of vela- everytime I read about him on this site he just scored a goal for his national team- I know this is a bold statement but I think he is the future of arsenal and wenger is going to use vela as his foundation for a future championship- he just turned 19 in march. This is a boy with serious talent. Wenger has a great eye for talent.
ade wil be there next season, unless arsene is the one who want him to move. if ade is that bad the why do the so called big teams want him instead of santa cruz, villa and others. he performs in big matches but might have failed sometimes in small matches. he is a winner. if we sell him, he is definitely going to be a world star make no mistake about that.
The club dont stop saying were sound financially so why sell our best players? Ffs we show ambition to fab and the other players staying here and buy a high performer like villa who wants coming here and fab too and not santa cruz first of all hes extremely injury prone and was a second fiddle player at munchen do we need that kind of players. im sad if ade leave i have togolese roots. :s lol
Wenger keeps building a team for the whole season and then selling them off for a handsome profit in the off season…To be honest, i am very doubtful if we will be WINNING trophies rather than just CHALLENGING for trophies… Every season we can see our maturing and developing players move to other clubs… to be honest, i am pissed off
See the goals there :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3im-i9SW-Y
We hope to see the same Carlos scoring with Arsenal shirt!
Trevor, what i mean is that Wenger wont sell Adebayor just for the money, there must be another reason. Either he doesnt think he will be able to replicate his form from this season, either he wont improve much, eithere he thinks hes replaceable or whaqtever it might be. Wenger sees him in action every day – hes knows alot more than we do about Adebayor.
I’ll be the first one to admit i called for Ade to be sold or dropped earlier in the season. Hes frightenly inconsistent, he’ll go 9 games without scoring, not creating a single chance but then suddenly he’ll score 10 games in a row. He could easily have got 50 goals this season but he wastes so many opportunuties and his control is awful. He had such great service this season and thats why he managed to score so many goals… he has a lot to improve on before we can call him world-class.
As for Vela, hes a prime example of how a player becomes better when playing alongside better players
Podolski better than RVP? That’s just laughable, he’s been nonexistent in the Bundesliga for two seasons. A good tournament or two does not a brilliant player make.
Hey, Great post once again :)
If were still on the subject of adebayor, im aware he could be replaced, with someone better, but the thing i will miss about him is his character! He’s always smiling, making jokes, its great, and im guessing it helps with team morale. But, saying that, someone like Roque Santa Cruz, IMO would need less chances then Ade.
I hope Arsene wenger knows what he’s doing, or il be anxious at the start of the next season lol!
Any news on Nasri btw?
Highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3im-i9SW-Y
Carlos Vela scores on 0:30 – good goal
2:29 – shows great pace
2:36 – he puts a defence-splitting pass into the box
Vela kept his place as the loan striker
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It’s “lone” J. :) Ok, i’ll go back to reading it.
J. you’re saying that he’s enjoying the speculation but he’s already come out three times in the last month and said he’s staying, what more can you want? He hasn’t come out and said he wants to leave like Ronaldo has with Man U so how can you blame him?
Personally I think that Adebayor’s a good player but he can be replaced and I don’t think anyone can confidently say he’ll score 30 goals again next year (although he could). However his replacement has to be able to fit right in, it can’t be another 20 year old because we’ve got Bendtner, Vela and Theo (as well as Barazite) for that.
Matt said this on June 22, 2008 at 8:01 am
I pretty much agree with this. But it’s the principle of the thing. AW sent a message last week saying he was not, under any circumstances, going to be sold and Ade said he wanted to stay. So clubs ignored it and carried on pursuing him. It makes me feel sorry for Utd with Ronaldo, it’s that ridiculous. But if AW comes out and spends the money on much needed areas, you know ’em, if he thinks Ade can’t improve from being a linesman’s most wanted, and if he can get this in a bidding war that sells him for more than Torres (hell, 30m+ would be OK), then it would put a smile on my face.
I just wished he’d stay until next season when Bendtner and Vela are ready, when EDS is fit etc. We only need a striker for a year, that’s why I hate the idea of us going and buying a replacement. Most of the names banded around just don’t feel right. So you know who I think i’ll be good and is on the market? He offers Ade’s qualities but better and he’s old enough just to stay till Nik and Carlos are ready: DIDIER DROGBA.
Oh, and we seem to have an agreement with Chelsea to buy one of their players every summer, so let’s add fuel to this fire. He may be a cunt, but other than that, this must happen.
Allow Drogba, let’s get Essien and Kakuta from their reserves
man just change the background colour Im going blind reading this blog. Anyone else has this problem. Maybe is my monitor?
Hey J, Any news on the Nasri saga?
J what do you think about David Villa comeing to Arsenal. If not what about Arshavin and Diogo
Is nasri signed?
hows it going .Is it not time that Arsenal dont sell anyone anymore its getting embarassing now aint it?
Since the move to the Emirates the money has gone for great signings like before and to an agree we would pay top money for players wages.?
Its time for help I think as much has I hate It but I here that Stan man? may be getting involved, this needs sorting urgent now before we lose any more top talent and become the mighty Arsenal of before winning everything nobody leaving???
Adebayor and nasri has hijacked the discussion. Any video highlights for the Mexico game?
All you people saying we’re Barcelona’s feeder club need to remember one thing. All the players we’ve sold to Barcelona have not produced consistently for them for one reason or another. Henry, Petit, Overmars, Silvinho, Gio… we seem to be able to mug them every year. In my opinion, Barcelona wish they were Arsenal and that’s why they keep coming back.
I am not worried if Adebayor goes. It’s not Adebayor that made all the opportunities. Look at the number of tap-ins he got from Walcott. Any chance where he would have to do something special or bring out a top finish, he would miss almost 100% of the time.
We’re better off with the money. We all know that for Arsene to entertain selling him, he already has a better replacement in mind and is probably negotiating the deal right now.
WengerBall: It’s not what happens after they leave the club that matters. Whiloe they are Arsenal players we are treated with such terrible disrepect (“oh? you play for THEM? come to barca where you won’t need cold showers to get by”) that it’s just disgusting. Over the past 10 years we have done enough to prove ourselves as 1 of the 10 biggest clubs in the world and we should be treated as such. So when Ade says he wants to stay and AW says he won’t sell him, it such be treated with respect or we should refuse to deal with them.
GunnerRashidinho – cheers
Not one player has gone to Barcelona and performed better than they did for us, Wenger knows when to sell.
Vela is lookin good ah?
Wish him well Next season, RVP.no injuries. Walcott i think will be more up front this year,Bendtner has had time its now time for him to shine.Eduardo is our key next year if he comes back 100% which i hope and pray for will do our damage by xmas he will be on fire and fully fit by then (fingers crossed).If Ade stays Eduardo will be hes man up front!!
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Samuel I think Ade is gone for sho. he’s not as composed as other strikers ( Eto’o Ben Afra Benzema Van Persie Walcott and Henry when he was at Arsenal). Ade is like Van Nilsterooy take the ball and shoot thats all. If we were to get a striker like eto’o we would finish much better and as a result when a team scores against us we are still ahead. eg. Liverpool Champs League.
Vela will fit in very well compared to Rosicky. We will sign Arshavin because we need depth, when eduardo got injured and Ade wasn’t in form Arsenal started to fall down and Bendtner was called in and he wasn’t ready for first team football yet. so we need depth in A world class squad, any one with me?
I agree Walcott will play centrally except Ade won’t stay
adebayor is in togo. before he left he made the point of issuing two seperate statements on arsenal.com saying that rumours linking him with a move were rubbish. i cant see him going to be honest
Oliver Nicholas, Chuks Aneke, Jason Banton and Luke Freeman are all in the England u17s squad for The Nodic Tournament!
I’ve made my views on Adebayor clear in this article:
http://blog.internetgooner.co.uk/#post6
Im fairly confident Ade will stay to be honest.I think that only if Arsene believes the time is right for Ade to go then a new deal will be on the table for him.In terms of holding the ball up and his link up play with his back to goal and work rate he 100% irreplacable in my opinion.he will only improve a great deal and havin seen the improvement he has made since joining from Monaco he gonna of a top top quality very soon.
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ade is not going any where , dude is in africa , only God knows if he is fully aware of all the speculation. he has said many times , and in an interview with bbc africa that he will b with arsenal next season , how many times does some1 have 2 repeat himself
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