Aaron Ramsey is good enough to fill the huge midfield gap at Arsenal left by the departures of
Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.
That's the caoim in this morning's Mirror from Swansea defender and Wales team-mate Neil Taylor,
22, ahead of our Premier League home game against the top flight new boys.
Arsenal has endured a rough start to the new Premier League season, but a busy transfer deadline
day helped Arsene Wenger restock his roster, with the hope being the Gunners could re-load enough
to stay a top four teams.
We will get our first chance to see whether the new Arsenal additions can help the Gunners get
over the loss of Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas when they take on Swansea City today (10am, Fox
Soccer Channel).
BY JONATHAN VERA
CARSON, Calif.--D.C. United received a very encouraging sign from striker Charlie Davies that he
was ready to take on a bigger role as the club hits the playoff stretch drive, but also faced the
devastating news that they lost one of their best performers of the 2011 season.
Apparently Office Joe is some sort of soothsayer as he predicted D.C. United would win (although he
had the score wrong) and he somehow new that United forward Charlie Davies would return to his
early season goal scoring form, predicting Davies would have a "break out game".
The hat-trick from Davies and the much needed 3 points where obvious positives from Saturday night
in L.
When it comes to accolades, goal scorers are usually the player who walk away with most of the
awards and notoriety, but this week one player stood out above the rest despite not scoring a goal
himself.
D.C. United midfielder Chris Pontius has been one of the biggest bright spots for D.
Today, at 5:00 PM EST each MLS team's roster will be officially locked. That means no trading
with other MLS teams, no signing free agents. Nothing. The squad club's have after this evening
will be the ones they take to the play-offs (if they make it). It's actually kind of interesting
that we haven't seen more movements.
American midfielder Stuart Holden will make his official return from a broken leg on Tuesday, as
he has been selected to start for Bolton in their Carling Cup clash against Aston Villa.
Holden has been sidelined for six months since suffering a broken leg on a studs-up challenge
from Manchester United defender Johnny Evans.
