Wenger: Henry better player from Captaining

[KevTheGooner]

I felt this way all last year about Titi:

Wenger: "Before he looked up and just thought 'OK, Bergkamp has the ball I'll go'. Now he has to think about the whole global part of the game. It has forced him into more maturity."

Wenger reckons the captaincy has worked well for Henry (http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=News&article=419111&lid=NewsHeadline&Title=Captaincy+has+matured+Henry,+says+Wenger)

The Henry-Bergkamp partnership was unrivaled at the time. Losing Dennis to time and age left Henry stranded. Now he seems to understand that Wenger has put players out there with different capabilities (Van Persie's wicked left foot, Eboue's crosses, Rosicky's long shots, Adebayor's possession and short crosses, and of course Cesc's deft through balls) and that he needs to adjust his play to who has the ball at their feet.

And it works! By spreading the threat, defenses shouldn't be so quick to just clamp down on Cesc and Henry, for example, like they did last year.

[Dave_M]

I can see his point to an extent - but I've never made any great secret of the fact that I think Henry has the armband as an incentive to stay - and I don't think he is the best man for the job.

[elknco1]

another interesting quote on arsenal.com....

http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=418968&lid=NewsHeadline&Title=Wenger:+%27Van+Persie%27s+strike+was+the+goal+of+a+lifetime%27

on Robin van Persie's second goal
"It was outstanding, quite unbelievable. Nobody expected that. When Eboue crossed I did not see anybody in the box so it thought, like many times, we have nobody in there. Then suddenly Van Persie arrives.

i thought this was a part of his game plan :eek: i'm surprised he hasn't done anything about it.. or at least done anything that hasn't caused players to start making runs..

[Naushad78]

I felt this way all last year about Titi:

Wenger: "Before he looked up and just thought 'OK, Bergkamp has the ball I'll go'. Now he has to think about the whole global part of the game. It has forced him into more maturity."

Wenger reckons the captaincy has worked well for Henry (http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=News&article=419111&lid=NewsHeadline&Title=Captaincy+has+matured+Henry,+says+Wenger)

The Henry-Bergkamp partnership was unrivaled at the time. Losing Dennis to time and age left Henry stranded. Now he seems to understand that Wenger has put players out there with different capabilities (Van Persie's wicked left foot, Eboue's crosses, Rosicky's long shots, Adebayor's possession and short crosses, and of course Cesc's deft through balls) and that he needs to adjust his play to who has the ball at their feet.

And it works! By spreading the threat, defenses shouldn't be so quick to just clamp down on Cesc and Henry, for example, like they did last year.

I'm with others on this. He needed the arm-band last year. The situation called for it. We needed him leading those youngsters by example. This year, there's a decent blend of youth, middle-age(LOL) and experience and I think he needs to get back into his striker mentality and leave the play-making to Cesc and transfer the arm-band to Silva.
This team will be on fire once Henry lets fly!