Good win for us. Up North against a physical and passionate Burnley, who in truth played some very smart football with lots of forward-thinking.

They pressured us for massive spells, but the difference in class told. Eduardo was exceptional when he needed to be. Cool, classy and composed. The goal was nice and the assist was probably even better as he spotted the run and sliced open Burnley to assist Bendtner.

Eboué and Traoré were terrible and Diaby's lack of fitness told late on. Other than that we were very resilient and professional with our performance. Credit to Senderos as well who had a solid game and cleared everything that came his way.

Harley, Blake, Gray, Lafferty and Varga stood out for me and they can take a lot of pride from that performance. That with a decent atmosphere and a good paced game made for a nice FA Cup tie - miles more interesting than the tie between the two Premiership sides at Villa Park yesterday.

Is that Stan Varga by any chance?

Agree with that although I think Senderos was less than average too, Traore made him look like Cannavaro tho.

It is indeed

Thought he was solid as other Gooners elsewhere have been saying. Everything that came his way, he cleared superbly. Tracked his man well, distributed it from the back comfortably and was positionally superb. His best ability is how he can get himself in the right positions for intercepting or clearing shots/passes/crosses. He did it all day today and it was why Burnley could not really stretch Lehmann - they had one real shot at Lehmann which was just that, straight at him. Touré and Senderos were excellent as a pair.

Then I thought Traoré was disastrous. Giving the ball away in the 6yd box whilst trying to walk it out, passing it to Burnley 70% of the time and generally getting caught out constantly. It's why Hoyte replaced him.

I can only guess that you meant Touré in your post there Jono. If not, then .

No, i meant Traore, in his woefulness he made Senderos look good, nevermind lol.