Despite being 21 years old, a striker, and almost 1,000 miles from two of the incidents, Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner is clearly to blame for preventing Roma and Manchester United's three scores during this Wednesday's Champions League match, accordingly to many Arsenal fans. This continues a spree of disappointments for the young danish attacker, though none are as embarrassing as allowing the reigning Kings of Europe to advance past Inter Milan into the semifinals.
The first incident happened when Nemanja Vidic managed to leap onto a Ryan Giggs corner and bury it in the back of the net. ESPN broadcaster Tommy Smith's take on the incident was clear. "It was like he (Bendtner) wasn't even on the pitch. You can't give a player like Vidic that much space in the box. It's true, he's not ready to play defense at this level. For any team."
Vidic scores. Where is Bendtner?
Moments later, and half a continent away, disaster struck again for the striker as he failed to defend after the ball managed to gently roll through the box past various Arsenal central midfielders, right backs and two veteran center-backs on its way to Roma's Juan, who clearly should have been marked. An eyewitness who went only by the name of William G. recalls the event. "We were arguing about whether to come out of the locker room late this time, but we had our eyes on Nicklas as well when it happened. Kolo and I both know very much about defense from our years in football, so you can believe me when I tell you that when that ball went between our legs, Nicklas was not properly marking our, I mean his man."
The third incident appears to have been a result of "failing to track back" when Manchester ace Cristiano Ronaldo headed in Rooney cross to put victory out of reach for Jose Mourinho's side. Camera footage shows the Bendtner was an astonishing 1,609,238 meters away from the Portuguese winger, which some pundits have described as "sloopy".
This image, taken by composite satellites, clearly shows Ronaldo (#7) in the top left corner and the out of position Bentder (#26) in the bottom right.
Strangely though, a few Arsenal fans, despite claiming he has no work ethic and shouldn't be on their squad, seem to have given Bendtner a rare pass on this one. "That one's not his fault. That Ronaldo is just too good." To make matters worst, Bendtner, a striker, even failed to find the net in either game when he wasn't playing defense. Many frustrated fans point to absence of infallible hero Robin Van Persie who, according to many, "wasn't in the game at all."
Seriously, if you don't get this joke, then you probably are one of the "arseholes" who blames everything on Bendtner and apparently forgot all the fantastic things the Great Dane has done for us by the tender age of twenty one. (Tottenham, Liverpool, Dynamo Kiev and seventeen other goals which you leapt up and cheered for, in case you actually did forget) And don't tell me to read the blogs. I write the blogs!
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