Hello all, I was browsing through the web today and  came across two Youtube videos of our featured player Nicklas Bendtner. The first video shows clips of Nicklas goals from last season, and various other skills. The second shows moments of highs and lows of Bendtner’s season. Check out the videos here . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95Z-j9q428

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiDOe3nUqA

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As many Nicklas Bendtner fans saw earlier on in the season. Nicklas was pictured leaving a nightclub late at night with his jeans down. Many Arsenal and football fans got the wrong perspective of Nicklas and started to get the wrong ideas, he has spoken about the incident since.

Bendtner went on to say . . .

I am sorry that people have the wrong impression of me,  he told BT.That photo did not represent the reality. I was just caught in a trap set by the photographers.

The trap worked very well.

Of course I don’t run around with my trousers down – why would I do that?

There was just one who pulled my pants down as I stepped out into the street, and then there were 10 to 15 photographers just standing there waiting to take the picture, as if they were awaiting the situation.

There was clearly something agreed beforehand.

Generally speaking, I don’t mind too much if the press writes lies about me, and I usually just laugh when they, for example, make fun of my pink boots or whatever, but this crossed the line.

Bendtner clearly thought they stepped out of line with this action, which they clearly did. So what are your hopes for Arsenal and Bendtner next season? … 15 goals for a 21 year old is a great ratio so he can build on that, tell me your opinions here at NB News

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Nicklas Bendtner’s Denmark go into this match top of group 1 for the qualifiers of the World Cup next year in South Africa. The Dane’s have a tough task this evening with a short trip to Sweden. Sweden lie 7 points off top spot and both teams need a win for different reasons, so it should pan out to be a exciting event. Our featured player Nicklas Bendtner is expected to start upfront in a 4-5-1 formation.

Nicklas has spoken about his season just gone, and on how he thinks next season will be a very important one for his long term career.

he said . . .

I see next season as the season when I get my big breakthrough.

That’s when I am going to score the goals that the best strikers do. That is the last step that I need to take.

Fifteen goals (for the season) is satisfactory but when I look at the number of chances I had, I should have scored a few more.

Check back at NB news post match for reaction to the match. Kick off: 19:00

Interviewer: Let’s look at your season as a whole. You’ve scored 15 goals in all competitions, and you are the top scorer aged 21 or under in the Premier League. Pretty encouraging . . .

Bendtner: I didn’t know that, but its quite a good stat! Did you know that i’m also our top scorer in this calendar year? Obviously that’s nice – Ade, Robin and i are all quite close to each other in the charts so we’ll see if i can get a hat-trick against Stoke and finish right up there! I think i’ve progressed all season.

You know, I’ve never tried to hide the fact that i had two months in the Autumn where, in my opinion, i played like a Sunday League player. I tried to work hard and do all the right stuff but it just didn’t seem to go for me.

But then all of a sudden there came a turning point and since then i’ve got stronger and stronger -overall i feel quite proud of the way the season has gone personally, but on the other hand there are things i look at and think ” you could have done better ” as well. But i only see that as a positive because it means i can improve for next season.

Interviewer: Who’s been your player of 2008/09 – anywhere in the world?

Bendtner: Andres Iniesta at Barcelona, without a doubt. Every tie I’ve seen Barcelona his technique, movement and passing have struck me – you can’t take that away from him. And this season he’s produced a lot of assists and important goals. You don’t always hear his name ahead of some others, but people who know football can acknowledge what he does for the game.

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Arsene Wenger is renowned for his firm belief in youth, and while the newspapers continue to link Arsenal with summer targets, the Frenchman still appears confident in his young squad.

The development of young players like Nicklas Bendtner demonstrated why major surgery on his squad is not required.

Wenger said:

“We have one or two targets, we are analysing every position very well and the potential of the players we have, the improvement the players are capable of making for next season.

“We have a team that is on the way up, so we have to take that into account as well.

“We talk about the numbers for Bendtner, but if we had taken them from between July and December they would not have been as good – that means the player has moved forward.

“He will move [forward] again, and you have to analyse that before you make decisions which could stop the player developing.”

By Randy Osae

Nicklas Bendner epitomized his place in Wenger’s plans by leading a virtuoso show at Fratton Park with a brace which was added by Carlos Vela’s own boon to give Arsenal a comprehensive 3-0 victory on Saturday.

Bendtner’s inclusion was one of eight changes Wenger had made from the midweek line-up and it only took 13 minutes to reward the boss with a header onto Arshavin’s float-in which was helped home by David James.

The Russian was well involved in Bendtner’s second also – having being victim of a foul in the penalty box – which resulted in a sublimely placed spot-kick by Arsenal’s Dane.

After netting twice in the first-half, the 20-year-old was in rampant mood and attempted to seal a hat-trick with an optimistic long-range effort before been replaced by Merida with 12 minutes left.

That decision to save the Dane’s legs was perhaps signs of Wenger’s plans of partnering Bendtner upfront with Adebayor in Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final against Manchester United.

Bendtner has now extended his tally to 14 goals, and for a much-maligned frontman who has been in and out of the loop, that is a considerable return.

Full Match Report here

Arsenal go into the premier league game with Pompey on the back of a narrow loss to rivals Manchester Unitd in the Champions League Semi-final 1st leg. Nicklas Bendtner was a late sub in that game, and was used in a unfurmiliar right midfield role. Nicklas will likely be pushed back to his regular position on Saturday likely to be partnered by Mexican Carlos Vela.

Eduardo, Robin Van Persie, Mikael Silvestre are among the long list of absentees in Arsene Wenger’s injury struck side. Wenger has said that he will likely rotate the squad for this game with the Uefa Champions League second leg coming up on Tuesday.

Likely line up:

Almunia

Eboue       Song          Djourou    Gibbs

Arshavin   Ramsey    Denilson     Diaby

Bendtner  Vela

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Many expected Nicklas Bendtner not to feature tonight, but the young Dane carrying a little knock to the knee, he was not 100% fit so he had to settle for a place on the bench. Danish manager Olsen sent Nicklas to warm up in the 20th minute as Daniel Jensen was limping heavily.

Leon Andreasen picked up the ball from about 25 yards out and shot towards the Albanian goal it swerved in midair and caught out the goalkeeper it was 1-0 to the Dane’s. Minutes later there was more smiles on the faces of the fans. Local boy Nicklas Bendtner was introduced to a loud cheer, he would operate on the left wing position and looked dangerous as he cut in on his right foot.

Within minutes, Bendtner showed his presence on the pitch collecting it on the left, cutting in and whipping a dangerous cross across the face of goal which S-Larsen or Rommedahl couldn’t make contact with. Bendtner again got the ball on the left before cutting in and fizzing a shot just wide of the right hand post, he was looking very lively. The second goal came as Rommedahl picked up the ball on the right squaring it for Larsen to tap it in, it was 2-0 to the Dane’s in Copenhagen.

The Albanians began to tire in the second period, and Denmark were cruising. The match killer came with ten minutes to go, Poulsen shooting past the stranded keeper. It was a comfortable victory for Denmark,  Bendtner played 70 minutes and came through unscathed he now looks back to full fitness.

Check back at NB News for updates pre Arsenal-Man City

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Nicklas Bendtner has been called up to the Denmark squad, for the upcoming games against Malta on Saturday then Albania on April 1st. Nicklas has been in fine form for Arsenal this season, scoring 12 goals and grabbing a handful of assists he will look to carry his club form into the national side.

Denmark lie top of group one, and have a extra game in hand. With maximum points in the next two games, they will then realistically start to think about going to South Africa 2010.

Danish squad as follows:

Jesper Christiansen

Stephan Andersen

Thomas Sorensen

Anders Christensen

Daniel Agger

Lars Jacobsen

Michael Jakobsen

Per Kroldrup

Thomas Rasmussen

Christian Poulsen

Jonas Borring

Leon Andreasen

Martin Vingaard

Soren Rieks

Thomas Kahlenberg

Dennis Rommedahl

Martin Jorgensen

Krohn Dehli

Morten Nordstrand

Nicklas Bendtner *

Soren Larsen

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Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, has come to support of Nicklas Bendtner. The striker got some harsh critiscm from various media sections last weekend for some of the chances he missed but overall had a good game and played a part in the first goal, turning away from Christopher Samba before putting through Theo Walcott to cross.

Arsenal Captain Cesc Fabregas has said on the matter . . .

Nicklas Bendtner had an outstanding game, but sometimes for a striker the ball just won’t go in – it happens to everyone. He had three or four chances that he might have scored on a normal day – he may not have done but, especially in the first half, he was at the heart of everything.

Cesc then commented on the fans reaction to the substitute . . .

There has been some talk about what people said when he came off, although it really sounded to me as if our supporters were trying to encourage him and say ‘well done, good job’. Maybe some people who are not Arsenal fans have tried to disturb things a little bit, but i think everybody appreciated his work because they understood that he had a very good game.

Captain’s notes from Arsenal Official matchday programme

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