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So, A very good weekend ended up becoming a fantastic weekend for Arsenal in the battle for Champions League football. As soon as Chelsea lost 1-0 to Westbrom, I twitted that AVB was fucked and sacked. And a few hours later, it was so. Spurs also were hammered by Manc-ies United 3-1 in front of their home crowd. That means Arsenal are firmly in 4th place and just four points behind 3rd placed Spurs. Champions League Football is ours to lose now... but I digress...
So the game started with Liverpool looking the better side in the opening exchanges. Arsenal were getting some decent ball possession, but passing it side ways... *sighs*.. Liverpool were looking very dangerous when they attacked us, but had little threat on our goal. Our defence looked to be at sea. It looked like it was going to be one of those days... They hit our post twice and when their penalty was saved, I thought hung on a minute...
After some very well-choreographed diving by Suarez, Liverpool were awarded a penalty. But justice was done when Szczesny made a double save to deny Liverpool getting the lead. Suarez would continue to dive all over the pitch for the remainder of the match, yet he was not booked for simulation. He should consider a career in diving...
23 minutes gone and Liverpool found a lot of space down our left flank. Henderson fired in a poor cross which Koscielny ought to be ashamed that he sliced into his own net. 1-0 to Liverpool. To their credit, Arsenal did not let their heads drop but kept on going, though lacking A LOT the sharpness.
But Arsenal respended 8 minutes later. Sagna put in the type of cross you wish he'd do more often. It landed on the head of RVP, who had to out-muscle Carragher to get their first and his head left Reina with no chance. 1-1. Liverpool continued to huff and puff, but created very little threat really.
At half time, the game was carefully poised at 1-1. The second half was pretty much the same as the first, Liverpool huffed and puffed some more, but achieved nothing. Some sky reporter said Mikel Arteta had suffered a blow to his jaw and was concussed... heh? After a lengthy stoppage, he was stretchered off the field and on came Diaby, a man who hasn't played for a quarter of a year.
Surprisingly, Diaby gave us more attacking threat with his ability to go past a man and shoot at goal. Sadly, he lasted only about 28 minutes and was brought off for the Ox. Gervinho had just earlier replaced Benayoun who had a very disappointing game. By now, it was anybody's game. Liverpool continued to threaten but somehow seemed weary of getting hit with a sucker punch.
And so it was. In the 90th minute, Song and Van Persie replicated what they did against Sunderland earlier this season. Song clipped a ball to the left boot of Van Persie, he side-footed it into the net past the stranded Reina. Arsenal were two-one up. Scoring against a team like United, one would have expected our goal to come under siege for the lengthy extra time (8 minutes) but Liverpool being the cunts that they are just really didn't threaten us.
So we came away from Liverpool with 3 points, justice being done after the way we lost to them at home earlier in the season. And with Spurs having been emphatically beaten by the Manc-ies at the Lane, Roman Abramovich's having fucked, sucked and sacked AVB at Chelsea, Arsenal can only blame themselves if they don't get fourth spot at the very least. I honestly don't see Roberto Di Matteo doing any better than AVB between now and the end of the season.
Spurs are also getting skittish, looking over their shoulder with a twitch. I say 3rd place is there to be fought for. Let us go after Spurs and save Jack Wilshere £3,000.00 that he bet against the Spurs fans.
Onwards march the Arsenal!!!
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