Game Reports

A horrific injury to Arsenal youngster Aaron Ramsey overshadowed a last-gasp win over Stoke that hauled the Gunners firmly into the Barclays Premier League title race on Saturday night.

The 19-year-old midfielder appeared to break his leg after a red-card challenge from Ryan Shawcross that had echoes of team-mate Eduardo’s own bad injury two years ago.Shawcross, who was shown an immediate red card, appeared to be in tears when he left the field and a number of other players were clearly upset by the incident.

The injury overshadows a huge Arsenal come from behind win, that moved the Gunners to within three points of leaders Chelsea and ended Stoke’s 11-match unbeaten run  Read more... (504 words, 2 images, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

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It will not go down as a classic Arsenal performance, but today’s 2-0 win over Sunderland accomplished two objectives. One it removed that sick feeling from the mid week performance against Porto.

Two, it moved Arsenal within two points of second place in the league with 11 games to go. Arsenal stayed 6 points back of Chelsea, who did not look convincing in beating Wolves today.

Arsene Wenger for on believes that the title race is on, saying after the game:  Read more... (488 words, 2 images, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

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For those Arsenal fans who have clamored for Arsene Wenger to replace Almunia, now we know why he kept with him. Because Fabianski is not up to the job.

Fabianski made two school boy errors as Arsenal were beaten 2-1 by Porto in the Champions League. The first after 11 minutes when he palmed a cross from Silvestre Varela into his own net. A simply horrible error.

Then six minutes into the second half, Fabianski outdid himself as he picked up an ill-judged back pass from Campbell inside the penalty box. Then he gave the ball straight back to the referee and Porto promptly quickly took the free-kick and Falcao scored from six yards out.  Read more... (308 words, 2 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

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Another disappointing game for Arsenal fans as the Gunners were completely outclassed at Stanford Bridge and lost 2-0 to Chelsea which effectively ends Arsenal’s title hopes for another season.

The game was over within 25 minutes when Chelsea jumped to a 2-0 lead and they just sat back and let Arsenal have the ball, knowing that the Gunners would have trouble breaking them down. I must say I am a little mystified when Arsene Wenger said after the game:

“It is difficult to swallow a defeat like that when we felt we were the better team,”  Read more... (579 words, 2 images, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

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After the draw with Villa tonight, I was on Twitter with some Arsenal fans, and that was the question that was asked. The consensus was that this was a point gained. Do you agree?

Arsene Wenger looked at it as two points dropped saying:

“I believe we dropped two points because we had clear chances but on the other hand it was a difficult game. They stopped us from playing when we had the ball and they played a long-ball game and closed us down, so it was difficult. We didn’t always find our passing game. We know when we come here what we get and we were not disappointed. [The result] keeps our unbeaten run going. If you put all the games together I believe it maintains the positive vibes. Overall, you have to win any game at the moment. Compared to Chelsea who won today, we dropped two points.”  Read more... (343 words, 2 images, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

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