Arsenal Game Recap

Arsenal 1 - Sunderland 1

Arsenal's recent yo-yo form continued with a 1-1 draw with Sunderland at the Stadium of Light Stadium up North. Arsenal was very un-imaginative with few penetrating passes and decent scoring attempts. Sunderland followed Hull and Fulham's example of parking 10 men behind the ball and, as usual, it worked against Arsenal.

The starting line-up was:
Aluminia
Clichy Toure Gallas Sagna
Denilson Fab Song Walcott
Ade Van P.
with Nasri, Bendtner and Vela coming on in the latter stages.

Arsenal had a goal wrongly disallowed as the linesman ruled Theo out-of-bounds at the touchline as he passed it to an unmarked Van Persie for a goal in the 57th minute. Silly, silly official call as Walcott did well to keep the ball in play and pass it to Van Persie.

Amazingly their substitute scored in the 86th minute with a lucky goal from poor marking from Adebayor. The little baby run to the sidelines and started crying afterwards. In the third minute of extra time Fab powered home a header with Craig Gordon doing his best Paul Robinson routine to salvage a point.

This is a poor result, and now having played one more game than the majority of the team around us, we are in a poisition to fall down the 7th or 8th if the results of the other games go against us. We cannot keep on dropping points on games like this or it will be another year without the English Premiership silverware and I don't want that.