Arsenal For Fans – Gunn them down

Arsenal beat Tottenham 3-1 or 5-3 on aggregate.

Arsenal controlled the game in first-half but no goals were produced as Tottenham defended well.

In the second -half,things are more interesting as Tottenham is considered had a slight lost in away goals therefore they attack more.Still,Gunners take control of the game but Tottenham had more on counter-attack.

Thing get hot when Adebayor scored a goal through a pss by Tomas Rosicky at 77th minute.

Just when I think Gunners could finish Spurs in 90 minutes,Mido denied that by scoring an equalizer through a header.

Tottenham had the control since then till the 95th minute(including extra-time) resulted from their equalizer.

Hey,this is a first time since this blog is here I write report on Arsenal’s 120 minute game.

Just before the first-half of the extra time ends,Aliadiere punished Tottenham’s defender failure to clear the ball completely by scoring a precious 2nd goal for Gunners.

Rosicky added one more 8 minutes after this,his shot goes to the post and fortunately for Arsenal,Pascal Chimbonda bounced the ball into Tottenahm’s goal.

This is the first time since Wenger’s in-charge in Arsenal to qualify to the Carling Cup final stage.

Talking about Premieship,Chelsea beat Blackburn Rovers 3-0,Manchester United thrashed Watford 4-0 and one consolation for Arsenal,Bolton drew 1-1 with Charlton.

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Arsenal will face Spurs on Carling Cup 2nd league.

The 2-2 draw in White Hart Lane is a small advantage for Arsenal only need less than 2 goals draw(eg:0-0 or 1-1) to qualify to Final stage.He had seen last Carling Cup round where Arsenal lost to Wigan because of away goal.So every thing is very important especially if it involves two great teams playing.

Arsenal could play under pressure I think as I saw Arsenal made a comeback from behind to beat Manchester United 2-1,a precious 1-1 draw with Bolton and of course the 2-2 draw with Spurs in 1st league.

And I observe that Arsenal goals come more often after the 80th minute or 15-20 minutes from final whistle.

One more,today is considered Deadline Day for player transfer so I don’t think Arsenal could buy any player to lessen the injury problem to Gunners itself.

Only Arsenal and Tottenham are not playing mid-week Premiership game today so Arsenal and Tottenham will have ‘one game in hand’.

If Arsenal could beat Bolton at 14th February 2007,the FA Cup 5th round against Blackburn will be played on 21 February 2007.

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Arsenal or Bolton will host Blackburn in FA Cup fifth round.

The replay in Reebok Stadium will be played on Wednesday 14 February 2007 at 8.05 p.m(England Time)

Here’s the all FA Cup 5th round draw;

Chelsea v Blackpool or Norwich
Watford v Ipswich
Preston v Manchester City
Plymouth v Derby
Manchester United v Reading
Arsenal or Bolton v Blackburn
Bristol City or Middlesbrough v West Brom
Fulham v Tottenham

Chelsea,again drew another non-Premiership team.Manchester United drew another Premiership team like Arsenal.

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Gunners break even with Bolton at Emirates Stadium.

This means Arsenal must score at least one goal in Reebok Stadium in order to progress into FA Cup 5th round.The worst is they had only one win in Bolton’s home in their last seven visits.

Arsenal were even shocked with visitor’s opening goal at 50th minute by Nolan.

But Arsenal did not give up,they increased their attacks,put Baptista in the game and defend their Emirates unbeaten record.Finally Kolo Toure saves the day for Gunners when he headed the ball from Fabregas’s free-kick.

Arsenal continued their attack and tried to avoid replay in their bogey place but Trotters defended successfully until the final whistle.

Chelsea on their other hand made their 3-0 smooth win over Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge.Manchester United beat Portsmouth 2-1.

I really hope Gunners could break their “Reebok Stadium” curse and progress into the 5th round.And draw easier team to play over in the 5th round.

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Arsenal will face their bogey team Bolton in FA Cup 4th round.

And the worst of all a lot of regular players are injured,William Gallas (thigh), Alex Hleb (hamstring), Robin Van Persie (foot), Emmanuel Eboue (ankle), Freddie Ljungberg (hamstring) and Johan Djourou (hamstring). In addition, Gilberto will be seeing out the final game of his suspension.

Shall Arsenal do not win this match,Arsenal will have hard time playing in Reebok Stadium where Gunners were lost all their game there in recent 2-3 years.

I think Jens Lehmann will be rested in this match following Wenger’s quotes;

“I think Thierry will play but Jens is out just to rest him.”

And Nicolas Anelka and El-Hadji Diouf will be playing so Arsenal has to be careful with them but out ‘beast’ will increase Gunner’s chance as Bolton tend to like play ‘physically’ with Arsenal so Baptista the Beast sure will help us.

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