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2010
Chelsea 2 Arsenal 0
Written by Kellys Eye
Sunday, 07 February 2010 20:27
The trip to Stamford Bridge was going to be a tough ask at anytime but on the back of two defeats from Stoke and Manchester United it was hard to take another loss however that was what happened.
Wenger said after the home tie to Chelsea that Drogba does not seem to do anything but still managed to score the winning goal, well I hope Wenger saw the brace of goals because that performance was everything Arsenal were missing.
Didier Drogba scored twice in the first half as Chelsea returned to the top of the table following a 2-0 victory over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.
Both sides started at a high tempo which resulted in numerous mis-placed passes.
But it was the scourge of Arsenal who broke the deadlock on eight minutes in the game's first worthwhile attack on goal. Ivory Coast hitman Drogba tucked home a simple tap-in from two yards after Florent Malouda's in-swinging corner was headed on by the under-fire John Terry.
I have not witnessed teams target an Arsenal weakness since Luton done it against us when Gus Caesar was playing right back in the Littlewoods cup in 1988 and we now have a terminal weakness that is costing us goals or games like Chelsea, Everton, Bolton and now United twice to name just a few.
Team know how to beat us, its easy all you do is put a decent winger on and get them to counter attack down the right flank and they know they will meet no resistance at all from the Arsenal left back. Traore was a disaster and Clichy is too error prone to stop it happening either and today two goals were directly because of the weakness from this position and Nani had a field day.
Arsene Wenger had been looking for his 300th Premier League win with Arsenal but the in-form Londoners had to be content with a hard-fought goalless draw against a battling Aston Villa side. Arsenal, the leading scorers in the top-flight with 59 goals, could not break down a resolute Aston Villa defence in which Richard Dunne and James Collins emerged as the star performers.
The undoubted clash of the weekend will see long-time rivals Arsenal square up to Manchester United at Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
With the Gunners sitting in third place and United in second, this promises to be a mouthwatering showing between two of the most successful Premier League sides in its history.
United should go into the game in confident mood after seeing off Manchester City in the Carling Cup semi-final on Wednesday night to ensure their safe passage to meet Aston Villa in the final at Wembley.
The Gunners are unbeaten in their previous ten Premier League games and they have notched seven wins in this sequence scoring an impressive 23 times.
The following announcement has today been made on the Plusmarkets website
Announcement on release of charge
Arsenal Holdings plc (the “Company”) announces that it has today received notification from Stan Kroenke, a director of the Company, that on 26 January 2010, 2,720 ordinary shares of £1 each in the capital of the Company (“Shares”) were released from a charge granted on 1 May 2009 by KSE, UK, Inc., a company controlled by Stan Kroenke.
Following the release of the charge, all three of the charges granted on 1 May 2009 by KSE, UK, Inc. have now been released in full.
There is no change to the number of voting rights in the Company held by Stan Kroenke as a result of the release of the charge, which remains 18,649 (29.9 per cent.).
The trip to Stamford Bridge was going to be a tough ask at anytime but on the back of two defeats from Stoke and Manchester United it was hard to take another loss however that was what happened.
I have not witnessed teams target an Arsenal weakness since Luton done it against us when Gus Caesar was playing right back in the Littlewoods cup in 1988 and we now have a terminal weakness that is costing us goals or games like Chelsea, Everton, Bolton and now United twice to name just a few.
Arsenal, the leading scorers in the top-flight with 59 goals, could not break down a resolute Aston Villa defence in which Richard Dunne and James Collins emerged as the star performers.
The undoubted clash of the weekend will see long-time rivals Arsenal square up to Manchester United at Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
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