Report: West Brom 2-2 Arsenal
Arsenal capitulated and then crawled themselves back from two goals down to salvage a point against West Brom on Saturday.
The Gunners were behind as early as three minutes following kick-off as Reid capitalized on the visitors’ achilles’ heel of defending corners to put West Brom a goal up.
Wenger’s men then fired a response for the rest of the first half and nearly equalized as a Van Persie header struck the bar before Ramsey’s follow-up from close range was saved.
Arsenal’s desperate resurgence meant they were always exposed at the back where Squillaci had been deputizing for the injured Djourou. And failure from the French man to deal with a long ball saw Almunia rush out of his goal to cause a mix-up which saw Odemwingie slot home a second for West Brom.
The Gunners still huffed and puffed for something out of the Hawthorns and a fine effort from Arshavin pulled one back with 20 minutes left. Moments later, a battling Van Persie managed to find Arsenal’s equalizer but they never managed to find a winner.
More kepper/squillaci blunders !!! Next year the Manager will still come up with an excuse not to buy a keeper and Central defender. We don’t even have cover for Song….
pure crap!!!
Yes next season it will be:we have Flapianski, sczechny,vermaelan and djourou returning so they will be like new signings for us….same old same old stubborn frenchman who is the sole reason for our trophyless season yet again!
I prefer calling him Fumbleianski. 🙂 And what if Verm comes back retarded after a mysterios injury,just like Rosicky ?!
I’ve given up now. They will deceive us into thinking they can do it again…but will fuck up again.
Something like this will always happen to us ! People are laughing at us,we have become a major joke ! It will be a disgrace if this team wins PL ! On the other hand – those from Man Utd don’t moan about injuries,pitches and other bs.They just get the job done,one way or another ! They could have collected a draw today and say “We had a player dismissed”,but noooooo ! They won with “never say die” attitude and that is why they will win the title.
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1.playing densilsion,almunia,squlliach and hoping to win the league is pure stupidity
2. Arsenal are one dimendional, no plan b
3. Need a really leaders,i don’t think the likes of jw, aeoan ramsey going to be the solution for the short term, we need to buy expersience players on every area,
4. But the most dissapointing thing i will be writting the same comments at the end of next season…….same old arsenal, same old wenger…………..blowing opptirtunties time and time again.
Almuia is the worst goalkeeper in the PL. I FELL SORRY FOR THE REST OF THE TEAM.IT WAS A GOOD GAME. ONE WE DESERVED TO WIN.BUT WITH ALMUNIA IN GOAL WE WILL DRAW MOOR GAMES THAN WIN.
Why does it have to be the spanish cunt again who blows our title chances; like he did at birmingham last season… I know the others are injured so almunia got his chance to screw us again but the question is why is he still around in the first place, when its plain for everyone to see he’s just not good enough for a team that challenges for trophies… If we miss out by a couple of pts at the end then you have to look back at this match and blame fucking manuel. I can understand if u made a mistake that was unfortunate but ffs the 2nd wba goal was such a howler, you don’t expect it from professional goalies, it was so shocking that even a blind 41 yr old lehmann wouldn’t come close to making one. I say play jens against blackburn, surely he won’t do any worst!
Disgusted and sspeechless
Everyone forgets that Almunia kept us in the away game against Barca again this year but yes ,he is a useless teat!
As far as I know Wenger hasn’t played for Arsenal but he has kept us in 2nd for over 2 months and has had to deal with horrific first team injuries again in this year’s run-in.
What do you whining plastic, fair-weather fans want? Yes we make embarrassing mistakes and we dropped points we should have earned but this was a difficult away game and we came back from 2 goals down. We are playing the 2 most useless defenders (Squillaci and Almunia) together and we are without Vermaelen,our best CB for the rest of the season, Djourou, our 2nd best CB for at least 4 weeks more, Cesc our best midfielder for 2 weeks more, Walcott our best winger for 4 weeks at least, Song our only defensive midfielder for 3 weeks, Szcesny out for at least 4 weeks, Fabianski out for the season and Diaby out for a week!
Before anyone whines about AW not buying in January, we all know that the overpriced and over-rated ¨stars¨ were not worth shite and AW rightly stayed away from them.
All you plastic fans make me sick, with your get rid of Wenger, sell everyone, buy everyone,panic, we are shite ,we’ll NEVER win anything again, waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh attitude! Sod off to another club with your negativism and blinkered hatred of AW. When you have enough intelligence (never likely), experience (impossible), training and skill to replace Wenger, then you can call for his dismissal.
Let us now think sanely. Sir Alex buys a young Mexican he can,t stop scoring e have a young Mexican for a few years and then loan him out. Sir Alex scatches a defenderfrom under us who has come on brilliantly and we sign a French Second Division guy who can,t stop getting a card and sentoff What was wrong with a descent fee for an English defender -there was talkof one then to cao the whole situation we let Gallas go and play brilliantly for Spurs for the sake a few bucks and a one year contract.. We are further lauding a young Japanese player and for Barca Junior guy . FOR WHAT another five years. Comew Mr Wegner take the blindere off wake up to reality instead fantasy.
Arsene Wenger had an opportunity to buy Edwin Van der Sar when he was at Fulham but didn’t really go for it. Edwin van der sar is a world class keeper. To me, its a big missed. That would have solved our goalkeeping department.
Domhuaille-you really haven’t got a clue have you…..Almunia kept us in the game against Barca….what has that got to do with yesterdays game?Are you going to say that again next week and the week after that…also i’m sure that Man Utd have injuries right now and go down to 10 players but I don’t see them complaining, they get the job done!clueless and blind faith!
It simple Denilson and Almunia are not good enough for Arsenal reserves let alone Arsenal first team. What I mean by that is when I heard Denilson played in the Arsenal reserves earlier this year all I heard about was Chuks Aneke and why is that. Also if Almunia was playing in our reserves he wouldn’t be doing any better then Shea. I’m not saying bring in Shea but Almunia wouldn’t perform better than how Shea has been playing in the reserves.
Friends as long as Arsene Wenger is more interested in the financial books of the club than he winning trophies we will cry until he drops dead.That is the only man that can bring a smile on our faces if at all he had the fans at heart.The
Almunias,Denilsons,Squillacis are there as employees who are also there for their own bank accounts so they wouldn’t be bothered by our cries as long as Wenger is happy with them.At Manchester Utd a player who does not perform as expected is relegated to the bench.They all know that they are there to win.About 3 weeks ago I wrote that come end of May we will be without a trophy and that is going excatly that way.With this team we have now we will be lucky to finish in the top4.Chealsea is already 4 points away from us.We still have games against the likes of Man Utd,Tottenham,and Liverpool yet we still struggle with the likes of West Brom.We have now been reduced to an average team.As long as the Directors and Wenger respect their unholy alliance that he will die at Arsenal then we have kissed those trophies goodbye.The least they can do now is to promote him and make him a financial director then bring us a fresh and hungry for trophies manager.We are sick and tired of this NONSENSE.
come on gunners, not all is lost. If V.persie could score 13goals in 10games and injuries go away, all will be alright. Wenger or no wenger ARSENAL REMAINS ARSENAL. C.’mon Lets encourage the players they need us now. LETS KEEP THE BANNER FLYING.