Eduardo da Silva scored twice, including a thunderous opening goal just eight minutes in, and Denilison added the icing to the cake, as Arsenal beat Sheffield United 3-0 at Bramall Lane this Halloween night. The win means the Gunners are now in the pot for the quarter-final draw which takes place on Saturday. Also this Saturday is the “biggest game of the season so far,” as an in-form Manchester United pay a visit to the Grove.
Date: October 2007
Happy Halloween! – T-shirt giveaway contest
Happy Halloween everyone. Thanks to our friends at Arseshirts.com, we have three t-shirts to give away to three random Premium members who can answer the following questions:
Arsenal play Sheffield United in the Carling Cup tonight, Halloween. Prior to this evening, when was the last time Arsenal played on Halloween? Who did they play? What was the score?
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Contest ends tonight at midnight eastern.
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Sheffield United
With the Blades looking distinctly blunt at the moment – 19th in the second division and falling – this is a great opportunity for Wenger’s other batch of Youngsters to dish out a pasting in the style.
Admittedly, Sheffield beat us 1-0 last season thanks to a moment of Lehmanic impulsiveness, but they also had to resort to various nasty unpunished tricks like punching VanP in the stomach.
This year, as we all know, we can deal with the physical stuff. So, yes, it is another grim, cold, probably wet, Up North kick-fest — think Liverpool with no class – but with Denilson, Diarra, Diaby, Bendtner etc. all raring to showing their stuff, I predict we can romp this 3-1.
Over to you tacticians…