They left it VERY late, but Arsenal continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 2-0 victory over Wigan at the Emirates on Saturday.
Several players were missing from the side due to injuries, or in the case of Cesc Fabregas, suspension. Until the 84th minute, it seemed that missing those players was going to cost the Gunners a victory. However, William Gallas’s ghosting run into the box met Bacary Sagna’s perfect cross, and the captain headed the ball past Michael Pollit to earn the victory. Having forced Wigan to respond, the game opened up for the Gunners, and a few moments later, Tomas Rosicky smashed in a second to seal the points.
Coupled with Man United’s loss to Bolton, Arsenal now sit clear at the top of the table on 33 points after 13 games played. They’ll look to keep it going next Saturday away to Villa, but before that, a trip to Seville is in order as the Gunners will attempt to lock up top seed in Group H of the Champions League. That match will be shown live here in the US on Setanta USA at 2:45 PM ET tomorrow (Tuesday).
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November 26th, 2007 at 10:49 am
No you left it late! We put all our comments in the preview slot. Can’t think of anything more to say right now, unless we want to trade jokes about Steve Bruce’s expanding waistline.
Tony Cascarino was very funny about Wigan’s new manager on the Times podcast a few weeks ago. He remembered staying over at the Bruces once, where Mrs Bruce laid on a full English breakfast for her dear hubby which was so huge “even Red Rum couldn’t have jumped it.” The Stevie proceeded to hoover it all up without a pause and then go straight to training.
These days, he does it without the training, so we all know who ate all the pies. Our manager, of course, is fabulously restrained about food - the odd glass of wine, the occasionaly french fry - and lots of yoga every morning.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Here I thought that Gallas was pointing at his oh so big arm muscle after that nasty foul by Wigan.
Now I realize he was in fact pointing at some black thing on his arm and not saying “Je vous martèlerai dans le sel.” (I’ll pound you into salt!)
Speaking of jokes, did you hear the one about the England Manager?