Arsenal v Aston Villa

mike65

Thats that.

amacachi

Hamstring gone? Nice one.

That_Guy

Good goal. Injured???

Headshot

his gone

that could be trouble for arsenal

SDTimeout

The best player,i've ever had the pleasure of watching.

YOU BEAUTY

mike65

What price that goal?

OPENROAD

Cesc looks injured

amacachi

Why the **** is he still on the pitch?

Xavi6

Great goal

Frisbee

Feck he's injured himself doing that, what a goal though

Le King

Wow, he looks terrible now. Good goal though. Poor by Miller.

That_Guy

It was a risk but seems worth it even if there is a hint of injury.

Samurai

ul fabreglass

paul150

Get him off wenger, what a goal

Frisbee

Get him off right now please Mr. Wenger

Dave!

Fabregaaaaaassssssss

That_Guy

Off now. What a fantastic 20 odd minutes of football for him.

SDTimeout

Fantastic cameo.

Frisbee

That really was some fecking finish, pace and swerve from such a short distance.

I heart Cesc

Kev_ps3

Just shows you what star players are worth to teams.

Xavi6

Good to see him jogging off. He'll be fine.

monkey9

Crosáidí wrote: »

Young hasn't put 1 decent ball in all day

He's been poor today.

Redzer7

Fcuk yeah!! Happy fcuking Christmas, C'mon the Gunners .

That_Guy

How did he miss?

SDTimeout

And to cap off a great day of betting. Arsenal to get the third goal at 4/1

Frisbee

Good second save from Almunia there

mike65

SDTimeout wrote: »

And to cap off a great day of betting. Arsenal to get the third goal at 4/1

I hate pre-timing :pac:

OPENROAD

Get in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

SDTimeout

That 4/1 then became 13/2 and i didn't

DIABY !

shoutman

Not great by Villa today.....

Hoping this isn't the beginning of the end of our season.

That_Guy

3-0 now. Hope Hull can beat United to blow the title race wide open.

Frisbee

For the second game in a row Diaby has been absolutely brilliant and thoroughly deserved his goal, lets keep this form up Abou!

Krusader

shoutman wrote: »

Not great by Villa today.....

Hoping this isn't the beginning of the end of our season.

We werent great going forward at all today
We still had a good chance of snatching a win until Cesc came on

That_Guy

Quality performance from Aresenal and Fabregas in particular. Just awesome.

OPENROAD

Brilliant stuff, great second half. Up into 2nd now, for the moment anyway.


Come on Hull!!!!

ragg

that was phenomenal from arsenal

Frisbee

On that first half a draw was a fair result, but in that second half Arsenal absolutely deserved the three points, I think 3-0 is a little bit of a harsh scoreline on Villa though.

Fabregas.... Wow, that guy is something special, he completely galvanised the whole team when he came on.

Delighted with that win, I would have taken a draw before the game, fair play to both teams for putting on such a great spectacle.

Also I think that has to be one of the best refereeing performances I've seen in the Premier League in a long long time, the only thing that should have been different imo was that Song should have walked, but aside from that he showed great common sense.

matrim

Fair play to Arsenal. They upped their games when they needed to and deserved the win

SDTimeout

I dispise jamie redknapp

mike65

Frisbee wrote: »

Also I think that has to be one of the best refereeing performances I've seen in the Premier League in a long long time, the only thing that should have been different imo was that Song should have walked, but aside from that he showed great common sense.

Quite a big thing in the context of a game of football! Not that it would have made much difference today I suspect.

Frisbee

mike65 wrote: »

Quite a big thing in the context of a game of football! Not that it would have made much difference today I suspect.

Well it was the 88th minute so I don't think it would have made a huge difference...

Eire-Dearg

What a huge difference Fabregas makes, he really is a phenomenal player.

leninbenjamin

Well, contrary to what the commentators were saying we actually played well in the first half.

Vermaelen just made a great point there, the difference wasn't just Cesc coming on, it was Villa's midfield running out of legs. They had a great 60 minutes but you could see from the start of the second half they were beginning to flag a bit, they just weren't quite as quick to close down Arsenal's midfield and cut out those through balls, and Wenger saw this and brought on Fabregas. Masterstroke.

A great performance in the end from Arsenal, but it'll mean nothing if they haven't left anything in the tank for Tuesday, and Vermaelen and the rest of the defenders looked damn tired after that. I'm worried, Villa made it a much tougher game than the scoreline suggested, but hopefully the fact the game was won with 15 minutes to spare will mean they aren't completely ****ed.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

That was such a great second half performance, absolutely fantastic from Cesc.

The Muppet

Fabergas , amazing,

I will be interested to see if he features in the next game, he appeared to aggrivate his injury on the second Goal, If he stays fit Arsenal are in with a big shout for the title IMO.

SlickRic

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

What a huge difference Fabregas makes, he really is a phenomenal player.

as i said earlier, they go from looking pretty and vaguely threatening the goal, to looking dangerous and likely to score the minute he's involved.

if by some miracle he stays for the majority of his career he'll outstrip henry as arsenal's greatest player of the modern era.

truly sensational player.

he plays football, to sound sickeningly clichéd, the way it was meant to be played.

One Cold Hand

Well done to the Gunners, excellent performance and deserved the victory today. Villa were very poor. Not sure why O'Neill left Heskey playing midfield when he could have brought on Reo-Coker...we were getting killed in midfield at the time. Anyway, hopefully this just makes us more determined for the Liverpool game.

Frisbee

The Muppet wrote: »

Fabergas , amazing,

I will be interested to see if he features in the next game, he appeared to aggrivate his injury on the second Goal, If he stays fit Arsenal are in with a big shout for the title IMO.

I wouldn't imagine Wenger will risk him against Pompey, even if he had have come through that game without aggravating his injury.

Diaby---Song---Denilson should have enough about them to see off Pompey.

hudsonriver

leninbenjamin wrote: »

Well, contrary to what the commentators were saying we actually played well in the first half.

Vermaelen just made a great point there, the difference wasn't just Cesc coming on, it was Villa's midfield running out of legs. They had a great 60 minutes but you could see from the start of the second half they were beginning to flag a bit, they just weren't quite as quick to close down Arsenal's midfield and cut out those through balls, and Wenger saw this and brought on Fabregas. Masterstroke.

A great performance in the end from Arsenal, but it'll mean nothing if they haven't left anything in the tank for Tuesday, and Vermaelen and the rest of the defenders looked damn tired after that. I'm worried, Villa made it a much tougher game than the scoreline suggested, but hopefully the fact the game was won with 15 minutes to spare will mean they aren't completely ****ed.

match is wendsday but I agree with what your saying

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Frisbee wrote: »

I wouldn't imagine Wenger will risk him against Pompey, even if he had have come through that game without aggravating his injury.

Diaby---Song---Denilson should have enough about them to see off Pompey.

I'm pretty sure Song is going to be gone by then. Ramsey will come in I suppose