Arsenal vs. Hull

3-0, Premier League, Emirates, 19/12 -09
Denilson 45 +3,
Eduardo 59,
Diaby 80

Now I'll finally have some peace ahead of Christmas, we have been struggling lately but now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! We could pass United in the league table if we win our game in hand now, since they lost 3-0 to Fulham earlier in this afternoon.

But we were struggling in the first half, luckily Denilson scored from a freekick, a great shot indeed, but in the second half things didn't really flow at the start...
Hull got a penalty after Silvestre basically just touched Craig Fagan, but the referee wasn't in a good position to see what really happened, so Hull got their penalty, Almunia saved Geovanni's shot, and the rebound was headed off target!
After that we didn't look back and it didn't take long for Eduardo to get his first goal for a while, and after that Hull didn't produce much.
Diaby got one in the end as well, richly deserved since he had a great second half, playing as an offensive midfielder.

So in the end we got ourselves a comfortable victory, a clean sheet as well, so I can say that Boxing Day will look brigher than it did last year, but with incredibly hard opponents, Aston Villa who recently won at Old Trafford.

THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW !!
The draw was on Friday, and I can say that I was basically shaking of anxiety, especially when in the end it was only Arsenal and United left, and one of them were going to get Milan, and the other Porto.
As I have mentioned my dad is a United fan, and we were both hoping desperately that when Porto came up, our team would be the next one to go, and thank the lord it was Arsenal!! So we have an away game on the 17th of February and the home game on the 9th of March!! And United got Milan, mohahaha...
Porto is really good, but I'd much rather face them than Milan!

Injury Update;
-Cesc will only be gone for eight to ten days(he got injured on Wednesday against Burnley), so if everthing goes right he should be back for the Villa clash on boxing day
-Denilson (clearly) was back for this clash, so it wasn't a particulary hard injury!
-Clichy won't be back this year, but he will hopefully be back after New Year's Eve.
-Traore might be back for the Villa game, uncertain though.




(this clip is really hilarious!)