Sunday, January 17, 2010

Bolton vs. Arsenal

2-0, Premier League, Reebok Stadium, 17/1 -10
Fabregas 28,
Merida 78

A completely priceless win against a very tricky Bolton side, who obviously had a point to prove since it was Owen Coyle's first game since being appointed as the new Bolton manager (Gary Megson got fired).
What was better still was that Fabregas made his comeback after being sidelined for two weeks, and he was brilliant, but he received a lot of tackles and shit, after approximately 10 minutes he had his first of two penalty shouts (it really should have been a penalty) when he flicked the ball past Jaaskelainen but the Bolton keeper' brought him down, but Phil Dowd ignored it.

After a fluent Arsenal move Fabregas could fire it to 1-0, after being beautifully served by Eduardo.
Just after that the second penalty situation occurred, Cesc was brought down deep in the box, and Bolton got a free kick! But the worst was that when the whistle had gone, Matthew Taylor first kicked Cesc in the head, and then he tried to pull him up by grabbing his hair! But Taylor wasn't booked..
After that situation the feelings on both sides were heated up and both Paul Robinson and Tomas Rosicky were booked.
In the 63rd minute Merida replaced Eastmond (it was his first start for the first team) and in the end he sealed the three points with a classy finish, and once again Eduardo provided the assist.

So in the end we got three good points, and after the return at home against Bolton (if we win we will be at the top of the table, but Chelsea has a game in hand), but after that we have four tricky games, Villa away, United home, Chelsea away and Liverpool home. (And after all this the Champions League begins again).

Injury Update;
-The good news is that Cesc and Gael is back (Gael played for 15 minutes today)
-But Nasri and Ramsey is likely to be out for 21 days, while Denilson might feature on Wednesday.

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