Stoke vs. Arsenal

3-1, Premier League, Britannia Stadium, 27/2 -10
Bendtner 32,
Fabregas 90+1 (pen),
Vermaelen 90+4

Tragedy and unbelievable happiness, I'll start with the goodies, we finally got our Britannia win!! And besides that, Chelsea lost at home to Man City!! So now we are only 3 points after Chelsea, and 2 Points after Manchester United, and we don't have many difficult away games left!!

Moving on to the tragedy, Ramsey suffered a horrific injury, his leg was in a completely wrong angle, so I guess we won't be seeing him around in a while..
It really felt like a reminder of Eduardo's injury two seasons ago.. It's such a shame since Ramsey really improved this season, with 27 apps, 16 as sub.

The game in itself was quite rough, but you wouldn't expect anything else when you travel to Stoke.
The start was pretty much the same as earlier games at Britannia, us conceding a throw-in goal from Delap, but after that we began to dominate the game and eventually Bendtner recieved a lovely pass from captain Cesc, and headed it home!

In the second half Stoke started a bit fresher, but eventually we began dominating again and had pretty good control of the game, Ramsey had a penalty shout turned down, but the replay clearly shows that it was a penalty.
When Shawcross brutally tackled Ramsey he recieved a red card, but that wasn't much consolation for us, it was clearly decided not to show any pictures of the tackle or of Ramsey's leg, since the only pictures we could see of the injury came just when it had happened, after that the only thing they showed was the Arsenal players' despair and Shawcross walking off the pitch in tears.
Vermaelen and Fabregas seemed to be the ones that were the most shaken by the situation, so it feels just right that they were the ones to win this game for us.

The minutes after the incident was pretty absent, but we jumped into action when Bendtner's shot found Pugh's outstretched hand.
And finally the ref gave us a well deserved penalty, Fabregas wanted to take it again, and he did it pretty much the same as last weekend's penalty against Sunderland, a well placed shot, Sörensen went the right way, but the shot was too wide for him to catch, so the captain got his 16th goal of the campaign, that put a cheerful smile on the Arsenal players, staff and not least the fans!
He dedicated the goal to Aaron, clapping on his right leg in front if the fans.
A couple of minutes later Vermaelen could round things up when Sörensen couldn't hold Rosicky's shot, and Cesc managed to pass it to Vermalen, who easily tapped in 3-1 in the open goal.

So it was an evening with mixed emotions, but hopefully Ramsey will be fit for next season..

Injury Update;
-Since I write this just after the game no news have yet been established on Ramsey's injury.
-Gallas, Arshavin & Diaby didn't make it back to this game, but hopefully they'll all be back for the Burnley clash.
-Eduardo made his comeback from the recent hamstring problem, he came in from the bench in the 83rd minute.