Arsenal vs. Bolton

4-1, Premier League, Emirates, 11/9 -10
Koscielny 23,
Chamakh 60,
Song 78,
Vela 83

The game was a lot harder than the score board shows, but in the end a comfortable win at the Emirates.
Ahead of the game we received lots of injuries, not so surprising since it has been a week of internationals, Theo will be gone for 4-6 weeks after picking up an ankle injury against Switzerland, huge blow for us but it didn't end there, Vermaelen picked up an Achilles injury when playing for Belgium, though he has a chance of returning for the Braga game on Wednesday.
This meant that Squillaci was handed his first start of the season, playing alongside Koscielny, and what a game they both had, Koscielny scoring and Squillaci looking really solid in a tough game.
Fabregas seems to be getting closer to finding his form, he produced three assists and obviously was the heartbeat of the squad once again.

The first half was really tight, Arshavin made some great runs, but in the end proved fruitless, we took the lead though, a great cross from Wilshere reached Fabregas, who beautifully played it in towards Koscielny, who after some struggling on the box managed to get it in and score his first goal for the Arsenal!
Though if there is someone to blame for the equalizer, I'm afraid many fingers will be pointing at Koscielny, his header back towards Almunia was intercepted by Chung-Jong Lee, who played the ball back into the box for Johan Elmander to head in.

The second half started just as the first half, it was tight and hard for us to find enough spaces to score from, but we did and that was only made possible when Cesc Fabregas created an amazing cross toward Chamakh, and it really wasn't hard for the moroccan international to score his second Arsenal goal with the head.
We only managed to start playing our free-flowing football when Bolton were down to ten men, which happened after Gary Cahill went in with a harsh and unnecessary tackle on Chamakh (who luckily managed to remain injury free), as mentioned, after that we managed to start playing some nice football, and that proved to settle the match.

Remarkably it was Song who made it three, rather unusual for him to score, and even more unusual was the character of the goal, a really beautiful solo goal where he managed to get the ball past the 'keeper in a tight angle, most probably the most beautiful goal he has scored! And it was the 1000th goal for Arsenal during the Wenger era.
And to round things off an amazing goal from our young Mexican Vela! Fabregas (who else?) spotted him making a run and the defense couldn't keep track of him, though for once when he only had the 'keeper to beat he didn't chip it! (I know, it's hard to believe) He went for power instead and it settled nicely at the far post.

Injury News;
-Walcott had to sit and watch from the stands this time around, and he will for another four to six weeks, hugely disappointing for the young lad, his form has been amazing and it is a huge loss for us.
-Another huge loss will be that van Persie is expected to be out for the same time as Walcott, at first he was expected back after one or two weeks, but we won't be seeing him for quite some time, yet again.
-Bendtner will be the first of the three strikers to return, being expected back within three to four weeks.
-Vermaelen might make it for the Braga game on Wednesday, otherwise he is likely to feature against Sunderland on Saturday.
-Diaby came in during the second half, but had to be replaced after eleven minutes due to an ankle or shin injury, Wenger said in the post match interview that he couldn't move his leg, which doesn't exactly sound like good news, but on the brighter note Denilson and Nasri are both back, so we have options.