Sunday, January 16, 2011

West Ham vs. Arsenal

3-0, Premier League, Upton Park, 15/1 -11
van Persie 13, 76 (pen),
Walcott 41

Another convincing away performance from us! At least if you consider the league performances.
Walcott & van Persie were the two guys who made the difference today, the first goal was scored by van Persie, assisted by Walcott (credit to Nasri there as well but I'll get to that later), the second goal was scored by Walcott, assisted by van Persie and the last goal, scored from the penalty spot by van Persie, the penalty was awarded thanks to Walcott. But of course it was through an amazing team performance that we got the three points.

We dominated this game from start to finish, so it wasn't exactly surprising when we took the lead, and we did with quite some style, Walcott was given much space out on the right-hand side, and he delivered a great pass towards Nasri and van Persie, the former brilliantly let the ball run past him giving the Dutchman the golden moment to break the deadlock, which he obviously did.
Just about before the break we doubled the lead, and once again van Persie and Walcott linked up to create some magic, van Persie managed to get a cross in towards Walcott, who sent the shot straight up in the roof of the net.

In the second half the game calmed down a bit, and eventually we sealed the game when Walcott was brought down at the edge of the box by Bridge, penalty was awarded and van Persie got his brace through another well taken penalty.

Injury Update;
-Vermaelen will have to undergo a surgery to correct his achilles problem, he will go to Sweden (!) to have this operation and is likely to be out for four to six weeks more...

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