0-0, Premier League, St James' Park, 13/8 -11
Decent result for the first game of the season all things considered. The one thing that is beyond me, however, is how Barton got away without being sent off whilst Gervinho was shown red at once! So to explain the situation: Gervinho goes down in the box due to a challenge from Tioute (which should've been a penalty!), and then along comes Barton, Barton drags Gervinho up by the collar of his shirt, obviously Gervinho gets enraged and lightly slaps Barton in the face, who then, several seconds after the hit, goes down! and that is not enough, he later constantly insists that he was punched in the face! Outrageous!
But thankfully we held on to the point and can at least be pleased with that. Unfortunate for Gervinho though, to be sent off because of somebody else's folly.
We had the most possession throughout the game, and some chances but by far didn't create enough for Arsenal Football Club! Sad to say that that might, to some part, be down to the fact that neither Fabregas nor Nasri played today, Cesc is reportedly done for Barcelona and Nasri is still uncertain. Beside from that we missed Wilshere who was out through injury.
Robin van Persie captained the club for the game, as he is the vice-captain, but it looks as though he will keep the captaincy long-term now. He didn't get quite that many chances in this game though, and looked a bit lonely up front unfortunately.
So it looks as though we're still missing some going forward (which isn't like us) but good news as to the defence, we looked quite solid today actually! So let's just take all the encouragement that we can from this game!
Injury Update;
-Wilshere missed this game through injury, but it doesn't appear to be long-term, so he'll hopefully be back next week or something like that.
-Diaby has a slightly more long-term injury but looks to be back in September.
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