Arsenal 3 - 0 Sevilla

September 20, 2007 on 8:09 am | In Arsenal FC, Matches Reviews 2007/2008 | posted by Block19er |

 

What a night, a great win against one of Europe’s top sides, 3 goalscorers, a clean sheet, and Mourinho has fucked off!! We’ve been asking him to for 3 years and finally he has listened!! Arsenal took a massive bound towards the knockout phase of the Champions League with a win against our toughest group opponents. Slavia beat Bucharest in Prague 2-1. 

Arsenal won the game in the early stages as they came out with good tempo. Arsenal would not let Sevilla get a sniff of the ball, Arsenal cracked a few sighters at goal before Cesc landed one on target, well sort of it hit a defender on the way in, when I say hit, basically it was an own goal. But well done to Cesc for having a shot another thing we didn’t do last year.

TOM CELEBRATES THE GOONER WIN

The Gooners were right behind their team and Arsenal continued to control the second half replicating their domestic form, one thing Wenger will try and do it keep the lads feet on the ground, so far it has been a dream start to the season. I think I may have been dreaming when I read ‘There was plenty of vocal support from the home crowd’, I don’t think I’ve heard that said about us before!

The low point of the evening came at the start of the second half when Rosicky limped off and was replaced by Diaby? Rosicky could now miss matches against Derby, Newcastle, West Ham, Bucharest, and Sunderland with a Hamstring injury. Let’s hope it is Walcott that replaces him against Derby, Diaby is a young talented player learning hit trade in the centre of midfield, surely we have a better option on the left? 

Sevilla are a quality side and at one-nil there was a danger they’d come back into the game, Van Persie calmed the nerves just before the hour. Cesc curled in the ball from a free kick near the North West corner, Sagna flicked it on for Robin to stab it home high into the roof of the net, ‘Jump up for the Arsenal’.

Arsenal did let Sevilla back into the game but they never created the chances they needed to grab a goal, Kanoute was always a threat, King Toure was first to every ball that came the way of the former Scummer. Arsenal were able to get break away chances as Sevilla tried to get back into the game. Arsenal finished them off at the death, Cesc unselfishly let Eduardo tuck the ball away from 8 yards after a flowing move. Eduardo ran to the bench to celebrate the strike. 

3-nil and a clean sheet things can’t be bad!! In modest fashion Wenger said, “we lost as well balls we shouldn’t have lost, we were one or two times defensively not clean enough, so we can improve in all areas - but there is a real spirit in the team and that’s fantastic to see.” hoping to keep the lads feet on the ground ahead of the testing matches to come. Wenger also said, “overall we didn’t concede and we looked more mature tactically for ninety minutes than one year ago.” Arsenal now have four winnable games against Bucharest and Slavia Prague that could see us qualify for the knockout stages before we play Sevilla again.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Senderos, Clichy, Hleb, Fabregas, Flamini, Rosicky (Diaby 50), Adebayor (Eduardo 83), Van Persie (Diarra 88). Subs Not Used: Fabianski, Denilson, Silva, Walcott. 

Booked: Adebayor.

Goals:Escude 28 (OG), Van Persie 59, Eduardo 90.

Att: 59,000+ (What was Chelski’s)

Ref:Peter Frojdfeldt (Sweden).