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West Ham 2 Arsenal 2

25 October 2009

cescvwestham1Arsenal were away at Upton Park today to face a nervy West Ham, who haven’t won a premier league game since the start of the season.

Arsenal took control of the match from the opening minutes of the match, causing some problems for the West Ham defence.

West Ham too created some good chances with Carlton Cole in particular looking like West Ham’s strongest and most willing player.

16 minutes into the game, breakthrough came when Sagna’s looping cross from the right was punched straight to van Persie by Green and the Arsenal striker was happy to send his effort into the back of an empty net. Arsenal lead 1-0.

As Arsenal became seriously dominant with possession, the tempo of the game slowed down with Arsenal working on their passing flair.

A second goal was added to the score sheet as Van Persie’s corner from the right was powered home by Gallas’ header from five yards. Parker attempted to clear the ball off the line but he could only help the effort on its way. Arsenal lead 2-0.

Not much else happened in the first half. Arsenal were in possession of the ball and in total control of the match.

The second half got underway with the same slow tempo and Arsenal in possession. There were a couple of attempts but nothing with substance.

Some energy was gained when West Ham made a substitution. West Ham drove forward on a couple of occasions but failed to test Mannone.

Fabregas had a go from long-range as his swerving effort from 30 yards went narrowly wide of Green’s left hand post. That would have been a great goal. Unfortunate.

West Ham’s changes seems to do the trick as after 74 minutes Diamanti’s curving free-kick from 20 yards was parried by Mannone to Cole on the edge of the Arsenal six-yard box. The West Ham striker easily headed home to give his side hope. Score sheet 2-1 to Arsenal.

Misery for Arsenal as West Ham are awarded a penalty after Cole was brought down carelessly by Song. Diamanti converts the penalty for an unexpected equaliser for West Ham. All square at 2-2.

West Ham were down to 10 men after 85 minutes played when Parker received a second yellow after a foul on Fabregas.

Both teams fought to grab the winner, putting everything forward. However, the referee blew the whistle to end the match at two a piece. Full match report here.

Disappointing draw for Arsenal. Deja vu anyone? After controlling the majority of the match and with a 2 goal advantage and only getting one point, I am sure Arsene Wenger has a lot to say to the boys! :S

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11 responses to “West Ham 2 Arsenal 2”

  1. emma says:
    October 27, 2009 at 3:57 am

    Fati….

    thanks.I am abit older than that…haha….but younger than Cesc.

    Sim…

    i simply love liverpool cause they beat man u…..but i really3 hate that madcester teams.

  2. Sim says:
    October 26, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    eeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr damn i’m so piss*d offfff! still! this is the game that could lose us the title r we ganno hav another loads draws like we did last season we cnt now cus of liverpoll n that shit*y
    spurs damn i hate them!

  3. WALID says:
    October 26, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Stupid mistakes like this can cost us the title we must stop playing poor if we have a good score we play verry wel we give the other team no chance but if they score arsenal got panic and if they panic the other team play better and score. we must finish them off and not wait and wait.

  4. Fati says:
    October 26, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Im very angry . . .
    why they lost winning in just 6 minutes !?
    we need all the points .

    wednesday . . . ARSENAL vs liverpool . . .
    liverpool beat manutd yesterday ! Gunners must be more careful for wednesday !
    Now Arsenal are third in table

    emma,HAPPY BIRTHDAY . . . :D (how old are you? 17?)

  5. Zicha says:
    October 26, 2009 at 10:44 am

    ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

    thats all i have to say on the matter.

  6. billie says:
    October 26, 2009 at 9:06 am

    quite right, but a really good article on the match, I saw it the same way 8)

  7. emma says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:24 am

    i am still nursing my frustration.

    after all today is my birthday……

    i expect goal feast n full 3 points as present.

  8. Tuty says:
    October 26, 2009 at 3:03 am

    I actually woke up in the wee hours of the morning to watch the match. Guess they didn’t learn,
    not even from Man Sh*tty which only minutes earlier also lost their 2-goal lead to draw against
    Fulham. Yes, we’re in third but we could’ve closed the gap with Chelsh*t. I’m sure the lads
    knew this; what I don’t understand is why they didn’t work to ensure that. Whatever happened
    to our free-scoring days? Cesc and Arshavin put on disappointing performance, maybe I
    expected too much from them but surely, we fans can have expectations too? I’m so gutted.

  9. lucyhangon says:
    October 25, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    We could not finish them off. I am totally frustrated. We controlled the game but in ten min. we
    concede really silly goals. At the end it will cost us. I am very dissappointed.

  10. Reyna says:
    October 25, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    I’m angry, desepcionada truth, we have gone twice this week I can not bother me at Arsenal today desepcionaron

  11. emma says:
    October 25, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    sad….we lost points ….twice within this week….

    with spur n man u losing n man city n villa draw…we are in good position to get full points n go up the table.

    anyway we still scoring more than others but coceded alot at the same time.

    is it possible manny will have better chance against penalty as compare to manone?

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