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- Written by Shane Thomas
You could feel it from Arsenal station all the way up to the Emirates Stadium. As the throngs of fans took their seats, the primary emotion was one of anxiety. Last weekend's miserable display against Swansea was a harsh slap to the face for the club. Had we turned up to see a painful repeat?
The talk before the game from Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky not only acknowledged that recent performances have not been good enough, but also pledged that we would see greater endeavour from the players. This promise was carried out, as there was a greater zeal, not only to work hard to win possession, but to also try and play the more difficult pass, rather than just pass sideways.
Even though Arsenal monopolised the ball, the nerves would remain with the score at 0-0. The opening goal was fully merited, even if the circumstances that led to it were unseemly.
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- Written by Joe Smith
An embarrassing dive from Santi Cazorla will overshadow what was an exceptional performance – not just from him, but the entire team.
Wojciech Szczesny – 7 – solid performance. West Brom only had the one shot on target today so he didn’t really have much to do. No complaints with the clean sheet.
Bacary Sagna – 7 – supposedly was carrying a knock today but you couldn’t tell. After fears over his future were rubbished by both the player and manager earlier in the week, the Frenchman put in a solid performance.
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- Written by Joe Smith
After Saturday’s disappointing defeat to Swansea, an alternative XI continued Arsenal’s recent poor run of form. However, there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
Wojciech Szczesny – 7 – made some good saves throughout and wasn’t at fault for any of their goals. Got booked for rightfully complaining to the ref about their first goal not being a corner in the first place.
Carl Jenkinson – 7 – almost got caught out in the second half but a solid performance nevertheless. He was decent going forward and his pace came in handy a lot. A decent performance.
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- Written by Sam Steele
Following from the weekend’s quite simply abysmal performance at home to Swansea, Arsenal returned to Champions League duty, in a competition where they haven’t performed too badly this season, as they travelled to Olympiakos. However, with qualification already sorted, a weakened Arsenal side succumbed to defeat in the Greek capital.
Arsenal had only four survivors from the weekend, with most players being rested and left at home. This gave opportunities to fringe players such as Chamakh and Squillaci to prove themselves, while young and diminutive full-back Jernade Meade was given his full debut, and also saw the long awaited return of Tomas Rosicky to the starting line up after another injury problem. However, despite a significantly improved performance, Arsenal lost 2-1 to the hosts.
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- Written by Will O'Doherty
At 0-0, this was just another tedious display that has become the norm. But in many ways Swansea did us a favour, scoring two richly-deserved goals that could leave even the most bleary-eyed optimist in no doubt. Arsenal’s 2012/13 vintage is corked.
The end of an era
Yesterday had the feel of an era ended. Anger over listless draws in the past week left the camel’s back a straws’ weight from breaking. Then Swansea dropped a big, fuck-off tree on it.
The boos that some in the press described as “deafening” were far from unanimous but the overwhelming sense both in the ground and online was that the people in charge of the club had broken it.
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