Unlucky Arsenal Lose 3 Points

By Our Correspondent
for Arsenal New Today

Published: December 20, 2011

Although Arsenal lost 1-0 to Manchester City on Sunday, there was absolutely no shame in the defeat. In fact, Arsenal could have gone on to win the game. The rub of the green was against the Gunners. Van Persie put the ball in the back of the net with a delicate chip over Joe Hart, but the linesman ruled it offside. Later, the ball clearly struck Micah Richards on the arm, but the referee decided it wasn’t a penalty. Playing a side that put six past United, Arsenal went toe-to-toe and gave them a very good fight. It was a better performance than the one at home against the same opposition in the Carling Cup and Arsenal at least deserved a point from it.

What went against the team was perhaps the bench-strength. Arsenal had Arshavin, Rosicky, Benayoun, Frimpong, Miquel, Chamakh and Almunia. On papers it is a strong bench, but we don’t play football on papers. Chamakh and Arshavin are going through the worst form of their lives. Arshavin had two glorious opportunities to score or to set a teammate, but ended up squandering both. Chamakh, apart from his hold-up play, is..well..useless at the moment. That’s where Arsenal lost the game. We didn’t have an impact player to come in and change the game for us. That we don’t have a single fit full-back is a different matter.

With Gervinho and Chamakh going to play in the Africa Cup of Nations in January, Arsenal must buy quality replacements. We are not only short in defence, we also need strikers to support the excellent Van Persie.

On Wednesday we play Villa, followed by a game against Wolverhampton at home. Must win games for us if we are to keep pace with the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs.

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