Arsenal draw 2-2 against West Bromwich Albion – English Premier League news
Arsenal, who found themselves merely 3 points off the pace to League leaders Manchester United with a game in hand, took their foot off the gas pedal after registering a 2-2 draw against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns on Saturday.
After a torrid month, Arsenal looked set to focus on the only remaining competition ‘still’ within their grasp. Arsene Wenger’s side were knocked out of the Carling Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions League in the weeks that preceded the Premier League game
against the Baggies.
However, despite the ‘effective’ importance of the Premier League in the North Londoner’s 2010-11 season, the unit looked rather lethargic and under confident playing away from home. In as early as the 4th minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chris-c9006 Brunt’s corner found Steven
Reid who made no mistake heading in from close range.
Since then, the Gunners were on the back foot but managed to display some sparks of brilliance. Heading into the second half, it all went from bad to worse as West Brom scored a second goal to make it 2-0 for the home side. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Peter-Odemwingie-c29794 latched onto
a long ball delivered from the West Brom half. A charging http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-Almunia-c23386 found himself in no man’s land which enabled the opposing player to simply side-foot the ball into an empty net.
With 20 minutes remaining before the final whistle, Arsenal found a lifeline through the Russian Andrey Arshavin. Nearly 8 minutes later, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 equalised to level the scores.
The last 10 minutes provided opportunities to both sides. However, despite being able to claw their way back in the game and salvaging a point, it proves to be little consolation to the Gunners as Manchester United, who despite being reduced to 10 men, were
able to score late against Bolton Wanderers. The game ended 1-0 to Sir Alex Ferguson’s men and puts the Red Devils 5 points clear of Arsenal.
Despite a game in hand, Arsenal’s prevailing low morale after being knocked out of 3 competitions in a short span of time looks to hamper their performance. With almost 8 games to go in the current campaign, can Arsenal dig deep and finally finish their
trophy draught? – Only time can tell.
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