English Premier League Recap: Part 2 – the weekend's losers
Every weekend, Premier League stars take to the field and try to help their respective teams come out on top at the end of ninety minutes. However, there can only be one winner and one loser at the end of the ninety minutes. Here is a look at the losers
from the previous week of matches.
Arsenal/Arsene Wenger: Arsenal drew their last match as a result of a last second kick, that ended up costing the team two crucial points against Sunderland. Also it is not right for any manager to physically put his hands on a match official
while questioning him. The manager seemed to have lost his mind, when the referee kept the game rolling on for an extra two minutes and in the last second of that extra-extra time Sunderland managed to pull one goal back, sending Wenger into a diabolical form
of rage and causing him to physically go up to the referee and give him a piece of his mind.
However it is still unclear to many if the ultimate loser after Arsenal’s game, is the team or the referee’s who add extra time but fail to really take into account what it is there for.
Almost everyone is well aware of the fact that the time that is added on at the end of the match is the minimal extra time that will be played by every team. None the less that doesn’t mean that the referee go ahead and add extra time to the already added extra
time for no reason at all. The referee stated after the match was over that he added those extra minutes at the end of the game to make up for the time the ball spent in the stands. However there was only one corner in the extra four minutes and the only stoppages
were in Sunderland’s favour. Which is why Wenger had every right to be infuriated by the referee at the end of the match, however laying his hands on the referee was taking it a little too far and ultimately made the manager lose any and all the sympathy that
footballing world would have had for him.
Cesc Fabregas: Cesc Fabregas, the Arsenal captain and quite easily the main man at the club, managed to injure his hamstring for the fifth time in the last thirteen months. The player managed to get the injury as a result of a freak goal
that he scored. Anton Ferdinand was clearing the ball for the Sunderland side, when Fabregas stuck his foot out and in saw the ball fly over the keeper and land into the back of the Sunderland goal in a rather odd manner.
However as a direct result the Arsenal captain managed to pick up a knock on his leg and was forced to be substituted from the game. The player is now out for two weeks and has added to the injury concerns the team is already facing. Despite the fact that
the player scored a goal as a result of his heroic effort, he could have avoided the injury all together if he had not gone in for the fifty-fifty. Had he stayed on the pitch and not scored the goal, it was safe to say that Arsenal would have gone on to win
the game as it is.
His replacement Thomas Rosicky also missed a crucial penalty in the last ten minutes of the game which ultimately led the team to miss a clear opportunity to take all three points from the game. Had Fabregas been on the pitch to take the spot kick it is
safe to say he would have converted it with ease.
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