Wolves gunned down
By: DJ | November 7th, 2009
Wolves went down to the defeat that newly promoted teams are expected to have against one of the top teams in the Premier League. For half an hour they stayed in the game and provided some problems for their opponents but then the Gunners scored three times in 15 minutes to give them a flatterng but game deciding three goal half time lead.
Following his impressive substitute appearance last week Milijas was brought in to the starting line up and it was Michael Kightly who stepped down to the bench. Stearman, who came off the bench at Stoke to replace Elokobi at left back, was given the starting role in that position.
Hennessey, Zubar, Craddock, Berra,Stearman, Edwards, Henry, Castillo, Milijas, SEB, Doyle.
Kightly came on for Castillo and Jarvis for Milijas during the second half.
Wolves started so brightly with Arsenal conceding a host of free kicks and the delivery of Milijas causing plenty of problems for the Arsenal defence. A header from Ebanks Blake flashed past the post for the closest call. After doing so well it was disappointing that the opening Arsenal goal came from a straight forward corner that bounced in off Zubar. Then from a breakaway a chip from Eduardo hit Craddock and looped over Hennessey into the net. Wolves hadn’t deserved to fall behind with two such soft goals but the third goal that put the nail in the coffin was from brilliant inter passing between Sagna, Van Persie and then slotted in by Fabregas.
The second half was largely a non event. Arsenal extended their lead when Hennessey punched a cross out to the edge of the box where Arshavin hit the ball back through a crowded area in to the net. Wolves gained a late consolation when Craddock scored his third goal in 8 days with a header from a Jarvis corner.
In the end you would have to say Wolves were outclassed as the difference between the elite teams and the bottom half of the table was highlighted in the quality of ball control, movement and passing. Possibly more of the same in the next game in two weeks time against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. So Wolves now find themselves in the dreaded bottom three and we have to hope that the heads don’t drop before we come to the end of this difficult run of fixtures and Wolves can meet their seasonal survival target.
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Yeah, you guys played pretty well, especially in the first 25 minutes or so. The scoreline definitely flattered us. But if you keep up the recent form, I think you should be good enough to stay up–best of luck.
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Bottom two!!
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United States -
o.k. back to reality, thats what happens when you don’t take your chances. We gifted Arsenal the goal we probably on the run of play deserved ourselves, then you have a completely different game. Still happy with the effort, if we keep playing like this and the goals come more freely better times will come…
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p.s. didn’t want to admit it but arsenal are a quality side and like mick says our season won’t be judged on games like that.
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