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| S ę dzia M. Dean | ||
| ARSENAL | 1-2 | BIRMINGHAM CITY |
| Van Persie 38 ' | | Zigic 28 ' Martins 88' |
Well - wait a trophy yet ... Arsenal lost today, deservedly the Carling Cup final with great playing and great struggling Birmingham City. In truth, after what has happened in two minutes I had a strange feeling that if we won, but it would be a great injustice. Of course, still shook as possible crossed for a positive result, but somewhere deep seated belief in me that if we win this in a very large extent by the judge.
namely in 2 minutes, the assistant referee raised his flag indicating offside when in fact Birmingham midfielder - Bowyer was 2 meters before the last defender at Arsenal. completely inexplicable and embarrassing mistake. Since the late judge of that whistled offside, Bowyer managed to pass Szczesny, and he saw no other way out rival knocked to the ground. In conclusion, if not incredible indolence arbitrator, Birmingham should get a criminal, and Arsenal played 10, and Almunia in goal (who knows which is worse). And all Already from the game two minutes! It is worth noting also have another terrible mistake Clichego with guarding the line offside.
wrongly Teams continue to play in the full configurations, and on a large plate light at Wembley still could see the result 0-0. Injustice players who met in Birmingham, motivated them even more in the first half ruled on the pitch. In 28 minutes documented their goal difference advantage Zigicia Inuits. With the rest of this rise unless the attacker has won all the fights in the first part główkowanie meeting. At Arsenal, he played worse than Rosicky Fabregas would play on one leg, and only Wilshere, who slowly grows into one of the biggest stars of English football, and Van Persie played well and it is the Dutchman's genius gave us the equalizing goal in the 38th minute . Arsenal's players went down with relief but for a break, and I was hoping that Wenger pour them in the locker room a little oil to the head and glue in the shoes.
In the second half Arsenal started to play much better and created a few quite interesting situation. Especially Nasri repeatedly harassed Foster's ultra-powerful shots from distance. Foster, however, defended everything I could, even the face and not let the goal. Arsenal for it gave the beat - and its weaknesses. How long ago did not make a disastrous mistake in the defense, as any, had ever happened in the 88th minute of the final at Wembley. Unfortunately, Wojtek Szczesny had a big part in it. In the foreground Polish goal keeper to give the player landed inaccurate Birmingham. Arsenal players have the ocean of time to deal with it, and more specifically Szczesny should seamlessly embrace the the ball in his arms. Koscielny, however, failed to understand the intentions of the goalkeeper and he tried to knock futbolówkę just before Szczesny hands, but that he did not succeed - just missed in the large round object ... Wojtek was heavily confused and rather than catch the ball bounced it to niepilnowanego Obafemiego Martins, who is not no choice but to shove it into an empty net. An important aspect of this incident is whether Felix shouted to the church - "MY !!!!" if you do not - that 80% of the blame belongs to him, but if so - the wine is largely transferred to the Frenchman. Can we learn from interviews that have an excuse for themselves, both men.
After this error was no longer enough time for Arsenal to respond effectively and the cup flew through our fingers . Although everything seems to me that deservedly won the Birmingham and after 48 years can celebrate the victory in any competition. Our bad luck is still on ...
| Football | Note: | Justification: |
| Szczesny | 4.5 / 10 | early as 2 minutes should fly out of the pitch . Too little goes to wrzutek, in addition to unlucky misunderstanding of the church ... |
| Sagna | 7 / 10 | only reliable player in the back. |
| Koscielny | 6 / 10 | weaker performance, are not always dealt with strikers Birmingham |
| Djourou | 5 / 10 | like Djourou + huge klops lost at the second gate. |
| Clichy | 6 / 10 | lack of concentration in a few important points. |
| Song | 6 / 10 | Another very average performance. |
| Wilshere | 7.5 / 10 | Another great match to an Englishman. I love to see how easily, balance the body, he deceives rivals. The future of this club. |
| Rosicky | 5 / 10 | Poor played, and in the defensive game does not offer any support. |
| to Arshavin (76 ') | 6.5 / 10 | He did a lot of wind, but often lacked precision in crucial moments. |
| Van Persie (up to 68 ') | 7 / 10 | scored a beautiful goal and was very active. |
| Nasri | 7.5 / 10 | Less visible is the first installment, and the other gave a lot of dangerous shots and played phenomenally. |
| Bendtner (68 ') | 6.5 / 10 | He made some recovery, but the naked eye can see, it turned a different class than RvP. |
| Chamack (76 ') | - | He is too short to assess. |
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