Goonersphere's match review page covering all first team matches. Reviews include scores, injury updates, match stats, and player ratings.
Sam Stubbs-Benbow, known on Twitter as @sambangsdrums, is a student in Sound for television and is a keen musician. He has been following the Arsenal all his life and more widely, is a football nut, keen on anything to do with the beautiful game. You will find him at most home games and a few away ones and will be providing match reviews for Arsenal first team games this season.
Saturday was a miserable afternoon for Arsenal. We threw away a lead, saw two more players join the injury list and watched a late penalty sail over the bar. We played poorly for large parts of the game too and after struggling to a point against Sp*rs, these last two league games have brought our momentum to a juddering halt.
For once, I’m very glad that there is an international break. Arsenal looked exhausted and depleted as they laboured to a 1-1 draw in the North London Derby. Although a draw against Sp*rs shouldn’t really be a good result for us, in the context of our injury crisis, some difficult recent games and how poorly we played on the day, I’m happy we came away with a point. We kept pace with City too, after they drew at Villa and the break should allow some of our many injured players to return.
I wrote after the Swansea game that this week was a series of three tests. Well although we passed the first one, this second test was a bit more like that episode of The Inbetweeners where Will shits himself and has to leave the exam hall. To be honest though, I don't think we deserved to be on the end of such a spanking. We actually played quite well in the first half, but the key moments went against us and leaves us needing something of a miracle to get through.
