Gunner Teens beat Wigan at home; ManU struggle

The gunners are really getting back in form. Last week they beat ManU and now this!!! This is a clarion call for all Gooners. 

Arsene Wenger gave his first team a break for the Cup match after their grueling match against the champs. Instead he sent another side of Arsenal, the inexperienced but spirited youngsters. The experienced Wigan side, missing Heskey had their strongest tema sperheaded by Zaki. 

Wenger had his attack spearheaded by Mexican starket Vela and new find Jay Simpson, along with Ramsey and Wilshere. Fabianski was nominated as the Goalkeeper.

Arsenal started well, keeping the ball and passing, but the rival goalkeeper Kirkland did everything in his power to stop them. He frustrted the strikers, tipping the ball away nearly everytime. Fabianski didnt have to do much, but was forced to make a beautiful save when an unexpected shot was directed on goal.

But Arsenal were not to be denied. A through pass from the midfiled to Simpson was duly finished by the English youngster to give Arsenal the much neede

d lead. But the goals did not stop there!! Another through pss by Wilshere to Vela was unselfishly passed to Simpson who scored a second goal past Kirkland.

Vela finally finished things with a beautiful 18 yard chip over the rather small Krkland to allow arsenal to advance to the next round of the Carling Cup. The team received much praise and no one, I say no one will dare question Wenger's tactics again( I HOPE).   

Manchester United meanwhile struggled to a 1-0 victory over next division team QPR. The divison one team is comfortably placed at 7th in their league, but did not think of giving an easy victory to the EPL champs.

Fergie, disgusted after the Arsenal loss, sent out a relatively younger squad agaisnt the under dogs, but could not dispose of them at his leisure. QPR and ManU had nearly the same shot on target, though the champs hogged possession. Tevez and Anderson could not inspire the Red Devils to an empatic win over QPR, and instead required a 77 minute penalty to edge out the vi

sitors, which Tevez dispatched easily.

So with two friends Fergie and Wenger in different moods, what will be the actual outcome of the EPL and Carling cup???

Carling Cup: Tottenham thrash Liverpool as Burnley stun Chelsea

It was a very eventful night, a night which saw the joint EPL leaders crash out of the "Mickey-Mouse" cup, or the Carling Cup.

It was the first time in 26 years since Burnley had last visited Stamford Bridge, and they made the most of the opportunity, by fighting with all the little might they had fired past Chelsea into the quarterfinals on penalties (4-5). Drogba opened the scoring for Chelsea in the 27th minute, with a run into the box and a curling shot low into the bottom right corner. Well, the controversy regarding the coin erupted at this moment, with Drogba throwing back the little coin fired at him. They maintained their lead for major part of the match, but they didn't know that they had a surprise waiting for them. Akinbiyi fired in from close range to cancel out Chelsea's first, after Cudicini made a mess off Chris Eagle's impressive shot. Drogba's substitution Di Santo almost allowed Scolari's men to take the lead again, but his shot hit the side netting. Burnley were even reduced to 10 men with four minutes of extra time remaining, with their skipper being sent off for doing absolutely nothing to Malouda. The match then went into penalties with Graham Alexander, Alan Mahon, Chris Eagles, Michael Duff and Kevin McDonald scoring for Burnley and Frank Lampard, Kalou and Paulo Ferreira scoring for Chelsea. Mikel's penalty was brilliantly stopped by Jensen, ensuring their progress to the quarters and embarrassment for Scolari and his men.

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Roman Pavlyuchenko came back to haunt Liverpool as he and Fraizer Campbell took full advantage of their starting berths with a 4-2 victory for the Spurs. Hyypia and Plessis scored for the visitors in the second half, but it wasn't enough as a spirited Tottenham side reigned at White Hart Lane, leaving Redknapp with his 5th win in 6 matches in all competitions in his unbeaten start since he took over.

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spurs v reds

ARSENAL PROGRESS IN THE CARLING CUP

Arsenal moved to the top of the EPL after a slice of good luck which saw Manchester United draw with Chelsea and Liverpool get stuck with Stoke. No one expected Arsenal to stay at the top after last year’s disastrous attempt at the title, which saw the Gunners relinquish their firm hold on the title in the last part of the season.

But the ever ready Gunners have given the fans something to hope for after their youngest players dominated the 3rd round of the Carling Cup against Sheffield United.

Arsenal played Vela, Bendtner and Wilshere, along with Randall, Djourou and Ramsey with Fabianski being the oldest of the squad at 23. This was the first time in years that Wenger has played 5 English players in the starting lineup, with 4 subs.

Bendtner scored first after half an hour and then doubled the lead. Vela struck the third before half time. A hapless Sheffield United gave away 3 more in the second half too, with Vela scoring his second, Wilshere scoring his first goal in the Carling Cup, and Vela putting the icing with his third, completing a memorable hat-trick.

Highlights! Compiled by blizzard!

GOOD JOB GUNNERS!!!