Tottenham 5 Jenas, Bendtner (OG), Keane, Lennon, Malbranque
Arsenal 1 Adebayor
Arsenal lost 6-2 on aggregate
I missed the match. When the pages of ESPN Soccernet and Arsenal.com were fully loaded on this screen I scarcely could believe the scoreline. It has been a while since we last taste defeat at the hands of Sp*ds and I have had this feeling it is something that was inevitable to happen.
Well, it happened last night, or rather this morning considering our time.
After luckily avoiding defeat at the Emirates during the first leg, I had been bugged by the feeling that the second leg encounter would see us losing to them for the first time, especially Juande Ramos would definitely name his best eleven against our youngsters.
Nevertheless, we have last season experience to bank on when we came back from two goal down to draw at the Lane before finishing the job at the Emirates. This time around, there was no such performance from us.
We trailed by two goals after Jermaine Jenas had opened the scoring just after three minutes and the unfortunate Nicklas Bendtner headed past Lukasz Fabianski from a corner. Then the score became 4-0 after Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon finished the chances that came their way.
Despite Manu Adebayor's scoring his 16th goal this season with twenty minutes to go, there was no comeback this time from the young Gooners. Steed Malbranque nothed the fifth at the end but Arsene Wenger was not that worried with the scoreline. Instead he saw it as a learning curve for the youngsters.
Furthermore, he insisted that his priority lies with the bigger prizes such as the Premier League, the European Champions League and the FA Cup. Hey! It seems that we are still on course for the 'Treble'.
Not bad, not bad at all.
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