Carling Cup - Quarter Finals

Blackburn 2 Santa Cruz
Arsenal 3 Abou Diaby Eduardo 2


Woah! what a match!

It has everything a cup tie supposed to have. An early lead (happy), then the lead increased (happier), then a shot against the bar which would effectively end the tie... the home side scored (remained calm), then our former player (David Bentley) who seemed to play out of his skin against us, created the chance that leveled the score (a bit agitated but still calm) but the last straw during normal time, the sending off after the altercation with that f*ck face (AARRRGGHHHHH!!!) felt like kicking the TV (but I am not that well to do enough to do such things) then the injury to our young talent (very concerned) before celebrating the winning goal from the new guy (happy but moaned at the amount of time left to play) then the final whistle (happiest)

Now, what are the chances that we are going to meet the Sp*ds in the last four...

I believe Lukasz Fabianski is our long term solution between the post, as I always stressed before. Hopefully he will make his first appearance in the Premier League soon, or the FA Cup for that matter.

I really hope Lassana Diarra will not leave the club. He is an asset and I believe his time will come. Who knows Matty Flamini will be out for a long time (God forbid!) I believe he would be the perfect replacement.

Alex Song looked good and his final ball that led to Eduardo scoring the winner was some sort of a reminder why Arsene Wenger put so much faith in this young man.

Perhaps the press in the UK will have a field day with another red card to an Arsenal player, apart from Wenger being dismissed from the pitch himself against Sevilla the other day. But the way I see it is there are so much resilience in the current Gunners' squad that even a different
starting eleven still managed to see off a full strength physical side such as Blackburn.

Rafa Benitez must be green with envy.

Eduardo is settling in well and I believe that he would be able to find his groove in the Premier League soon, especially with the coming of the busy period at Christmas. It seems Brazilians like this tournament very much, right? Remember four goal at Anfield, Julio Baptista?

Up the Gooners!