Lucky Breaks at Upton

WEST HAM UNITED 0
ARSENAL 2 Faubert OG, Adebayor

The trip to Upton Park is never easy and last night it was the same story. In front of their own crowd, West Ham gave everything their got and were nearly rewarded but to their credit Arsenal displayed their resilience to ensure they would leave with all the three points.

Nicklas Bendtner started the match together with Robin Van Persie upfront but the lanky Dane showed he lacked the match practice that is needed to perform at this level. But his talent eventualy came good later when his pass found substitute Manu Adebayor who beat Robert Green in the fourth minute of added time.

Before that, Green was having a very good game by denying the Arsenal frontline time and time again. It was not unique for the goalkeeper though, who seems to save his best against Arsenal. However he could do nothing when his own defender did the favour for the visitors by deflecting Adebayor’s shot which was going wide into his own net.

Throughout the match, I kept thinking that Arsenal would eventually come through but at the same time there was this sense of vulnerability that things could go wrong and we would suffer our third defeat of the season which would seriously reduced our hope of being a serious title challenger.

But in the end I was very thankful for the points which kept us within touching of Liverpool who played very well to end Chelski’s four and half year unbeaten run which began after we became the last team to win there back in 2004.

Now another London derby awaits, and this time it will be more interesting as the Sp*ds come avisiting the Emirates on Thursday morning Malaysian time.

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