Pretty much as soon as I sat down we were 1-0 down from a Maroune Chamakh header after 39 seconds, not the way to start against a team like Arsenal. Stephen Hunt came on soon after for Dave Edwards due to a thigh strain which set us up better on the wings, only problem being that Hunt likes to play on the left but Jarvis is miles better on that side than the right. Truth be told it should have been game over after 15 minutes but Marcus Hahnemann kept us in the match despite his poor form of late with a couple of decent saves. Gradually we got back into the game and stopped Arsenal from playing their style and came close with a Kevin Doyle header going just over from a set piece.
The second half was much more open with chances at either end. Straight from the kick off Wilshere lost the ball in his own box that led to a Jarvis cross of which Milijas connected to but was blocked brilliantly then Fabregas should have scored after a Henry mistake but stroked wide of the post. When Doyle gets a goal this season I'm pretty, pretty sure he'll get ten for the season, he came so close twice but for the outstanding Lukasz Fabianski and a shot that shaved the post after a great run, he failed yet again. Andrei Arshavin hit the post up the other end from 20 yards out as the match continued to go back and forth. Controversial point of the match came when Cesc Fabregas caught Stephen Ward after the ball had gone, Mark Halsey gave him a yellow card when it should have been a straight red. Again is this the big teams getting favours from referees like Gary Neville against Stoke a few weeks back? I don't know but the chants of "if that were us, you'd send him off" were more than likely correct. Back to the match, Steven Fletcher came on for the injured Ward & Sylvan Ebanks-Blake for Mancienne as we continued to pile on the pressure and go all out for an equalizer in the final few minutes. Just about at the end of the four mins of added time Berra's left footed shot was saved and we got done on the counter with Chamakh scoring again. We didn't deserve that at all.
Our man of the match goes to Nenad Milijas, he's getting better and better each match and he'll set up and score a few the way he's going. If only luck was on our side for once we'd of picked up at least 3 or 4 more points so far this season but got to be happy with 3 points from the top 4 teams when I didn't think of getting any at all. If we play like this against Bolton, Blackpool, Sunderland, Blackburn, Birmingham, West Brom and Wigan we'll start climbing up the table and everyone will be happy by Christmas time.
'Geesus'
LINE-UPS
WOLVES: Hahnemann; Foley, Stearman, Berra, Ward (Fletcher 88); Edwards (Hunt 8), Mancienne (Ebanks-Blake 79), Henry, Milijas, Jarvis; Doyle
ARSENAL: Fabianski; Sagna, Squillaci, Djourou, Clichy; Song, Wilshere (Denilson 67), Rosicky, Fabregas, Arshavin (Nasri 90); Chamakh (Bendtner 90)
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