Arsenal Highlights

Fabregas, however, ended any hopes of a comeback after 77 minutes when he slotted home after being played in by Arshavin following a surging 40-yard run.

Samir Nasri has tweet in his twitter that he will be given 10 lucky winners when his follower on twitter hits 100,000 followers. While Jack Wilshere also tweets that he will be given free shirts when his followers hit 200,000 followers. So, do follow them on twitter and wait for their signal, and you might be winning free jersey from Arsenal it self.

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Robin Van Persie is back and firing. Scored 3 and could be more, and missed one penalty.

Last Night, man who scored 3 and missed one penalty against wigan giveaway free jersey for his fan on Twitter.
But they have to answer a question first from the frontman. 10 lucky winners with correct and fastest answer will be given the prize.

The question is:
                     How many goals have I scored officially (in all    competitions, so the league and cups) for Feyenoord, Arsenal Fc and for Holland."

the contest already over and winner already been picks. hope Samir Nasri will do the same!

Arsenal won 3-0 over West Ham United at Upton Park. 2 goals from Robin Van Persie, and 1 from Walcott has left The Hammer at the bottom of the league table.


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Van Persie & Walcott Post Match:

Arsenal have suffered only their second defeat to lower league sides in 42 games under Arsene Wenger. Ipswich win 1-0 in the Carling Cup 1st leg Semi Final.

Tamas Priskin fired Championship strugglers Ipswich to a deserved win over a strong Arsenal side in Wednesday night's Carling Cup semi-final first leg at Portman Road.

                                                                     Tamas Priskin celebrate his goal


The Tractors boys had been thrashed 7-0 at Chelsea in their FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday after axing Roy Keane. However, there was to be no repeat tonight as under the guidance of Ian McParland, with new boss Paul Jewell watching from the stands, a second-half strike from Priskin gave the Suffolk side reward for their endeavours and a slender advantage which to defend at Emirates Stadium in a fortnight's time.

Arsenal had only just scraped a 1-1 draw in their home FA Cup clash against Leeds on Saturday through a last-minute penalty from captain Cesc Fabregas. Arsene Wenger had warned against a repeat performance, and he looked to have taken no chances by naming a strong XI which included Spain World Cup winner Fabregas as well as England internationals Theo Walcott and Jack Wilshere.

However, once more the Premier League title challengers failed to hit top gear and were fortunate not to lose by a bigger margin.

Both teams made positive starts, with half-chances for Walcott and Fabregas, while Ipswich forward Connor Wickham, a reported Arsenal target, was also lively on a slick playing surface.

After 14 minutes, the hosts broke quickly as Priskin received the ball up on the left before cutting inside and unleashing a 20-yard curling effort which flashed just wide.

Arsenal continued to probe, with Walcott drilling his shot across the six-yard box. Despite all of their positive build-up, just like on Saturday, the Premier League side lacked a cutting edge in the final third.

Slowly Ipswich worked their way back into the tie, forcing a couple of corners to give the capacity Suffolk crowd a lift. Wojciech Szczesny flapped at a ball into the six-yard box as Gareth McAuley headed over, before Ipswich captain David Norris was inches away from connecting with Wickham's left-wing cross.

The home fans were on their feet when Priskin netted an acrobatic overhead kick after 42 minutes, but celebrations were immediately cut short by an offside flag.

Walcott skipped into the area at the start of the second half, before tripping over the ball - which drew ironic cheers from the home fans after the Arsenal forward had admitted to diving against Leeds.

Fabregas chipped a pass through to Arshavin down the left, but the diminutive Russian could not control his shot, firing an angled volley high and wide.

Ipswich, though, refused to lay down and continued to take the game to their illustrious visitors, Wickham again catching the eye with some powerful runs.

Mark Kennedy robbed Fabregas and, with Szczesny off his line, tried an audacious 35-yard lob, but the recovered quickly to make a comfortable save.

Emmanuel Eboue was then caught in possession by Priskin, but recovered to block the Ipswich striker's goalbound shot.

Just after the hour, somehow Arsenal survived when a long ball caught out Koscielny.

For a moment Priskin was clean through on goal, however Johan Djourou made a brilliant interception to knock the ball over his own crossbar from inside the six-yard box.

As the rain lashed down on Portman Road, Arsenal continued to give the ball away cheaply. Gibbs cut inside from the left and fired a shot wide from 20 yards, before, after 67 minutes, Wenger made a change when Alex Song replaced Wilshere and Marouane Chamakh came on for the ineffective Nicklas Bendtner.

Arsenal immediately looked to raise the tempo, Fulop making a smart save at his near post after Walcott had been played in by Fabregas.

The Arsenal skipper then put Gibbs' cross over from four yards out off his thigh after Chamakh had just failed to connect.

Ipswich finally made the breakthrough after 78 minutes when Colin Healy's through-ball split the Arsenal centre-backs and Priskin got ahead of Djourou to calmly slot into the bottom right corner.

Wenger immediately sent on pacy Mexican forward Carlos Vela, replacing Arshavin.

The Gunners pressed forward, with Fulop coming out to block Walcott before Szczesny saved from Carlos Edwards at his near post and the Tractor Boys closed out for a famous victory.


                                                                                                                   Source :Soccernet.com

Injuries of Varmaelen and Squillaci have force Arsene Wenger to enter transfer market t0 find another defender to cover busy January schedule.

Spoken to official website of Arsenal, the Frenchmen admits he has “internal solutions” and a cramped fixture list will make it difficult to seal a deal but he does have an idea of his requirements.

“Ideally it would be better if they were adapted to English football,” he said. “If you need players now in January then you cannot wait three months before they can play. If the opportunity turns up we will fetch it but, if not, I believe we can cope.

“We always have people in mind and we check them out. We look everywhere. It’s difficult to find [them] at this period of the season but overall I feel at the moment we have so many games that it’s very important just to focus on the next one.

“We have solutions internally with Ignasi Miquel, with Alex Song who can play centre back and with Squillaci, who should come back very quickly.

“If we find somebody at the right level we will do it, if not we will continue like this.” via Arsenal.com

Name of his former players Sol Campbell also being reported to join for third time, but Arsene Wenger ruled out that move by saying “Sol Campbell is at Newcastle,” Wenger told TV Online on Tuesday. “We have not been in touch with him, no.”

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Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas has yet again rubbished speculation about his future as he confirmed how his future will be at Arsenal.

Speaking to the News of the World, the 23-year old believes he has no reason to the leave as Arsenal is a fantastic Club and because his dream is to lift trophies with the Gunners. On joining Barcelona to seek a new challenge, the Catalan explained one can be attracted by the prospect of a new adventure but how the challenge at this stage of his career is to help Arsenal win trophies.

On how some questioned his loyalty, the midfielder said that it hurts when people suggested he was not really injured or how his heart was somewhere else as he always gives 100% for the Club.

Fabregas was the hero for Arsenal last Saturday when he came on as a substitute and scored a last-minute penalty to force a third-round F.A. Cup replay against Leeds United.

On his future, he said:----

"Why would I want to leave? It is fantastic here. It would be a dream to lift trophies for Arsenal. It has always been my wish.

Afterwards you can always be attracted by something else, like a new objective, or new challenges because, for me, life is all about challenges. But my real challenge as captain of Arsenal is to bring this football club success.

This is the biggest dream I can have. I want to end these five years without a trophy and, hopefully, I can do it this season.

It hurt me a lot to be injured and then hear some things, that my head was not here and my heart was somewhere else.

I often played when I wasn’t 100 per cent and it is painful to hear that kind of thing when you have worked so hard for this club and when you give everything for them"-----. via GunningHawk.com

Arsenal Legend Thierry Henry back at Arsenal.

The Gunners legend returned to London Colney on Monday to train with Arsène Wenger's squad. The short-term arrangement will help Henry maintain his fitness ahead of the new MLS campaign, which begins in March.

Henry joined the New York Red Bulls last year and helped them reach the play-offs where they lost on aggregate to San Jose Earthquakes in November.

The former Arsenal captain scored a record 226 goals during a glittering career in north London and was a member of the 'Invincibles' squad that completed an unbeaten campaign in 2003/04. via Arsenal.com

Sebastian Squillaci suffered slight hamstring injury in FA cup match against Leeds United.

Squillaci suffered a slight strain during Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Leeds United and the manager says he will assess the extent of the injury before deciding whether to dip into the market.

If the French defender’s prognosis is poor, Wenger would be left with Laurent Koscielny and Johan Djourou as his only two fit recognised central defenders.

Although long-term absentee Thomas Vermaelen, out since September with an Achilles injury, is pencilled in for a return at the end of January, Wenger isn’t willing to take a chance.

"If he [Squillaci] has a problem then we must quickly go for a player,” said the Frenchman.

"Squillaci came off with a little hamstring problem and if we only have two centre backs then that cannot work with the number of games we have.” via Arsenal.com