Same Old Arsenal, Always Losing

Mission Accomplished by one of the twin terrors

Old rivalries between Fergie and Wenger are renewed but both old foxes recognised that they are battered old men too for the past two weeks. Wenger found himself kicked out of two competitions following an embarassing winning goal scored by Birmingham in the Carling Cup final and outplayed by Barca in Nou Camp. His boast of a Quadruple was silenced to a mere possible Double. On the hand, Fergie found himself outplayed by both Chelski and the Scousers at Stamford Bridge and Anfield respectively. It is clear that both needed a massive Cup boost and the loser from this knock-out round will surely be damned badly. The stakes are high. Loser goes home with a huge moral deficit to make up for. Fergie is known to have placed some of the wackiest line-ups, such as putting Fletcher as right-back, Carrick as a center-back or Evra as a left winger. But no one was prepared to see him field a total of SEVEN defenders. Brown, Smalling, Vidic and Evra in core defensive duties. Twins effect Rafael and Fabio will occupy the right and left wing. Jack-of-all-trades O Shea goes to the center with Gibson. You could say that the entire midfield is an untested combination overall.

In any case, the Gooners could not handle the makeshift midfield or the substitute striker pair of Rooney and Hernandez. It is very bizarre to see that the da Silva twins actually performed better as wingers rather than standard defenders..lol. In the 27th minute, Hernandez forced Almunia into a save and the ball spilled onto an incoming Fabio who delightedly put it into the open net. Rafael was the architect in the 2nd goal at 48th minute of the 2nd half. Hernandez was again in acres of a goal-scoring opportunity when he was robbed of the ball but fortunately another player was there to pick up the remnants again and it's Rooney this time who scores. Wayne's recovery back to the goal-scoring trail looks to be good. The Gooners couldn't find a way to overcome the score and with the final whistle, Wenger is condemned to the fact that the Gooners are kicked out of a third competition in 3 weeks. Now, all that's left is the Premier League or nothing. Incredible, from an audicious claim of Quadruple, Wenger was forced to eat his words. The mental strength of the Gooners are all in shambles now.

I believe this would be a massive boost for United in their next few matches, most notably the one against Marseille this Wednesday. I have a vested interest in this because I want to watch a Champions League match live against a massive European opponent! So, come on United! =D