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Arseblog: Monday 9th May 2005

May 9th

Is there a finer way to start your week than basking in the warm, beating-your-brotherly glow of a 3-1 win over Liverpool? A 4-1 win perhaps but that’s nit picking.

After a nervy kind of start in which Jens Lehmann made a great save from Riise Arsenal dominated the first half and had a Reyes goal disallowed for offside before Robert Pires, who is again strongly linked with a move to Lyon, opened the scoring with a great free kick from about 25 yards.

A couple of minutes later Cesc put José Antonio Reyes through, Jamie Carragher fell on his arse, Hypiia forgot how to tackle and he finished clinically through Dudek’s legs. 2-0 at half time was no less than we deserved.

Liverpool changed it around at half-time and brought on Kewelll (bullet dodged there, big time) and Djibril Cissé whose hair looks like a maze for lice. That paid dividends within a few minutes when Steven Gerrard Lamparded home a dubious free kick. They had a lot of possession without too many chances and it was a good test for our defence who stood tall and strong yet again. Senderos having another game which makes it difficult for the the boss to bring back Sol Campbell.

Right at the death man of the match Cesc Fabregas made the game safe after nice work between Lauren and Bergkamp. He’d earlier had one disallowed for offside. The win more or less assures second place and guarantees Champions League football for Everton who can thank us personally at Highbury on Wednesday night. We did pick up a couple of knocks along the way with Gilberto, Vieira and Pires all ‘worrying‘ the boss but on a positive note he was very pleased with how well the young players did, saying “This team is getting better from game to game. There are many young players in the team — and they are the future.”

I also liked his quote about the Ashley Cole hearing when he said “International wars have been settled quicker.”

Freddie Ljungberg and Thierry Henry (what was with that jacket yesterday?) have a week to prove their fitness or they’ll miss the cup final. They’re definitely out of Wednesday’s game and unless they’re back in contention for the final league game of the season against Birmingham they’re likely to miss out on the big one. Elsewhere Lauren has come out of international retirement and will play for Cameroon next month.

Now, a competition (UK readers only though), I’m afraid. You can win yourself a Sharp GX-15 pay as you talk phone with some cool software from yomego which allows you to make your own Arsenal player animations and other cool stuff. See here for more details on how to enter.

And that’s it. Mrs Blogger is back home today so I must tidy and clean like never before. Later.

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