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Arsenal vs Rangers Full time Report

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There was only two changes coming at the beginning of the second half with both being in defence, with Denilson and Traore replacing Gallas and Clichy.

Unlike the start, the second half lacked the speed and effectiveness that was displayed at the opening of the game as Arsenal were contained to half chances. This stayed the same until Arsene Wenger made more changes to try and reinvigorate the Arsenal team. Goalscorer Eduardo was replaced by youth prospect Sanchez Watt and Nicklas Bendtner made his first appearence in the game at the expense of the briliant Andrei Arshavin. The substitutes seemd to be working well and the attcking pressure paid off when Aaron Ramsey dinked a beautiful pass to Jack Wilshere who cooly blasted the ball in the top corner for his second of the game.

Immediately after the goal Wenger made further chances by introducing Tomas Rosicky for captain Cesc Fabregas on the 73rd minute. Wilshere had a chance to make get his Hat trick but was rewarded with the Man of the Match award two days in a row helping the gooners lift the emirates cup for the 2nd time in 3 years.
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Arsenal vs Rangers Half Time update

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Arsenal started their last Emirates cup game this year in the knowledge that a draw against Rangers would be enough to lift the Emirates cup, but a win for Rangers would send the trophy to Scotland. Today's Starting 11 was:

Almunia
Eboue
Gallas
Silvestre
Clichy
Wilshere
Fabregas
Song
Arshavin
Merida
Eduardo




Subs:

Bacary Sagna
Tomas Rosicky
Robin Van Persie
Denilson
Aaron Ramsey
Johan Djourou
Nicklas Bendtner
Armand Traore
Sanchez Watt
Wojciech Szczesny

Arsenal had an amazing start today already scoring in the second minute. A well placed ball in the box from Fabregas allowed Arshavin to flick back his pass to the path of Jack Wilshere who added his first goal of this year's pre season campaign setting arsenal off to a flyer. The pressure was too much for Rangers to handle and yet again they were punished by Arsenal's fluency in attack. Fran Merida found himself in alot of space in the middle of the park and slid a perfect pass to Eduardo at the edge of the box who sidefooted a beautiful shot to the left side of the Rangers goal.
The half was mostly dominated by the gooners after the two goal lead but Rangers looked to threaten from a number of set pieces that Arsenal struggled to deal with. Wilshere again had a chance to add his tally on the 40 minute mark with a cheeky chip that could only be tipped over the bar from Mcgregor. Arsenla will be very happy at the break.
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Arsenal vs Athletico Madrid Full Time update

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Arsenal didn't make as many substitutions as predicted at half time with Arsene Wenger introducing Jack Wilshere, Fran Merida and the only senior substitute Gael Clichy for the second half lineup.

Unlike the end of the first half, Arsenal started the half very brightly and dominated with their counterattacking prowess but couldn't get past the very impressive Asenjo saving clear goal chances from both Aaron Ramsey and Merida. The lack of finished product forced Arsene Wenger to introduce his three big guns on 66 minutes Arshavin, Fabregas and Eduardo.
The game started to slow down near the end with Jack Wilshere probably the most threatening of the Arsenal players to try and make a breakthrough, twice jinking his way through the Valencia box only for his end product to be blocked.

Shortly afterwards though it was Valencia that almost scored when Mannone made a meal of a Maxi Rodriguez shot which he almost palmed into the goal from his inital block. The deadlock was soon to be broken when Andrei Arshavin got on the end of a Cesc Fabregas chip in the box which he volleyed in the bottom left corner of Asenjo's goal. The celebrations caught Arsenal out and almost instantly Athletico equalised when German Pacheco intercepted a poor pass to slot cooly past Mannone.

At this time it looked like Arsenal would only scrape a draw but Andrei Arshavin made sure that wouldn't happen. On the 90 minute mark He latched onto a short back header, skipped past the keeper and slid the ball home from a ridiculously tight angle to win the game 2-1.
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Arsenal vs Athletico Madrid Half time update

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Arsenal Faced Athletico today in their first game of this years Emirates Cup. Arsenal's starting lineup was as follows:

Vito Mannone
Bacary Sagna
William Gallas
Johan Djourou
Emmanuel Eboue
Tomas Rosicky
Denilson
Aaron Ramsey
Armand Traore
Robin Van Persie
Nicklas Bendtner

Subs:
Cesc Fabregas
Eduardo
Alex Song
Mikael Silvestre
Jack Wilshere
Gael Clichy
Andrey Arshavin
Sanchez Watt
Fran Merida
Wojciech Szczesny




Today's game saw the introduction of what looked very strong Arsenal and Athletico sides. Arsenal started with the possible new season front pairing of Van Persie and Bendtner to lead the attack and also the inclusion of Tomas Rosicky was a major boost to the side shaking off reports he had injured himself again. Most notably for the Athletico team was the return of spaniard Jose Antonio Reyes' first return to Arsenal to which he was booed every time he touched the ball. It was Athletico however, who had the best of the opening chances in the game with Sergio Aguero only being able to header on the post when the ball dropped to him in the arsenal box. Arsenal had few guilt edge chances except for a Rosicky goal that was disallowed for a correct offside ruling. The game's pace started to slow down towards the end of the first half until Robin Van Persie found the pass to Eboue who had his shot saved well by new athletico keeper Sergio Asenjo.
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Arsenal 1 vs 0 Hannover

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Cesc Fabregas stuck early to round off the Gunners mini-Euro tour with another win.
The skipper's ninth minute goal was enough to see off the challenge of Hanover 96 despite this proving the toughest test for Arsene Wenger's young side so far.

The confirmation of Kolo Toure's departure to Man City, didn't throw Arsenal off their stride and they played their usual brand of neat, attractive football.





Robin van Persie was the provider for Fabregas, who latched on to his reverse pass to sidestep the goalkeeper Robert Enke and tuck away a finish.

Andrey Arshavin could have doubled the advantage but was thwarted by Enke, and Van Persie and Nicklas Bendtner also came close as the visitors controlled proceedings throughout.

Wenger was literally given an armchair chair ride - from a real armchair pitch side - to watch the action from in Hanover's impressive AMD Arena.

Arsenal's are now looking to regain the Emirates Cup this weekend.

Source: The sun
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Arsenal vs Szombathelyi FULL TIME result

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Arsene Wenger unsurprisingly made a number of changes to the first half lineup introducing Van Persie, Arshavin and Vermaelen the most notable of the substitutions.

The second half play was much more dynamic for Arsenal with a number of good build up plays and eloquent passing but the gunners failed to increase their lead until Bendtner was tripped in the box by the oncoming keeper which allowed Van persie to rocket an unstoppable penalty in the roof of the net. All in all Arsene Wenger should be pretty happy with this result especially with the strikers all getting on the scoresheet today but most notably of all Eduardo's two goals will give him a huge boost.
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Arsenal vs Szombathelyi - HALF TIME score update

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The Gunners started their third pre season game against hungarian side szombathelyi this evening with a strong squad, including a start for returning striker Eduardo the most notable of the Arsenal appearances.

The Arsenal team that started was as follows:

Starting 11:

Vito Mannoe
Emmanuel Eboue
Armand Traore
Kolo Toure
Johan Djourou
Denilson
Aaron Ramsey
Alex Song
Jack Wilshere
Eduardo
Nicklas Bendtner

Subs:

Wojciech Szczesny
Bacary Sagna
Mikael Silvestre
Thomas Vermaelen
William Gallas
Philippe Senderos
Robin Van Persie
Andrey Arshavin


The gunners didn't start the game too well, having to withstand a number of good Szombathelyi attacks and almost scoring thanks to a vito mannone mistake. The building Arsenal pressure was becoming too much for the hungarians to handle and the deadlock was broken on 18 minutes when Armand Traore made himself enough space on the left wing to deliver a perfect cross for Bendtner to head into the far post of the szombathelyi net. The pain was to continue for the home side when the Arsenal midfield intercepted a counter attack allowing Niklas Bendtner to find Eduardo at the edge of the box who rifled a well placed shot to the far post of the oncoming keeper to make it 2-0.

More goals were still come before the break as first Eduardo converted his first free kick effort of the game to the bottom left corner of the goal and Bendtner added a second to his tally only three minutes later when he rounded Rozsa Daniel for Arsenal's fourth, bring on the second half!