• devday

  Robinson, Salgado, Nelsen, Samba, Givet, El-Hadji Diouf, Jones, Pedersen, Grella, Mame Diouf, Kalinic.

  Subs: Bunn, Olsson, Emerton, Dunn, Nzonzi, Hoilett, Chimbonda.

• devday

  Today’s match mascott is as tall as arshavin!

• devday

  Arsene: Our target is to have the ball and when we do so we can dictate the play.

• devday

  Alex Song has blonde hair!!

• devday

  How did we not score!!

• devday

  Awesome start, our team looks up for it… let’s score early.

• KittyGooner

  Alex Song looks so weird in his short, blonde hair! From a distance, I can’t tell who is Sagna or Song…!

• devday

  Off the line from Cesc… Aerial bombardment…

• devday

  Spurs in the third round of the carling cup… let’s see what our kids can do!

• Pete

  THEO THEO THEO!!!! 1-0 Arsenal

• devday

  1-0 to the Arsenal – Walcott with a good finish after good link up play and pass through from Van Persie…

• Pete

  1-1

• devday

  Can’t believe that!

• Pete

  Chamakh on for RvP (injured)

• devday

  Van Persie gets injured on his first start of the season. It’s time for a Chamakh Attack!

• KittyGooner

  Okay, it’s 1-1 – RvP injured and we’re not looking that great at all… Come on the Arsenal!!

• Tm17

  Fabrgas doesn’t look sharp enough

• devday

  HT: Blackburn 1 – 1 Arsenal: An interesting half, typical Blackburn, typical Arsenal… we need to better in the 2nd half…

• Pete

  HT 1-1

  Ugly game, but it is at Ewood Park so probably to be expected. But we conceded an unnessary goal. Theo, Diaby, Song probably been our best players. Almunia not been that bad either so far. Koscielny probably the weakest link in the team today so far.

• Pete

  Just read this on BBC Sports live update:

  The latest on Robin van Persie, by the way, is that his ankle – not the one he injured last year – has swollen up and it is being iced as we speak. Scan on Monday.

• Berth

  dev how is kosicenly, Song and Diaby doing -

• Pete

  iraqgoals.net/12069-blackburn-rovers-vs-arsenal-.html

• Pete

  2-1 Arshavin

• devday

  Arshavin scores… phew! 2-1, it’s been a tough one today!

• Pete

  Rosicky on for Fabregas

• Sam

  We need another goal to make sure. Gunners can always have a little slip up!
  Come on Arsenal!

• Pete

  FT 2-1 Arsenal

• devday

  FT: Blackburn 1 – 2 Arsenal… We are top of the league… I said we are top of the league…!

• Sam

  Great job to Gunners.

• Flamez

  great 3 points, just wanna say after todays game maybe we all (including myself) should have a little more faith in manual almunia, i thought he done really well today with everything, no hairy moments and he wasn’t at fault for the goal. if he can play like that all season we dont need a new keeper

• Sam

  That’s our best start to a season in 3 years, or so I hear.

• Flamez

  also wanna hear what that prick hansen has 2 say about theo tonight, the conceited scouse ****!

• Pete

  Not the tidiest win in the world, but nice to see us win away from home against tough opposition. Delighted for Theo to score again. Diaby and Song look decent together in the DM roles. And Almunia did much better today. Cesc anad RvP still need to build their fitness though.

  There were a few chances to score more goals (Theo slightly off side, Wilshere, Diaby and Chamakh efforts blocked). Second half was more controlled than the first.

  Thats 4 points from two tough away games so far, which isn’t bad. Still room for improvement though, but at least today was a win.

• Pete

  Sam wrote:

  That’s our best start to a season in 3 years, or so I hear.

  Match of the Day should be interesting tonight. Hope his comments about Theo become his new “dont win anything with kids” catchphrase.

• Pete

  Sorry, meant to to quote Flamez, not Sam.

  Flamez wrote:

  also wanna hear what that prick hansen has 2 say about theo tonight, the conceited scouse ****!

  Match of the Day should be interesting tonight. Hope his comments about Theo become his new “dont win anything with kids” catchphrase.

• Flamez

  well if theo is gonna answer him with that everyweek let him carry on

• vj

  Theo i do love u, god alan hansen and chris waddle must be eating their words, what a performance. I didnt get to watch the whole game but Diaby looked pretty rubbish at keeping the ball in the last 20 mins. I really would have liked Wilshere to score but no harm. Anyone know how van persie is, he came off early, chamakh didnt get a chance to impose himself, but did well we he attacked. Rosicky was really good though we lacked dominance once cesc leaft for a while. Koscielny did well apart from his one error, I expect Squillachi to slot in next week. A big game from the defense, Almunia did well, no mistakes. Sagna clichy played really well, Vermaelen was awesome Song looks weird but good game. Glad to see cesc playying again

• Bonathan

  Fantastic result, and deserved as well i thought. Had to answer a lot of questions today defensively and just about did enough. It wasn’t easy and we weren’t comfortable back there, but we did enough. I thought Kos really struggled in the first half and thought he might have been better taking him off. Had a mare for the goal, but to be fair, he improved in the second half. It’l have been a great premiership experience for him.

  a lot of misplaced passes today so hopefully that should improve. Theo looked great. Vermealen did really well.

  A lot to improve on but we had to do some ugly things today and we came through it with 3 points which is the main thing. hope RVP is ok.

• Flamez

  Wenger saying 2weeks for RVP

  http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/-we-were-a-bit-too-nervous-in-the-first-half-

• vj

  Maybe RVP injury blessing in disguise, u all remember what happened to him during international break, this way both him and cesc get a rest

• vj

  Quote from arsene Wenger “the transfer period is now dead for us” no GK lads, its almunia and flappy, god were goona get raped by tottenham when flappy plays, i bet those cunts play a full team as well

• vj

  @ Bonathan:
  thats a bit harsh to koscielny i think, Diouf is a really powerful player and it was a great ball, he was really commited and did well, id much rather have him than gallas, now we got squillaci, we have 3 quality CB and Djourou and song as well so im not suprised wenger won’t make anymore signings, great game by sagna and clichy, large improvement this season from clichy, sagna was awesome today defensively and attacking, after lahm, ramos, maicon, sagna is up there

• Berth

  Hmm no GK is not a very good thing

• http://worldofarsenal Josiah

  Just watching arsenal again on MOTD, really pleased with the result today

• http://worldofarsenal Josiah

  Shearer: I dont know why i heard it but someone said if you give him [Walcott] time on the ball he wont deliver a final product

  Hansen: You didnt hear it from me

  oh whatever nobhead.

• vj

  “Mark Schwarzer has made it clear that he would like to go to Arsenal so we are trying to look at other options,” Hughes said following his side’s 2-2 draw at Blackpool on Saturday.

  could it be?

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