Arsenal Are Going to Win the Carling Cup!

Arsenal came through the relatively easy challenge of dispatching Wigan Athletic out of the Carling Cup. The two sides met in the quarter finals of this competition and a victory for either side would ensure a semi-final place. The Gunners were dominating but failed to take the lead until delightful play from the mid fielders which ended up in cross and the Wigan Captain, Alcaraz, scored an own goal. The timing of the goal could not have been better as it was the 48th minute. Arsenal went into the break with a one nil lead and as everybody knows Arsenal's defence is not exactly brilliant.
 Arsenal came out creating chances but missed all of them. It seemed that it was not going to Arsenal's day when Nasri hit the post but in the 67th minute magnificent play by the winger, Walcott  lead to a chance that was dispatched by Nickolas Bentdner. Walcott spurred a few chances later on but the outcome was always apparent. The Gunners had breezed through to the semis and to add the icing on the cake, Manchester United lost to the bottom side, West Ham. United didn't just loose but were humiliated in a 4-0 defeat in the snowy conditions. West Ham were disallowed a goal amidst some controversy but they just got better and better. The opener was scored by a young ex-Manchester United player called Spector. It was a delightful cross with a fantastic header on the end of it. Then poor defending led to his second and they went into the break with a two goal advantage over the holding champions. You would expect Manchester United to get back into it or to but up a fight back. The opposite occurred and Charlton Cole scored a brace to ensure that West ham would go through to the next round. This result would go down in the Hammer's  folk law. The holders had lost their first match for 28 matches resulting in even more of a disappointment!

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