Sunderland v Arsenal

Sunderland were beaten 2-1 at Reading and it was a disappointment for manager Martin O`Neill who soke after the game about the late goal his siude conceded.."i`m disappointed conceding so late in the match." .



Arsenal had to battle hard agianst Stoke to secure a 1-0 victory at the Emirates ...the goal came from Lukas Podolski via a deflection from Stoke defender Geoff Cameron ..the game also saw the debut of new signing Nacho Monreal who looked comfortable in his first game for the Gunners . The win keeps Arsenal in 6th place and manager Arsene Wenger was happy his side got the 3 pts ..he said after the game .."i`m very happy that we got the 3pts" .

I don't think Arsenal will be quite good enough to win away at Sunderland who are tough to beat at Stadium of light.

Sunderland 2-2 Arsenal

Well Arsenal are getting it together now, and people are waxing lyrical about Wilshire and Walcott after the England game. Meanwhile Sunderland have had a poor season, and don't have much poke up front. Clearly 1-1 all over it.

I don't know about that Pickles,I could see Sunderland's Fletcher and Graham give Arsenal's vulnerable defence a lot to worry about.

well we certainly dont have a Thierry Henry this time to pop up with a winner for us in the 90th minute ...a 2-1 win thanks to King Henry ..i think we can build on the win against Stoke and if we can avoid the silly errors then we have a good chance of winning at Sunderland .

Did you know that Sunderland’s Danny Rose scored his one and only Premier League
goal with a tremendous volley on his Premier League debut against Arsenal while playing for Tottenham.

Any more comments or predictions?

yes..unfortunately i did know ...we lost the game 2-1 . I hope we can have more luck in front of goal than at the Emirates where we drew 0-0 with Sunderland despite having 23 shots on goal .

A nice comfortable 1-3 away win for ARSENAL here. They've made the ground back up and can move on with their champions league finishing hopes.

Line ups

Sunderland:
Mignolet, Gardner, Rose, Bramble, O'Shea, N'Diaye, Cattermole, Colback, Johnson, Sessegnon, Fletcher;

Subs: Westwood, Cuellar, Bardsley, Vaughan, Mangane, Larsson, Graham

Arsenal:
Szczesny, Sagna, Monreal, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud;

Subs: Mannone, Jenkinson, Miquel, Rosicky, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Podolski

HT

Sunderland 0-1 Arsenal

Cazorla 35’

FT

Sunderland 0-1 Arsenal
0-1 Cazorla 35’

Any comments on todays result?

Bugger

You would have thought that when Arsenal went down to 10 men
after Jenkinson was sent off that Sunderland would get back into the game but it wasn't to be.

This result seriously effed me off!!!

Sunderland lost at home against 10 men for the last half an hour; yet i heard that their dopey fans gave them an ovation at the end?!!

Losers.

well it was a nervy 20 mins or so after Jenkinson got sent off , cannot argue withe the two yellow cards ...just a couple of poor tackles . It should have been all over by half time ...their goalkeeper saved Sunderland a few times .

Then it was Szecney who saved us in the second half ....some fine saves at the end , an important 3 pts with Spurs also winning .

An absolute courageous effort by Wenger's lads who refused to lose grip with the shirt tails of the to four places!
Nervy last 20 minutes ,you ain't kidding!
Chesney made some great saves though and Sagna was quite good filling in at Cb ,in fact i think he saved us on a few occasions. Great win !