Craven Cottage. Saturday 15th September 2001
FA Carling Premiership
Scorers: Ljungberg 15
Henry 81
Bergkamp 89
Arsenal:
Seaman
Lauren Campbell Keown Cole
Parlour Vieira Pires (Wiltord 81) Ljungberg
Jeffers (Bergkamp ??) Henry
subs not used: Wright, van Bronckhorst, Grimster
It was one of those first halves where Arsenal dominate but
can't score. Fortunately we did get one after 15 minutes or
so. A free kick from the right was headed from the box towards
the corner flag by Campbell. Pires picked it up and played it back
in where Henry's shot was blocked. It fell to Ljungberg on the
6 yard line and he made no mistake.
Jeffers somehow missed a Henry ball across the face of goal,
and Henry missed a very good chance too from 8 yards out.
Vieira blasted over the bar after good work by Pires and
Henry hit a lovely chip which was tipped over the bar by
van der Sar.
So we went in looking more than good value for the half-time
1-0. But Fulham were back in the game a couple of minutes
into the second half. It was Boa Morte who created it,
for Steed Malbranque, thanks also to very sloppy defending by
Campbell who let the former Arsenal player get past him very
eaily on the left.
As against Mallorca, Arsenal looked a bit stunned to have
conceded, and Fulham continued to attack our nervy defence.
Th ekey moment was Seaman's excellent bundled save on the line
from a Legwinski header.
Bergkamp came on for Jeffers (who didn't have a bad game),
and then another Campbell error let Saha through, but Seaman
made the save after he'd set up new signing Marlet (who'd
come off the bench).
Then Wiltord came on for Pires. Whether it was the subs or
simply the
fact that time was running out, Arsenal had started to take the upper
hand again. And moments later we were
ahead again, Henry started the move passing forward to Ljungberg,
and Freddie waited till the perfect moment to feed Thierry's
continuing run. Henry finished with a smart turn and low shot.
Then Vieira and Ljungberg did well to get the ball back quickly
halfway into the Fulham half on the right. Freddie got the ball
to Wiltord who dribbled it to the goal-line past a couple of
defenders/ He cut it back for Dennis on the edge of the box, who
hit the shot high inside the right hand post.
Let's hope that at the end of the season we can look back
on this as a symbolic and significant day. At the same
moment as Henry scored, Shearer was putting Newcastle 4-3 up
with the last goal of their game against Man Utd at St James's.
And as Bergkamp scored the 3rd, Roy Keane was getting himself
sent off (in the 5th minutes of added Fergie time).
report by Rupe.
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Preview will appear here closer to the date of the match.
- Arsenal team news
Adams is probably still out, and Edu Dixon and Luzhny also.
So the back 5 pick themselves (cue surprise start for
Richard Wright...).
With all the main strikers and midfielders available, it's
hard to say who else will play. Vieira and Pires are probably
the only real shoe-ins.
- Fulham team news
Fulham's big-money new
signing, French striker Steve Marlet,
hurt his knee in the Chile-France friendly. But he has now
trained with his new team, and is expected to be on the subs bench
as Saha and Arsenal old-boy Luis Boa Morte continue up front.
Defender Alain Goma is out for another 3 weeks with a
hip injury.
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