TEAM NEWS: Nine changes as Diaby returns

Abou Diaby returns to the Arsenal side for today's Premier League clash with West Brom.

The French midfielder suffered an ankle injury during the win over Bolton earlier this month but is fit to face the newly-promoted Baggies.

Diaby is one of nine changes to the team that started the Carling Cup win at Tottenham in midweek.

Laurent Koscielny and Samir Nasri keep their places but Arsène Wenger has rotated his squad after a gruelling tie went to extra time.

Arsenal team: Almunia, Sagna, Koscielny, Squillaci, Clichy, Song, Diaby, Nasri, Eboue, Chamakh, Arshavin. Subs: Rosicky, Vela, Denilson, Wilshere, Djourou, Fabianski, Emmanuel-Thomas

Wenger: 'I didn't recognise my team today'

Arsène Wenger

Arsenal 2-3 W.B.A.

Barclays Premier League

Saturday, September 25, 2010, 15:00

Wenger: 'I didn't recognise my team today'

on a shock defeat...

We made it more difficult because we were not at our usual level. Not defensively, not offensively. Overall everything was difficult for us today - passing the ball, winning the ball back, winning the one against ones - and we got what we deserved which was zero points. We didn't deserve more. The positive is that we did fight until the last minute but it was just not good enough at that level to get three points.

on Manuel Almunia...
You can have question marks about many players today if you look at the performance, especially the defensive one. Many players made massive mistakes defensively.

on leaving Jack Wilshere on the bench...
He has played many games. I believe it was not down to one player in or out, it was down to a poor team performance.

on criticism of Almunia...
I do not want to come out on any individual performances because we were collectively poor. You could single out a few players who have made mistakes.

on a mystifying performance...
Overall it was a poor team performance and we have to analyse why and make sure we respond well because we have had good performances since the start of the season. It is the first real bad performance and it is unexplainable how bad the whole thing looked for the whole game.

on failing to close the gap on Chelsea...
It would have been even more disappointing if Chelsea had won. We don't have to look at the results of the other teams, we have to turn up with our own performance and we didn't do that. If we play like that we cannot look at performances of the other teams.

on next week's trip to Chelsea...
Of course it an important game when you play at Chelsea. I believe that today's game was an exception - until today we had very, very good games. I didn't recognise my team today and we have to sit down together to analyse what happened. Something is unexplanable in such a poor performance. It is always difficult to [sense it before the game] but something was not right and it is unusual to see a team as flat as we were today.

Arsenal 4 VS Tottenham Hotspur 1

Arsenal ran riot in extra time to win a breathless North London derby and storm into the Fourth Round of the Carling Cup.

Henri Lansbury marked his first start for the Club with a first-half opener and the visitors were well worth their lead after controlling large chunks of a pulsating tie.

Robbie Keane struck just after the break to force extra time but Samir Nasri converted two penalties in four minutes and Andrey Arshavinfired in a low drive to end Tottenham’s resistance.

Arsène Wenger will have been impressed from his prime view in the directors’ box where he served his one-match touchline ban after admitting an FA charge of improper conduct at Sunderland on Saturday.

And this was therapeutic for the travelling fans too. After years of supremacy over their local rivals they have had to stomach two defeats in three visits to White Hart Lane – including a numbing 5-1 defeat in this competition two years ago. 

This result will finally heal those wounds.

The teamsheets for this tie had been eagerly awaited following an afternoon of speculation and guesswork. Would Wenger rely on youth as he has done so often in the Carling Cup? Would Harry Redknapp rest his stars with the Champions League now among Spurs’ considerations?

In the end the hosts were more youthful than their visitors. Lansbury started for Arsenal while Craig Eastmond and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas were among the substitutes. But although Wenger made eight changes, his team boasted plenty of experience. Maybe he felt his team needed more knowhow for a fixture that is hotly contested at any stage of any competition.

Tonight was no exception.

From the first whistle tackles were snapped into and space was sparse in front of a Spurs crowd that has been living off two recent wins over their rivals and were greedy for more.

But the away fans had much more to shout about in the first half.

Carlos Vela and David Bentley managed varying degrees of waywardness with early sighters but neither keeper had been tested when Lansbury swept Arsenal in front after 14 minutes.

It was a move to admire. Emmanuel Eboue picked out Kieran Gibbs with a crossfield pass and he cut inside before shifting the ball outside to Nasri. The Frenchman helped it on into Wilshere’s path and he zoomed to the byline before crossing low for Lansbury to convert from close range.

Arsenal played keep-ball for a while and the ‘Oles’ rang out from the away end. It seemed a bit early for all that – Spurs would surely awake from their slumber at some point.

Sure enough, one slip from Johan Djourou allowed Bentley through after 20 minutes. The former Gunner had ample time to line himself up but fired wide of Fabianski’s left-hand post.

Roman Pavlyuchenko convinced half the ground he had scored with a flashing drive which found the side-netting but Spurs could do no more than play on the break. For the most part they were in thrall to an Arsenal side that popped the ball around quickly and slickly.

Further inroads were made in the 24th minute. Gibbs found Nasri and he picked out Rosicky for a cross that almost produced a carbon-copy of the goal. This time a defender just beat Lansbury to the ball.

Rosicky himself saw a shot deflect wide and then Gibbs went through only for an offside flag to – wrongly – halt his progress as he jinked past Stipe Pletikosa in the Spurs goal.

Gibbs was staking a convincing claim for a regular place. But even he could not match Wilshere for influence. The 18-year-old was dominating his first derby as if he’s played in these games for years.

At times Wilshere dropped even deeper than Denilson to conduct the Arsenal orchestra. And when Spurs gave him the rough stuff, he bounced back up and punished them with his passing.

Arsenal were well on top. All the same, you sensed they needed a second goal to give themselves breathing space. So far they had passed Spurs off the pitch but not out of the match.

Redknapp had seen enough and brought Keane and Aaron Lennon on at half-time. The double-change paid instant dividends.

Kyle Naughton stabbed a pass through to Keane three minutes after the restart and the Irishman got the benefit of a marginal offside decision before advancing to tuck a shot past Fabianski.

This was now a totally different game. But Arsenal regrouped and redoubled their efforts. 

Vela spurned a golden chance on the hour mark, heading Rosicky’s cross over the bar. Wilshere was next to threaten with a low shot but Spurs were dangerous on the break and only a wonderful sliding challenge from the impressive Laurent Koscielny denied Lennon.

Now it was Arsenal’s turn to bring on the cavalry, Marouane Chamakh and Arshavin replacing Vela and Rosicky. Within seconds the Moroccan striker had nodded a Gibbs cross off target.

The pattern of the match endured: Arsenal bossing possession, Spurs countering at pace. And the chances came and went.

Keane smashed a close-range effort against a post from Bentley’s teasing free-kick. Lansbury fizzed in a shot that Pletikosa spilled and then recovered. Then the Spurs keeper pushed aside Denilson’s drive and held onto Eboue’s deflected strike.

That was it for normal time but Arsenal caught their rivals cold in the first minute of extra time. 

Arshavin lifted the ball into the box, Bassong tugged Nasri’s shirt and the Frenchman picked himself up to convert the spot-kick to Pletikosa’s right.

Four minutes later he was at it again. This time Steven Caulker pulled back Chamakh and Nasri rolled his second penalty to the keeper’s left.

Bentley could have made a game of it but somehow placed a free header wide. And Arshavin extinguished any sniff of a comeback with a rasping drive as the first period of extra time drew to a close.

ARSENAL

• Lukasz Fabianski
• Emmanuel Eboue
• Laurent Koscielny
• Johan Djourou
• Kieran Gibbs
  (102)
• Denilson
• Jack Wilshere
• Samir Nasri
• Tomas Rosicky
  (72)
• Henri Lansbury
• Carlos Vela
  (72)
• SUBSTITUTES
• Manuel Almunia
• Bacary Sagna
• Gael Clichy
  (102)
• Andrey Arshavin
  (72)
• Craig Eastmond
• Marouane Chamakh
  (72)
• Jay Emmanuel-Thomas

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

• Stipe Pletikosa
• Kyle Naughton
• Sebastien Bassong
• Benoit Assou-Ekotto
• Steven Caulker
• Sandro
  (96)
• Jake Livermore
  (46)
• Wilson Palacios
• David Bentley
• Roman Pavlyuchenko
• Dos Santos Giovani
  (46)
• SUBSTITUTES
• Carlo Cudicini
• Alan Hutton
• Tom Huddlestone
• Jermaine Jenas
• Niko Kranjcar
  (96)
• Aaron Lennon
  (46)
• Robbie Keane
  (46)

OFFICIAL

• Referee
  Lee Probert
• Attendance
  35,883
  
  

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