Game: Blackburn Rovers vs Arsenal

Venue: Ewood Park

Links: Skysports Arsenal.com

Score: 2 -3

Competition: Barclays' English Premier League

Goals: Diaby (AFC) (6'), Edurado (AFC) (29', 104'), Santa Cruz (BRFC) (42', 60')

Report: Games of this caliber come around rarely, and when they do, Arsenal is normally heavily involved. This time the gunners weredoing battle with a strong Blackburn side, there's always been a rivalry between these two teams, with sparks flying at every turn, this game turned out absolutely no different. Passion, pace, skill everything.....it was like the chelsea games, but with different teams, literally. THis time Rovers were our opponents and Niklas Bendtner was the only player in the SQUAD who had featured in Sunday's win.

First Half: Arsenal dominated the 1st half, and the 1st goal came on the stroke of 6 mins with a really nice finish from Diaby, courtesy of Bendtners fine cross. Blackburn were near non-existent for the first 25 mins. Their only sign of life was the horrendous defending which led to Arsenal's 2nd goal by Eduardo, from Denilson accurate pass that should've been taken care of by Samba. Eventually, Rovers wakened and got down to their business end, with Dunn forcing a really good save from young Polish international keeper Lukascz Fabianski (another good looking find by Le Boss. Chances were getting hard to come by for both teams, as the defending was decent well on Arsenal side anyways:P!!...then against the run of play really, Rovers got a goal back before the break from Roque Santa Cruz, from a whipped in Matt Derbyshire cross, although I reckon he was offside when he got the ball, but the linesmen had other ideas......oh well.

Second Half: Blackburn went into this half all guns blazing, they were putting the gunners under a lot of pressure and a couple of last ditch clearances and so stout defending keeps rovers out, that is until the hour mark. A free kick is brilliantly curled in by Bugatti, uh sorry by Bentley and Santa Cruz gets his head on it and it flies past Fabianski in goal. With that goal, Rovers sensed a winner a were going forward with meance, while the youngunners were content ot hit on the break, the game had a real flow to it, end 2 end stuff. Rovers miss a couple of opportunities late on in the game, Santa Cru being the most guilty with a miscue from 8 yards out. Then late on in the game, a 2 footed lunge earns Denilson a red-card.

ET!!: The game goes into another 30 mins and the players looked absolutely finishe, the fisrt half was a cagey affair, but a surging running from the CB Alex Song, opens space for Eduardo and he pass from Song is perfect for Eduardo to latch on to and slot it home past Friedel. 2nd half of ET: This half bring more excitement as Rovers move forward in search of an equaliser, desperate defending baols the gunners out, while they're just keen to lug it forward, and keep it away from their goal!...Eventually they hold out for the final whislte.....GREAT GAME!!!!!!