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Arshavin’s thoughts on the FA Cup exit; Almunia close to comeback

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Hello all.  Not much time to blog today, and not all that much to blog about.  The morning’s headlines are dominated by Man U’s exit from the FA Cup, and whilst there are undoubtedly questions to be asked our semi-final line-up it was infinitely more strong than the team Alex Ferguson chose to field.  What really hurts, with the greatest of respect to the Merseysiders, is that had we won on Saturday we could be looking at an FA Cup Final against Everton, and our best chance of silverware in a long, long time.

The man who was most controversially left out, Andrey Arshavin, has spoken to his personal website with his thoughts on the game:

“I think two very strong teams played at Wembley today. I think in the beginning we had some territorial advantage, dictated the game and managed to score the goal. The game got more even following that. Soon it was Chelsea who had the advantage, which lead to their goal. Summing up the performance in the first half, I think the result was fair. In the second half, Chelsea had more of the posession, more of the game was taking place in our half, although we tried to organise quick counter-attacks. Unfortunately, we conceded and had little time to really put pressure on Cech’s goal. Our opponents did not give us opportunities to create something. We are disappointed that our fans left the stadium deflated. That’s football, you lose sometimes. I guess you can’t win everything. Now we have to concentrate our efforts on the Champions’ League and the Premiership.”

Fair play to him for not even mentioning the fact he was on the bench in the biggest game of his Arsenal career so far.

One piece of good news around this morning is that Manuel Almunia could return for Sunday’s game against Middlesbrough.  Despite Arsene’s best attempts to boost the lad, Lukasz Fabianski’s confidence is going to be shot, so the quicker the Spaniard can come back into the side the better.

I may add some more bloggery later if some team news emerges.  If not, I’ll see you tomorrow for a Liverpudlian Preview.  Till then.


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