Arsenal vs Wigan

[Rou]

Emirates Stadium
Sunday, 11 February
Kick-off: 1600 GMT
Coverage on the BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Five Live & highlights on MOTD2

Arsenal (from): Lehmann, Almunia, Diaby, Baptista, Fabregas, Toure, Djourou, Rosicky, Henry, Denilson, Flamini, Gilberto, Clichy, Adebayor, Aliadiere, Hoyte, Walcott, Traore.

Wigan (from): Kirkland, Jackson, Kilbane, McCulloch, Boyce, Skoko, Johansson, Landzaat, Baines, Granqvist, Haestad, Valencia, Folan, Unsworth, Taylor, Cywka, Aghahowa, Heskey, Baines, Pollitt.

Predictions?
2-0 Arsenal

[gosling]

Routine win for the Gunners; send that plastic pile of crud down. 3-0.

[Pixel]

We need to take advantage of liverpool slipping up again

I'll go with a 3-1 win

[Rou]

We need to take advantage of liverpool slipping up again

I'll go with a 3-1 win

If we win that brings us within 1point of liverpool [i think] with a game in hand :]

[simon!]

I think 2-1 Dunno why just a guess [:

[Jordie]

4-0 im going, gunners will outclass wigan!

[Antallica]

5-0 Arsenal.

[Nike]

surprise upset?

nah!


arsenal to win 3-0.

2 from henry and 1 from fabregas.

xoxo

[holo-jonny]

2-0 to Arsenal I expect Arsenal will take this game easy.

Wigan wont put up much of a fight.

[gosling]

Well Arsenal leave it late again! Henry winding up Kirkland was brilliant, shame he got booked for it. ;P

Nice guess, Simon! :]

[Pixel]

We were lucky.. The ref was a joke imo

[Antallica]

what was the final score?

[gosling]

what was the final score?2-1 to Arsenal, typical comeback in the last 10 minutes although Flamini was offside for Hall's own goal.
Rotten luck for those egg chasers :]

[Pixel]

2-1 to Arsenal :)

Wigan scored a good goal in the first half, then scored an own goal just after 80 minutes and then rosicky got the winner few minutes later :)

[Jordie]

great strike by landzaart for the wigan goal and heskey should have scored 2 more but thats what happens when you dnt finish your chances especially against a team like arsenal

[ScouseOrient]

We need to take advantage of liverpool slipping up again

I'll go with a 3-1 win

Again? when have we slipped up before in the premiership?

[Pixel]

Again? when have we slipped up before in the premiership?


I mean last week you drew or lost and we didn't take advantage of it, I didnt mean it to sound like a dig at liverpool or anything soz :P

[holo-jonny]

Another comeback for Arsenal

[ScouseOrient]

I mean last week you drew or lost and we didn't take advantage of it, I didnt mean it to sound like a dig at liverpool or anything soz :P


Ohhhhhh soz, for being, over like aggresive, always liked the way arsenal play, ask most SCOUSE liverpool fans, and they do also.

[Shoovers]

I support liverpool but i do like the way arsenal play
What henry done though was disrespectful

[Rou]

Lehmans timewasting was hillarious

[:Hazel]

arsenal were lucky, i expected them to win like 4-0 and they ended up making a great escape.

[Pixel]

What henry done though was disrespectful

I don't see a problem with it, the goaly was time wasting to many times yet the ref didnt do anything.. Lehmann does it once and gets booked lol


Thierry Henry claims his confrontation with Chris Kirkland was 'just a joke', insisting he was annoyed by the Wigan Athletic goalkeeper's time-wasting.

After Arsenal had equalised at Emirates Stadium through Fitz Hall's own goal, Henry taunted Kirkland by offering the keeper the ball.

The Gunners captain was booked for his gesture, but has played down the seriousness of his actions, claiming he was merely responding to Kirkland's time-wasting.

"Kirkland started to waste time from the first minute," said Henry.

"This is one of the games when I have run the most because I was trying to get the ball off him.

"When we scored I asked him if he wanted to waste any more time.

"It was just a joke, but it was a bit annoying."

Arsene Wenger backed his striker in the row, which cast a cloud over Arsenal's comeback in recording a 2-1 success.

"Thierry was upset, but what he did, for me, was right," said Wenger.

"People do not pay money to see people waste time, they come to see football.

"Okay, he should not have done that, but it is not the biggest insult we have seen in football.

"The time-wasting started in the first half - the goalkeeper kept crossing over his area to take kicks."


Keepers should have a set time to take a goal kick, and have to take it from the side closest to them.. It would stop most of the time wasting

[holo-jonny]

after seeing clips of that game, it hink it should of been 2-1 to Wigan.

Wigan deserved pena and most ppl score penas.

And Arsenal goal offside.

[ScouseOrient]

after seeing clips of that game, it hink it should of been 2-1 to Wigan.

Wigan deserved pena and most ppl score penas.

And Arsenal goal offside.


but it wasn't

soz.