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Specialist900:
this is just his first bleep-up of this season, cut the guy some slack.

Specialist900:
the whole defence was totally in shambles today, if he is to be blamed it will be only for the second goal. A greater chunk of the blame should go to the defence.

2004
Champions: Arsenal : GA - 26
Position: 1st GA - 26

2005
Champions: Chelsea : GA - 15
Position: 2nd GA - 36

2006
Champions:  Chelsea : GA - 22
Position: 4th GA - 31

2007
Champions: ManU : GA - 27
Position: 4th GA - 35

2008
Champions: ManU : GA - 22
Position: 4th GA - 31

2009
Champions: ManU : GA - 24
Position: 4th GA - 37

2010
Champions: Chelsea : GA - 32
Position: 3rd GA - 41

Arsene Wenger : Arsenal 'Deserved To Lose' To West Bromwich Albion
Manager refuses to blame Almunia for defeat,

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger gave an honest assessment of his side's poor performance against West Bromwich Albion today, by admitting that his side deserved to lose.

In the shock result of the day, West Brom surged into a 3-0 lead and also missed a penalty. Arsenal rallied late on with Samir Nasri scoring two late goals, but the Gunners never got going and deservedly fell to their first home defeat of the season.

"We deserved to lose the game," Wenger told Sky Sports News. "We were not up for it quality wise or concentration wise."

Despite saving a penalty midway through the first half, Manuel Almunia's goalkeeping skills came under question once again when he let Jara's tame shot squeeze into his near post to gift West Brom a two goal lead.

Yet Wenger refused to criticise his goalkeeper saying: "It would be too easy to discuss individual mistakes but I don't think any of the players were up to there usual level today. I feel we had a lack of concentration and at this level you pay for it."

With Chelsea losing 1-0 to Manchester City in the lunchtime kick-off at Eastlands, an Arsenal victory would have put the pressure on the league leaders, but Wenger doesn't think that the earlier result effected his team's perfomance.

"It isn't about what the others do, it's our performance that matters, we don't need to look at the results of other teams," Wenger said in his post match press conference.

"I didn't recognise my team today, we didn't deserve any points and we didn't get any."

Next up for Arsenal is the short trip to Stamford Bridge, which thanks to this result, is likely to prove pivotal if Arsenal are to maintain their hopes of lifting the Premier League trophy come May

@biolabee
I ain't Wenger or Duduspace.
If you read my post well, you will see that I never implied Almunia was better than the keepers mentioned.
I only tried to show that even goalie's being quoted at 21 million pounds do make high profile mistakes.
Go and watch Reina's gaffe yesterday.
It was disastrous.

yousouph:
Hopefully, the injury problems will be reduced next season otherwise its same ol same ol.