How sweet life can be (when we beat West Ham) « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger in all he does

by Walter Broeckx

In a perfect world we would win all our games with 3 or 4 goals.  But as we have found out already this isn’t a perfect world at all. Things don’t always happen the way we want them to happen.  And so instead of us winning against West Ham with a final score line of 3-0 we had to fight till the last seconds to get a 1-0 win.

What was the most pleasing thing today? Winning and taking the 3 points of course. That is the most important thing. Dropping points would have been a huge disappointment and we certainly did deserve the 3 points.  We had some 20 shots on goal and West Ham had 6 in total. We played in their half for most of the time, we hit the woodwork twice and Green made some amazing stops. Once again he proves to be a goalkeeper that loves to play against us and a keeper who can  play his best games against us. With another keeper and with a little bit of luck it could have been a high score line.

But lady luck was not on our side against West Ham so we had to work very hard for the 3 points. And that is just what we did.  Some players did not have their best day in this game, and that happens. I have read in the mean while that Cesc was feeling something in his hamstring and you could feel that he was not at his best during the game. So maybe this was why he didn’t perform like we are used that he performs.  Luckily Jack Wilshere is available again next week.

But as the statistics show we had done enough to win the game and so we did win it. How nice that Alex ‘not fit to wear the shirt’ Song was making us sing today. Another example of how right Wenger was and how wrong the AAA were all these years. And even before he scored he was man of the match at our home.

So we played our game and what did West Ham do? They did it all except that I did not really see them play football. I think Green has broken a new world record time wasting. As I was not in the stadium but had to see it on a stream on the internet I could not see it all but I think it took him more than a minute before the ball was back in play. Except the last 5 minutes as the West Ham players were running after the ball to bring it back in play at a tempo unseen for the first 90 minutes. I never knew they could take a goal kick so fast.

And when they had to take a throw in even Delap from Stoke cleans his ball faster with his towel than West Ham took a throw.   So it was another “good” old performance of a team that was building a brick wall in front of their goal and just to be sure they had already parked their buss in front of that same wall.

But what can be better than to see that finally at the end of the game you can find that hole in the wall they had thought was going to keep us out. In fact scoring that late and punishing them so late on is maybe the best you can do. Imagine what a blow this must be for a team after showing all what can be ugly in football for 88 minutes and the find yourself with empty hands.

So at the end of the day they just got what they deserved for being an embarrassment for football: nothing. And maybe the way we won it will hurt them even more than if we would have won it 3-0.  Now they can lick their wounds and we can celebrate a late victory and know that they all count even if a goal comes right at the end. I hope they have a few nightmares about it.

And for Arsenal 3 points in MIOU fashion in the last years so good points which could make a difference at the end of the season. Golden points.

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