Martin Samuel: Sorry Arsene, your Arsenal boys are just roadkill

30 November 2009 11:40
It runs deeper than a goalscoring crisis for Arsenal. If this was just about an injury to Robin van Persie compounding another to Nicklas Bendtner, and the summer sale of Emmanuel Adebayor to Manchester City, the result here would have been stalemate. [LNB]Arsenal would have been unable to pierce Chelsea's back line, but their own would have been equally resilient.[LNB]Instead, this was a brutal exposition of the growing gulf between Chelsea and those who have little more than pretensions to the Premier League title this season. It is too early to write Arsenal off altogether and that goes for all of the teams in the top five, even the ailing Liverpool but something will have to go dramatically wrong at Stamford Bridge for Arsenal to travel west later in the season with as much at stake.[LNB] Feeling down: Arsene Wenger watched helplessly as his side capitulated at home[LNB]This was Arsenal's chance to demonstrate they could keep pace with the pace-setters and they failed miserably. Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, did one of those bizarre turns in which he appears to defy all logic and reason in defence of his team, offering to produce a set of statistics by Tuesday that would as good as prove Arsenal were the superior side, but his words had little to recommend them beyond mystery.[LNB] Martin Samuel: Blue gloom is down to lack of firepowerArsenal 0 Chelsea 3: Real leader Terry is so 'influencial' as Blues romp homeFA CUP THIRD ROUND DRAW: Arsenal face West Ham away challengeARSENAL FC

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