Hull City have surprised all after beating Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium by 2-1. This is surely the biggest surprise of the season so far.
Arsenal started well in the second half and opened their tally when Fabregas made full use of a melee in the box.
Hull City fought back and after a great shot in the 62th minute—deserving of goal of the season—Geovanni equalized. Daniel Cousin took advantage of the stunned Gunners and four minutes later completed the comeback.
Once again, here is the analysis and ratings (1 to 10) of every Arsenal player in this match:
GK: Manuel Almunia
The Spanish goalkeeper did make a mistake this match. Even though he had to pull the ball from his net twice, Almunia could not do much on both occasions. He was forced to make some good saves in the second half when the match livened up. He did his job.
Rating: 6/10
RB: Bakary Sagna
He was stable on his side and made a couple of dangerous crosses. It was a job well done by Sagna.
Rating: 6/10
CB: William Gallas
The captain of Arsenal was the main man responsible for the second goal. For the second time this season he was unable to keep with his man when the opposition was taking a corner. It took him a fraction of a second to realize that Cousin had pulled free of him but by then it was already too late. He showed some good attacking attributes, when he played like a striker near the end of the match. He almost gave his team the equalizer when he hit the post by a good shot with his head in the 83th minute. Nevertheless, that mistake cost Arsenal.
Rating: 5/10
CB: Kolo Toure
He played well and sometimes got himself involved in Arsenal’s attacks.
Rating: 6/10
LB: Gael Clichy
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2 months ago
According to me:
Almunia - 6, Sagna - 6, Clichy - 6, Toure -5, Gallas - 2, Eboue - 4, Walcott, 5, Denilson- 5, Fabregas- 5, RvP - 3, Adebayor- 4.
Pathetic performance - sure to end our hopes of winning the league IMO.
from 2 months ago
Shyam, maybe you are a little over emotional with this evaluation. Gallas did only one mistake in this match. RVP was very unlucky.
from 2 months ago
Mate - Gallas has made far too many mistakes IMO. He lost Hangeland for the corner against Fulham, same against Cousin.. he's cost us 6 points, that's no understatement.
from 2 months ago
Yes, mate I agree that he has cost us much but remember he has scored some crucial goals as well. Now I am not defending him. This two so similar mistakes annoyed the hell out of me too. Gallas seems to be a very controversial person. But the rating are based only on this match ( vs Hull ). Still a very bad performance by Gallas.
from 2 months ago
A defender is judged by his mistakes.. it's unfortunate, but true.. do the likes of Vidic and Carvalho make so many mistakes? Are they even capable of doing so? One mistake made the difference here - that's all it takes, and hence he gets a bad rating..
He's in the team to defend, not score goals.. as far as I'm concerned, if he does his primary job well - I'll have no complaints..
from 2 months ago
Yes like I said he performad badly. But a rating of 2 would be a little exaggerated. At least to me. I guess everybody has an opinion and I can not force mine on you. I have rated him 5 because I have seen worse performances by players. I try to be as objective as possible.
2 months ago
We were awful, y the hell didn't Eboue shoot at THAT oppurtunity inn the 1st half... I knew we needed Nasri BACK!
from 2 months ago
the worst thing is that we were winning so convincingly and now this....
2 months ago
Results like this is what cost Arsenal the title last season, too. They can't afford another of these.
In every Arsenal match I've watched the last couple of seasons, Eboue has looked completely out of his depth on the right wing. He's not the solution.
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