Arsenal Defeat Portsmouth by 4-1

Arsenal players showed today that they can coup up the pressure even without top players like Van Persie or Fabregas. The match just finished now and Arsenal won it by 4-1. In the end of the first half, the Gunners were leading by 2-0.

When the match started, Portsmouth players showed some promising moves but Arsenal started in a good way. The first goal came with luck as in the 28 minute, the Eduardo freekick deflected a Portsmouth player and it should not have been a goal. However, there was no question about the second goal that came in 42. He got a pass from the egde of the penalty area and he fired a nice shot. Today, Ramsey was in place of Fabregas and in 69 minute, he showed others the justification of Arsene Wenger praise about him by scoring a superb goal. Then, Nadir Belhadj pulled one goal back for Portsmouth but it was really too little too late.  

The best of the goals of Arsenal came in the 81th minute. Alexandre Song scored the goal with a beautiful head. Perhaps, the happiest man in today’s match was referee Wiley who had to show just two yellow cards to two Portsmouth players. Nearly 20,000 spectators watched a decent and exciting match.