Arsenal vs Athletico Madrid Half time update

Arsenal Faced Athletico today in their first game of this years Emirates Cup. Arsenal's starting lineup was as follows:

Vito Mannone
Bacary Sagna
William Gallas
Johan Djourou
Emmanuel Eboue
Tomas Rosicky
Denilson
Aaron Ramsey
Armand Traore
Robin Van Persie
Nicklas Bendtner

Subs:
Cesc Fabregas
Eduardo
Alex Song
Mikael Silvestre
Jack Wilshere
Gael Clichy
Andrey Arshavin
Sanchez Watt
Fran Merida
Wojciech Szczesny




Today's game saw the introduction of what looked very strong Arsenal and Athletico sides. Arsenal started with the possible new season front pairing of Van Persie and Bendtner to lead the attack and also the inclusion of Tomas Rosicky was a major boost to the side shaking off reports he had injured himself again. Most notably for the Athletico team was the return of spaniard Jose Antonio Reyes' first return to Arsenal to which he was booed every time he touched the ball. It was Athletico however, who had the best of the opening chances in the game with Sergio Aguero only being able to header on the post when the ball dropped to him in the arsenal box. Arsenal had few guilt edge chances except for a Rosicky goal that was disallowed for a correct offside ruling. The game's pace started to slow down towards the end of the first half until Robin Van Persie found the pass to Eboue who had his shot saved well by new athletico keeper Sergio Asenjo.