Arsenal started their second pre season game of this seasons campaign facing SC Columbia today. The opening lineup was as follows:
Manuel Almunia
Emmanuel Eboue
Mikael Silvestre
Thomas Vermaelen
Johan Djourou
Jack Wilshere
Denilson
Abou Diaby
Aaron Ramsey
Andrey Arshavin
Nicklas Bendtner
Subs:
Vito Mannone
Kolo Toure
William Gallas
Bacary Sagna
Philippe Senderos
Alex Song
Armand Traore
Robin Van Persie
Wojciech Szczesny
Arsenal started the game very brightly and had many chances early on in the match to get an early goal. Andrey Arshavin and Nicklas Bendtner had been among most of the attacking play in the first half with both spurning chances themselves from a lack of SC Columbia defending.
Despite Arsenal's sustained pressure it was Columbia to who took the lead from a moment of bad decision making from Almunia. As Thomas Vermaelen passed back to the Arsenal keeper he took a bad touch on the ball which gave an opening for the oncoming Dominique Lehner who ricochet the ball in the back of the net. Sc Columbia's lead was short lived though (45 sec to be exact) when Abou Diaby robbed Mario Handl on the byline and squared to Bendtner who couldn't miss from two yards out.
Arsenal seemed to be completely revived by the equaliser and from then on continued to punish the columbians with Aaron Ramsey curling a shot from 20 yards out beating Goalkeeper Taschwer. Bendtner and Ramsey continued their great link play and 5 minutes later Bendtner beat the goalkeeper one on one from Ramsey's great pass.
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