Arsenal traveled to face Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, November 7, 2009 in the English Premier League. The Gunners were 3rd in the league table and could move into 2nd with a win. Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Arsenal beats Wolverhampton 4-1 Video Highlights

Arsenal cruised to victory over Wolves on Saturday in the EPL.

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Some nights Arsenal just click and it's beautiful to watch. After about five minutes we put together a flowing, pacey, one-touch move which ended up with a Robin van Persie shot flying just wide of the AZ goal. After that you knew Arsenal were in the mood.

We opened the scoring through Cesc Fabregas whose low shot scuttered between a defender's legs and practically trickled across the line.

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The rise of La Liga and its increasing appeal to foreign players can be attributed to more than just Real Madrid spending money like a teenage girl with a trust fund. Everyone agrees that the "Beckham Law", which allows footballers to pay almost half the taxes that normal people do, has been a big draw, especially as the tax rate has risen in the UK.

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And God said, Let there be beer. And there was beer.

And Arseblogger saw the beer, that it was good: and lo he did drink the beer.

And while God was off inventing firmament for the earth and fowl to multiply, Arseblogger did invent the *boilk* and the *boilk* was bad and he could still taste last night's chips.

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Jogaram em Baku, no estádio Tofik Bakhramov, para um público de 17.000 pessoas, as seleções do Azerbaijão (125º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Rússia (12º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
28-03-2009 - Rússia 2x0 Azerbaijão
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim definido:
Árbitro: Howard WEBB-ING
Primeiro Assistente: Darren CANN-ENG
Segundo Assistente: Michael MULLAREY-ENG
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Sunderland boss Steve Bruce faces a battle to keep hold of star skipper Lorik Cana.
The Daily Mail says Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has not given up hope of signing Cana, despite the Albanian midfielder moving to Sunderland this summer.
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In the summer, Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin tipped us off to Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, with Edwin Van der Sar not getting any younger and Ben Foster battling injury.

Ahead of our match against Akinfeev's team, CSKA Moscow, Sir Alex Ferguson was asked whether he was interested in signing the keeper.

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The Champions League group stages are not renowned for providing scintillating, exciting football and last night was no exception.

A rather dull game looked like it was going to provide Arsenal with three points but there was an inevitability about AZ's late equaliser. Ronald Koemen said before the game that Arsenal had defects and although it took them 93 minutes to exploit one, exploit it they did.

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With the Ballon d'Or nominations finally releasing this weekend, the headlines have mostly been devoted to the fact that world champions Italy have no representation whatsoever. But why blame the press for paying excessive attention to an irrelevant detail? After all, the award itself is destined to be heading Lionel Messi's way, which means very little is there to be talked about in terms of debating the winner, right?

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Arsenal's hot goal scoring form continued as they added 3 more goals to their tally against Birmingham, making them the goal scoring leaders in the Premier League with a total of 27. Of the goals scored, Andrei Arshavin's was the pick of the bunch as he neatly stepped inside his ... Click to continue reading...

Morning all,

Arsenal moved into the top four yesterday with a good win over Birmingham, but it wasn't quite as comfortable as we would have liked. We started well, pretty much bossed the game and it was no surprise when in the 15th minute Robin van Persie put us ahead. Collecting a low, hard pass from Alex Song his first touch was quite brilliant and his finish first class.

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Arsenal hosted Birmingham City on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in the English Premier League. Here's a recap and video highlights of the match.

Arsenal beats Birmingham City 3-1 Video Highlights

Arsenal cruised to a 3-1 in against Birmingham City on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in the EPL.

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In partnership with Russian Football Now, EPL Talk presents the ninth episode of RNF's podcast.

The ninth episode of Russian Football Now's Podcast is the second consecutive where hosts Chris Riordan and Richard Farley welcome a guest onto the show. EPL Talk's own Kartik Krishnaiyer, spends the show with us, giving his thoughts on

• the national team,
• Andrei Arshavin's ideal position (and his value relative to Cristiano Ronaldo),
• the future of Tottenham's Roman Pavlyuchenko,
• the Champions League prospects of Rubin and CSKA,
• this weekend's derby between Spartak Moscow and Lokomotiv, and
• the chances of Russia being awarded either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.

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It is over.

There are those who claim the Interlull only truly ends when the real football begins but I consider it done and dusted once the internationals are complete. And so they were last night. I know Andrei Arshavin scored for Russia, and Aaron Ramsey's back held up enough for him to score for Wales, but in terms of the rest our lads involvement last night I am clueless.

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Vagif Javadov scored a second-half equalizer Wednesday to help Azerbaijan hold Russia to a 1-1 draw in their final World Cup qualifier. Andrei Arshavin beat Kamran Aghayev from close range to give Russia the lead in ... Click to continue reading...

Vagif Javadov scored a second-half equalizer Wednesday to help Azerbaijan hold Russia to a 1-1 draw in their final World Cup qualifier. Andrei Arshavin beat Kamran Aghayev from close range to give Russia the lead in ...

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A goal from Andrei Arshavin gave Russia the lead but Dzavadov leveled for Azerbaijan.

0-1 Arshavin

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Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin was on hand to nip in and tap the ball home as Russia took on Azerbaijan.

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By TRAVIS CLARK

With just two World Cup qualifying matches left for just about every country, it's the last chance for many countries to make a push at a spot in South Africa next year. Perhaps the best match slated for this weekend is the matchup between Germany and Russia.

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By TRAVIS CLARK

With just two World Cup qualifying matches left for just about every country, it's the last chance for many countries to make a push at a spot in South Africa next year. Perhaps the best match slated for this weekend is the matchup between Germany and Russia.

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Captain Cesc Fabregas turns in a match winning performance- four assists and a goal, as Arsenal beat Blackburn Rovers 6-2 at home. Video highlights from the game. Final score:- Arsenal 6-2 Blackburn Rovers ( Vermaelen, Robin Van Persie, Andrei Arshavin, Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Nicklas Bendtner/ Steven Nzozi, David Dunn) Half time score :- Arsenal 3-2 Blackburn [. Click to continue reading...

Has the transfer window opened again?� I awoke to see the headlines about Arsenal being linked to three players. Bolton's Gary Cahill just as a back up centre half, he could be just the answer especially with Johan out until February with a knee injury,� Song our other back up centre half going to the Africa Cup of Nations.

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Jornada Champions que dio tres tacos tres en definiciones a la red. Tihinen para Milan 0 Zurich 1. Andrei Arshavin para Arsenal 2 Olympiakos 0 y el estimado Radamel Falcao (sí, Falcao) para Porto 2 Atlético Madrid 0. Dignos de verse.
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Back in my prime, there was one method of scoring I never mastered, the heel-flick. I pulled the move off in training many times, but in matches I made a fool of myself by whiffing on multiple occassions. I really want to score on a heel flick in a meaningful match because it's just so cool.

This week in the Champions League, three goals were scored on heel flicks.

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On Wednesday, we posted a video of Andrei Arshavin's nifty (and very offside) back-heel goal from the weekend. Apparently the play inspired some others to break out the back-heel tricks, with two back-heel beauties highlighting Wednesday's UEFA Champions League action.

FC Porto's Radamel Falcao scored this gem:

FC Zurich's Hannu Tihinen delivered this flying, ballet-like game-winning back-heel� to knock off AC Milan:

What do you think of these goals?

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On Wednesday, we posted a video of Andrei Arshavin's nifty (and very offside) back-heel goal from the weekend. Apparently the play inspired some others to break out the back-heel tricks, with two back-heel beauties highlighting Wednesday's UEFA Champions League action.

FC Porto's Radamel Falcao scored this gem:

FC Zurich's Hannu Tihinen delivered this flying, ballet-like game-winning back-heel� to knock off AC Milan:

What do you think of these goals?

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If you weren't able to catch Tuesday's UEFA Champions League action, you might have missed a pretty sweet back-heel goal from Arsenal star Andrei Arshavin.

Now, we realize that he was offside, and the goal shouldn't have counted, but you can still appreciate the skill.

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If you weren't able to catch Tuesday's UEFA Champions League action, you might have missed a pretty sweet back-heel goal from Arsenal star Andrei Arshavin.

Now, we realize that he was offside, and the goal shouldn't have counted, but you can still appreciate the skill.

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As the Olympiacos team bus got closer and closer to the Finsbury Park area, I am sure veteran goalkeeper Antonios Nikopolidis began to relive some of the greatest moments of his career at the highest level. From his invaluable contribution in Greece's historic Euro 2004 win to his consistency during his club's league triumph over the last three years, Nikopolidis is no stranger to success at a grand stage.

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Group E
Fiorentina shocked visiting Liverpool 2-0, both goals coming from Stevan Jovetic. It was the Reds first away-loss in 16 months. Lyon picked up a huge win on the road, 4-0 at Debrecen. Three goals came in the first 24 minutes.
Group F
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It's a long time since I've seen a team as negative as Olympiacos were last night. In the 6th minute Arsenal had possession just inside our own half, every single Olympiacos player was behind the ball. Pathetic.

I figure as Zico has only recently taken over as manager he doesn't know the players too well so his plan was to try and stop us playing.

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They came, they tried, and they failed.

Arsenal bagged all three points against Greek side Olympiakos to cement their place at the top of Group H.

Robin Van Persie and Andrei Arshavin grabbed the goals for the home side after a dominant display pleased the Emirates crowd.

The score line did not deem fair as keeper Nikopolidis kept the Gunners at bay.

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They came, they tried, and they failed.

Arsenal bagged all three points against Greek side Olympiakos to cement their place at the top of Group H.

Robin Van Persie and Andrei Arshavin grabbed the goals for the home side after a dominant display pleased the Emirates crowd.

The score line did not deem fair as keeper Nikopolidis kept the Gunners at bay.

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At the weekend we discussed accusations of Serie A referees favoring bigger clubs and now we have similar accusations of French referees favoring French clubs in the Champions League. Well, not actual French clubs, because their success in the Champions League would be far too suspicious. No, they're accused of favoring the one good club that's more French than Gerard Depardieu in a beret Arsenal.

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When Arsenal won against Standard Liege, having come from 2 goals down, the performance was poor but I thought the way we won the match was important. We played poorly and managed to produce a comeback from a couple of goals down. Every team needs games like that to give them the belief they can salvage something when things are going wrong.

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