Recently promoted Kavala's impressive form in the Superleague has continued after they managed to get a late win against AEK. This win means that Kavala has managed to take points from each of the big three (a draw against Olympiakos in Karaiskaki and a home draw against PAO).

Though Kavala's first goal came off of a penalty which was a clear dive and a few calls weren't made in our favour, Kavala were clearly the better team.

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Finally there is an official statement from the club on the extend of RVP's injury and it's 6 weeks. That's a total of 11 matches that the Dutchman will miss. 8 Premier League games, 2 Champions League games and 1 Carling Cup game (which I doubt he will feature in anyway). That spate of matches includes Sunderland (A), Std Liege (H), Chelsea (H), Man City (A), Stoke (H), Olympiakos (A), Liverpool (A), Burnley (A), Hull (H), Villa (H) and Portsmouth (A).

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Wolves 1 (Craddock 89) Arsenal 4 (Zubar og 28, Craddock og 36, Fabregas 45, Arshavin 66)
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Moving house and blogging is a tricky combination. Phone companies tend to ensure that you haven't got a hope of getting online during the first few weeks in the new place, and trying to write anything meaningful from a mobile is nigh on impossible.

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Sid Lowe's La Liga column in the Guardian shared an interesting statistic this week over 50 clubs have beaten Real Madrid since October 2009 (last 10 years), but Atletico Madrid isn't one of them.

Here's the list in full:

Al Nasr Saudi Club, Al-Ahly, Alavés, Alcorcón, Almería, Anderlecht, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Betis, Boca Juniors, Celta Vigo, Deportivo, Espanyol, Galatasaray, Getafe, Graz, Hannover, Internazionale, Juventus, Las Palmas, Levante, Liverpool, Lokomotiv Moscow, Málaga, Mallorca, Manchester United, Milan, Monaco, Murcia, Nastic, Numancia, Olympiakos, Lyon, Osasuna, PSV, Racing, Rayo Vallecano, Nexaca, Real Sociedad, Real Unión, Recreativo, Roma, Servette, Sevilla, Spartak Moscow, Sporting Lisbon, Tokyo Verdy, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Villarreal, Werder Bremen and Zaragoza.

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Let's start this off by congratulating our two new continental champions. South Korea's Ponang Seelers took the AFC Champions League title this weekend with a 2-1 defeat of Saudi club Al-Ittihad. In Africa, the CAF Champions League title was won by Congo Democratic Republic's TP Mazembi who defeated Nigeria's Heartland FC.

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Gerrard out. Johnson out. Aurelio out. Torres half-fit. Several other players doubtful. Two defeats in three CL games. Third in the CL group table. eight defeats since the start of the season. Liverpool have no chance of beating Lyon on their own ground, right? WRONG.
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Liverpool was so close to victory yesterday in Lyon. After giving Lyon their best for 83 minutes, a Ryan Babel wonder goal broke the deadlock, handing Rafa and the Reds a lifeline in Group E. A win against the French powerhouse would throw them back in the thick of things. But it was not to be, as Lisandro Lopez capitalized on some poor Liverpool defending to snatch a 1-1 draw that sealed Lyon's passage to the knockout stage.

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Liverpool was so close to victory yesterday in Lyon. After shutting out Les Gones for 83 minutes, a Ryan Babel wonder goal broke the deadlock, handing Rafa and the Reds a lifeline in Group E. A win against the French powerhouse would throw them back in the thick of things. But it was not to be, as Lisandro Lopez capitalized on some poor Liverpool defending to snatch a 1-1 draw that sealed Lyon's passage to the knockout stage.

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(video gol, 1-0. Mbokani)
(video gol, 2-0. Jovanovic)
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Belgian side Standard grabbed their first win of the competition with this victory over Olympiakos.

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1-0 Mbokani

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Arsenal vs AZ Alkmaar

AZ Alkmaar have made the short trip to London to take on Arsenal looking to build on their surprise 1-1 draw out in Holland last time out. A furious Arsene Wenger will be out to tighten up his leaky defence and see the job done in a week where he spoke about his desire to win the Champions League trophy.

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Ok, to be honest, I was expecting a loss for AEK here. Aris were considered favorites for this game and I think that's somewhat justified. Bearing that in mind, I'll take a draw here. Its never easy to win away against Aris, even on a good day.

I wasn't able to watch the match since it was satellite.

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Partidos del Martes : Promesas del Este
Sorpresas por todos lados deparó la jornada del Martes. A saber: Barcelona perdió en el Camp Nou contra un equipo ruso ( Rubin Kazan ) por 2 a 1 con goles de Ryazantsev y Gokdeniz, empatando transitoriamente Ibrahimovic. Flojo lo de los Gaurdiola, flojo Messi ( y van. Click to continue reading...

Almost half way through the group stage and things are hotting up. While some teams go from bad to worse, others look to cement themselves in a qualification place before reaching the last two games. Arsenal, though, could only manage a draw away to AZ Alkmaar, putting them only one point clear at the top ahead of Olympiakos, who defeated Standard Liege at home 2-1. Click to continue reading...

Something unbelievable happened yesterday. Did Arsenal win the encounter at DSB Stadion? No, they didn't. Did AZ Alkmaar managed to overcome the financial disparity and obvious difference in squad strength to upset the odds and defeat Arsenal? No, they didn't either. It ended 1-1 and turns out to be a real shocker as it was Arsenal's first ever drawn game this season.

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L'Arsenal rimedia solo un punticino (1 a 1, gol di Fabregas per i Gunners) sul campo del modesto Alkmaar. L'Olympiakos, invece, acciuffa la vittoria, in rimonta, al 90' contro lo Standard Liegi e si porta solamente ad una lunghezza dagli inglesi, in un girone nel quale ormai le due piazze sono praticamente gi� assegnate. Click to continue reading...

Greek champions Olympiakos came from a goal behind to beat Belgian Standard Liege.

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0-1 Camargo

1-1 Mitroglou

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In form Gunners make short trip to face ailing Dutch side AZ.

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Arsenal are without Czech star Tomas Rosicky (knee) and striker Theo Walcott for the Champions League visit to AZ.

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Hi Guys, I'm here with my first post. I'm going to be doing a weekly post on the reasons why I love the beautiful game so much. This week I will be starting, ironically, with last gasp goals.

It doesn't matter how they are scored, whether it's a tap in like Aaron Lennon in last seasons dramatic 4-4 in the North London Derby� and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer winning the treble at the Camp Nou, or beautifully crafted like Beckham lighting up Old Trafford once again to send England to the 2002 World Cup and Gerrard smashing home against Olympiakos in the 86th minute, giving them the 2-goal lead they needed to progress past the group stage of the 2004 Champion's League, a competition they would go on to win.

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Liverpool's exciting young striker Krisztián Németh has scored his first two goals for AEK Athens.
Goal v Giannina – 20 September 2009 (0:43)
Goal v Olympiakos – 23 September 2009 (0:22)
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� I know, I know. Shouldn't have friends who support Utd. But they are good people, apart from the fact that they support Ferguson's cronies. Honestly.� And they've shown it haven't they? If they heap praise themselves on our team's performance, you know we are doing something right.

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In Arsenal's Champions League match against Olympiakos, in which they won 2-0, Eduardo seemed to aggravate a thigh muscle and will now miss Croatia's friendly with Qatar and most likely their last WC qualifier with Kazakhstan. The Croatian Football Federation announced that despite being injured, Dudu will still join the . Click to continue reading...

First of all apologies for the lack of posts in the last two days. It is not because I've been stuck on topics to write about. There are two reasons.� A post this week will explain one reason� why I didn't write anything since the end of September.

I did try posting something yesterday, it was going to be mainly images.

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Robin van Persie's altruistic style has seen him become a focal point of Arsenal's attacking play by creating chances and space for others.
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There is a lot of Robin van Persie love on this blog at the moment and if he hadn't quite settled in his new role at the club, he has now.

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A huge win for us, absolutely incredible! So many good things to say, its going to take a while. I believe AEKBaltimore recorded the game since it was on in the US as well, so hopefully he will have some more comments as well.

First off, let me just repeat that once more. AEK 1-0 Benfica.

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Arsenal midfielder Theo Walcott will be available for the Gunners' game at the Emirates against Blackburn, on Sunday.

The 20-year old is yet to feature for Arsenal this season but according to manager Arsene Wenger, he is fit to start after resuming training last week and playing 60 minutes against Olympiacos's reserve side on Monday.

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Arsenal midfielder Theo Walcott will be available for the Gunners' game at the Emirates against Blackburn, on Sunday.

The 20-year old is yet to feature for Arsenal this season but according to manager Arsene Wenger, he is fit to start after resuming training last week and playing 60 minutes against Olympiacos's reserve side on Monday.

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I came in from the match last night, coughing up phlegm and regretting my attendance, to my traditional 'just returned from the football' conversation with my mother, where she feigns interest in my evening out.
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Does anyone really need any commentary on last night's 2-nil victory over Olympiakos? It was just pure, absolute domination for 90 minutes. Olympiakos registered only one true scoring opportunity but Mannone came up trumps when called upon not long after the restart.

As the match was getting into the later stages and it looked like it might be one of those nights when Arsenal just can't get the ball to actually cross the goalline, I was thinking to myself that, if this match finished scoreless, it would've been the most one-sided nil-nil draw I had ever seen.

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A decent if laboured win over Olympiakos at the Grove last night. The visitors soon revealed their primary objective, to return home with that with which they started – a point. It took us a frustratingly long time to break them down with Vito Mannone all but unemployed in our goal, but in the end we managed it, courtesy of two well-worked and executed goals from rockin' Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin as time ran down in the second half.

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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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Robin van Persie inspired Arsenal to an impressive win over Olympiakos as the Gunners fluent football was too good for the Greeks.
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How do Arsenal propose to become more ruthless? By ditching the goalpoacher of course.

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Il martedì di Champions è stato, come sempre, ricco di gol ed emozioni, ma anche di risultati a sorpresa. Meritato ma sicuramente inaspettato da tanti, lo strepitoso successo, "all'inglese" della Fiorentina contro il Liverpool di Benitez, una delle grandi d'Europa. Al Franchi è show del montenegrino Jovetic, sempre più elemento fondamentale del gruppo viola. Click to continue reading...

(video gol, 1-0. Van Persie)
(video gol, 2-0. Arshavin)
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Arsenal needed late goals from Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin to see off Olympiakos despite dominating their Champions League Group H clash.

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