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Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas: Schoolboy Goals Cost Us Against Porto
Spaniard questions strength of the team.
Feb 17, 2010 5:30:00 PM
By Niall McGlone
Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas was left to rue 'schoolboy' goals after the Gunners crashed to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Porto in the Champions League.
Arsenal got off to a terrible start when Lukasz Fabianski, who was standing in for the injured Manuel Almunia, bundled a Silvestre Varela cross into his own net inside the first ten minutes.
Sol Campbell headed the sides level ten minutes later after Porto initially failed to deal with an Arsenal corner and the 35-year-old eventually nodded home from close range.
The winner came in controversial circumstances after Campbell knocked the ball back to Fabianski who picked the ball up giving the referee no option but to awarded Porto a free kick inside the box for a pass back.
Porto reacted quickly and Radamel Falcao knocked the ball home before Arsenal could react at all.
When asked whether or not the goal should have stood, Fabregas answered: “I don’t know. I have no idea to be honest. Maybe as a player I would have done the same.”
"Schoolboy’s goal, what can you do? Nothing, nothing to complain [about].”
“After the second goal we went down, maybe we are still a little bit soft in that aspect as a team when we concede a goal maybe sometimes we are not strong enough to lift ourselves up,” he continued.
“That’s what happened really, we were not strong enough to stand up and play well but until the second goal I think we were having a very good game.”
Arsenal now have it all to at the Emirates in the return leg if they wish to progress further in the competition.
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Arsenal got off to a terrible start when Lukasz Fabianski, who was standing in for the injured Manuel Almunia, bundled a Silvestre Varela cross into his own net inside the first ten minutes.
Sol Campbell headed the sides level ten minutes later after Porto initially failed to deal with an Arsenal corner and the 35-year-old eventually nodded home from close range.
The winner came in controversial circumstances after Campbell knocked the ball back to Fabianski who picked the ball up giving the referee no option but to awarded Porto a free kick inside the box for a pass back.
Porto reacted quickly and Radamel Falcao knocked the ball home before Arsenal could react at all.
When asked whether or not the goal should have stood, Fabregas answered: “I don’t know. I have no idea to be honest. Maybe as a player I would have done the same.”
"Schoolboy’s goal, what can you do? Nothing, nothing to complain [about].”
“After the second goal we went down, maybe we are still a little bit soft in that aspect as a team when we concede a goal maybe sometimes we are not strong enough to lift ourselves up,” he continued.
“That’s what happened really, we were not strong enough to stand up and play well but until the second goal I think we were having a very good game.”
Arsenal now have it all to at the Emirates in the return leg if they wish to progress further in the competition.
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