Written by George Sezer Saturday, 13 March 2010 20:28

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By George Sezer

Arsenal do not win ugly they say but this team is learning fast. It looks like we have put the art of winning when not playing well into our armoury. Scoring the winner 3 minutes into injury time is another welcomed change although it is not good for my old ticker. I know we have scored goals around 90 minutes mark 5 times this season but none of them were as crucial as this one, an outright winner! It just might be the most important one as well.

We started the game from where we left off from the midweek encounter against Porto, playing our usual free flowing football. Arshavin scored the opener after some typically brilliant Arsenal play, wriggling through two defenders before planting the ball into the bottom corner. Everything was going according to plan until the blundering linesman somehow failed to raise his flag for an obvious offside...penalty, they equalised, we lost our way.

Even after Boetang got sent off for trying to poke Bendtler's eye out and putting his studs in the side of Sanga's knee in 3 mad minutes, we failed to hurt a sorry Hull side until second half substitute Walcott changed the game. Seconds after replacing Eboue he set up Arshavin for a simple chance but the Russian skied the ball from 12 yards. The young winger was a thorn in Hull's side for the rest of the game and his timely coming into good form is great news for Arsenal and England.

This young team has desire, belief and mental strength and Bendtler's goal from a rebound of Denilson's 30 yarder in injury time shows that they also never give up.

Is Mr Wenger going to prove everybody including myself wrong again and win the League? If he does, I will never, ever doubt him again!... I promise.