Written by George Sezer Saturday, 06 March 2010 15:41

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By George Sezer

It should have been a bigger winning margin but hey a win is a win, but on another day Bendtler could have had a hat trick under his belt. Somewhat suprising given his recent goal scoring record for club and country.

We started the game like a team who is still under the affect of the you know what of last week which was understandable. On the other hand, watching the game I always felt that we had too much for Burnley to handle and the win was not in question. Fabregas and especially Nasri pulling the strings, it was just matter of time before we scored. It was the latter of the two who provided one of the passes of the season for the other one to score. Then our legendary injury jinx struck again and we lost Fabregas to what seems to be the same hamstring problem he had earlier in the season. Big worry for the midweek Champion League second leg against Porto. To make the matters worse a typical piece of Arsenal defending = not defending properly handed Nugent an easy chance to equalise for Burnley.

Second half Walcott happened, yes it was him back to the player we know he can be and what an impact to the game his lightning pace made! He presented Bendtler with two of the easiest chances the big striker fluffed before scoring a great one himself.

Having players like Diaby, Arshavin and Eduardo back from injuries was the other positives to take from this game although Edu looks a shadow of the player he was before his injury. We can only hope that Aaron can make a better recovery mentally.
It was miss after miss until the injury time third goal which Arshavin scored with a vicious shot at the near post.

One match at a time cliche makes next weeks encounter away to Hull as one of the most important game of the season to date.