An stirring Arsenal cruised to a serene 3-0 gain a victory over Coca-Cola Championship airs Burnley at Emirates Stadium. Fine goals from Mexican girl Carlos Vela and Eduardo either faction of half-time and Emmanuel Eboue's behindhand upon set the Gunners up for a habitation chain against Hull in a fortnight's time and moved them a impression closer to Wembley. The superiority - achieved with several of the first-team regulars rested and which pronounced a desirable return for England winger Theo Walcott after four months out because of a take upon oneself question - extended Arsenal's unbeaten pass to 17 games in all competitions and proved just the rectitude analeptic ahead of next week's crucial Champions League plunge to Roma.
Gunners domineer Arsene Wenger simply had one eye on the European fixture given his pair selection, as leading scorer Robin van Persie and full-back Gael Clichy were left-hand on the bench while midfielder Denilson did not main film at all. However, Wenger would have still expected this arrogance to be established too numerous for the visitors, cheered on by some 5,000 nomadic fans. Burnley proprietor Owen Coyle, though, had certainly not instructed his men to sit back and be effective a beating. The Clarets, who knocked Arsenal out of the Carling Cup at Turf Moor back in December, started with slew of attacking intentions in a runny 4-3-3 formation. Alex Song made a seasonable impugn on Kevin McDonald as the visitors had the best of the initially possession.
Eboue sprung the offside trick into the hand view of the penalty area on seven minutes, but as he shaped to shoot, Burnley captain Steve Caldwell made a admirable sliding tackle. The Gunners conclusively took the distance with a first-rate breakaway purpose on 25 minutes. Andrei Arshavin latched onto a scattered pay no heed and threaded it through to Vela. The Mexican kid pushed the ball between Clarke Carlisle's legs and raced away in the direction of goal. Joey Gudjonsson tugged back at his shirt, but Vela only had one apparatus on his mind, as he reached the side of the arena before chipping the ball over Jensen into the net.
The ambition settled down the Emirates Stadium faction - which at 57,454 was someway down on the authorized capacity. As violent dialect mizzle abruptly swept into the ground, Burnley were now in peril of being over-run. Carlisle made an superior block just when Vela looked set to flourish from 18 yards. Eduardo then chested down a through ball and explode into the box, where only a last-ditch deal from Caldwell prevented him from extending the lead.
There was, though, a competition in the Arsenal six-yard hit when taciturnity keeper Lukasz Fabianski flapped at a near-post corner, which bounced off Chris McCann and then William Gallas before being hacked away. Just before the break, Jensen tipped Eboue's angled lane around the his right-hand post. Arsenal doubled their profit with another well-worked object six minutes into the assistant half. Song chipped an angled ball over into the factual marginal of the amercement space - where Eduardo had timed the carry on inimitably to flare in a superb torrent off the outside of his left foot.
Burnley, though, refused to fiction down and Martin Paterson sent a curling venture just all the way from 18 yards, before Eagles was replaced by Wade Elliott. Arsenal soon regained emotional hold sway over and it only looked a incident of time before the host chalked up a third, with Arshavin's header just lacking the strength to rhythm Jensen. Eduardo should have scored again when he was picked out at the far stay by a bottomless cross from Sagna - but this organize the Brazilian-born Croatia marksman could only move the ball back across goal and fully from six yards. Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey and England winger Walcott were introduced for the fixed 20 minutes. Walcott almost significant his earn with a aim when latching onto Arshavin's pass, but Jensen was out at once to make a tuned in save.
Substitute van Persie missed his recoil at the far post, before Arsenal definitively made it 3-0 with five minutes left. Song's sharp back-heel put Eboue dislodge into the hand side of the penalty area and he drilled the ball into the far corner from closely guarded range. A header from Caldwell hit the scale of the crossbar following a corner - but there was to be no consolation aspiration for the brave, but outclassed visitors.
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