Arsenal produced a laboured, gutless and passionless performance to draw 0-0 with 10-man Blackburn at the Emirates this evening. Despite being able to field a strong starting eleven Arsenal never got going and most of the players barley looked like they were putting in the effort required. You would have thought that every player in red & white would be busting a gut to close the gap on leaders United, but we hardly got out of 1st gear.
The best football came in the opening 15 minutes and the final 15 minutes, the majority of the game was terrible. We had a few close calls, Blackburn made a couple of great blocks and clearances, but it has to be said on the basis of this gutless display Arsenal are out of the title race. United showed what champions are made of coming back from 0-2 down to win 4-2, Arsenal just went through the motions expecting a goal to come. Pathetic. Here are the ‘highlights’ from the 0-0 draw with Blackburn for those who want to watch them. I’m sure it will look like Arsenal played ok and were unlucky, but for those who watched the entire 90 minutes, you’ll know how disappointing we were, and this can be confirmed by the loud boos bellowed out by the 60,000 crowd at the final whistle.
