兵器庫 2 West Brom 3: Nutty Arsene Wenger driven batty by buoyant Baggies

By Patrick Collins Updated: 10:27 BST, 26 September 2010

West Brom destroyed 兵器庫's chance to の近くに the gap on Chelsea at the 最高の，を越す of the 首相 League.

Arsene Wenger 現れるd from the dressing room with the 直面する of a man who had just （打撃，刑罰などを）与えるd some serious 損失.

No more the tolerant, 保護の 人物／姿／数字 who nurses his 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s through their 週刊誌 実験（する）s and tribulations.

This time, home truths had been told and 血 had been 流出／こぼすd.

Stop gap: 兵器庫 keeper Manuel Almunia saves 刑罰，罰則

Here in north London, they were trying to 解任する when Wenger （機の）カム out with lines like 'I didn't recognise my team today... we were collectively poor... we got what we deserved... it is unexplainable'.

There wasn't a 選び出す／独身 expletive and the 発言する／表明する was never raised. But coming from Wenger, it carried the 軍隊 of a diatribe.

And what gave his 批評s a cutting 辛勝する／優位 was the knowledge that he had brought some of the troubles upon himself.

Over the past year or more, it has become a wearisome cliche to 示唆する that 兵器庫 欠如（する） a talented, efficient, dependable goalkeeper.

After Manuel Almunia's 最新の 展示, the need is more 圧力（をかける）ing than ever. Wenger 辞退するd to 非難する individuals, 主張するing his defence had made some 大規模な 集団の／共同の errors.??

Treble chance: Jerome Thomas shoots past Laurent Koscielny to 得点する／非難する／２０ their third goal

But he knew, as 60,000 others knew, that the 本体，大部分／ばら積みの of the 非難する for this 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 敗北・負かす should be laid at his keeper's creaking door.

Albion's second goal, the success which made them believe that victory was achievable, was a grotesque mistake by Almunia.

It 現れるd from the 52nd minute when a ball was slickly played into yards of space 負かす／撃墜する the 権利 and Gonzalo Jara m oved on to the 適切な時期.

He 査定する／（税金などを）課すd his 選択s and decided to 賭事 on 衝突，墜落ing a 発射 at the 近づく 地位，任命する.

A more 確信して, more competent goalkeeper would have stifled the 運動. Almunia stooped arthritically, lost his bearings and somehow scooped the ball into his own 逮捕する.

It was the 肉親，親類d of error which breaks a team's heart. Some 20 minutes later, he 手渡すd over the third goal and, 効果的に, the game.

Chris Brunt worked his way across the 兵器庫 defence and moved wide to the 権利. Amazingly, the keeper elected to follow him. He seemed to think about changing his mind, but it was far too late, and he was 立ち往生させるd yards outside his goal when the cross （機の）カム over.

As Jerome Thomas clattered the 運動, Almunia was barely in the same 郵便の 地区. It was another calamitous error.

In truth, the inadequacies of 兵器庫 tended to 影を投げかける the 本物の virtues of a resolute Albion 味方する.

Their 経営者／支配人, Roberto di Matteo, 主張するd that they had gone into the match believing they could 勝利，勝つ, and their 肯定的な approach 是認するd his 見解（をとる）. ?

Predictably, West Bromwich had 試みる／企てるd to 課す themselves 肉体的に at the start, but their 成果／努力s were 大部分は within 支配するs and 推論する／理由.

Jonas Olsson was 調書をとる／予約するd for a 無謀な 肺 at Emmanuel Eboue on eight minutes, but it was scarcely an 乱暴／暴力を加える.

So 兵器庫 played their football, Albion did their work and the （人が）群がる waited for 兵器庫 to break the 行き詰まらせる.

They went の近くに a time or two, and never closer than Andrey Arshavin's 成果／努力 which slapped against a 地位，任命する, but they could never find the pass to （土地などの）細長い一片 負かす／撃墜する the defence.

And when the really important break was made, it was Albion who made it. Brunt, a 重要な 人物／姿／数字 in midfield, ran into space and played a pass through to Peter Odemwingie.

Almunia （機の）カム 殺到するing out, sprawled obstructively and brought 負かす／撃墜する the striker for the clearest 刑罰，罰則.

Brunt took the kick, but struck the ball without 力／強力にする or 意図, and Almunia 事実上 fell upon the 成果／努力.?

Hard to watch: Arsene Wenger

Equality at half-time was something 兵器庫 scarcely deserved, but it 申し込む／申し出d them the chance to 始める，決める things straight after the interval. In fact, they never looked like taking it.

In five minutes, Albion were ahead.

Thomas, attacking on the left, went 一連の会議、交渉／完成する Bacary Sagna rather too easily.

The cross was 削減（する） 支援する, and Odemwingie 反応するd half a yard ahead of the 残り／休憩（する） to take his chance.

It was then that Almunia played his 悲惨な 手渡す. It might have been redeemed late on. With 15 minutes remaining, Sami Nasri 選ぶd his way through the 取り組むs for a tidy goal.

Then as the game went into 追加するd time, he repeated the feat to raise hopes of a point which would have been ill-deserved.

In those last, hectic moments, a host of chances arrived, and all were 行方不明になるd. 司法（官） was done, and one of the shocks of the young season was 完全にする.