Stalemate as Arsenal rue missed chances
Thierry Henry can't believe another chance has gone begging
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Wednesday, 01, Nov 2006 10:09
Arsenal missed a host of opportunities as they failed to break the resolve of their Russian counterparts in a frustrating evening of Champions League action in London.
The night started as it meant to go on with captain Thierry Henry getting booked in the first minute having also been yellow carded in Moscow.
Most of the chances were created in the first half, the best one of all falling to young sensation Francesc Fabregas, while Henry and Robin Van Persie were also guilty of misses.
Fabregas worked a clever one-two with Tomas Rosicky to get himself space in the box; he rounded the keeper but could only find the side-netting with the open goal at his mercy.
Van Persie had three chances in the opening 13 minutes but could not find the target with any of them the best of them from 20 yards out following Henry's square ball.
The Frenchman squandered chances of his own afterwards, twice shooting wide with only the goalkeeper to beat.
Arguably as bad a miss as Fabregas' earlier chance was the tame effort of Rosicky from inside the six-yard box. After good work from Henry the midfielder only had to put it a yard either side of the keeper but could not.
Arsenal would rue their missed chances in the second half as they failed to produce much of note. The Russians offered little going forward as they looked to tighten their defence that Arsenal had all but ripped apart, albeit fruitlessly, in the first 45 minutes.
The best chance of the second half again fell to Van Persie but he nodded wide from eight yards out.