WBA 2-3 Arsenal - Arsene Wenger Interview - 13th May 2012
The first period at The Hawthorns housed a catalogue of errors as West Brom and Arsenal shared four goals in Roy Hodgson's final game in charge of the Baggies. A Premier League bow for West Brom proved to be one to forget for Marton Fulop as a calamitous piece of goalkeeping saw the Hungarian race from his goal only to get caught in two minds over how to clear, as his hesitation allowed Yossi Benayoun to nip in and roll the ball into an empty goal for Arsenal's opener. If the game's first goal was all about a player error then West Brom's leveller owed more to official folly. Shane Long looked a yard off-side when taking James Morrison's through ball in his stride but after taking an inquisitive look to the touchline, his finish was unerring past Wojciech Szczesny. By the quarter of an hour mark West Brom had forged ahead when Graham Dorrans took Morrison's lofted pass on his chest to make a yard of space before smartly rifling in an angled drive from the edge of the area. West Brom then preceded to shoot themselves in the foot for a second time in half an hour when after gifting Arsenal possession in their own half, the ball found its way to Andre Santos, whose left-footed drive was well struck but should nonetheless not had beaten Fulop at his near post. Fulop's nightmare was to continue in the second period as he got a punch horribly wrong on 54 minutes as the ball in from an Arsenal set-piece somehow ended up behind him, to allow Laurent Koscielny to bag the goal that <b>...</b>
