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By Theo Sakyi Arsenal were coming into this match after their 4-0 battering at the hands of AC Milan, where, bar a magical moment of link up play between Robin van Persie and Thierry Henry, they didn’t look like they would create anything and could not handle the movement of Robinho, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Kevin Prince-Boateng. Sunderland had narrowly lost to the same Arsenal side the Saturday before and were looking to make amends with a win after showing some good form under Martin O’Neill. Arsene Wenger made 5 changes to the team that lost in Milan: Gervinho, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Johan Djourou and Francis Coquelin coming in for Tomas Rosicky, Theo Walcott, Laurent Koscielny and Keiran Gibbs with Lukasz Fabianski replacing Wojciech Szczesny between the posts. Sunderland started the match in a 4-1-4-1 shape with Lee Cattermole, Jack Colback and Craig Gardner in the middle with Stephane Sessegnon up top. Sessegnon, who is naturally an attacking midfielder, was dropping deep into a “false nine” role but the midfield behind him were hard workers yet not intelligent enough to link up with him and were pretty static with their movement. Nicklas Bendtner or Connor Wickham would have suited Sunderland more as [...]
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