Stoke City stops Arsenal's pursuit for FA

Arsenal once again paid for their already failed game plan. It looked like a repeat of the Carling Cup except for the few experienced players in the substitute line-up.
Arsene Wenger did the same mistake again and proved he is not the one who is going to learn from his mistakes.

The match review will include only few points to discuss and learn for gunners.
1. Playing Silvestre in the center.
Silvestre has already proved to be a bad central defender. But he was commendable in the left back position offlate. Still Wenger chose to play his in the center. Wenger should have kept him for the left back or as a substitute.

2. Campbell with Silvestre
Sol was making a come back after 5 months eventhough he never looked so. He was playing good and made a point clear that he still has it in him. But pairing him with already off match fit and match experienced Silvestre was another terrible mistake. This also should have affected Sol Campbell's morale due to 3 goals that they let in.

3. Playing Fabianski
Vito Mannone had already proved that he was better than our first choice goal-keeper Almunia. But still Wenger went with Fabianski and Vito in subs. This was another wrong choice. Fabianski seems to be the worst goalkeeper that Arsenal has ever seen. Not sure what Wenger is keeping him for and what are his plans. But as far as fans are concerned, Arsenal is making us lose our morale and temper.
Should not be making such silly mistakes as selecting Fabianski. All our other goalkeepers are better than Fabianski currently. He can be a great keeper in making but currently he is not among the best we have.

4. Playing Vela, Walcott and Thomas at the sametime.
We definitely needs to give our youngsters good chance to grow, but it should not be all in same match. Walcott looked to be completely out of touch. Cannot even give a good cross. He also was scared to take shots. Vela was getting carried away with too much dribbling and not able to deliver the goods once again. They have potential but needs time to grow. Thomas was impressive and showed good attitude.

Denilson scored a decent goal again from long range from a Fabregas freekick which was the lone goal from Arsenal side. Stoke City scored thrice to win the match in some style. We should never be taking any cup lightly since we don't have any to retain. We should be serious in all matches. We all are unlucky that we lost our main strikers and other players to injury. But at the sametime we need to understand that all matches are important and its upto the manager to plan. He has money to spend but he won't spend. It is his choice no comments on that, but ultimately after all those trophy draughts we fans deserve a cup to be happy. We trust in Arsene and hope he can deliver this year and won't make us wait for one more year.