{"id":3036,"date":"2014-03-26T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2014-03-26T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:02:57","slug":"another-crash-sets-arsenal-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/another-crash-sets-arsenal-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8221;Crash&#8221; Sets Arsenal Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Shortly after \u00a0comparing the six-goal humiliation at Chelsea to a car crash, Arsene Wenger climbed back behind the wheel and drove into another accident as Arsenal were forced to a 2-2 draw at the Emirates by visiting Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven minutes was all it took for Wilfried Bony to out-jump Thomas Vermaelen and head Swansea into the lead at Arsenal and render Wenger&#8217;s pre-match brag about focus and a good start in Tuesday&#8217;s Premier League tie with the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>For 70 minutes it looked more like his players meant to embarrass the Frenchman with listless display which upset even the most loyal Arsenal fans.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners seemed to forget all their waepons in the armoury as they were easily unzipped by out-of-form Swansea, trailed for an hour as impatience and frustration set in inside the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>However, the introduction of out-of favour Grmany striker Lukas Podolski turned the game in just seconds as the striker nudged in an equaliser after a beautiful cross into the penalty box by Kierran Gibbs.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea surrendered the ball cheaply from the restart and were hit with a second within a minute when Podolski, again charged down the left to set up Olivier Giroud.<\/p>\n<p>But Swansea levelled in the final seconds with a freak own goal from Mathieu Flamini who kicked a rebound into his own net after a Wojciech Szczesny save. It could have been worse.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were understandably furious when referee Lee Probert ended the game with Jonathan de Guzman clean through on goal for what could have been the winner for the visitors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after \u00a0comparing the six-goal humiliation at Chelsea to a car crash, Arsene Wenger climbed back behind the wheel and drove into another accident as Arsenal were forced to a 2-2 draw at the Emirates by visiting Swansea City. Eleven minutes was all it took for Wilfried Bony to out-jump Thomas Vermaelen and head Swansea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}