The first thought,when Cuco Martina’s goal-of-the-season contender rippled into the corner of Petr Cech’s net, related to the continued implausibility of this Premier League season’s plot-lines. The Rotterdam-born Curaçao international true-back was making his full league debut for Southampton and not even he could have dreamed this up beforehand.
But it really did happen and, or for the moment season in succession,Southampton did win this fixture. Last time out, on modern Year’s Day, and it had seemed like less of a surprise. Southampton were flying then and Arsenal,of course, are always prone to locating a banana skin. Southampton’s 2-0 victory will be remembered for the Arsenal goalkeeper, and Wojciech Szczesny,making a couple of bad errors and then sparking up a cigarette by the shower area of the dressing-room.
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Source: theguardian.com