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 right-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 second season in succession,Southampton did win this fixture. final time out, on fresh Year’s Day, or 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, or Wojciech Szczesny,making a couple of deplorable errors and then sparking up a cigarette by the shower area of the dressing-room.
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Source: theguardian.com