Ramsey lands late Gunners winner

by Tony Cuddihy , 19 October 2011

Aaron Ramsey scored with almost the final kick of the match to give Arsenal a 1-0 win over Marseille in the Stade Velodrome on Wednesday night.


While both sides could have been awarded penalties for handball in the first half, the match had slowed to a bore before the Welshman popped up two minutes into injury time.

The 21-year-old had started on the bench due to a tight hamstring but, thankfully for Arsenal, applied a clinical finish past Steve Mandanda in the Marseille goal. Johan Djourou had provided the cross.

Arsenal are now on seven points in Group F, topping the group.

The first chance of a tepid game fell to Robin van Persie, whose looping header was cleared off the line by Souleymane Diawara from Mikel Arteta's corner. Diawara, it seemed, had handled the ball but the referee failed to spot any offence.

The Gunners' next chance did not come until Theo Walcott fired in a low shot that Mandanda saved.

With just a few minutes remaining the goalkeeper saved again from van Persie, but he could do nothing when Gervinho took the sting out of Djourou's cross for Ramsey to slot home.

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Pos
Team P W D L +/- PTS
1.
Man City
38
28
5
5
64
89
2.
Man Utd
38
28
5
5
56
89
3.
Arsenal
38
21
7
10
25
70
4.
Tottenham
38
20
9
9
25
69
5.
Newcastle
38
19
8
11
5
65
6.
Chelsea
38
18
10
10
19
64
7.
Everton
38
15
11
12
10
56
8.
Liverpool
38
14
10
14
7
52
9.
Fulham
38
14
10
14
-3
52
10.
West Brom
38
13
8
17
-7
47
11.
Swansea
38
12
11
15
-7
47
12.
Norwich
38
12
11
15
-14
47
13.
Sunderland
38
11
12
15
-1
45
14.
Stoke
38
11
12
15
-17
45
15.
Wigan
38
11
10
17
-20
43
16.
Aston Villa
38
7
17
14
-16
38
17.
QPR
38
10
7
21
-23
37
18.
Bolton
38
10
6
22
-31
36
19.
Blackburn
38
8
7
23
-30
31
20.
Wolverhampton
38
5
10
23
-43
25
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