Arsenal Ends Nine Years Of Trophy Drought

Arsenal has finally ended their nine years of trophy drought by beating Hull City 3 - 2 in the FA Cup final on Saturday at the Wembley Stadium.

The North London club which before the match kicked off was rated as the over-whelming favourite by many football pundits and fans.

Arsenal began the duel sluggishly, may be due to nervousness or over confidence, because they beat Hull City in the Premier League at home 2 - 0 and away 3 - 0 this season.

Arsenal Players celebrating their victory

Well whatever the reason was, Hull City which has never won FA Cup before, showed that they were hungry to lift the cup by scoring two goals in the first 8 minutes of the game, through James Chester and Curtis Davies. This came as a shock to not only the Arsenal players and their long suffering fans, but also to many fans of the beautiful game, who had no doubt, that Arsenal was about to end their trophy drought.

The North London team fight back started, when the energetic and talented Santi Carzola pulled a goal back, through free-kick before the end of the first half.

Many football fans, including myself were disappointed with the fact, that Arsenal did not take full control of the match earlier on. Their fans and manger, Mr Wenger, were very nervous that another opportunity was about
to slip through their fingers.

There was so much nail biting and anxious moment by the fans. It seem like their players knew what the fans were going through, coupled with the fact that they may not like that, Jose Mourinho, the Chelsea manager, called Arsene Wenger, 'a specialist in failure' because he has not win any trophy for the past nine years.

So the players kept on pushing harder, with a resolved resilience for an equalizer as Hull City resorted to mass defence to maintain their 2 - 1 lead, but 20 minutes to stoppage time, Arsenal's persistence yielded the much needed equalizer, through central defender Laurent Koscielny. The scoreline stood 2 - 2 at full time.

The match went into 30 minutes extra time and it stayed at 2 - 2, until 11 minutes to stoppage time when Aaron Ramsey scored the winning goal.
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