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Arsenal 4-0 FC Twente - August 27, 2008 / Champions League 2008/2009

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Champions League 2008/2009 - 3rd round

Emirates Stadium - London - England

August 27, 2008

Arsenal

England

4 - 0

FC Twente

Netherlands

Samir Nasri

27'

William Gallas

52'

Theo Walcott

66'

Nicklas Bendtner

89'

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27' - Goal Samir Nasri27

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46' - Substitution Samir Nasriis substituted by Emmanuel Eboué46

46' - Substitution Jeroen Heubachis substituted by Niels Wellenberg

52' - Goal William Gallas52

65' - Substitution Robin van Persieis substituted by Emmanuel Adebayor65

66' - Goal Theo Walcott66

68' - Substitution Cesc Fàbregasis substituted by Alexandre Song68

80' - Substitution Edson Braafheidis substituted by Slobodan Rajkovic

89' - Goal Nicklas Bendtner89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

4 - 0

FC Twente

Arsenal FC Twente

Team line-ups

Arsenal

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

11van Persie65

Robin van Persie

Netherlands

B.date06/08/1983

Age25 years

H1m83

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

26Bendtner89

Nicklas Bendtner

Denmark

B.date16/01/1988

Age20 years

H1m93

positionStriker

8Nasri2746

Samir Nasri

France

B.date26/06/1987

Age21 years

H1m77

positionPlaymaker

15Denilson

Denilson

Brazil

B.date16/02/1988

Age20 years

H1m78

positionLeft central midfielder

4Fàbregas68

Cesc Fàbregas

Spain

B.date04/05/1987

Age21 years

H1m79

positionRight central midfielder

14Walcott66

Theo Walcott

England

B.date16/03/1989

Age19 years

H1m76

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

22Clichy

Gaël Clichy

France

B.date26/07/1985

Age23 years

H1m76

positionLeft full-back

Gallas52

William Gallas

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age31 years

H1m81

positionLeft central defender

20Djourou

Johan Djourou

Switzerland

B.date18/01/1987

Age21 years

H1m91

positionRight central defender

Sagna

Bacary Sagna

France

B.date14/02/1983

Age25 years

H1m76

positionRight full-back

1Almunia

Manuel Almunia

Spain

B.date19/05/1977

Age31 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Manuel Almunia		31	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Johan Djourou		21	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	William Gallas	52	31	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Bacary Sagna		25	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Gaël Clichy		23	150	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Cesc Fàbregas	68	21	199	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Denilson		20	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Robin van Persie	65	25	137	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Samir Nasri	2746	21	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Theo Walcott	66	19	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	F	Nicklas Bendtner	89	20	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

FC Twente

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Huysegems

Stein Huysegems

Belgium

B.date16/06/1982

Age26 years

H1m86

positionForward

Elia

Eljero Elia

Netherlands

B.date13/02/1987

Age21 years

H1m76

positionLeft Winger

Tioté

Cheick Tioté

Ivory Coast

B.date21/06/1986

Age22 years

H1m80

positionLeft central midfielder

Denneboom

Romano Denneboom

Netherlands

B.date29/01/1981

Age27 years

H1m89

positionRight Winger

Janssen

Theo Janssen

Netherlands

B.date27/07/1981

Age27 years

H1m80

positionLeft central midfielder

Brama

Wout Brama

Netherlands

B.date21/08/1986

Age22 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Braafheid80

Edson Braafheid

Netherlands

B.date08/04/1983

Age25 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Douglas

Brazil

B.date12/01/1988

Age20 years

H1m92

positionCentral defender

Wielaert

Rob Wielaert

Netherlands

B.date29/12/1978

Age29 years

H1m78

positionCentral defender

Heubach46

Jeroen Heubach

Netherlands

B.date24/09/1974

Age33 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

Mihaylov

Nikolai Mihaylov

Bulgaria

B.date28/06/1988

Age20 years

H1m94

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Nikolai Mihaylov		20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Douglas		20	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Rob Wielaert		29	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Edson Braafheid	80	25	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jeroen Heubach	46	33	261	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Cheick Tioté		22	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Wout Brama		22	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Theo Janssen		27	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Eljero Elia		21	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Stein Huysegems		26	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Romano Denneboom		27	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
27	D	Emmanuel Eboué	46	25	111	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Alexandre Song	68	20	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	F	Emmanuel Adebayor	65	24	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Slobodan Rajkovic	80	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D		Niels Wellenberg	46	26	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nicklas Bendtner

Emmanuel Adebayor

OUT

Johan Djourou

Kolo Touré

OUT

Cesc Fàbregas

Emmanuel Eboué

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jeroen Heubach

Luke Wilkshire

OUT

Stein Huysegems

Marko Arnautovic

OUT

Nikolai Mihaylov

Sander Boschker

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

677

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

52 %

Wenger vs FC Twente

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 27, 2008

Wenger vs McClaren

13 victories

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on August 27, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve McClaren

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

McClaren vs Arsenal

3 victories

0 draw

13 losses

Latest figure on August 27, 2008

McClaren vs Wenger

3 victories

0 draw

13 losses

Latest figure on August 27, 2008

Referee

Terje Hauge

2 victories	0 draw	2 losses	Arsenal4 matches	General total	FC Twente3 matches	0 victory	0 draw	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Arsenal1 match	Season total	FC Twente1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on August 27, 2008					Latest figure on September 29, 2010

Videos

October 05, 2012

Comments

Key figures

It's the first time Theo Walcott scores 1 goal vs FC Twente in his professional career

Arsenal keeps its 10 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 08/04/2008). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 25/08/2007-23/10/2007 time period (12 matches).

It's the first time Theo Walcott scores a goal in Champions League since the 23/10/2007 (with Arsenal vs Slavia Prague )

Read the next 12 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DArsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough15/03/2008

DArsenal 1-1 Liverpool02/04/2008

DArsenal 1-1 Liverpool05/04/2008

VArsenal 2-0 Reading19/04/2008

VArsenal 1-0 Everton04/05/2008

VArsenal 1-0 West Bromwich Albion16/08/2008

Overall

VDerby County 2-6 Arsenal28/04/2008

VArsenal 1-0 Everton04/05/2008

VSunderland 0-1 Arsenal11/05/2008

VFC Twente 0-2 Arsenal13/08/2008

VArsenal 1-0 West Bromwich Albion16/08/2008

LFulham 1-0 Arsenal23/08/2008

Current form

Away

DAZ Alkmaar 0-0 FC Twente23/02/2008

VVVV-Venlo 0-2 FC Twente11/03/2008

VUtrecht 0-1 FC Twente30/03/2008

DPSV Eindhoven 1-1 FC Twente13/04/2008

VNAC Breda 1-5 FC Twente03/05/2008

DAjax Amsterdam 0-0 FC Twente18/05/2008

Overall

VFC Twente 2-0 Willem II20/04/2008

VFC Twente 3-0 NAC Breda29/04/2008

VNAC Breda 1-5 FC Twente03/05/2008

VFC Twente 2-1 Ajax Amsterdam10/05/2008

DAjax Amsterdam 0-0 FC Twente18/05/2008

LFC Twente 0-2 Arsenal13/08/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	33	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	3	9
Scoring streak	7	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	3	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	6	0
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	2
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

4	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	83
4	FBDB index ranking (National)	4

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	0
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

2	Goals scored (Competition total)	0
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	1
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

	Emmanuel Adebayor	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)		-
	Emmanuel Adebayor	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player		-

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	August 13, 2008
Home	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

August 13, 2008 - Ligue des Champions 2008/2009

FC Twente

0 - 2

Arsenal

Best historical scorers against FC Twente

	Emmanuel Adebayor	1 goal	2008 - 2008
	William Gallas	1 goal	2008 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/08/2008. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/08/2008. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Twente

Mark Randall	1 match	2008 - 2008
Manuel Almunia	1 match	2008 - 2008
Johan Djourou	1 match	2008 - 2008
Gaël Clichy	1 match	2008 - 2008
Aaron Ramsey	1 match	2008 - 2008
Theo Walcott	1 match	2008 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/08/2008. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Romano Denneboom	1 match	2008 - 2008
Patrick Gerritsen	1 match	2008 - 2008
Rob Wielaert	1 match	2008 - 2008
Douglas	1 match	2008 - 2008
Luke Wilkshire	1 match	2008 - 2008
Marko Arnautovic	1 match	2008 - 2008