Judi Online - Arsenal were good enough to reduce princes and prime ministers to tears.
The Gunners lifted the FA Cup
for a record 12th time with a performance of such superiority that it
was Aston Villa who were flattered by the final scoreline.
Theo Walcott,
Alexis Sanchez, Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud scored the goals
that took the famous old pot back to the Emirates for the second successive season.
Such was the level of humiliation, honorary Villans Prince William and David Cameron
might have been tempted to flick through the statute books for some
ancient English law that allows them to lock up troublesome Frenchmen in
the Tower.
No manager has won the Cup more than Arsene Wenger, whose sixth triumph was never in doubt once his side found their range in the closing minutes of a first half they dominated.
At
least Cameron wasn’t there to witness the carnage. Poor old William was
forced to hand over the trophy to Mertesacker and injured club captain
Mikel Arteta though gritted royal teeth.
That 39-year-old keeper Shay Given was Villa’s best performer said everything about the way Tim Sherwood’s side froze on a day that should have been a celebration for the Midlands club.
Given, beaten by Wenger’s Arsenal when he played for Newcastle at the old Wembley 17 years ago, produced a fine save to keep out Laurent Koscielny’s close-range header.
Aaron Ramsey, the Gunners’ extra-time hero against Hull last year, then wasted two glorious opportunities.
And
when Kieran Richardson threw himself into a brilliant block to prevent
Walcott volleying Arsenal ahead from six yards, Wenger must have feared
the worst.
Bandar Bola - However, five minutes before the break, the Villa defence hesitated
fatally as Sanchez soared above Richardson to nod down Nacho Monreal’s
cross and Walcott was there in a flash, beating Given with a half-volley
of power and precision. Game over.
The only ones to turn up for
Villa were the 40,000 who packed the west end of Wembley. Those who
didn’t pay to get in were beyond awful.
Sanchez settled any
needless Arsenal nerves with a 50th-minute goal that will go down as one
of the finest in the Cup’s 143-year history.
There was no
disguising what the Chilean’s intentions were when he cut in from the
left at pace, but Given was left floundering by a shot from 30 yards
that carried too much swerve and pace.
Mertesacker then only had to shrug his shoulders to shake off
Christian Benteke and head home Santi Cazorla’s corner in the 62nd
minute. And although Villa saw a furious penalty appeal waved away by
referee Jon Moss when Jack Grealish was felled by Hector Bellerin’s
challenge, by now the final whistle couldn’t come quick enough.
Giroud
was feeling no pity after starting on the bench, though, and when Alex
Oxlade-Chamberlain threaded a cross into the Villa six-yard box in
injury time, the Frenchman applied the coup de grace.
Mertesacker
said: “We deserved this. We played on the front foot from the start and
that makes a massive differenc.
It is a great way to finish off the
season and I can look forward to my first holiday since retiring from
international football.”
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