Arsenal’s bid to break their title drought took a crushing blow on Wednesday night after a shock 2-1 loss at home to Swansea City.
It took only 15 minutes for the title challengers to break the deadlock through a sublime chip from Alexis Sanchez that saw Joel Campbell stretch and lash in a clever finish from close range.
Just after the half-hour mark and Swansea were level, after a controversial pull back by Jordi Amat on Mesut Ozil saw the ball fall to Jack Cork, who then played an inch-perfect pass into the path of Wayne Routledge and he finished with aplomb.
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Arsenal toiled and tried to engineer a route to goal in the second half, notably Sanchez hitting the post on 68 minutes, but all of their efforts came to nothing as Swansea provided a sucker punch from an unlikely source.
Gylfi Sigurdsson’s free-kick from the right-hand channel was whipped into the box and centre-back Ashley Williams bundled the ball home from close range to compound Arsenal’s misery.
The Gunners’ dramatic last-gasp winner against Leicester City seems a distant memory now, sitting six points adrift of the league leaders and have their title hopes hanging by a thread.
Here are some of the best reactions from Twitter:
What's the point? #afc
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 2, 2016
Fourth is our destiny. It is our dream. Our everything. #AFC
— gunnerblog (@gunnerblog) March 2, 2016
Manager not fit for purpose. Squad not fit for purpose. Fuck off Wenger. Time is up. #afc
— bfscru (@BelfastCrusader) March 2, 2016
No recovering from this. Horrific. #AFC
— Patrick Kneeland (@PSKneeland) March 2, 2016
Arsenal football is a total joke! No passion no fight no desire ! Board and Manager need to go! #AFC
— Jenade Yamin (@JenadeYamin) March 2, 2016
Gutless, horrendous, awful. #AFC
— ƤЄƬЄ (@TweeterJMartin) March 2, 2016
Arsenal needed someone to take a grip on that game and drive the team forward. Nobody responded. Big missed opportunity. #AFC
— James Masters (@Masters_JamesD) March 2, 2016
I hope Leicester wins the league. Wenger should resign at the end of the season. This is disgraceful. #afc #wengerout #leicesterfortheleague
— Strictly Struggling (@Arsenalfan_23) March 2, 2016
Fucking sack that senile French twat NOW!!!!
This is completely unacceptable!! #wengerout #afc— James Hunter (@Jhunter1008) March 2, 2016
Can't even beat a 2nd string Swansea team. Forget Wenger for a second, them players have throw the league away themselves!!! #afc #pathetic
— George (@GeorgeySibun) March 2, 2016
Arsenal what a disgrace….. Top class players who've crumbled under pressure and deserved to be booed off… ⚽️??#afc #BPL
— Laura Dare (@LauraDare23) March 2, 2016
Wenger takes off Campbell, who was playing superbly, and keeps on Giroud who's played like a donkey. Ridiculous. #afc
— Le Manoir (@LeManoir2) March 2, 2016
At the end of the day we should have signed at least 2 more players. Same old Arsenal. 200 mil in the bank and we get a CDM Youngster…#AFC
— Ryan Cheale (@RyanCheale) March 2, 2016
Wenger you're a complete and utter disgrace. The funds and resources available how we've not won this league is a complete farce #AFC
— Richard Dukes (@richard_dukes) March 2, 2016
Wenger way past his sell by date. Crap motivator, crap tactician, self deluded waste of money. £8m for what exactly? #wengerout #afc #gooner
— ktsa74 (@ktsa74) March 2, 2016
This board and manager don't deserve passionate fans!! They are here only for business #Arsenal #afc
— Rasik Sawant (@rassicky) March 2, 2016
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