Sebastian Squillaci makes his debut in red and white at Underhill Stadium. Pic via Arsenal.com.
Arsenal 4: Aneke 45, Afobe 59, 84, Emmanuel-Thomas 87
Blackburn Rovers 3: Benjani 26, Dunn 42, 72 (pen)
The international break has afforded teams the opportunity to test their recovering players in the waters that is the reserves league. As such, four normally first team Gunners started for the reserves squad in their second fixture of the season, as they hosted Blackburn Rovers reserves at Barnet's Underhill Stadium in North London. Arsenal entered the match 1-0 on the season, having beaten Bolton's reserves 5-0 in late August.
Center back Sebastien Squillaci made his debut for the squad and played all 90 minutes alongside a back four that included Johan Djourou, perpetually recovering from his own injury problems. In addition, Denilson, who has not played a match since last season, started in the midfield as he's recovering from an abdominal problem, and Lukasz Fabianski started in goal, as he is trying to recover from being Fabianski. Maybe it's not surprising that the reserves conceded three.
To be fair, Blackburn Rovers also started four players from their first team who are trying to return to the line-up, and took a 3-2 lead on a penalty (which had been conceded by Djourou) before Benik Afobe equalized for Arsenal, then Jay Emmanuel-Thomas won the game three minutes from time.
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