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Friendly: Arsenal XI 0 Palace 3 - Match report
A youthful Arsenal side were well-beaten by Crystal Palace in a friendly played behind closed doors at the Club's training ground on Thursday lunchtime.
Iain Dowie's side led from the fourth minute when Anthony Danze fired home from the edge of the area. The experienced Neil Shipperley made it 2-0 just after the half hour and Wayne Andrews, signed from Colchester on transfer deadline day, steered home a superb third just past the hour.
Arsenal remained committed until the final whistle but by the end they had a host of 16- and 17-year-old on show, and the South London side, who also fielded on-loan Inter striker Nicola Ventola, held on with relative ease.
Danze set the tone with a thumping drive past Arsenal keeper Stuart Taylor in the fourth minute following fine work by Ben Watson. Sebastian Larsson had a couple of chance to put the host level but could not convert.
Shipperley took advantage on the 31st minute by rifling home rising shot at the far post after Gary Borrowdale's cross from the left. Arsenal attempted to reduce the arrears but, despite getting in dangerous positions, they could not conjure up the neccessary final ball. Their best chance came seven minutes before the interval when John Spicer put the lively Quincy through on goal. Palace keeper Lance Cronin made a gymnastic low save down to his left.
The usual flutter of substitutions seemed to help Arsenal after the break. Mathieu Flamini saw a deflected shot drift narrowly wide and Arturo Lupoli squared a cross to the unmarked Anthony Stokes eight yards out but the Irish youngster skewed his shot over the bar.
However Andrews' strike in the 64th minute ended the contest. The former Aldershot striker adroitly steered his angled effort into the far corner having controlled a high hanging cross from the opposite flank. Lupoli's neat turn and shot from the edge of the area in the 77th minute drifted inches over the bar. And, in the dying minutes, Quincy, who was back on after earlier being substituted, set up Stokes whose shot was saved by Cronin's legs.
At last an Arsenal side has to taste bitterness of defeat!
A youthful Arsenal side were well-beaten by Crystal Palace in a friendly played behind closed doors at the Club's training ground on Thursday lunchtime.
Iain Dowie's side led from the fourth minute when Anthony Danze fired home from the edge of the area. The experienced Neil Shipperley made it 2-0 just after the half hour and Wayne Andrews, signed from Colchester on transfer deadline day, steered home a superb third just past the hour.
Arsenal remained committed until the final whistle but by the end they had a host of 16- and 17-year-old on show, and the South London side, who also fielded on-loan Inter striker Nicola Ventola, held on with relative ease.
Danze set the tone with a thumping drive past Arsenal keeper Stuart Taylor in the fourth minute following fine work by Ben Watson. Sebastian Larsson had a couple of chance to put the host level but could not convert.
Shipperley took advantage on the 31st minute by rifling home rising shot at the far post after Gary Borrowdale's cross from the left. Arsenal attempted to reduce the arrears but, despite getting in dangerous positions, they could not conjure up the neccessary final ball. Their best chance came seven minutes before the interval when John Spicer put the lively Quincy through on goal. Palace keeper Lance Cronin made a gymnastic low save down to his left.
The usual flutter of substitutions seemed to help Arsenal after the break. Mathieu Flamini saw a deflected shot drift narrowly wide and Arturo Lupoli squared a cross to the unmarked Anthony Stokes eight yards out but the Irish youngster skewed his shot over the bar.
However Andrews' strike in the 64th minute ended the contest. The former Aldershot striker adroitly steered his angled effort into the far corner having controlled a high hanging cross from the opposite flank. Lupoli's neat turn and shot from the edge of the area in the 77th minute drifted inches over the bar. And, in the dying minutes, Quincy, who was back on after earlier being substituted, set up Stokes whose shot was saved by Cronin's legs.
At last an Arsenal side has to taste bitterness of defeat!
