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06th Dec 2014

Vine: Calum Chambers has a nightmare as Arsenal lose to Stoke

Young England defender at fault for goal after 19 seconds and then he's sent off

Kevin McGillicuddy

Johnny Walters scored a belter and set up Bojan for a tidy finish as ruthless Stoke kill Gunners at Britannia

Arsene Wenger must be praying for the January sales after he saw his side defend like a team recovering from a fairly heavy night at the Christmas party during a 3-2 loss to Stoke this afternoon.

Bums had hardly hit the cold, plastic seats in the Britannia when Peter Crouch knocked home a goal after 19 seconds with poor Calum Chambers totally missing his header in the process

Bojan then made it 2-0 with a lovely goal from a Johnny Walters cross:

And it went from bad to worse when Walters slammed home the third just before half time:

Arsene Wenger must have torn the paint and the plaster off the walls at half time as a Cazorla penalty got them back into the game although the foul for the spot-kick was fairly harmless on Mathieu Flamini

And then Arsenal grabbed a second after a lovely strike from Aaron Ramsey

Chambers’ day went from bad to worse as he was sent off after 79 minutes for this foul on Bojan with the former Barcelona man quick to appeal to the referee for a card for the makeshift centre-back:

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