FA Cup Final on Betfair: Arsenal blow Aston Villa away to win 12th cup

Luke Moore
31 May 2015

Arsene Wenger was able to tactically outwit Tim Sherwood this afternoon at Wembley

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Arsenal produced a dominant performance to ease their way to a 12th FA Cup trophy at Wembley today. Luke Moore rounds up the betting...

"Alexis Sanchez opened the second half in spectacular style, making it 2-0 with a swerving, rasping shot from all of 35 yards which beat Shay Given in the Villa goal all ends up, and from then on in it was one-way traffic and there was only going to be one winner."

It wasn't to be for Aston Villa and Tim Sherwood in a showpiece occasion at Wembley this evening as their fairytale was smashed to pieces and they were embarrassed at the hands of Arsene Wenger and Arsenal.

Although Villa gave a decent enough account of themselves in the early exchanges, they did look horrifically open at the back and although it took the north Londoners until the 40th minute to break the deadlock (through Theo Walcott who was matched at 10.519/2 in the First Goalscorer market), in truth they could have gone into the break three or four ahead.

Alexis Sanchez opened the second half in spectacular style, making it 2-0 with a swerving, rasping shot from all of 35 yards which beat Shay Given in the Villa goal all ends up, and from then on in it was one-way traffic and there was only going to be one winner.

Per Mertesacker was able to add a third, and Olivier Giroud a fourth, and from then on Arsenal fans were in dreamland. The game finished 4-0, a scoreline that was matched as high as 38.037/1 on the exchange, and that was that. In truth, it was no more than Wenger's men deserved.

The Gunners were matched at a high of 1.674/6 to win the game inside 90 minutes and there'll be plenty of shrewd investors toasting a good back of Arsenal to lift the trophy; they were matched as high as 12.011/1 to successfully defend their FA Cup crown.

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