Sport 21-09-2000 Keown`s Heroic Double Saves Arsenal who: Arsenal what: Beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 where: Highbury, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Arsenal have completed an amazing fightback against Ukrainian runners-up Shakhtar Donetsk," reports ITN, "after a nightmare start to their Champions League clash at Highbury." "With Patrick Vieira winning tackles and spraying passes from midfield, and Kanu teasing with his skills in attack, it was virtual one-way traffic," says Jon Brodkin in The Guardian. Yet inexplicably, the tide turned when Arsenal fell a goal behind on 26 minutes from a free kick by Alexei Bakharev. Then, just four minutes later, "Sergei Atelkin sent a clever reverse pass between Keown and Oleg Luzhny," continues Brodkin, "and the 21-year-old Ukraine striker Andrei Vorobey neatly shot across Seaman and into the corner for his 11th goal of the season". Sylvain Wiltord put Arsenal back in the match, but Martin Keown became the star of the night. He had not scored at Highbury for four years but in the last three minutes he scored twice to win the game 3-2 for Arsenal. From an 85th minute corner by Silvinho, Keown "bundled" the ball off his shouleder into the net, reports Russell Kempson in The Times. "Four minutes into stoppage time he was there again, lashing home Kanu`s cross. Virt slumped to the ground, as did his team-mates, and Highbury erupted in joy and relief." [... more]

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