After surviving the shock of falling a goal behind to their League Two opponents, struggling Arsenal came back to beat Shrewsbury Town 3-1 and comfortably progress into the fourth round of the Carling Cup at the Emirates Stadium.
After surviving the shock of falling a goal behind to their League Two opponents, struggling Arsenal came back to beat Shrewsbury Town 3-1 and comfortably progress into the fourth round of the Carling Cup at the Emirates Stadium.
The visitors stunned the Emirates crowd after 16 minutes when James Collins’s bullet header beat Lukasz Fabianski, and a major upset looked to be possible.
However the sides went in level at the break after Kieran Gibbs equalised when he nodded home a Carl Jenkinson cross, and the giant-killing threat was finally extinguished in the second half thanks to first Gunners goals from summer signings Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Yossi Benayoun.