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'Foreign' Gunners blaze

AFP, London
Football
Arsenal celebrated fielding their first ever all-foreign squad by thrashing relegation-threatened Crystal Palace 5-1 here on Monday.
Thierry Henry scored twice to record a memorable 200th Premiership appearance for the Gunners while the Frenchman was joined on the scoresheet by Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp, Spaniard Jose-Antonio Reyes and another Frenchman Patrick Vieira.
Palace's leading scorer Andy Johnson scored a penalty for the visitors.
Victory still leaves the Premiership champions a distant 11 points adrift of leaders Chelsea in third place while Palace stay two points above the relegation zone.
The thrashing will have done nothing to boost their confidence ahead of playing both Chelsea and second-placed Manchester United in the coming weeks.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said that his side had been fortunate Palace had not taken some early chances.
"We had a difficult start but the turning point of the game was they had a good start and didn't take advantage, but once we found our fluency we were in control," said
Wenger.
Wenger refused to rule out catching Chelsea, who they still have to play, but indicated that even if they did not retain the title he was happy.
"We have a lot of good young players and for me the future is still bright."
Henry said that he should have had a hat-trick having one ruled out for offside.
"I am convinced it should have been a hat-trick," said Henry, who has bounced back with three goals in two matches having previously gone seven matches without a goal.
"However the match tonight was to see if we could be consistent and I think after taking 10 minutes to settle we played well, had great movement and scored some great goals," added Henry, who moved to 174 career goals for Arsenal and within 11 of Ian Wright's all-time club record.
Wenger paid handsome praise to his marksman.
"He is back to his best.
"It is linked with confidence and his game is getting better and better."
Bergkamp beat Gabor Kiraly in the 32nd minute - just after the toughtackling Finnish midfielder Aki Riihahti had gone off injured with a calf muscle ailment - as Reyes slipped across a pass and Bergkamp was on hand to slide it
home for his third goal in successive Premiership home matches.
Palace striker Dougie Freedman missed a sitter two minutes later as seizing on a backheader by Johnson and totally unmarked the former Scotland international sliced his shot badly wide.
His miss was laid bare as a minute later Reyes shot past Kiraly into the far corner - for his first goal in 14 matches and a few days after he was tricked into revealing he would like to move to Real Madrid - after a Palace defender had only been able to clear it to him outside the area.
"It's the best place to do your talking...on the pitch," commented Wenger acidly.
Kiraly saved Palace from going even further behind in the 38th minute as visiting defender Gonzalo Sorondo's header from Bergkamp's cross was tipped over the bar and seconds later the Hungarian saved them again as his legs turned away a Henry close range effort for another corner.
However from the ensuing corner Henry fired in a thunderbolt of an effort from the edge of the penalty area which Kiraly could do nothing about as it flashed into the top left hand corner for his 22nd goal of the season.
Freedman had another golden chance three minutes into the second-half to at least atone for his earlier miss but one on one with Jens Lehmann he shot wide.
However the Gunners showed no mercy as a beautiful move involving Bergkamp and Henry saw the Frenchman find Vieira in the box and with Kiraly sliding in desperately thinking his defender would get it back to him, the Arsenal captain sidestepped him and tapped it into the net.
Johnson reduced the deficit after he was brought down in the box by Vieira and calmly sent Lehmann the wrong way for his 16th of the season making him Palace's record scoring Premiership player in a single season breaking Chris Armstrong's tally of 15 in the 1992/93 campaign.
However normal service was resumed when Henry added his second in the 77th minute with a curling effort from inside the box after being found by Bergkamp.
TOP SIX
English Premiership table after Mondays match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):
Chelsea 27 21 5 1 50 8 68
Man Utd 27 17 8 2 45 16 59
Arsenal 27 17 6 4 63 31 57
Everton 27 14 6 7 31 28 48
Liverpool 27 13 4 10 41 29 43
Boro 27 11 8 8 41 35 41