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Fran the man for Arsene ARSENAL 2 LIVERPOOL 1 You beauty: Teenage Spanish striker Fran Merida celebrates Arsenals opener at the Emirates last night Arsenal: Fabianski, Gilbert, Senderos, Silvestre, Gibbs, Eastmond (Randall 76), Bendtner (Watt 76), Nasri, Ramsey, Merida (Coquelin 87), Eduardo. Liverpool: Cavalieri, Degen (Ecclestone 88), Skrtel, Kyrgiakos, Insua, Kuyt, Spearing, Plessis (Aquilani 77), Babel, Voronin, Ngog (Benayoun 75). Referee: Alan Wiley. MATCH FACTS Alberto AquilAni made his long-awaited liverpool debut last night but could not save rafael benitezs side from defeat at Arsenal. by the time the italy midfielder came off the bench in the 77th minute his new team-mates were trailing to goals by Fran Merida and nicklas bendtner, which came either side of emiliano insuas stunning first-half strike for liverpool. And despite an impressive cameo by the 20million summer signing from roma, who had been out with an ankle injury since March, it was Arsenals youngsters who progressed through to the quarter-finals. Merida, one of 11 changes made by Arsene Wenger, opened the scoring in the 19th minute with his first goal in english football when he unleashed a fierce left-footed drive that flew in off the post. but liverpool, for whom only Dirk Kuyt, named captain for the night, and insua remained from the team which beat Manchester united on Sunday, levelled seven minutes later. insua grabbed his first liverpool goal in spectacular fashion the Argentina left-back smashing home a dipping volley from 30 yards. Arsenal regained the lead five minutesafterthebreakwhenbendtner outmuscled Martin Skrtel and rifled a shot into the roof of the net. And that proved for Arsenal enough despite some late liverpool pressure. Wenger reveals Aquilani chase ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has revealed he would have tried to sign Alberto Aquilani had the Italy midfielder stayed free from injury. Aquilani left Roma for Anfield in the summer in a 20million deal and, following an ankle injury, made his long- awaited debut last night when he came off the bench during last nights Carling Cup tie at the Emirates. Wenger said: He is a talented player but has been troubled a lot by injuries. We followed him for one or two years but he did not play a lot last year so he got a little bit out of sight for us and we lost our interest in him. Keane: Arsenal are not as strong as us Pointed remarks: Robbie Keane tottenhAM captain robbie Keane has kicked off the mind games ahead of this weekends north london derby against Arsenal by insisting harry redknapp has the greater strength in depth in his squad. Spurs are level on points with their rivals in the Premier league but there is genuine hope at White hart lane about breaking into the top four this season. the two clubs look similarly matched in terms of quality and ahead of the emirates Stadium clash on Saturday, Keane believes Spurs have the edge. look at the two squads and were definitely on a par, he said. in the last four or five years Arsenal always managed to get ahead of us but if you look now it is even. if you look at the bench we have, it is probably a bit stronger than their bench. the mentality around the club in previous seasons was that we would be happy to finish fifth or qualify for europe, but there is a different feeling now. the players have the feeling we want the Champions league. Keane picked up an ankle knock during tuesdays Carling Cup victory against everton, a game he scored in, but should be available for Saturday. Albertos bow cant save Reds SOCCER cARLing cuP BY chRiS STocKS Blues rest stars but still thump Trotters chELSEA powered into the quarter-finals of the carling cup with a comfortable victory over flu-struck Bolton at Stamford Bridge last night. The Blues, who thrashed five past Blackburn on Saturday, showed little sign of fatigue as goals from Salomon Kalou, Florent Malouda, Deco and substitute Didier Drogba booked their place in Saturdays draw for the last eight of the competition. Despite boss carlo Ancelotti making a host of changes John Terry, nicolas Anelka and Petr cech were all rested and Frank Lampard and Drogba were on the bench the hosts were hardly tested. ChELSEA 4 bOLtON 0 If you look at our bench its probably a bit stronger Picture:Reuters index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html