One of Arsenals biggest problems this season has been a lack of finishing in advanced positions (their inability to hold onto leads is another story altogether), as we all know that the Gunners play the most stylish football in all of England, but they sometimes fail to finish off the move.

Even though Arsenal is second in the Premier League in goals scored, they could always stand to have more strikers, especially in the case of the perpetually injured Robin van Persie. Carlos Vela is one of those strikers, but he wasnt being given much playing time, so he went on loan to West Brom, and the Mexican international has been involved in a few plays that has netted some crucial points for the Baggies.

Those who are gambling online have seen the potential in Vela, a 22-year-old who has loads of pace, and West Brom happily took him on loan at the end of January. His first goal came in his third game as Vela scored in injury time to earn West Brom a point at home against Wolverhampton, and in the next match, he notched another late equalizer at Stoke City in a match that carried West Brom out of the relegation zone. Then Vela sat for three matches (all wins for West Brom), he was brought on as a substitute in a 3-1 loss at home to Chelsea, but he was given the start at Tottenham and set up the first goal for Peter Odemwingie en route to a 2-2 draw for West Brom.

West Brom shouldnt have any worries with relegation as they sit 12th in the Premier League table, but only six points out of the drop zone. Therefore, the hunt for points is never over and they have four matches left in the season, beginning this weekend at home against Aston Villa. Odemwingie is obviously the top striker in the pecking order, but he and Vela showed some improving communication against Tottenham, so look for the 22-year-old to get some more work in before heading back to Arsenal in the offseason.

Mexican sensation Carlos Vela scored twice as Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal side destroyed Portuguese outfit SC Braga last evening at Emirates Stadium by 6:0. Skipper CescFabregas got two as well with Chamakh as well as Arshavin on the scoring board.

The 21 years old already scored on the weekend against Bolton as he slotted home calmly a fantastic Cesc Fabregas chip pass.

That is now 3 Goals in 2 matches with only 40 minutes of match time. Hell yeah you can say whatever you want about the young talented striker, but this is just an amazing scoring quote.

Vela was introduced with 27 minutes on the clock for Moroccan International Marouane Chamakh and was again just 6 minutes on the pitch as he make it 5:0 for the Gunners.

Russian International Andrey Arshavin did a perfectly timed pass for the Mexican inside the area and Carlos was able to take a lovely little dink over Braga goalkeeper Felipe into the net.

Minutes later Carlitos tried to fed Cesc Fabregas, but his pass was unfortunately intercepted.

With 6 minutes remaining Vela had his second as Fabregas picked a long ball out of the air to clip a little pass to Vela, so that the Cancun native cleverly beat Felipe on the near post with a left footer.

After the match Wenger was impressed by Vela’s performance and admitted in the post match pressconference:

“He is an outstanding finisher who worked very hard this summer and he continues to improve. He is 21 years old and it is a fantastic quality.”

Next up for Carlitos is the Premier League encounter at Sunderland on Saturday afternoon!

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Young 21 years old Carlos Vela has sent a message to his home country Mexico today, as he converted calmly and with great composure a lovely Cesc Fabregas delivery to make it 4:1 for the Gunners against the Trotters.

The Mexican has received really bad treating by his fellow natives as well as the Mexican press in the last week, especially the latter ones have produced stories which are really far from reality.According to close friends of the Cancun native:Carlos has never said that he feels jealous because of Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, that stories are fictional. Actually that media situation put Carlos into a bad light which has just the target to damage his career.

Carlitos watched the first half from the bench, but he should get his chance as Arsene Wenger ordered him to the sidelines after the break for the warming up program alongside fellow teammates Abou Diaby and Samir Nasri.

Vela was then introduced with just 11 minutes on the clock and he showed immediately on the substitution that he loves to play for Arsenal, as his smile was back on his face. Vela went on for Marouane Chamakh and played for a few moments in his prefered striker role. He showed great desire with good passing and he even won a ball back where Arsenal lost possession. The magic moment came then as the Gunners started a miracle move where they completed unbelievable 24 passes in row, so that Fabregas was finally able to pick up Vela through the middle with a very smart pass and “El Bombardero” kept composure and slottedthe ball past Bolton’s goalkeeper Bogdan into the net.

You could really see how many stones have fallen from Carlos heart as he celebrated his goal with the Arsenal fans and his teammates.

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Young 21 years old Arsenal forward Carlos Vela has a really unpredicted opportunity now to shine for Arsene Wenger’s Gunners side in the next weeks.

Vela has missed out so far to earn a starting place for the Premier League side, but with afew players injured actually includingRobin van Persie (6 Weeks), Theo Walcott (4-6 weeks), Nicklas Bendtner (3-4 weeks) as well as Andrey Arshavin in poor form, the Mexican will definitely get his chance to join the Arsenal boat for the title race.

The vital thing for Carlos is to fight back with confidence that will make sure that he take his chance and show glimpses of his amazing talent, so that he can have finally his long-awaited breakthrough with the north London outfit.

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Vela returned yesterday to London after a disappointing international adventure with his native Mexico, where he just played 17 minutes against Colombia on last Tuesday.

Right now Carlitos receives bad treating by the Mexican press which is really not understandable as they saying stories which aren’t true and making such a big deal out of it.

Vela’s next chance to play will be on this weekend when the Gunners take on the Bolton Wanderers at Ashburton Grove on Saturday afternoon.

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Young Arsenal frontman Carlos Vela was introduced for his good friend Giovani Dos Santos with just 17 minutes on the clock in Mexico’s one nil drama victory over South American outfit Colombia.

That makes sure for Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger that the 21 years old will come back to London without any knock and injury, so that he will be available for Saturday’s Premier League encounter with the Bolton Wanderers at Emirates Stadium.

Vela had some decent runs in his short amount of playing time but he could celebrate the game winning goal with Elias Hernandez in the 89th minute.

Wenger will be very happy to have the Mexican back for the clash after bad news about Robin van Persie (out for about 6 weeks) and last night’s injury to Theo Walcott who turned his right ankle dangerously, so that people thought that it was broken . With already Nicklas Bendtner and Samir Nasri on the injury list Wenger has to continue the race for the title with the available squad.

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Arsenal striker Carlos Vela did not get a warm welcome by his former supporters as the Mexican national side suffered a 2:1 defeat in a friendly against Ecuador last night at Estadio Omnilife in Guadalajara.

After his poor performance and his statements about Chivas, that the clubs means nothing for his career, Mexican striker Carlos Vela was the boo man for the fans at the stadium Omnilife.

Vela had a weak performance, provided really nothing in attack and missed a good chance in the first half against Ecuador stopper Max Banguera.

Furthermore the former Chivas youth prospectadded that the pitch was in really horrible constitution, so that the poor pitch was the main reason for Mexico’s bad performance. Carlitos said that he never was influenced by the boos.

Vela also said that he prefers to play at the Estadio Azteca as it is always packed with amazing atmosphere, the opposite is happen at the Chivas stadium where several stands were left empty.

The fans have not forgive him that he chooses after the U 17 World Cup to leave Chivas for a career with the Gunners, which started as we know with Celta Vigo and UD Salamanca.

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New number 11 Carlos Vela has shown in Arsenal’s last pre season meeting a very fine performance as the Gunners travelled to Warsaw for Legia’s celebration of their “New Legion Stadium”.

The match finished in a very crazy 11 goal contest, where the Polish outfit had a dominating 3:0 lead, but the Gunners were able to fight back with a fantastic comeback, thanks to a very well second half by Arsenal winger Carlos Vela.

The Mexican showed a fantastic display with great movements as well as his pace and his newly acquired strength and power forced several problems for Legia’s back-line.

As we said before, Carlitos had a really special tough body workout in the training camp in Austria and finally it should give him now maybe the opportunity to settle into this strong Arsenal front row. Actually he looks very lively on the left-wing, which is probably the position where Arsene Wenger wants to play “El Bombardero”.

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Arsenal striker Carlos Vela got called up by Mexico’s interim coach Enrique Meza for the upcoming friendly with World Champions Spain at the Azteca Stadium next Wednesday.

Vela received the call alongwith 12 other players who made the squad for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, where the El-Tri were eliminated by Lionel Messi’s Albiceleste.