Birmingham 2-2 Arsenal:  Birmingham striker James McFadden scored an injury-time penalty to stun Barclays Premier League leaders Arsenal and rescue a point for Alex McLeish's side.

Theo Walcott's double looked to have enabled Arsenal to overcome a sickening leg injury to striker Eduardo after just three minutes for which Martin Taylor was red-carded.

But McFadden, who had given Blues a half-time lead, levelled from the spot after Gael Clichy was adjudged to have brought down Stuart Parnaby.

Arsenal had only themselves to blame for not collecting all three points with only some excellent saves from Blues keeper Maik Taylor and an off day in front of goal by Emmanuel Adebayor prevented Arsene Wenger's side taking victory.

Arsenal are now unbeaten in 11 league games but it was a miserable climax to a disappointing week after going out of the FA Cup to Manchester United and being held at home by AC Milan in the Champions League.

Wenger will have been delighted with the impact of Walcott who came into the side in place of the suspended Emmanuel Eboue.

But the expected long-term absence of Eduardo will leave him stretched up front, particularly with Robin Van Persie currently also on the sidelines.

Eduardo, who broke his leg, looked in distress after the Taylor challenge and replays were not shown on TV because of the seriousness of the injury which was caused by Taylor's high challenge.

It was fully six minutes before the Gunners striker was eased onto the stretcher before being taken from the pitch.

Wenger immediately replaced Eduardo, who will be 25 on Monday, with Nicklas Bendtner who spent all of last season on loan at Birmingham.

In a tactical reshuffle Blues boss McLeish took off Mikael Forsell, brought on Parnaby at right-back and switched Stephen Kelly to centre-half alongside Liam Ridgewell.

Arsenal shrugged off the injury setback and Cesc Fabregas showed great skill to set up a chance for himself on the edge of the City box and his 20-yard drive was only just too high.

Maik Taylor clung onto a low left-footed drive from Bendtner after a mis-kick from Mathieu Flamini had fallen into his path.

But after 28 minutes Arsenal were stunned when McFadden put City ahead with his second goal in two games.

McFadden's persistence won him a free-kick after he had shrugged off two challenges before being brought down by Flamini.

The Scottish international took the free-kick himself and curled the ball over the defensive wall and into the roof of the net even though Manuel Almunia got his fingertips to the ball.

Adebayor squandered a golden chance to level matters when he raced onto a through ball from Fabregas. The ball sat up nicely as Maik Taylor came off his line but Adebayor scooped his shot over the crossbar.

The chances were starting to come more regularly for the Gunners and an Alexander Hleb cross picked out Adebayor who directed his header wide when he would have expected to at least hit the target.

But in first half injury-time McFadden could have doubled Birmingham's lead. He seized onto a pass from Sebastian Larsson and beat the offside trap but, with only Almunia to beat, put his shot wide under pressure from Philippe Senderos.

Arsenal came out for the second half as if they meant business and Maik Taylor tipped over a curling effort from Fabregas and a more powerful drive from Flamini.

It came as no surprise when Walcott put Arsenal level after 50 minutes.

Maik Taylor was outjumped by Adebayor following a corner from Fabregas and the loose ball fell to Walcott who made no mistake from close range.

It was the first league goal scored by an English player for the Gunners since Justin Hoyte in January 2007.

It was now one-way traffic towards the Birmingham goal and Taylor again did well to tip over a fierce shot from Hleb.

But after 55 minutes Walcott struck again to put the Gunners ahead.

This time the England Under-21 player created the goal for himself with a mazy run before beating Maik Taylor's dive with a shot into the corner of the net.

Adebayor was having one of those days in front of goal when nothing was going right and he was again denied by Maik Taylor after bursting clear of the Blues defence as Arsenal ran out comfortable winners.

Then in injury-time McFadden rescued a point for the home side from the penalty spot.