Macau's chief of police, Antonio Marques Baptista, appeared in person to nab his man.
Instead, Baptista propelled the 108-year-old French label boldly forward with strong colors, clean cuts and chic fabrics.
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Dunne, who was the visitors' stand-out player of the half, then blocked Baptista's subsequent 25-yard free-kick by heading over.
For Arsenal, Alexander Hleb hit the side netting, and Baptista shot tamely at James before wasting another free header.
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Hours earlier, Mr Baptista's life had been saved by his golden retriever, which sniffed out some explosives planted under his car.
Brazil opened the scoring in the fourth minute as former Arsenal striker Julio Baptista hammered a fine strike past Argentina keeper Roberto Abbondanzieri.
And City's brave resistance was finally ended when Hleb jinked his way into the penalty area and his cross was converted by Baptista.
But despite losing Diaby minutes later to a head injury, Arsenal added even more firepower when Baptista was handed his chance by Arsene Wenger.
James, though, soon outperformed Poom when he produced a wonderful save to deny Baptista from the penalty spot after Linvoy Primus had tripped Emmanuel Eboue.
BBC: Portsmouth and Arsenal found each other hard to break down
Owen started the game instead of Ronaldo and put in a lively display before also being replaced as Real went down to Cesar Julio Baptista's goal.
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Joaquin twice failed to scored with headers when well placed, but those misses appeared not to matter when Eliseu touched home Julio Baptista's shot with eight minutes remaining.
As Arsenal threatened to move up a gear, Baptista beat two defenders and fired in a shot, which James beat away after diving low at his near post.
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The Spanish club have signed Brazilian duo Robinho and Julio Baptista over the summer - leaving Owen seemingly as fifth-choice striker, with Ronaldo and Raul also at the club.
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Firstly, Baptista curled home a free-kick from 25 yards for only his second Arsenal goal, and then in injury time the Londoners scored two in quick succession to stun the hosts.
For his first foray, Baptista aced it.
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The unpredictable Julio Baptista should have drawn Arsenal level five minutes later when he was played in by Adebayor, but the man who scored four at Anfield in a Carling Cup tie earlier this season side-footed tamely wide.
Song Billong made it 3-1 from close range after benefiting from a ricochet off Hyypia and then Aliadiere was controversially ruled onside before pulling back to Baptista, who slid into an empty net to cap a remarkable end to the half.
Baptista's goal settled any early nerves as he picked up a long ball from Elano - who replaced suspended skipper Gilberto Silva - controlled it neatly, turned to the right of Ayala and fired a fierce right-foot drive into the top corner.
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