Arsenal was on the right side of a nervous, shabby and deeply overwhelming victory in Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.
In a meeting between two sides without a Fitige striker between them and the one who was also missing their best player, those at the Emirates stage were lucky enough to watch a goal.
Mikel Merino’s breeding season from the first half from a corner was the difference in a game that didn’t have many immediate ramifications. Three more points still leave the Arsenal 12 abbreviations from Liverpool, while Chelsea stays in fourth place.
How the game unfolds
The match was not 200 seconds old before Chelsea’s defensive third party of an Arsenal shooting gallery resembled. The Gunners roared in the London derby on Sunday and peppered Robert Sanchez ‘accidental goal with an early flood of efforts before Merino’s header was into the extreme corner in the 20th minute.
Leandro Trossard had an early, worse sparkling width, while Gabriel Martinelli came close. Declan Rice seemed to be particularly cheered against the club, who stopped him from her academy as a 14-year-old.
But when they were not built on their deserved leadership, the hosts began to fade. Chelsea, who were without her injured Talisman Cole Palmer and her two middle sticks – used the passivity of Arsenal and developed into an increasingly uniform competition.
The half -time interval pierced Chelseas growing dynamics. With the words of Mikel Areta, who were still ringing in her ears, the Gunners tightened the seams of their midfield and their lines of defense and committed the handbrake. In the entire second 45 minutes there were only eight shots, of which only three rescues were enforced by both underworm goalkeepers and none of them came from a vague threatening position.
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Chelsea was on the right side of two Var ratings in the first half, both of which caused turmoil in a violent partisan emirates. One may have been more contempt than the other.
Marc Cucurella was accused of handling the ball after he had involved in the penalty area with Jurrien Timber in the 12th minute. The official Match Center of the Premier League explained that Var Jarred Gillett looked at the defender’s arm for “in an expected position without clear or deliberate action against the ball”.
Repetitions suggested that this was very the case – and the ball still seemed to hit his arm over the shirt grinder – but no explanation was delivered for Wesley Fofana’s stamps.
Rice had lured Fofana into an awkward journey near the half before fell on the ball. Perhaps frustrated from the slow start of his team to the competition, the right -back from Chelsea aimed his tunnels in the vague direction of the ball while he caught a meaty piece of Rice’s thigh. Fofana was booked for this indiscretion, but was lucky enough to escape further punishment.
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For many, Arsenal can be confirmed very well as the “Corner Kings” of the Premier League. Her last goal from this type of dead ball situation was a Gabriel head ball ahead of Dominic Solanke’s Midriff in January in the North London derby in January. This is until Sunday.
Arsenal departed her familiar facility of “Big Boys in the Back” and pressed the six-yard box. Merino had space to bend his run around the mass of the meat and push a header into the back corner. Arsenal’s set -up superpower left it when all their strikers were injured (which may not be a coincidence – who finally takes the corners and attacks?). But they have rediscovered their strength (soon) in this close victory.
Forgot the 60,000-member amount of Emirates, which celebrated another derby victory, the real sociedad goalkeeper Alex Remiro would be the most grateful spectator on Sunday afternoon.
If the Basque Shot-Stopper had found time to turn on with Rayo Vallecano before meeting the Premier League before meeting his team, he would have seen his two heaviest rivals for Spain’s goalkeeper spot in order to never get another international call.
The fact that Robert Sanchez managed to fall back into Chelsea’s startel XI after Maresca has been publicly dropped is proof of Filip Jorgensens’s own mistake. The returning Spaniard seemed to be amazed directly from the kick -off, the spit was packed away directly to red shirts and the ball, as if every touch gave it an electric shock.
Arsenals David Raya succeeded in expanding his compatriot. The goalkeeper from Gunners had Cucurella’s tame efforts wound through both arms in the first half and turned just past the long post.