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Vertigo is crushing Arsenal falling into the Premier after dominating the Championship with an iron arm for eight months. This exciting combo that overwhelmed their rivals with the youthful daring of the team with the lowest average age in the competition is now a troubled group with the ability to rebel against adversity but with flaws that leave them vulnerable; this stadium, still filled with the illusion of winning a league not celebrated for 19 years, debates between murmurs and pouts, although it does not stop vibrating.
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Aaron Ramsdale, Zinchenko (Eddie Nketiah, min 72), Gabriel, Robert Holding, Ben White, Fabio Daniel Vieira (Trossard, min 56), Thomas, Odegaard, Gabriel Jesus, Bukayo Saka and Martinelli (Reiss Nelson, min 84 ). )
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Gavin Bazunu, Kyle Walker-Peters, Bednarek (Caleta-Car, min 40), Romain Perraud, Armel Kotchap, Romeo Lavia, Mohammed Elyounoussi, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong (Ebere Paul Onuachu, min 77), Carlos Alcaraz and Walcott (Kamal Deen Sulemana, min. 76)
Goals 0-1 min 0: Carlos Alcaraz. 0-2 mins. 14:Walcott. 1-2 mins. 20: Martinelli. 1-3 mins. 66: Caleta car. 2-3 mins. 88: Odegard. 3-3 mins. 90: Bukayo-Saka.
referee Simon Hopper
Yellow cards Carlos Alcaraz (min 27), Romain Perraud (min 31), Kyle Walker-Peters (min 42), Zinchenko (min 48), Armstrong (min 76) and Ibrahima Diallo ( 94 mins)
Arsenal threaded their third day without a win. After two equalizers on trips to the Liverpool and West Ham fiefdoms, the cracker scored a draw (3-3) against bottom-placed Southampton, who after the 87th minute had won 1-1 -3, they conceded two near-consecutive goals in just 140 seconds and frantically ended the game with ten minutes overtime, serving to understand why football is a spectacle beyond compare. If you want to understand this sport for fun, ups and downs and emotions, you should join Mikel Arteta’s team
Arsenal are gradually adding up the points, fueling Manchester City’s chances of repeating the title. Pep Guardiola’s side have postponed the awkward flight to Brighton for today’s Wembley Stadium against Sheffield United, runners-up in the Silver Division, for a place in the Cup final for Real Madrid’s Champions League rivals League will face Arsenal next Wednesday at the Etihad with two games fewer than their Premier rivals and five points from the lead. It’s not only there that they have it within reach: Arsenal, longing for their injured defender William Saliba, now face a very tough schedule in which they will host and face Chelsea following the visit of the champions they aim to dethrone Newcastle and Brighton, two of the tournament’s fittest sides before ending the season against Nottingham and Wolves.
Against Southampton, the league leaders suffered an unexpected ordeal as the Ramsdale keeper, so often crucial in saving the team, tied a knot half a minute after getting the ball rolling in a five-a-side game , to deliver the ball to the rival. Alcaraz responded with a goal that echoed like gossip at the Emirates, amplified when a gunner, Theo Walcott, extended the visitors’ lead after fifteen minutes.
Arsenal wavered between rushing and blocking. Martinelli discounted before panic spread and the team reached the break after missing several equalizers. But during that break, new Spain coach Rubén Sellés made one of those decisions that can shape a career in the earning phase. He removed Argentina’s Alcaraz, who not only scored but led his team’s pressure in midfield, and used a third central defender to cover a five-man defence.
Sellés threw the team back, connected the lines and his plan worked perfectly. Arsenal barely shot between the sticks for forty minutes, ran into a wall and to top it off after failing to step on the box for the first time, as the Caleta-Car centre-back did, after almost half a second half, he passed into the net after a corner kick.
Arsenal paled against an opponent who had lost in the last 28 league games they visited. Southampton’s last win at Arsenal’s home ground dates back to 1987, at Highbury of course. There wasn’t even a Premier League back then. The statistics threatened to collapse. But then the great footballers appeared who have to make a difference. Odegaard and Saka, who appeared disabled, leveled the game in the blink of an eye as Southampton saw shore. Suddenly they faced a tsunami. Arsenal must have won in a shirtless final while Emirates were in a frenzy. Southampton fought back, who are still bottom and three points away from permanence. It doesn’t seem clear if he should be satisfied after all. Where they weren’t, of course, was on the banks of the Arsenal,
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