London England.
In numerical inferiority, in the 87th minute, after having been traced back by Arsenal, Fulham suddenly resurfaced, Joao Palhinha scored 2-2 and frustrated the reaction of the ‘gunner’ team, who failed in their assault on the leadership of the ‘Premier’ League with its first blur of the season, after two consecutive wins.
In a roller coaster, each one stayed a point. He was able to win the runner-up in the last league, because he lifted a 0-1 defeat and felt like he was the winner when there was still more than a quarter of an hour left in the game, as he could also lose, because Fulham took the lead very soon, after 57 seconds , He maintained his income until minute 69, equalized in minute 87 and touched 2-3 in minute 97, when Aaron Ramsdale denied the feat to Adama Traoré.
The 2-2 placated Fabio Vieira, the promoter of Arsenal’s comeback, the target of the 1-1 penalty and the passer of the 2-1. Unpublished this season in the Premier until minute 56 of the third day, the 23-year-old attacking midfielder, who entered as a left winger, changed the game in the second half, when Arsenal could not find the way to a draw, when Bernd Leno He barely suffered in his goal, still without the need for any great save (later with 2-2 he made a magnificent one), when he lost 0-1 due to an error by Saka.
In their innovation, in their variety, in their daring, Arsenal also take obvious risks, as visible as Saka’s failure.
There is a constant in the team this course. In the first three appointments, the same versatility as Thomas. Right back in the start or defense, midfielder in the transition in attack. This Saturday he was sentenced to 0-1 before the first minute, in a combination of unexpected factors, perhaps also studied by Fulham, who pressed first and benefited later.
The first play of the match, as a result of the center kick, was dizzy by Arsenal in their territory, between their rear, from one side to the other, until they activated the mechanism that distinguishes them at this start of the ‘Premier’: the double Thomas function. Ben White advanced, Thomas spotted the clear way, Declan Rice combined with Saka and the phenomenal winger delivered the ball.
His pass back to the place that Thomas had vacated, in his incursion towards the middle for the transition, was occupied -and he took advantage of it- by Andreas Pereira: first, with a shot that surprised Aaron Ramsdale, out of position in his run back, like all of Arsenal with the goal against in just 57 seconds of play.
Normally, it takes a lot more to break it. Not even such a quick 0-1 appeased him. Fulham left spaces for a while. His exposure was an invitation to the ‘Gunners’, who cornered him for a few minutes with a sequence of unlikely and ineffective chances and shots that he warned was a matter of time. It wasn’t so much. Because Fulham adjusted and because Arsenal was not the same as always.
Each action in the area was a disproportionate traffic jam, each one finished worse by Arsenal. Nothing to do with Fulham, who, when he came out, with such free ground, his opponent discovered in the counterattacks, showed more determination. Trepidating on the counter, a volley from Raúl Jiménez silenced the Emirates Stadium with fear. He went outside. The goal was sensed.
Defeated at half-time, Arteta put Nketiah into play, another leading striker instead of Trossard.
When he observed that it had not worked for him either, he moved two other pieces of the puzzle: Fabio Vieira for Thomas and Zinchenko for Havertz. In the 56th minute he launched Odegaard from afar. Leno bagged it, always safe, always in the right place, every time the local team demanded it, also without showing off until then.
And Fabio Vieira relaunched Arsenal. The 1-1, caused by his driving inside the area, but, above all, by the disproportionate imprudence of Kenny Tete, was transformed by Saka in the 69th minute; the 2-1, with the controversy and the debate that the unindicated foul will open and the behavior of Arsenal in that play (it continued as if nothing had happened with a rival on the ground, due to a received and unindicated foul), Nketiah achieved it.
Saka’s offense at the origin of the second goal is undoubted. In his fall, he dragged his marker (Bassey) hard, with a grab on his right arm, which he pulled. Damaged, the defender was left on the ground. The referee, Paul Tierney, gestured that it was not a penalty in favor of Arsenal, but he did not determine that it was a foul by the attacker. The game continued. And it was a goal.
Insufficient for victory. Because, when everything seemed done, when no one sensed Fulham’s reaction, also with a man less due to the expulsion in the 83rd minute for a double yellow from Bassey himself, Palhinha finished off with his foot, nothing spectacular, yes very effective, the thrown corner by Harrison Reed from the far right corner. Later, Ramsdale prevented Adama Traoré from 2-3 in 97 and Leno flew to thwart 3-2 in 99.
– Datasheet:
2 – Arsenal: Ramsdale; Thomas (Fabio Scallop, d. 56), White, Saliba, Kiwior; Odegaard (Jorginho, m. 84), Rice (Gabriel Jesus, m. 91), Havertz (Zinchenko, m. 56); Foot, Trossard (Nketiah, m. 46), Martinelli.
2 – Fulham: Leno; Tete, Issa Diop, Bassey, Robinson; Lukic (Reed, m. 71), Palhinha, Andreas Pereira (Cairney, m. 63); Wilson (Adama Traoré, d. 71), Raúl Jiménez, De Cordova-Reid.
Goals: 0-1, m. 1: Andreas Pereira. 1-1, m. 69: Saka, from the penalty spot. 2-1, m. 72: Nketiah. 2-2, m. 87: Straw.
Referee: Paul Tierney. He sent off Bassey, from Fulham, for a double yellow card in the 83rd minute. He yellow carded the visitors Raúl Jiménez (m. 19) and Lukic (m. 66).
Incidents: match corresponding to the third day of the Premier League, played at the Emirates stadium in London before some 60,000 spectators.
2023-08-27 06:00:24
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