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1¹ HAVERTZ blasted a deadly shot wide from twenty yards out. 2¹ MARTINELLI kicked the ball wide from just inside the area. 5¹ MARTINELLI booked for arguing with the referee. 7¹ GOAL!! A neat one-two left GRIEZMANN clear and he made no mistake by instinctively floating the ball past the oncoming 'keeper. (1-0 Chelsea) 20¹ OBLAK managed to claw away a wicked shot. 25¹ A shot from LUKAKU seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to punch the ball clear. 39¹ The motionless Arsenal 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from SZOBOSZLAI fell just over. 40¹ GOAL!! A long drive from BRANDT deflected off the head of BERNARDO SILVA and into his own net. (1-1) 2² NÚÑEZ stabbed an easy chance past the far post. 4² BERNARDO SILVA scuffed a simple chance. 9² A pin-point pass bobbled toward PULISIC and his right foot effort went narrowly over. 11² A weak shot from NÚÑEZ trickled agonisingly wide. 13² An outswinging corner was flicked into the arms of OBLAK by NÚÑEZ. 24² GOAL!! A short corner was chipped out to MARC CUCURELLA who slammed the ball into the net. (2-1 Chelsea) 40² SALIBA booked. 44² A header by PULISIC at the far post was comfortably collected by the Arsenal 'keeper. 45² GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with LUKAKU striking the ball into the roof of the net. (2-2) 3ª¹ NÚÑEZ's shot was well saved by the 'keeper. 3ª¹ LUKAKU given a yellow card for a high challenge on EDER MILITÃO. 5ª¹ SHOEBRIDGE cautions COMAN for a bad tackle. 10ª¹ SHOEBRIDGE books SZOBOSZLAI. 6ª² SHOEBRIDGE gave SALIBA a second yellow card for a high challenge on MARC CUCURELLA.

Arsenal   League position: 7 Home league form: OWWL Overall league form: OLWXWWLL Formation: 3-5-2

Line-ups Mike MAIGNAN 5  1 7  Jan OBLAK(c) Julian BRANDT 7  2 7  Joshua KIMMICH Max KILMAN 6½ 3 8  MARC CUCURELLA Saseta (c)Martin ØDEGAARD 6½ 4 7  Federico VALVERDE William SALIBA 6½ 5 7  Antonio RÜDIGER Nathan AKÉ 6½ 6 6  EDER Gabriel MILITÃO Kingsley COMAN 7  7 7  BERNARDO Mota SILVA Gabriel MARTINELLI 7½ 8 7  Christian PULISIC (p)Romelu LUKAKU 7  9 6½ Kai HAVERTZ(p) (f)Dominik SZOBOSZLAI 6½ 10 5½ RODRYGO Silva(f) Darwin NÚÑEZ 7  11 7  Antoine GRIEZMANN Tony Abbey Manager Stefan DE VRIJ    12    PEDRO António GONÇALVES DIOGO Meireles COSTA    13    Marc-André TER STEGEN Joe JOHNSON    14    Timo WERNER Godwill KUKONKI    15    ANTONY Matheus SAVINHO    16 7½ Andreas CHRISTENSEN

Chelsea   League position: 10 Away league form: XWXL Overall league form: WLXLWWXX Formation: 4-3-3

Arsenal win the League Cup 2026-2027, 4-3 on penalties

Statistics

Arsenal 2 Chelsea 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 89,814, Stadium: Wembley, Referee: Rob Shoebridge 6, TV: live) Bernardo Silva 40¹ (og), Lukaku 45² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Griezmann 7¹, Marc Cucurella 24²   GriezmannóChristensen 15² Saliba 6ª²   Martinelli 5¹, Saliba 40², Lukaku 3ª¹, Coman 5ª¹, Szoboszlai 10ª¹   5 5 19 10 12 5 11 4 5 8 16 12 9 2 46% 54% ¶ Man of the match: Marc Cucurella Saseta ¶