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0¹ A corner found SZOBOSZLAI who touched the ball just wide. 8¹ MARTINELLI booked by the ref for a cynical foul. 14¹ RAFAEL LEÃO stepped inside FOFANA but drove the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 19¹ MAIGNAN dived to his left to stop a lovely drive from Crystal Palace's VLAHOVIC. 26¹ The stunned 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from RAFAEL LEÃO dropped just wide. 28¹ A clumsy tackle on KULUSEVSKI by MADUEKE results in a booking. 30¹ ØDEGAARD headed just beyond the near post. 31¹ A good effort from YAN COUTO scraped the top of the crossbar. 36¹ GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with RAFAEL LEÃO blasting the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Crystal Palace) 43¹ GOAL!! KILMAN tried to play the ball out of the Arsenal penalty area but was tackled by KULUSEVSKI who touched the ball to MKHITARYAN for a simple tap in. (2-0 Crystal Palace) 3² VLAHOVIC's shot was well held by the Arsenal 'keeper. 11² A weak strike from MKHITARYAN bounced agonisingly wide. 13² YAN COUTO rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 15² RAFAEL LEÃO beat MADUEKE and drove the ball to YAN COUTO who fired his effort wide. 18² A shot from RODRYGO was smothered by VICARIO. 28² MADUEKE snapped at a simple chance. 29² SZOBOSZLAI cautioned for a clumsy challenge. 31² MKHITARYAN nodded the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box. 33² GOAL!! A one-fisted punch from the Arsenal 'keeper enabled DARMIAN to force the ball into the empty net. (3-0 Crystal Palace) 38² RAFAEL LEÃO whacked a left foot shot just beyond the far post from just outside the area. 40² The 'keeper saved a lovely shot from MKHITARYAN. 41² MKHITARYAN made space on the left and dragged the ball to KULUSEVSKI who rasped the ball wide.

Crystal Palace   League position: 5 Home league form: XOXW Overall league form: WXLXOWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Guglielmo VICARIO 7½ 1 7½ Mike MAIGNAN YAN Bueno COUTO 7  2 7  Youssouf FOFANA (c)Matteo DARMIAN 7½ 3 6½ Max KILMAN Henrikh MKHITARYAN 7½ 4 6  Dominik SZOBOSZLAI(c) Aurélien TCHOUAMÉNI 7½ 5 6½ William SALIBA KIM Min-jae 7  6 7  Nathan AKÉ Dejan KULUSEVSKI 6½ 7 6  Noni MADUEKE RAFAEL Alexandre LEÃO 6  8 6½ Gabriel MARTINELLI (p)Dusan VLAHOVIC 5½ 9 7  MATHEUS CUNHA(p) (f)Eduardo CAMAVINGA 6½ 10 5½ Martin ØDEGAARD(f) DANI OLMO 6  11 6½ RODRYGO Silva Manager Tony Abbey FRANCISCO Fernando CONCEIÇÃO    12    Joe JOHNSON Mile SVILAR    13    DIOGO Meireles COSTA Sam FIELD    14    Godwill KUKONKI Sandro TONALI 6  15    SAVINHO Omari HUTCHINSON 6  16    Jonathan TAH

Arsenal   League position: 8 Away league form: WLWL Overall league form: XWWLWWLW Formation: 3-5-2

Statistics

Crystal Palace 3 Arsenal 0 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 24,929, Stadium: Selhurst Park, Referee: Andy Woolmer 7½) Rafael Leão 36¹, Mkhitaryan 43¹, Darmian 33² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   VlahovicóTonali 34², KimóHutchinson 36²         Martinelli 8¹, Madueke 28¹, Szoboszlai 29² 9 1 9 15 1 19 10 3 12 10 22 13 6 3 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Matteo Darmian ¶