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Commentary
ÖZIL kicked the ball wide from the edge of the box.
GOAL!! A great solo effort from NACHO MONREAL who beat two defenders before striking the ball in off the post. (1-0 Arsenal)
A penalty box meleé resulted in XHAKA cracking the ball over.
11¹CHAMBERS beat three Cardiff City players and stroked a great chance wide.
23¹GOAL!! REYES hit a swerving twenty yard shot past the motionless 'keeper. (1-1)
26¹A corner was collected by BELLERÍN who flicked the ball wide.
31¹MATAVZ was put clear by HOILETT and he beat the 'keeper but glanced his shot just wide.
35¹A cross from RAMSEY left ÖZIL in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
43¹A free-kick from LICHTSTEINER flew just beyond the far post.
REYES rattled an easy chance past the near post.
BROWN made space on the left and pulled the ball to PELTIER who fired the ball wide.
A pin-point pass was collected by XHAKA and his deadly effort went narrowly over.
16²REYES headed over the bar.
18²Uncertainty in the Cardiff City defence enabled XHAKA to fire an effort over.
21²A twenty yard drive from REYES caused CECH little difficulty.
24²A clumsy foul gets KOSCIELNY a yellow card.
30²An exceptional effort from REYES scraped the upright.
44²REYES brought the ball round LICHTSTEINER and poked a tame shot well wide.
2ª¹The bemused VICENTE GUAITA could only watch as a backpass from CÁCERES fell just wide.
3ª¹RAKITIC snapped at an easy chance.
9ª¹ÖZIL whacked a deadly shot over the bar from close range.
1ª²A poor shot from LACAZETTE bounced agonisingly wide.
4ª²A fine ball from LACAZETTE on the left fell to XHAKA who scuffed his shot inches over.
5ª²LICHTSTEINER ran onto a wonderful ball from ÖZIL but toe-poked his effort wide of the goal.
6ª²RAMSEY shot over.

 
Cardiff City
 
League position: 14
Home league form: LWLW
Overall league form: WLXWLLWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
VICENTE GUAITA Panadero1Petr CECH(c)
MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES2Stephan LICHTSTEINER
Yaroslav RAKITSKYI3NACHO MONREAL
(c)Ivan RAKITIC4Aaron RAMSEY
Martín CÁCERES5Calum CHAMBERS
Souleymane BAMBA6Laurent KOSCIELNY
Scott BROWN7Héctor BELLERÍN
José REYES8Mesut ÖZIL
(p)Tim MATAVZ9Alexandre LACAZETTE(p)
(f)Lee PELTIER10Granit XHAKA(f)
Junior HOILETT11Danny WELBECK
Manager
Joe RALLS  12  Jack WILSHERE
David CORNELL  13  David OSPINA
Bruno ECUÉLÉ MANGA  14  Ainsley MAITLAND-NILES
Matthew CONNOLLY  15  Alex IWOBI
Joe BENNETT  16  Mohamed EL NENNY
 
Arsenal
 
League position: 8
Away league form: OWXL
Overall league form: WXLOWWXX
Formation: 4-3-3
Cardiff City go through to the next round, 7-6 on penalties
Statistics
Cardiff City 1 Arsenal 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 21,428, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Jirí Lerch 7½, TV: highlights)

Reyes 23¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Nacho Monreal 4¹
  
  
 Koscielny 24²
66
88
44
21
714
915
10
42%58%
Man of the match: Nacho Monreal