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1¹ MAYORAL shot over. 3¹ DIAKHABY ran onto a great ball from KONDOGBIA but toe-poked his shot wide of the goal. 4¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in BALOGUN cracking the ball over. 10¹ A poor strike from GREALISH bounced agonisingly wide. 12¹ GOAL!! A shot from MARANHÃO raced through a crowd of players and rolled past the unsighted Arsenal 'keeper. (1-0 Valencia) 22¹ An outswinging corner was forced into the arms of the Valencia 'keeper by XHAKA. 25¹ A header from BALOGUN was headed off the line by GABRIEL PAULISTA. 29¹ A corner bobbled toward MARANHÃO who flicked an effort over the bar. 36¹ A free-kick from MARCOS ALONSO went over. 37¹ GOAL!! A great dummy from MKHITARYAN allowed BALOGUN to lay a low ball off to MAYORAL who thrust the ball home. (1-1) 43¹ MAYORAL's shot was well held by the Valencia 'keeper. 1² MAYORAL waltzed round GABRIEL PAULISTA and rattled a poor shot into the crowd. 9² A brilliant shot from MAYORAL was dealt with by a fine parry from the 'keeper. 10² GOAL!! As THIERRY CORREIA was attempting to hold back XHAKA the ball dropped to GREALISH who fired the ball into the net. (2-1 Arsenal) 13² GOAL!! A quick-witted BALOGUN pounced on a loose ball just inside the box and made no mistake. (3-1 Arsenal) 17² AARÓN rifled an easy chance past the righthand post. 24² AARÓN headed inches wide. 24² PAREJO was put clear by AARÓN and he pulled away from TURNER but thrust his shot inches wide. 32² MARVIN beat MKHITARYAN and drove the ball to THIERRY CORREIA who toe-poked his shot wide. 34² ANDRÉ HORTA made space on the right and touched the ball to MAYORAL who clipped the ball over. 36² A pin-point pass fell to MARCOS ALONSO and his deadly effort went narrowly over. 37² MARANHÃO worked the ball to MARVIN, AARÓN gathered his pass and booted the ball within easy reach of the Arsenal 'keeper.

Arsenal   League position: 2 Home league form: LWWX Overall league form: WLWWWXLX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Matt TURNER 7  1 6½ David SORIA Cesar AZPILICUETA 7½ 2 7½ THIERRY Rendall CORREIA MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza 7  3 6½ SAMUEL Dias LINO Granit XHAKA 7½ 4 7½ Daniel PAREJO(c) PABLO Mari 7½ 5 6½ GABRIEL PAULISTA Calum CHAMBERS 6  6 6  Mouctar DIAKHABY (c)Henrikh MKHITARYAN 7  7 6½ MARVIN Olawale Jack GREALISH 7  8 6½ FERMÍN López (p)Borja MAYORAL 7  9 6  MARANHÃO(p) (f)ANDRÉ Filipe HORTA 7  10 6  Geoffrey KONDOGBIA(f) Folarin BALOGUN 6½ 11 6  RODRIGO Moreno Manager Connor BRADLEY    12    Iñigo LEKUE Rúnar RÚNARSSON    13    JAUME Domenech Mika BIERETH    14    Dmytro KRYSKIV CÉDRIC Ricardo    15    Dimitri FOULQUIER Christoph KRAMER    16 6  AARÓN Martín

Valencia   League position: 17 Away league form: OXLL Overall league form: WOLXLWLL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Arsenal 3 Valencia 1 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 38,445, Stadium: Emirates Stadium, Referee: Dan Craciun 7½) Mayoral 37¹, Grealish 10², Balogun 13² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Maranhão 12¹   FermínóAarón 11²         1 2 7 19 3 5 11 3 12 7 23 10 8 2 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Daniel Parejo ¶