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5¹ MKHITARYAN's shot beat SORIA but rebounded off the Valencia woodwork. 6¹ MKHITARYAN nodded the ball wide from just outside the area. 7¹ FERMÍN clipped the ball through a ruck of players but TURNER was a match for it as he dived to his left. 8¹ The bemused Arsenal 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from MARCOS ALONSO dropped just over. 10¹ A strike from FERMÍN held little difficulty for the Arsenal 'keeper. 12¹ GOAL!! An imaginative FÁBIO VIEIRA played a wonderful ball down the left to MAYORAL who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Arsenal) 15¹ An exceptional effort from FERMÍN scraped the upright. 20¹ MAYORAL whacked a left foot shot inches over from long range. 23¹ BROJA pulled away from SAMUEL LINO but slammed the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 30¹ The 'keeper was able to palm clear a powerful shot. 39¹ BROJA beat DIAKHABY and drove the ball to MAYORAL who fumbled his shot wide. 41¹ A useful ball from SAMUEL LINO on the right found RUBÉN SOBRINO who mishit his effort over the bar. 46¹ GOAL!! A short corner was played out to GREALISH who slammed the ball into the back of the net. (2-0 Arsenal) 2² MARCOS ALONSO headed wide. 5² MAYORAL was put clear by AZPILICUETA and he pulled away from the Valencia 'keeper but drilled his shot inches over. 8² MARCOS ALONSO ran onto a great ball from MKHITARYAN but toe-poked his shot wide. 9² A great shot from KONDOGBIA was dealt with by a good parry from the 'keeper. 15² KONDOGBIA played the ball to RUBÉN SOBRINO who flicked it inches over. 18² MKHITARYAN shot wide. 23² GOAL!! An inswinging corner was kicked clear only for FERMÍN to hit the ball home. (2-1 Arsenal) 34² A cross from FERMÍN left RUBÉN SOBRINO in plenty of space but he rushed his shot. 35² The referee yellow cards GREALISH. 36² A corner bobbled toward GABRIEL PAULISTA who touched an effort just beyond the far post. 38² A penalty box meleé resulted in MAYORAL cracking the ball wide. 41² GREALISH rushed an easy chance. 44² A pin-point pass found FÁBIO VIEIRA and his looping effort raced narrowly wide.

Valencia   League position: 13 Home league form: WWWW Overall league form: OWLWWXWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups David SORIA 6  1 6½ Matt TURNER THIERRY Rendall CORREIA 6½ 2 7  Cesar AZPILICUETA SAMUEL Dias LINO 6½ 3 7½ MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza (c)Daniel PAREJO 7½ 4 7½ Granit XHAKA GABRIEL PAULISTA 6½ 5 7  PABLO Mari Mouctar DIAKHABY 6  6 7  Calum CHAMBERS Geoffrey KONDOGBIA 7½ 7 6½ FÁBIO Daniel VIEIRA FERMÍN López 7  8 7  Jack GREALISH (p)RUBÉN SOBRINO Pozuelo 6  9 7½ Borja MAYORAL(p) (f)Dmytro KRYSKIV 6  10 7½ Henrikh MKHITARYAN(c,f) RODRIGO Moreno 6  11 6  Armando BROJA Manager MARANHÃO    12    Connor BRADLEY JAUME Domenech    13    Rúnar RÚNARSSON HÉLDER Wander COSTA    14 6  Folarin BALOGUN Iñigo LEKUE    15    Amin YOUNES CENK Özkaçar    16 6½ CÉDRIC Ricardo

Arsenal   League position: 5 Away league form: LXLL Overall league form: WLXXLLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Valencia 1 Arsenal 2 (Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 53,069, Stadium: Mestalla, Referee: Phil Dowd 6) Fermín 23² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Mayoral 12¹, Grealish 46¹   PabloóCédric 29², ChambersóBalogun 30²       Grealish 35² 3 2 21 8 1 1 4 5 6 10 10 15 2 3 46% 54% ¶ Man of the match: Granit Xhaka ¶