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Commentary
A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
KOKE blasted a right foot shot wide from thirty yards out.
HERNÁNDEZ booked by the ref for a clumsy foul.
10¹SÁNCHEZ made space on the right and dragged the ball to CAMPBELL who touched the ball wide.
34¹GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with PEROTTI rocketing the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Valencia)
36¹SÁNCHEZ scuffed a simple chance.
43¹A free-kick from HERNÁNDEZ raced just wide.
A shot from IWOBI was smothered by the 'keeper.
An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the Valencia 'keeper by IWOBI.
SÁNCHEZ hoofed the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
A drive from HERNÁNDEZ seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to palm the ball away.
NACHO MONREAL's shot was well held by DIEGO.
11²A shot from HERNÁNDEZ was headed off the line by KOSCIELNY.
14²GOAL!! A long ball from KOSCIELNY down the middle found the lurking MARCHISIO who drove a deadly shot into the net. (1-1)
16²SANTI MINA brought the ball past BELLERÍN and rifled a weak shot wide.
20²A cross from ANDRÉ GOMES left LENNON in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
23²The 'keeper dived to his left to stop an accurate drive from Valencia's LENNON.
26²GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of GIBBS who slammed the ball past the helpless Valencia 'keeper. (2-1 Arsenal)
33²GOAL!! SÁNCHEZ brought the ball forward, glanced up and slammed a shot into the Valencia net. (3-1 Arsenal)
35²A left foot shot from LENNON was saved by the 'keeper.
39²SÁNCHEZ headed wide.
42²MARCHISIO beat ADERLAN and fired the ball to SÁNCHEZ who hit his shot wide.
43²ÖZIL rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
43²PEROTTI's header was well saved by the Arsenal 'keeper.
43²PEROTTI cautioned for a late tackle on IWOBI.
44²STRAMPE cautions RAFINHA for a poor challenge.

 
Valencia
 
League position: 18
Home league form: WLWX
Overall league form: XWLLWLWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
DIEGO Alves1Gianluigi BUFFON
JAVI MANQUILLO2Héctor BELLERÍN
(c)Juan VARGAS3NACHO MONREAL
ANDRÉ Filipe GOMES4Mesut ÖZIL(c)
Diego REYES5Laurent KOSCIELNY
ADERLAN Leandro6Bruno MARTINS-INDI
SANTI MINA7KOKE
Diego PEROTTI8Alexis SÁNCHEZ
(p)Javier HERNÁNDEZ9Alex IWOBI(p)
(f)RAFINHA10Claudio MARCHISIO(f)
RODRIGO Moreno11Joel CAMPBELL
Manager
PAULINHO  12  Per MERTESACKER
Nick MARSMAN  13  Petr CECH
JAVI FUEGO  14  Francis COQUELIN
Aaron LENNON15Kieran GIBBS
Ángelo HENRÍQUEZ  16  Jason DENAYER
 
Arsenal
 
League position: 2
Away league form: XWWL
Overall league form: WXWWWWLX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Valencia 1 Arsenal 3
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 44,287, Stadium: Mestalla, Referee: Hartmut Strampe 5½)

Perotti 34¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Marchisio 14², Gibbs 26², Sánchez 33²
HernándezóLennon 15²KokeóGibbs 15²
  
Hernández 8¹, Perotti 43², Rafinha 44² 
11
1411
11
77
36
1013
63
47%53%
Man of the match: Mesut Özil