After four straight league games without a win, Arsenal finally got back on track on Tuesday night. They beat Chelsea 3-1 in a close derby to bring the league table back to where it was before this round: Arteta's side continue to hold a two-point lead with two games in hand lead. The Premier League's championship situation has somewhat regained some suspense.
After a big loss to Manchester City, Arteta rarely took the initiative to adjust the team's starting lineup in this game.
The three main players of Holding, Thomas and Martinelli were put on the bench, replaced by Kiviol, Jorginho and Trossard.
After Chelsea entered 2023, they won only 3 league games in 4 months. After Lampard took over the team, he lost 5 consecutive games in all competitions. Therefore, the outside world also regards Arteta's adjustment as a rotation. The Arsenal coach pays more attention to Newcastle United, who will face away at the weekend.
The ensuing game proved that Arteta did not underestimate the enemy. The home team easily took the initiative in the game at the beginning. In the 18th minute, Xhaka's cross from the left was missed by Chelsea's defense. Odegaard, who was unmarked in the penalty area, hit the bottom edge of the goal frame and bounced into the net. 1 than 0!
Schwarzer, who was a commentator for the BBC that day, was a goalkeeper. He was very sympathetic to the situation where Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa conceded the ball this time: "From the goalkeeper's point of view, this kind of conceded ball makes you helpless. You don't even know that you should blame it. Who. Kepa watched feebly as his teammate leaked Xhaka's pass into the penalty area and left Odegaard completely undefended. Through the slow-motion replay, you can see how well prepared Odegaard was before kicking Time, and Xhaka's pass from COSCO cannot be called fast. In order to make this shot more accurate, the captain of Arsenal even took half a step back comfortably. After careful adjustment, he shot such a shot that the goalkeeper had no solution. ...and you didn't feel the presence of the Chelsea defenders during the whole process."
The next catastrophic performance of Chelsea's defense did not stop. Fofana first blocked Trossard's cross with a handball in the penalty area. Fortunately, the referee Jones and Marina, who served as the VAR video referee, said nothing about it.
Then Erdegaard seemed to activate the "invisibility" magic in the penalty area again. Chelsea's defenders watched him cruise near the penalty spot, and easily expanded the score to 2-0 with a push.
There is nothing to say about CAB주소, and Schwarzer believes that there is no need for technical and tactical analysis of this ball: "Xhaka sent a cross from the left again, and Odegaard once again passed without interference. Easy scoring. You can see all the Chelsea defenders staring at the ball the whole time, they don't seem to care about their opponents, this kind of goal without a defender makes you speechless."
This conceded goal is the same as Arsenal's conceded goals after leading in the previous games. There was no warning in advance, but once the goal was broken, the team immediately felt shaky in the following period of time. Upon seeing this, Lampard immediately replaced Mudrick and Gallagher to try to make a final fight, while Arteta sent all the main players on the bench and replaced Zinchenko with Tierney. At home, the curse of losing points as soon as the lead was lost was broken.
As a result, there were no more dramatic scenes at the Emirates Stadium in the last half hour of the game. The fans of the home team stabilized their mentality earlier than the players on the field, and began to sing "You should sign with Arsenal" to Mudrick, and when the game entered injury time, the audience cheered "Super Super Frank, Super Super Frank Pade", that was originally a hymn dedicated to Lampard by Chelsea fans, but now Arsenal fans seem to cherish Lampard's coaching time at Chelsea more than their rivals in the same city.
And just two minutes later, Chelsea's defense sent another big gift. Arsenal hung the ball near the far post from the right. As a result, Thiago Silva and Fofana not only failed to clear the siege in time, but were both knocked to the ground by their opponents, and finally watched Jesus kick close to the bottom line. A shot from a small angle widened the score to 3-0. This goal also made some disappointed Chelsea fans leave the field early.
In this regard, the BBC's chief football reporter McNulty said that Chelsea's poor state may disappoint some Arsenal fans: "This is the most expensive home ticket in a season. The home fans not only want to see the win, Would have preferred to see a good strong dialogue. But Chelsea showed how bad a group of good players can be put together into a team. The price matches!"
Lampard removed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from the starting line-up at half-time, and the Arsenal veteran's first-half statistics at the Emirates Stadium were nearly empty: he contributed just nine touches. In the second half, Chelsea was still easily suppressed by Arsenal. If Kepa and Thiago Silva made several clearances on the goal line, Chelsea would not have conceded three goals. However, just in the second third of the game, Chelsea suddenly got back a goal in the 65th minute through a counterattack by Madueke.
This conceded goal is the same as Arsenal's conceded goals after leading in the previous games. There was no warning in advance, but once the goal was broken, the team immediately felt shaky in the following period of time. Upon seeing this, Lampard immediately replaced Mudrick and Gallagher to try to make a final fight, while Arteta sent all the main players on the bench and replaced Zinchenko with Tierney. At home, the curse of losing points as soon as the lead was lost was broken.
The score of 3 to 1 was maintained until the end, which means that after losing two days at the top of the Premier League, Arsenal squeezed Manchester City to the second place in the league again. , It may be that after overtaking Arsenal, it will completely secure the top position in the league.
