There was no match for him Crystal Palace in this derby London. Or at least it wasn’t the night of the Arsenal Well, after a season in which it seems to have recovered its most regular version, it fell with a crash in a game in which both teams arrived with good dynamics. In fact they faced the fifth against the ninth of the Premier League.
Thus, there is no doubt, given the result, that the team that best entered the match was the group of Patrick Vieira who faced his former team and immediately began to take the lead with two early goals in 16′ and 24′, the work of Matetaat the exit of a direct free kick in the form of a center and Ayewwho resolved very well a heads up against Ramsdale.
With this advantage, the local team seemed more comfortable and even predisposed to continue increasing it. The ArsenalFor his part, he was just waiting for the break to be able to fix the situation.
Attackers don’t know how to defend
But after the break nothing changed. Martinelli entered by Nuno Tavares in the set gunner and the presence of the Brazilian was noticeable but not enough to shake the advantage of the Palace. An advantage that was sentenced when Odegaard He made one of those penalties that attackers do when they dress as ‘4’.
trampled Zaha and the Ivorian himself converted the maximum penalty to certify the victory of a Palace that aims very high and leave Arsenal stagnant but alive in its fight to enter Champions.
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