At 23:00 on December 11, Beijing time, the 16th round of the 2021-2022 English Premier League began. Arsenal will face Southampton at the Emirates Stadium. In the first half, Lacazette scored and opened the scoring, and Erdgau expanded his lead. In the second half, Gabriel scored a goal to seal the victory. In the end, Arsenal beat Southampton 3-0 at home, ending the league’s two-game losing streak.
Compared with the last round of the Premier League, Arsenal’s starting lineup has not changed in this game. The top striker Aubameyang did not enter the list due to violation of discipline. The top single arrow is Lacazette, the attacking combination behind him. It was Saka + Erdgau + Martinelli, and Smith-Luo came back from injury and entered the bench.
In the 4th minute, Gabriel uprooted a Southampton player while defending on the left side of the backcourt and was shown a yellow card by the referee. In the 6th minute, Southampton made a quick counterattack. Tyra dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area. He shot low while running. The angle was too straight. The ball was confiscated by goalkeeper Ramsdale. In the 7th minute, Gabriel made a mistake in the backcourt pass. After Tyra stole the ball and passed it straight to Armstrong, Armstrong kicked the ball in the penalty area, and the ball was blocked by Ben White and out of the baseline.
In the 8th minute, Armstrong responded to Tyra’s cross from the left side of the penalty area, swayed Ben White and took a low shot. The ball was saved by goalkeeper Ramsdale, and Ramsdale quickly confiscated the ball. In the 13th minute, Southampton got a free kick at the front of the penalty area. Ward-Plaus took a direct penalty and the goal was saved by goalkeeper Ramsdale. In the 17th minute, Walker Peters broke through to the edge of the penalty area with the ball from the left side of the front court. Saka chased back and pushed Walker Peters to the ground. The referee showed a yellow card. In the 18th minute, Southampton got a free kick. Ward-Plaus took the free kick and took the shot directly from the far corner. The ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.
In the 21st minute, Arsenal fired a quick counterattack. Saka met Fu An Jianyang’s pass from the right side of the field, then dribbled the ball to the right side of the penalty area, ran in the inverted triangle and knocked back. Lacazette followed up in the middle. The ball scored and Arsenal led 1-0.
In the 27th minute, Tierney met Fu An Jianyang’s diagonal pass from the left side of the penalty area, and then went to the bottom line to pick the pass. The ball was blocked by Livramento. Tierney headed the ball to the goal again, and Erdgao went ahead. Point outflanked the header and scored 2-0.
In the 29th minute, Martinelli sent a straight pass from midfield, Lacazette cut the ball forward to form a single shot, then dribbled the ball into the left side of the penalty area, buckled it laterally while running, and the ball was blocked by a Southampton player. In the 40th minute, Southampton made a mistake in the backcourt pass. Erdgau got the ball with his back in the front of the penalty area and passed the ball to Saka on the right side of the penalty area. Saved by the goalkeeper. In the 45th and 2nd minutes, Southampton got a free kick on the left front of the penalty area. Ward-Plaus took a direct penalty and the ball was blocked by a wall and then missed the baseline. After halftime, Arsenal temporarily 2-0 Southampton.
Changed sides in the second half to fight again. In the 46th minute, Martinelli dribbled the ball from the left side of the front court into the penalty area, then knocked back to Xhaka, who was at the front of the penalty area, and Xhaka volleyed high. In the 52nd minute, Erdgau responded to Saka’s cross from the top of the arc, adjusted slightly and volleyed high. In the 54th minute, the Southampton midfielder sent a long pass. Tyra penetrated the ball and broke through to the left of the penalty area. He ran a low shot from a small angle. The ball was saved by goalkeeper Ramsdale. In the 59th minute, Martinelli took a left corner kick into the penalty area. The goalkeeper Caballero failed to clear the ball. Fu An Jianyang later outflanked the ball and Gabriel stabbed the ball from close range in front of the goal post. , The linesman raised the flag for the first time to indicate that Gabriel was offside first. After verification by VAR, it was confirmed that Gabriel was offside and the goal was invalid.
In the 62nd minute, Martinelli took a left corner kick into the penalty area, Gabriel nodded forward and scored 3-0.
In the 64th minute, Arsenal made a quick counterattack. Lacazette dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area and ran a cross to Martinelli. Martinelli opened the angle and shot the far corner. The ball hit the post and popped out. Erdgau followed up with a supplement shot from the right side of the penalty area, and the ball was blocked from the baseline. In the 65th minute, Saka took a right corner kick into the penalty area, Fu An Jianyang nodded and attacked the goal. The goal was saved by the goalkeeper Caballero. In the 67th minute, Saka took the ball on the right side of the penalty area, kicked off the defender and volleyed, and the ball hit the far post and popped out. In the 69th minute, Holding came off the bench to replace Gabriel.
In the 73rd minute, Raymond took the ball on the left side of the penalty area and shot from a wide angle. The ball was pushed out of the crossbar by goalkeeper Ramsdale. In the 74th minute, Ward-Plaus took a right corner kick into the penalty area, Bednarek header from the center to the top of the goal. In the 75th minute, Tyra met his teammate’s oblique plug from the front of the penalty area, took two horizontal steps and then took a low shot. Goalkeeper Ramsdale saved the baseline. In the 81st minute, Lokonga came off the bench to replace Xhaka. In the 83rd minute, Pepe came off the bench to replace Lacazette. In the 85th minute, Thomas volleyed high from the outside of the penalty area. In the 90th minute, Saka responded to Erdgau’s through plug on the right side of the penalty area, shook the defender’s low shot from the far corner, and the ball went slightly out of the far side post. At the end of the game, Arsenal 3-0 Southampton.
The lineup of both sides:
Arsenal (4-2-3-1): 32-Ramsdale/18-Fu An Jian Yang, 4-Ben White, 6-Gabriel (16-Holding 69′), 3-Te Ernie/5-Thomas, 34-Xaka (23-Lokonga 81′)/7-Sacca, 8-Edgau, 35-Martinelli/9-Lacazette (19-Nicholas-P Pee 83′)
Southampton (4-4-2): 13-Caballero/21-Libramento, 5-Stephens, 35-Bednarek, 2-Walker-Peters/11-Raymond, 8-Ward-Plaus, 27-Ibrahima Diallo, 23-Tara/18-Broya (4-Lianco 70′), 9-Armstrong (24-Elju Nuzzi 43′)
Technical statistics of both parties:
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