Chelsea vs. Arsenal – Soccer Match Report – November 6, 2022

Arsenal returned to the highest of the Premier League courtesy of a 1-0 win over London rivals Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

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Gabriel put Arsenal forward on 63 minutes along with his second purpose of the season to settle a hard-fought recreation and crown Mikel Arteta’s one hundred and fiftieth match in cost. Victory marked a 3rd win in a row at Stamford Bridge for Arteta’s males, who re-established their two-point benefit over Manchester City with one match to go earlier than the league breaks for the World Cup.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang lined as much as face his former membership after leaving below one thing of a cloud again in February, when he was stripped of the Arsenal captaincy amid questions over his self-discipline. His most notable intervention right here, although, was a yellow card for a tough foul on Arsenal’s Ben White earlier than he was subbed off within the second half on a irritating afternoon for the Chelsea striker.

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Chelsea, hammered 4-1 at Brighton final outing within the league, have been sluggish within the first half, with Arsenal the higher facet for a lot of the opening exchanges. White dragged large after 10 minutes, Thiago Silva made an outstanding deal with on Gabriel Jesus contained in the field and the Arsenal striker nodded large with the purpose gaping contained in the opening half-hour, whereas on the different finish Aaron Ramsdale was largely untroubled.

The primary half was a non-event and the opening of the second interval adopted an analogous sample with neither facet wanting significantly comfy on the ball or harmful in assault. In a recreation of nice margins, it took a set-piece to open the scoring, with Bukayo Saka‘s nook squirming all over a crowd of our bodies and Gabriel tapping the ball residence from contained in the six yard field.

Chelsea boss Graham Potter had seen sufficient, changing the nameless Aubameyang — whose uncommon touches have been booed by the visiting help — for Armando Broja, with Conor Gallagher changing Kai Havertz.

The house facet have been left brief on the again chasing an equaliser and Jesus discovered Martin Odegaard in area, however he fired over amid a spell of sustained Arsenal strain. Potter’s subsequent roll of the cube was to introduce USMNT’s Christian Pulisic however because the rain lashed down at Stamford Bridge, nothing might dampen the guests’ pleasure as Arsenal noticed out the match to consign Potter’s males to back-to-back league defeats.