Key occasions
80 min: That wasn’t a great problem by Clyne, although it appeared extra clumsy than anything, unintentionally standing on his opponent’s ankle because it rolled over. Fortunately Calafiori is up once more rapidly.
79 min: Clyne is booked for catching Calafiori on the ankle. An enormous scream of ache. The defender, solely simply again from harm, has taken a sore one there.
78 min: Arsenal stroke it across the again for some time.
76 min: Sarr has a speculative shot blocked. Everybody simply marking time now. There are 14 extra minutes of admin left.
75 min: Jesus makes floor down the left and sends a shot-cum-cross into the arms of Henderson. It’s fairly quiet at Selhurst now, with the outcome past doubt.
73 min: Martinelli crosses from the correct. Jesus, nonetheless preventing for that hat-trick, can’t get a header away, however his presence is sufficient to win a nook. Nevertheless for as soon as, Arsenal’s set-piece magic deserts them, and Lacroix clears it simply.
72 min: Devenny’s free kick fails to beat the primary man.
71 min: Richards bustles his manner down the correct and tries to shepherd the ball out for a nook. Calafiori barges him over and it’ll be a free kick on the byline as an alternative.
69 min: Palace make a double change. Lerma and Hughes make manner for Doucoure and Devenny.
67 min: Nketiah wins a nook down the left in opposition to his previous crew. Nothing comes of it.
66 min: Rice bombs down the left and sends a forensic cross onto the pinnacle of Martinelli, who makes an attempt to steer the ball throughout Henderson and into the underside left. He can’t fairly handle it. Disgrace, as a result of it might have been a picture-book aim.
64 min: Guehi is booked for a very aggressive sort out from behind on Martinelli.
63 min: Sarr chases a easy lengthy ball down the center, Gabriel having didn’t take care of the hazard. Raya will get his man out of hassle, once more, by racing out of his space and blocking.
61 min: Palace substitute Kamada with Nketiah.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-4 Arsenal (Martinelli 60)
Gabriel finds Trossard in area down the left with a beautiful raking move. Trossard crosses low for Jesus, who ought to rating his hat-trick aim, however slams straight at Henderson. The rebound falls to Rice, who shoots low himself. Martinelli diverts the shot into the underside left, and this recreation is over.
58 min: Arsenal make a double change, changing Lewis-Skelly and Havertz with Calafiori and Rice.
57 min: Trossard is available in from the left and batters a shot goalwards. It’s blocked.
55 min: Within the Palace dugout, Oliver Glasner appears pained. He should surprise how his aspect have solely scored as soon as. Arsenal have uncharacteristically given up a number of good probabilities.
53 min: Mateta strides down the center and pearls a shot from 25 yards. It swerves everywhere. Raya parries, the ball looping up for Sarr, who flaps a weak header straight on the keeper from six yards. Because the restart, Palace may simply have levelled this match up briefly order, however Sarr has fluffed his traces on each events.
51 min: Each gamers are instructed to cease messing round, then the nook’s taken. It’s not price describing.
50 min: Sarr scampers down the correct, chasing after a fantastic reverse move from Mateta. He’s acquired choices within the center however can’t discover a team-mate along with his cross. Only a nook … which hasn’t been taken but, as a result of Lewis-Skelly goes down, dropping an unfair wrestling bout with the a lot taller Mateta. The referee needs a phrase.
48 min: That transfer began when Kamada intercepted Gabriel’s weak clearing header. Each Arsenal centre-backs have been unusually below par this night.
46 min: Palace are rapidly on the assault. Clyne crosses from the correct. Mateta heads weakly goalwards. Sarr helps it on with a header of his personal, in direction of the underside left. Raya parries and Lewis-Skelly hacks clear. That ought to have been a aim.
Palace get the second half began. No adjustments. “Say what you’ll however this man Jesus has a aptitude for delivering on the proper time,” begins krishnamoorthy v, concerning the resurrection of Arsenal’s quantity 9. “This can be the primary time that one might be pardoned for complicated Christmas with Easter.”
Half-time leisure.
HALF TIME: Crystal Palace 1-3 Arsenal
Palace have performed fairly nicely. However Arsenal have too, they usually’ve acquired the aim machine Gabriel Jesus, who has scored twice and hit the put up to arrange one other. The one draw back for the title-chasing guests: Bukayo Saka went off with what appears like a hamstring problem.
45 min +4: Clyne crosses lengthy from the correct. Lerma races in to satisfy it, heading powerfully goalwards … however straight at Raya. That might have modified a few half-time team-talks.
45 min +3: Martinelli crosses low from the correct. Palace make a meal of clearing it. Martinelli makes an attempt to retrieve the free ball and goes over within the environs of Mitchell. Arsenal need a penalty however they’re not getting one. It might have been fairly tender.
45 min +2: Raya as soon as once more takes his time over the restart, shifting the ball from one aspect of his six-yard field to the opposite earlier than taking the aim kick. However the referee wasn’t watching, his again turned. Intelligent previous Raya. We are able to paradoxically name {that a} quick one.
45 min +1: Mitchell makes good down the left and crosses for Mateta, who sends a poor header vast left and excessive.
45 min: … however Palace should look forward to it, as a result of there will likely be 5 further first-half minutes.
44 min: That aim’s taken the wind out of Palace’s sail. Having appeared good for a second equaliser, inflicting Arsenal’s defence a number of flutters, they’re now chasing shadows and will do with listening to the half-time whistle.
42 min: Palace had been enjoying fairly nicely, too. In reality, earlier than the passage of play that noticed Arsenal hit the bar then nearly instantly rating their third, Palace had appeared the extra prone to rating the subsequent aim. However that’s soccer, and right here we’re. The kind of factor champions do.
40 min: Palace can’t take care of Jesus in any respect. That is an astonishing turnaround by the Arsenal striker. Inches away from consecutive hat-tricks. He’s nonetheless acquired time.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-3 Arsenal (Havertz 38)
From the ensuing nook, Gabriel crashes a header off the bar. So shut. However regardless of! Arsenal come once more by means of Martinelli out on the correct. He reaches the byline and clips a cross again for Jesus, who steers a header off the bottom of the left-hand put up. The rebound falls to Havertz, who can’t miss from a yard out!
37 min: Lacroix miskicks in midfield and all of the sudden Jesus is away down the inside-right channel! Can he full a second hat-trick in opposition to Palace in three days? Nope, as a result of Lacroix makes up for his mistake by getting again and telescoping a leg to divert the ball out for a nook. That’s a brilliantly timed sort out. It needed to be.
36 min: Timber is booked for taking ages over a throw. “Everybody jokes about how Jesus is making the distinction for Arsenal at Christmas time, however everyone knows he’ll not carry out on the enterprise finish of the season. Yearly he goes lacking utterly after Easter.” David Wall, girls and gents. He’s right here all week. Strive the mince pies / chocolate eggs.
34 min: Hughes with the nook. He sends a flat, quick ball in direction of Lacroix, who flashes a header over from six yards. One other huge probability for the defender, whose radar is a wee bit off it might appear.
33 min: One other Palace free kick, one other queue on the sting of the Arsenal field. Kamada swings this one in. Jesus clears. Then Richards and Guehi battle to win a nook on the correct. The hosts asking a number of questions right here.
32 min: Sarr spins Gabriel and is hauled again by the defender, who grabs a handful of his shirt. Into the e book he goes. Everybody traces up on the sting of the field, awaiting Hughes’s free kick. In it comes. Havertz clears.
31 min: Now it’s Lewis-Skelly who cheaply ships possession. Arsenal aren’t coping too nicely with the Palace press. Sarr sashays down the correct however his cross is simple pickings for Raya.
29 min: Palace push Arsenal again. Hughes and Guehi take turns to hook crosses in from the left. Gabriel heads the previous away; Raya claims the latter. Palace have responded nicely since going behind once more, and the Arsenal defenders don’t look significantly assured below the excessive ball.
27 min: Gabriel is okay to hold on.