'Fan Persieweight FW" Havertz's 7th consecutive home goal →"EPL home 400 wins" Arsenal come from behind to win 3-1 against Southampton...a seven-game unbeaten streak in the league
Oct 05, 2024
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Arsenal beat Southampton 3-1 in the seventh round of the English Premier League (EPL) in the 2024-2025 season at the Emirates Stadium in London on the 6th (Korea time).
With this victory, Arsenal reached the top 400 home victories in the EPL. It also maintained its third place in the league standings.
The home team Arsenal played in a 4-3-3 formation. Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jejues and Raheem Sterling are on the front line, while Kai Havertz, Jorginho and Declan Rice are in the midfield. Four Hundred is Thomas Partey, William Saliba. It was composed by Gabriel Magalyangis and Ricardo Calafiori. David Raya kept the goal.
Away side Southampton faced off in a 3-4-2-1 formation. Ross Stewart in the front, Matheus Fernandez and Tyler Dibling in the second line. The midfield was formed by Joe Aribo and Flynn Downs, while Kyle Walker-Peters and Yukinari Sugawara stepped up as wingbacks. Three backs were built by Ryan Manning, Jan Bednarek and Taylor Halwood Bellis. The goalkeeper's gloves were worn by Aaron Ramsdale.
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Arsenal, who continued to attack near the penalty box, continued to work to create a gap for Southampton. In the counterattack developed after the pressure in the 19th minute of the first half, Saka's shot in the box hit the defense and missed the goal line. In the 31st minute of the first half, Jejuz, who received Havertz's pass, pushed the ball back to Havertz, who penetrated into the box, but Havertz's shot was blocked by the defense's hand-to-hand defense and failed to reach the goal.
Arsenal missed a crucial opportunity. When Ramsdale saved Fati's mid-range shot, which received Saka's pass in the extra time of the first half, and fell in front of the gate, Sterling rushed it in and drove in to push it. But the ball that hit the defender and Ramsdale's body failed to reach Sterling. The first half ended 0-0.
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Southampton also hit back properly for the first time. In the fourth minute of the second half, Dibling entered the box directly through a dribble breakthrough, and when Dibling's shot flowed against Magalyangis, Fernandez finished it with a shot, but it rose high.
Southampton scored the opening goal to take the lead. Archer's shot, which received Fernandez's pass in the counterattack in the 10th minute of the second half, aimed for Arsenal's far-flung composition and shook the net.
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In the 15th minute of the second half, Arsenal made changes to the strikers and midfield by dispatching Gabriel Martinelli, Mikel Merino and Leandro Trossar, excluding Jorginho, Jeju's and Sterling.
Arsenal turned the game around. In the 23rd minute of the second half, Martinelli, who rushed a left-footed cross from the front of the right side of the penalty box into the depths of the penalty box, shook the net by pushing it in front of the goalkeeper with his right foot.
Southampton also did not give up the game and sought an equaliser. In the 33rd minute of the second half, Dibling's mid-range shot in front of the penalty box hit the defense and the post and headed out of the goal line.
Arsenal are not behind either. In the 35th minute of the second half, Trossar's sharp penetration pass pierced the defense, and Havertz received the ball and tried to shoot, but hit the side net.
Arsenal widened the gap with an extra goal. In the 43rd minute of the second half, when Trossar's ball flowed against Sugawara in the counterattack situation that Trossar deployed by driving the ball, Saka tried to shoot as it was and cut through the corner of the Southampton goal with a right footed shot.
In the end, Arsenal finished with a 3-1 victory.
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