Arsenal 4 – 2 Leicester City – Match Report

Justin-credible comeback

Leicester had been lacklustre within the first half, and having received simply one among their final 26 away league video games in N5, the writing was seemingly on the wall, however 68 seconds after the restart they managed to get a foothold again into the sport.

William Saliba introduced down Jamie Vardy for a free-kick, which Facundo Buonanotte clipped into the field. Justin despatched a glancing header goalwards which flicked off Havertz and deceived David Raya handy Steve Cooper’s group a lifeline.

We started attempting to revive our more healthy lead and solely an outstanding response save from Hermansen prevented Gabriel scoring a header from a nook, with the keeper additionally blocking Riccardo Calafiori’s follow-up earlier than Timber blasted over, after which after Saka tricked his manner into the realm, Trossard noticed a stabbed effort strike the put up.

However the Foxes had been a totally totally different aspect after the interval and after Bounanotte went shut with a pair of photographs across the hour mark, they managed to tug stage with an outstanding strike. There gave the impression to be little on when Wilfried Ndidi despatched a cross over everybody contained in the field, however Justin latched onto it and hit a sweetly-struck volley previous Raya, which kissed the put up on its manner into the web.

Hermansen heroics

The total-back’s targets noticed him develop into the star of the present, however he was usurped by Hermansen due to an impressed show of goalkeeping that noticed him single-handedly deny us with a string of excellent saves all through the second half.

Firstly, a deflected Saka shot fell kindly to Havertz who managed it, swivelled and fired goalwards however the Dane displayed wonderful reactions to thwart the German from point-blank vary, after which after he was caught out taking part in out from the again, he rectified his error by denying Trossard who appeared destined to attain.

He was proving to be unbeatable and moments after approaching Ethan Nwaneri let fly however was denied a primary Premier League aim with a full-stretch save, after which he tipped over a Calafiori header as he loved the sport of his life.

Late delight

However within the fourth minute of stoppage time, the resistance lastly broke. Saka whipped one other harmful nook into the field which discovered Trossard on the again put up, and his side-footed effort clipped off Ndidi and snuck into the web to ship the Emirates wild.

Then two minutes later, Gabriel Jesus broke by on aim and fired in direction of the underside nook. As soon as once more, Hermansen made a very good cease, however Justin inadvertently poked the rebound into the trail of Havertz who couldn’t miss from a few yards out, and after initially being dominated out for offside, VAR ensured we’d finish with a two-goal benefit and transfer stage with the league leaders after six video games.