Live football Arsenal vs West Ham

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Arsenal opened the 2020/21 season couldn’t be better. In the English Super Cup match, “Gunners” defeated Liverpool after the 11-meter penalty shoot-out to get to the glorious podium. In the opening match of the Premier League, Arsenal won 3-0 at neighboring Fulham.

Obviously, the style of the Mikel Arteta Gunner was gradually taking shape. In the first phase, the Spaniard tried to force the students into the form of controlling the ball as the Man City of “old boss” Pep Guardiola.

But Arteta has realized that the quality of Arsenal’s players is not enough to successfully deploy such complex football, which requires such a high level of organization. So, the “Gunners” apply simpler gameplay, defense-heavy and daring pragmatics, but the efficiency is much higher.

Before Fulham, Arsenal were not a good entry team, but Arteta’s army successfully took advantage of the opponent’s mistake to open the scoring, thus taking the game at their discretion.

The rookies The Gunners recruited in the summer of 2020 have mixed well. Willian in his debut was printed in the 3 goals. At the bottom, midfielder Magalhaes also had his first memorable match when he headed to Arsenal. Meanwhile, West Ham started the 2020/21 season again with a poor 2-0 loss to Newcastle at home.

Compared to the opening game (beating Fulham 3-0), coach Arteta made two adjustments to Arsenal’s starting list against another neighboring club, West Ham. Specifically, Dani Ceballos (who continued to play for Arsenal on loan from Real Madrid) replaced Elneny in midfield and Saka, a young talent who emerged as a comet last season, assumed the role of Maitland-Niles’ left back. . (Bank).

Despite being invited to the Emirates and completely inferior, West Ham was the team that had the first remarkable opportunity when in the fifth minute, in a corner, the midfielder Obgbonna finished with his head, but the ball goes straight to the goalkeeper’s position Log.

In general, the guests entered well and full of confidence, showing themselves at the height of the powerful home team. The first half of the first half not only ensured that the goal was always in the maximum safety state, but West Ham was also ready to attack the Leno issue.

At 16 minutes, Bowen fell in the 16m50 area behind local midfielder Gabriel Magalhaes, but the referee said no at 11m. In the end, however, West Ham is still the team that conceded first.

In the 25th minute, Saka pushed Aubameyang into the 16m50 area and watched intently before gently crossing the middle for Lacazette to calmly shake his head to defeat Fabianski (an old man from … Arsenal). Referee Oliver had to spend more time “checking the VAR” because Aubameyang stood on the offside line before actually acknowledging the goal.

A few minutes later, Bukayo Saka boldly swung his left leg to hit the 16m50 line and the ball flew higher than the crossbar. With goal in hand, Arsenal was taking full control of the game. Although very tough to fight, West Ham could not escape the grip of the neighboring team.

However, surprise broke out in the last minute of the first half. West Ham had a rare sharp attack and Fredericks crossed from the right for Michal Antonio to hit the goal point-blank, not give Bernd Leno a chance.

The 1-1 draw helped West Ham enter the second half with great confidence and a state of excitement, posing countless challenges for Arsenal in the plan to “make up for what they lost.”

Equipment

Arsenal XI (3-4-3): Bernd Leno; Rob Holding, Gabriel Magalhaes, Kieran Tierney; Héctor Bellerin, Dani Ceballos, Granit Xhaka, Bukayo Saka; Willian, Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

West Ham XI (4-2-3-1): Lukasz Fabianski; Ryan Fredericks, Issa Diop, Angelo Obgbonna, Aaron Cresswell; Tomas Soucek, Declan Rice; Jarrod Bowen, Pablo Fornals, Arthur Masuaku; Michail Antonio.