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The Gunners secured a comfortable three points at home in the Premier League versus AFC Bournemouth, thanks to goals scored by Bukayo Saka (42′ PEN), Leandro Trossard (70′) and Declan Rice (90’+7), in front of a crowd of 60,348.
Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tomiyasu, Rice, Partey, Odegaard, Trossard (81′), Saka (85′), Havertz.
Substitutes: Ramsdale, Zinchenko, Kiwior, Jorginho, Smith Rowe, Vieira, Martinelli (on for Trossard 81′), Nketiah, Jesus (on for Saka 85′).
Goals: Saka 42′ (PEN), Trossard 70′, Rice 90+7′
Shots: 24 — On Target: 9
Possession: 56% — Corners: 6
Fouls: 16 — Yellow Cards: 2 (Thomas Partey 59′, Kai Havertz 60′) — Red Cards: 0
AFC Bournemouth XI: Travers, Smith (89′), Senesi (79′), Zabarnyi, Ouattara, Cook, Scott (71′), Semenyo, Christie, Kluivert (89′), Solanke.
Substitutes: Neto, McKenna, Aarons (on for Smith 89′), Kinsey, Hill, Billing (on for Scott 71′), Faivre (on for Kluivert 89′), Sadi, Unal (on for Senesi 79′).
Goals: N/A
Shots: 7 — On Target: 2
Possession: 44% — Corners: 1
Fouls: 12 — Yellow Cards: 3 (Alex Scott 21′, Adam Smith 84′, Ryan Christie 90+5′) — Red Cards: 0
Referee: David Coote.
Assistant Referee: Timothy Wood.
Assistant Referee: Mark Scholes.
Fourth Official: Darren England.
Video Assistant Referee: Peter Bankes.
Additional Video Assistant Referee: Stuart Burt.
Post-match views from the forum:
BergMan: “What I don’t like is that indirectly through the referee we give rival fans more ammunition, the Bournemouth goal should’ve stood. And we should have won 3-1. That would be a better merit of our title credentials, showing we can handle that adversity. Instead, they’re all saying that refs are keeping us in the title race.”
Yousif Arsenal: “We definitely need to be calmer against United last two games 2nd halves were not Mikel’s team we know.
The VAR decisions were all right I don’t think you could argue about soft fouls but it’s a foul the keeper tripped Havertz and Solanke pushed Raya and he was nowhere near the ball but of course rival fans gonna cry about it”
SA Gunner: “Their build up, particularly getting through our initial line of press was frustrating to watch. We also could not adapt and close off what Bournemouth were doing to get into and through our midfield.
Things like that need to be improved upon next season, we cannot allow teams to bamboozle us like that next season. We must have answers to in game changes.”
