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Arsenal 1 – 0 Ipswich Town – Match Report
We prolonged our unbeaten run at Emirates Stadium to 17 with a 1-0 win at residence to Ipswich City on Friday evening.
Kai Havertz gave us the lead from a Leandro Trossard cross and we protected our benefit to earn a fourth successive clear sheet within the Premier League for the primary time since 2021, and importantly transfer us into second place within the desk.
terrific trossard
Starting the sport on the left wing, Trossard appeared full of life from the off, seeing a shot hit Kalvin Phillips and exit for a nook on the finish of a transfer began by William Saliba.
Jurrien Timber then confirmed nice braveness and initiative to take us ahead, breaking the traces earlier than capturing straight at Arijanet Muric.
Within the twenty third minute, we made the breakthrough. Trossard crossed for Havertz who merely couldn’t miss, cushioning the ball into the roof of the online.
Declan Rice fired marginally over the bar from distance and Trossard then discovered the run of Gabriel Jesus, who performed it throughout to Martinelli. The latter tapped the ball throughout the road however the flag was raised for offside on Jesus.
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Highlights: Arsenal 1-0 Ipswich City
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We continued attempting to find one other objective initially of the second half, Rice taking place on the sting of the realm courtesy of a foul from Phillips and Martin Odegaard capturing the free-kick straight on the wall.
We needed to stand up to some strain from the guests when Phillips put a free-kick into the field and Rice headed it behind for an Ipswich nook, however we responded with a tidy passage of play on the different finish between Trossard, Odegaard and Havertz, resulting in a nook.
Rice delivered the next set-piece and Gabriel headed simply large on the far publish.
Jesus made approach with slightly below 20 minutes to go along with Mikel Merino approaching to exchange him, and Muric then tipped the ball over the bar after Odegaard weaved his approach into the 18-yard field and let fly.
Our captain’s nook then got here out to Rice who volleyed it in direction of objective however was denied by a block from Dara O’Shea.
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Mikel: “The group is in place”
Odegaard continued to tug the strings when he discovered Merino, who pressured save from Muric, earlier than Odegaard shot excessive and large on the observe up.
Mikel Arteta introduced Thomas Partey on for Rice with 4 minutes remaining.
David Raya was readily available to catch a late cross from Omari Hutchinson and alleviate the hazard. Nathan Broadhead had time and area to get a shot away in added time however Havertz acquired himself in the best way of it to verify we took all three factors.
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31 of the very best photographs from our win towards Ipswich
FACTS AND STATS
No facet has saved extra clear sheets (7) or conceded fewer targets (16) within the Premier League this season than us, whereas we now have saved a shutout in 4 successive residence matches within the competitors for the primary time since December 2021.
Ipswich suffered their tenth Premier League defeat of the season of their 18th sport (W2 D6), the earliest right into a league season they’ve hit 10 losses since 2012/13 within the Championship (seventeenth sport).
We now have now gained 19 of our final 20 Premier League video games towards newly promoted opponents, and every of our final 13 league matches towards such opposition at Emirates Stadium in a row.
Ipswich tried simply three photographs on this match; of the seven events of a facet managing three or fewer photographs in a Premier League sport this season, three have been towards us, all this month (additionally Fulham and Everton, 2 photographs every).
There have been simply 4 photographs within the first half (all for us), the fewest within the opening 45 minutes of a Premier League sport since West Ham v Newcastle in October 2023 (additionally 4), and the fewest within the first half of a match at Emirates Stadium within the league since Arsenal v Newcastle in April 2019 (additionally 4).
Kai Havertz has scored in six of his final seven Premier League appearances towards newly promoted opposition (6 targets).
WHAT’S NEXT
That is it for 2024! We start 2025 with a visit to Brentford on New Yr’s Day. Kick-off on the Gtech Group Stadium shall be at 5.30pm within the Premier League on Wednesday.
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