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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 23 (setup 1, season 27)
Arsenal
v.
Exeter City
Formation:
4-1-4-1
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Gianluigi BUFFON616Claudio Andrés BRAVO Muñoz
Formation:
5-3-2
League position:
11
Overall form:
Home form:
Darijo SRNA27Christian MAGGIO
Aleksandar KOLAROV83Daley BLIND
Kurt ZOUMA47Marco HÖGER
Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu757Nicolas LOMBAERTS
Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos6Nemanja VIDIC
ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira677Marko ARNAUTOVIC
Xabier Alonso Olano, XABI ALONSO78Luis 'Antonio' VALENCIA Mosquera
DIEGO da Silva COSTA797Álvaro NEGREDO Sánchez
NEYMAR da Silva Santos Júnior106Zdravko KUZMANOVIC
Ignacio Monreal Eraso, NACHO MONREAL11RODRIGO Moreno Machado
Chris BarberManagerTarrot Greenaway
Kevin STROOTMAN126José 'Martín' CÁCERES Silva
Francisco Casilla Cortés, KIKO CASILLA13Simone SCUFFET
Adnan JANUZAJ14Martín MONTOYA Torralbo
Enner Remberto VALENCIA Lastra15Yassine BENZIA
BOJAN Krkic Pérez166Gaël KAKUTA

Arsenal 3 Exeter City 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 64,549, Stadium: Emirates Stadium, Referee: Chris FOY 6)
6p Diego Costa, 57 Neymar, 68 SrnaScorers39 Negredo, 80 Valencia
Substitutions86 Negredo <=> Kakuta, 86 Arnautovic <=> Cáceres
Sendings off
Bookings13 Blind, 19 Valencia, 21 Höger, 63 Arnautovic
9Corners7
16Fouls14
17Offsides12
7Shots on7
8Shots off3
15Total shots10
4Shots saved5
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Aleksandar KOLAROV
4A shot from NEYMAR seemed a certain goal but the Exeter City 'keeper managed to force the ball clear.
5The Arsenal 'keeper saved a neatly crafted strike from NEGREDO.
6GOAL!! A foul on NACHO MONREAL inside the area gave Arsenal a penalty which DIEGO COSTA made look easy.
8A looping shot from BLIND was pushed round the post by the Arsenal 'keeper.
9A corner was collected by NEYMAR who flicked an effort just beyond the far post.
13BLIND booked by the referee.
16The 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce drive from Exeter City's ARNAUTOVIC.
19A bad foul gets VALENCIA a yellow card.
21The referee books HÖGER for dangerous play against ZOUMA.
21ZOUMA hit a right foot shot just beyond the far post from twenty-five yards out.
25A cross from BUSQUETS left XABI ALONSO in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
26NEGREDO dribbled round XABI ALONSO and stroked a weak shot over the bar.
29NEGREDO ran onto a great ball from ARNAUTOVIC but dragged his shot wide.
39GOAL!! A beautiful outswinging corner was headed in at the far post by NEGREDO. (1-1)
43PIQUÉ hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
 
57GOAL!! A cross from the left was nodded down by KOLAROV for NEYMAR to score. (2-1 Arsenal)
63ARNAUTOVIC booked for an off-the-ball incident.
66A shot from BUSQUETS was headed off the line by MAGGIO.
68GOAL!! A tame shot from SRNA seemed to hold no problem for BRAVO but the ball somehow squeezed into the net. (3-1 Arsenal)
72DIEGO COSTA made space on the right and pulled the ball to KOLAROV who fired the ball wide.
79RODRIGO was put clear by NEGREDO and he pulled away from BUFFON but drilled his shot over the bar.
80GOAL!! An imaginative BLIND played a wonderful ball down the left to VALENCIA who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (3-2 Arsenal)