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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 29 (setup 1, season 31)
Arsenal
v.
Cheltenham Town
Formation:
4-3-3
Overall form:
Home form:
Gianluigi BUFFON18Jan OBLAK
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Darijo SRNA72FILIPE LUIS Karsmirski
JORDI ALBA Ramos736Ignazio ABATE
Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos4Stephan EL SHAARAWY
Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu75Jan VERTONGHEN
Andrea BARZAGLI76Samuel UMTITI
Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO777Thomas LEMAR
Mesut ÖZIL78Manuel TRIGUEROS Muñoz
Edinson Roberto CAVANI Gómez97Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG
Georginio WIJNALDUM10Kevin DE BRUYNE
ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira11Henrikh MKHITARYAN
ManagerLee Haigh
Iker MUNIAIN Goñi12JESÉ Rodríguez Ruiz
Kevin TRAPP13Anthony LOPES
Cédric BAKAMBU614OLIVER Torres Muñoz
Aleksandar KOLAROV15Bruno MARTINS-INDI
Asier ILLARRAMENDI Andonegi716Marcos Paulo Mesquita Lopes, RONY LOPES

Arsenal 3 Cheltenham Town 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 46,212, Stadium: Emirates Stadium, Referee: Keith HILL 6½)
16 Busquets, 42 Özil, 52 CavaniScorers
62 Busquets <=> Illarramendi, 72 Srna <=> BakambuSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings2 Abate, 12 Mkhitaryan, 37 Umtiti
7Corners8
14Fouls16
4Offsides10
7Shots on4
8Shots off3
15Total shots7
4Shots saved4
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: Jan OBLAK
1A tame strike from CAVANI trickled agonisingly wide.
2A late foul gets ABATE a yellow card.
5A cross from DE BRUYNE left EL SHAARAWY in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
6CAVANI blasted a right foot shot just beyond the near post from just outside the area.
12MKHITARYAN receives a yellow card by the referee.
14A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming OBLAK.
15A free-kick from WIJNALDUM floated just beyond the far post.
16GOAL!! A delightful run from SRNA gave WIJNALDUM space on the left and BUSQUETS stroked in his pin-point pass. (1-0 Arsenal)
17The Arsenal 'keeper saved a curling shot from EL SHAARAWY.
17ÖZIL shot wide.
20EL SHAARAWY galloped through the Arsenal defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
24ISCO beat two Cheltenham Town players and blasted a golden opportunity wide.
35ISCO ran onto a delightful ball from ÖZIL but toe-poked his shot wide of the goal.
37UMTITI given a yellow card for a clinical foul on ROBERTO FIRMINO.
42GOAL!! A deep cross from PIQUÉ on the left was headed home by ÖZIL at the near post. (2-0 Arsenal)
 
47EL SHAARAWY clipped the ball through a crowd of players but BUFFON was a match for it as he dived to his right.
49The Cheltenham Town 'keeper stopped a neatly crafted shot from ÖZIL.
52GOAL!! A shot from CAVANI rolled through a ruck of players and rolled past the unsighted OBLAK. (3-0 Arsenal)
53TRIGUEROS beat JORDI ALBA and drilled the ball to FILIPE LUIS who fumbled his shot wide.
56A accurate pass found AUBAMEYANG and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
60A fine ball from JORDI ALBA on the left fell to CAVANI who sliced his shot inches wide.
66A shot from AUBAMEYANG was smothered by BUFFON.
84WIJNALDUM worked the ball to ÖZIL, CAVANI gathered his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
85Uncertainty in the Cheltenham Town defence enabled CAVANI to crack the ball wide.
90+2A deadly shot from BAKAMBU was pushed over by the 'keeper.