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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 19 (setup 1, season 31)
Gillingham
v.
Arsenal
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
Joe HART717Kevin TRAPP
Formation:
5-3-2
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Nathaniel CLYNE72JORDI ALBA Ramos
Leighton BAINES3José María GIMÉNEZ de Vargas
Aaron RAMSEY4Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu
Eric DIER5Rick KARSDORP
Chris SMALLING766Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos
Harry WILSON677Xabier Alonso Olano, XABI ALONSO
Danny WELBECK68Marcus COCO
James WILSON69Mesut ÖZIL
Ross BARKLEY106Cédric BAKAMBU
Wayne ROONEY711ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira
ManagerRichard Metcalfe
Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK12Aleksandar KOLAROV
Fraser FORSTER13Gianluigi BUFFON
Jordon IBE14Abdelhak NOURI
Jack HARRISON15Anwar EL GHAZI
Andre GRAY16DIEGO da Silva COSTA

Gillingham 2 Arsenal 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 47,222, Stadium: Priestfield, Referee: Steve BENNETT 7)
12 Rooney, 36 RooneyScorers27 Özil
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners9
12Fouls6
1Offsides3
3Shots on8
6Shots off6
9Total shots14
1Shots saved7
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Eric DIER
5A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper.
6The Gillingham 'keeper saved a curling effort from COCO.
7ÖZIL shot over.
12GOAL!! A deep cross by BARKLEY was met by ROONEY who rushed in to score. (1-0 Gillingham)
17KARSDORP ran onto a wonderful ball from BUSQUETS but dragged his shot wide of the righthand post.
21BAINES fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
22A weak shot from ÖZIL trickled agonisingly wide.
23BARKLEY hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area.
27GOAL!! An inswinging corner was booted clear only for ÖZIL to thump the ball home. (1-1)
34A wonderful save prevented JORDI ALBA from scoring an exceptional goal.
36GOAL!! A cross from the right was nodded down by BAINES for ROONEY to score. (2-1 Gillingham)
40DIER scuffed an easy chance.
 
46COCO made space on the left and pulled the ball to BAKAMBU who fired the ball over.
49ROBERTO FIRMINO worked the ball to BAKAMBU, COCO controlled his cross and headed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
55A shot from COCO held little difficulty for HART.
57The 'keeper was able to block a weak shot from ÖZIL.
65A mix up in the Arsenal defence enabled RAMSEY to thump the ball over.
68CLYNE beat four Arsenal players and stroked an effort wide.
68A twenty yard drive from ROBERTO FIRMINO caused the 'keeper no problem.
70A penalty box scramble resulted in WILSON cracking the ball over.
76WILSON beat PIQUÉ and flicked the ball to WELBECK who toe-poked his shot wide.
76A corner fell to XABI ALONSO who flicked an effort just wide.
88COCO headed over.