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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 15 (setup 1, season 27)
Rochdale
v.
Arsenal
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
Home form:
Nestor 'Fernando' MUSLERA Fernando17Gianluigi BUFFON
Formation:
4-1-4-1
League position:
5
Overall form:
Home form:
JOÃO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA72Darijo SRNA
ADRIANO Correia Claro38Aleksandar KOLAROV
Wesley SNEIJDER48SERGIO RAMOS García
DAVID COSTAS Cordal57Kurt ZOUMA
Dennis AOGO767Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos
Luciano SLAGVEER76ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira
Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO8Xabier Alonso Olano, XABI ALONSO
Aleksandr KERZHAKOV97DIEGO da Silva COSTA
Clément GRENIER108NEYMAR da Silva Santos Júnior
Samuel ETO'O Fils117Ignacio Monreal Eraso, NACHO MONREAL
ManagerChris Barber
Valon BEHRAMI12Fabrice OLINGA Essono
Jérémy TOULALAN13Francisco Casilla Cortés, KIKO CASILLA
Moritz LEITNER14Adnan JANUZAJ
Rafael VAN DER VAART15Enner Remberto VALENCIA Lastra
Vurnon ANITA16BOJAN Krkic Pérez

Rochdale 1 Arsenal 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 47,766, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Scott MATHIESON 6½)
72 SlagveerScorers31 Zouma, 86 Diego Costa
Substitutions
Sendings off
46 Slagveer, 74 João Pereira, 85 GervinhoBookings
4Corners5
12Fouls9
2Offsides9
4Shots on9
10Shots off6
14Total shots15
2Shots saved6
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: NEYMAR da Silva Santos Júnior
1A good ball from ROBERTO FIRMINO on the right found DIEGO COSTA who mishit his shot inches wide.
12A weak shot from KERZHAKOV trickled agonisingly wide.
19ROBERTO FIRMINO beat two Rochdale players and fired a great chance wide.
22An outswinging corner was touched into the arms of MUSLERA by DIEGO COSTA.
22A perfect strike from DIEGO COSTA was dealt with by a useful block from the 'keeper.
30A header by DIEGO COSTA at the far post was comfortably collected by the Rochdale 'keeper.
31A right foot effort from ETO'O was clawed past the post by the 'keeper.
31GOAL!! A NEYMAR run down the middle resulted in an exceptional cross for ZOUMA to tap in. (1-0 Arsenal)
34NEYMAR's header was well saved by MUSLERA.
38Uncertainty in the Rochdale defence enabled NEYMAR to fire an effort inches wide.
 
46The referee cautions SLAGVEER for an off-the-ball incident against NEYMAR.
49GERVINHO shot over.
51A penalty box meleé resulted in GERVINHO tapping a low shot over.
61ROBERTO FIRMINO clipped the ball through a ruck of players but MUSLERA was a match for it as he dived to his left.
68GERVINHO drilled a left foot shot just wide from twenty yards out.
72GOAL!! A great dummy from ETO'O allowed GRENIER to lay a nice ball off to SLAGVEER who drilled the ball into the net. (1-1)
74JOÃO PEREIRA booked.
76SLAGVEER beat KOLAROV and hit the ball to GERVINHO who dragged his effort wide.
84ROBERTO FIRMINO made space on the left and touched the ball to NACHO MONREAL who touched the ball wide.
85GERVINHO booked for arguing with the referee.
86GOAL!! As DAVID COSTAS was attempting to hold back ROBERTO FIRMINO the ball fell to DIEGO COSTA who hit the ball into the top corner. (2-1 Arsenal)
87BUFFON saved a swerving shot from KERZHAKOV.