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Match report
English Footie
FA Cup: Round 5 (setup 4, season 28)
Cardiff City
v.
Arsenal
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
13
Overall form:
Home form:
Loris KARIUS1Petr CECH
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Omar BOGLE2Ainsley MAITLAND-NILES
Joe BENNETT37Alex IWOBI
Ibrahim AFELLAY4Henrikh MKHITARYAN
Loďc DAMOUR58Rob HOLDING
Aron Einar GUNNARSSON666LUCAS Sebastián di Pascua TORREIRA
Matty KENNEDY7Reiss NELSON
Nathaniel MENDEZ-LAING68Mesut ÖZIL
Bobby DECORDOVA-REID79Alexandre LACAZETTE
Peter CROUCH107Granit XHAKA
Danny WARD117Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG
Manager
Lee TOMLIN12Joel Nathaniel CAMPBELL Samuels
Jonas LÖSSL13Santiago Cazorla González, SANTI CAZORLA
Rhys HEALEY14Mohamed Nassir ELNENY
Kenneth ZOHORE156Eddie NKETIAH
Gary MADINE16Jeff REINE-ADELAĎDE

Cardiff City 0 Arsenal 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 15,452, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Grant HEGLEY 7)
Scorers15 Lacazette, 90+1 Özil
Substitutions78 Mkhitaryan <=> Nketiah
Sendings off
Bookings
0Corners1
9Fouls4
0Offsides4
1Shots on5
8Shots off12
9Total shots17
1Shots saved3
47%Possession53%
Man of the match: Rob HOLDING
3DECORDOVA-REID's shot was well held by the Arsenal 'keeper.
5ÖZIL headed inches wide.
7ÖZIL poked an easy chance past the righthand post.
9WARD waltzed round XHAKA and stabbed a poor shot wide.
12KARIUS was able to claw away a poor shot from AUBAMEYANG.
15GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of LACAZETTE who tapped the ball past the helpless 'keeper. (1-0 Arsenal)
20A tame shot from CROUCH bounced agonisingly wide.
22A free-kick from WARD raced wide.
24A corner found MENDEZ-LAING who forced the ball over the bar.
30MKHITARYAN beat AFELLAY and fired the ball to ÖZIL who fired his effort wide.
34WARD drilled a right foot shot over from close range.
39AUBAMEYANG scuffed a simple chance.
44A mix up in the Cardiff City defence enabled AUBAMEYANG to crack an effort over the bar.
 
47AUBAMEYANG floated the ball to LACAZETTE who flicked it wide.
51A deadly shot from ÖZIL was blocked by the 'keeper.
56A header by XHAKA at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper.
58A accurate pass bobbled toward ÖZIL and his looping effort floated narrowly wide.
59A fine ball from AFELLAY on the right bobbled toward CROUCH who scuffed his shot over.
62A penalty box meleé resulted in AUBAMEYANG cracking a low shot over.
63The motionless 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from KENNEDY fell just over.
66LACAZETTE was put clear by AUBAMEYANG and he stepped inside KARIUS but rammed his shot over the bar.
67XHAKA shot wide.
71AFELLAY ran onto a great ball from MENDEZ-LAING but hit his shot wide.
81KENNEDY made space on the left and pulled the ball to DECORDOVA-REID who fired the ball wide.
83A good effort from AUBAMEYANG scraped the woodwork.
90+1GOAL!! An imaginative LUCAS TORREIRA played a wonderful ball down the right to ÖZIL who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (2-0 Arsenal)