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5¹A corner found GIROUD who forced the ball wide.
11¹MARTÍNEZ was able to claw away a tame header from MIKEL.
12¹The hapless Arsenal 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from FÁBIO VIEIRA dropped just wide.
23¹A twenty-five yard shot from SMITH ROWE caused the Watford 'keeper no problem.
25¹A cross from JOTA left HØJLUND in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
30¹GOAL!! After MAITLAND-NILES was tripped the referee waved play-on and HØJLUND went on to easily score. (1-0 Arsenal)
38¹The Arsenal 'keeper stopped a clever strike from GIROUD.
41¹SARR nodded the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.
42¹An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of MARTÍNEZ by GIROUD.
44¹A shot from SMITH ROWE was smothered by the Watford 'keeper.
7²A good ball from SARR on the right was collected by GIROUD who sliced his effort wide.
8²SMITH ROWE ran onto a delightful ball from MAITLAND-NILES but toe-poked his shot wide.
11²GOAL!! A deep cross by SARR was met by GIROUD who steamed in to score. (1-1)
17²A weak shot from GIROUD trickled agonisingly wide.
26²BALOGUN waltzed round MIKEL and stabbed a weak shot over the bar.
34²GULÁCSI saved a swerving shot from MAITLAND-NILES.
42²GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed GIROUD to knock the ball to SUCIC who fired a deadly shot into the net. (2-1 Watford)
46²BALOGUN poked an easy chance past the righthand post.

 
Arsenal
 
League position: 6
Home league form: WLXW
Overall league form: WLWLLXXW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Emiliano MARTÍNEZ6 16½Péter GULÁCSI
Trevoh CHALOBAH8 27½Giovanni DI LORENZO
NUNO Albertino TAVARES6 38 Raphaël GUERREIRO
JOTA7½46½Ryan GRAVENBERCH
Takehiro TOMIYASU7 57 William TROOST-EKONG
Auston TRUSTY6½67 Sergiño DEST
FÁBIO Daniel VIEIRA6½77 Luka SUCIC
Emile SMITH ROWE6½86½MIKEL Oyarzabal
(p)Rasmus HØJLUND7 97 Olivier GIROUD(c,p)
(f)Ainsley MAITLAND-NILES7 105½Maurits KJÆRGAARD(f)
Folarin BALOGUN6½116½Ismaïla SARR
Manager
Rob HOLDING  12  Hassane KAMARA
Karl HEIN  13  Maarten VANDEVOORDT
MARQUINHOS  14  Édouard MICHUT
Lino SOUSA  15  Youssoufa MOUKOKO
Albert-Mboyo LOKONGA6½16  Mahamadou DIAWARA
 
Watford
 
League position: 12
Away league form: OLLL
Overall league form: WOLXLLLX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Arsenal 1 Watford 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 39,908, Stadium: Emirates Stadium, Referee: Graham Laws 7½)

Højlund 30¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Giroud 11², Sucic 42²
Smith RoweóLokonga 11² 
  
  
31
1410
01
45
45
810
33
49%51%
Man of the match: Trevoh Chalobah