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Commentary
A twenty-five yard drive from GIROUD caused VICENTE GUAITA no problem.
SÁNCHEZ's shot was well saved by the Cardiff City 'keeper.
10¹GIROUD beat a number of Cardiff City players and slammed a great chance wide.
12¹WALCOTT rifled a simple chance past the near post.
19¹WALCOTT beat MÁRIO FERNANDES and placed the ball to RAMSEY who fumbled his shot wide.
22¹A lovely effort from RAKITIC scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
25¹A good ball from BELLERÍN on the left bobbled toward SÁNCHEZ who scuffed his shot wide.
26¹PENNANT brought the ball away from MUSTAFI and rattled a poor shot well wide.
30¹A penalty box scramble resulted in SÁNCHEZ driving the ball wide.
31¹WALCOTT shot wide.
44¹SÁNCHEZ headed inches over.
An exceptional strike from GIROUD was dealt with by a fine stop from the Cardiff City 'keeper.
ÖZIL knocked the ball to SÁNCHEZ who headed it wide.
11²GIROUD snapped at a simple chance.
14²A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Cardiff City 'keeper.
17²GRAHAM books RAMSEY for an off-the-ball incident against KEANE.
18²A free-kick from GIROUD went wide.
20²XHAKA made space on the left and knocked the ball to RAMSEY who touched the ball wide.
21²GOAL!! A shot from SÁNCHEZ bobbled through a crowd of players and rolled past the unsighted Cardiff City 'keeper. (1-0 Arsenal)
25²A weak strike from SÁNCHEZ bounced agonisingly wide.
41²A corner was collected by REYES who nodded the ball over.
43²GIROUD whacked a right foot shot over the bar from long range.

 
Cardiff City
 
League position: 19
Home league form: LWXW
Overall league form: LLXWLXLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
VICENTE GUAITA Panadero1Petr CECH(c)
MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES2Héctor BELLERÍN
Yaroslav RAKITSKYI3NACHO MONREAL
Ivan RAKITIC4Mesut ÖZIL
James COLLINS5Laurent KOSCIELNY
Bruno ECUÉLÉ MANGA6Shkodran MUSTAFI
Jermaine PENNANT7Aaron RAMSEY
José REYES8Alexis SÁNCHEZ
(p)Tim MATAVZ9Olivier GIROUD(p)
(f)Scott BROWN10Granit XHAKA(f)
(c)Robbie KEANE11Theo WALCOTT
Manager
Junior HOILETT  12  SANTI CAZORLA
David CORNELL  13  David OSPINA
Peter WHITTINGHAM14  Per MERTESACKER
Joe RALLS  15  Francis COQUELIN
Carlton COLE  16Mohamed EL NENNY
 
Arsenal
 
League position: 2
Away league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWWLWWWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Cardiff City 0 Arsenal 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 21,253, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Fred Graham 8)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Sánchez 21²
CollinsóWhittingham 22²MustafióEl Nenny 2²
  
 Ramsey 17²
21
134
23
05
313
318
04
37%63%
Man of the match: Laurent Koscielny