Crystal Palace "Disappoint Arsenal with an exciting draw."
Crystal Palace managed to thwart Arsenal's strong start by imposing a draw at home (2-2), on Sunday in the match between them at the Emirates Stadium in the tenth round of the English Premier League.
Arsenal's goals came from defense duo Socrates and David Louise in the 7th and 9th minute, while Luka Milivojevic and Jordan Io scored the goals from Crystal Palace in the 32nd and 52nd minutes.
With this result, Arsenal settled in fifth place in the table after reaching point 15, with Crystal Palace behind him a point less.
The start came crazy, as it began with the arrival of Crystal Palace with an opportunity after four minutes, when Andros Townsid headed from the right side, sending a cross, Luka Milivojevic met with a header that went into the arms of goalkeeper Bernd Leno.
By the seventh minute, Arsenal managed to take advantage of a corner, sent by Nicolas Pepe inside the penalty area, but goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy missed the ball, to prepare for Socrates, who sent a direct shot hugged the net, to give the Gunners a first goal.
It was only two minutes until Arsenal repeated the same scenario from a similar corner, Bibi returned to send to the area, reaching the head of Alexandre Lacazette, who passed the head back, to meet Davis Louise with his foot into the net, and the hosts to double the result in less than 10 minutes.
Lacazette came close to boosting the Gunners' lead with a third goal, after he met a neat cross from Kiran Terni with a left-foot shot on the bird, which Hennessy brilliantly saved.
Matteo Jenduzi sent a great long pass to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, running from the middle of the pitch towards the visitors' goal, but failed to steer the ball accurately, go far off the field.
In the 29th minute, Wilfried Zaha kicked off a ball into Arsenal's penalty area before Callum Chambers dribbled and fell into the area, but the referee gave a yellow card to him for fraud and was awarded a foul.
After the Ivorian international and the rest of the Crystal players objected not to be awarded a penalty, the referee resorted to the video technique, which showed that Zaha was obstructed by Chambers.
A pass to Danny Sibaius inside the Palace area to try to send a cross, but went on the way to the goal, to pass by the post and missed the chance of the third goal of the artillery.
Pepe received a pass from Aubameyang on the edge of the penalty area, to be received by the Ivorian player and shot by a creeping globe in his right hand, but passed through the left post of the goal of the Palace.
In the final moments of the first half, Bernd Lino saved his own goal from a powerful shot by Zaha from outside the penalty area, to keep his team's lead (2-1) before the referee fired the final whistle.
Just six minutes into the second half, Crystal Palace leveled the score early with Jordan Io, who met James McArthur's cross with a header inside Lino.
Jenduzi tried to try his luck with a shot from a distance, but it went easy in the arms of goalkeeper Hennessy.
Arsenal returned to try to reach the visitors' net with a fixed-kick weapon, after Pepe sent a new cross from a corner, which he met with a header, but went into the hands of Crystal Palace keeper.
The referee awarded Arsenal a free kick on the border of the Palace area, which Bibi carried, but his shot went over the crossbar, before receiving a pass Lazazet inside the area, to hit it directly, but hit the post.
Arsenal's continued efforts resulted in a third goal with the usual corner weapons, reaching the ball to Socrates, who fired directly into the net, to advance the cannonball again before the end of the original game seven minutes.
Arsenal fans were delighted with a sudden grief after the goal was canceled after the referee resorted to video technology, showing Chambers a foul before Socrates.
Zaha had a chance in the first minute of stoppage time to hit a powerful globe, but she changed course and went to a corner.
As the Gunners advanced in the last minute in the hope of sniping the winning goal, Zaha succeeded in launching a counterattack that almost resulted in a flashing goal, but Jenduzi blocked his way down the ground, to get a warning and deprive the guests of a serious opportunity, ending the game with two goals for each team.
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