Arsenal v Palace Review – Gabriel and Martinelli braces leads Gunners to comfortable 5-star win

Mikel Arteta had to do something to breathe new life into Arsenal’s attack so we saw Trossard replace Martinelli on the wing.

The Gunners started brightly and after ten minutes the change paid off as Trossard delivered a perfect corner onto Gabriel’s head to give us the lead, but still no attacker on the scoresheet.

After that the game went a bit flat with Palace staying physical and Arsenal only getting a short time around the Palace keepers area.

After half an hour it was Palace laying on pressure and forcing a very loose pass out from Raya went straight to Lerma and suddenly Raya had to make a great save to stop the equalizer.

We than went straight down the other end, won a corner, and yet again Gabriel got on the end of it and suddenly we had doubled our lead.

That’s more like it! We may have the goals back but we atill haven’t seen much action from our strikers, and twice so far it’s looked like Odegaard dithered when in very forward positions.

We had time for Trossard to shoot over the bar from close range but I think Arteta will be happy enough going into the break…

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