Arsenal were excellent, but Fulham's defending was as suspect as a Tory MP's review of last night's Match of the Day.
Date published: Sunday 12th March 2023 4:21 -Not because Arsenal were remotely lucky to beat Fulham, but because surely even in his wildest dreams he couldn’t have imagined it would be quite so astonishingly easy. Arsenal have, it’s fair to say, been to the well a couple of times recently to maintain their spot at the head of the Premier League title race.
and an entertaining 2-2 draw in a game where Arsenal were given not a moment’s rest by a very decent team. And this is a really excellent team that you really cannot afford to let do as they please. All three goals came in the first half, and all three showed different elements of what make Arsenal so good. The first was a well-worked corner routine, in which everyone knew what they had to do. Ben White got in Bernd Leno’s way.
The second half was markedly different, but with never the hint of any challenge to the outcome. It was one of those where there appears to be an unwritten mutual understanding. Fulham wished to avoid further humiliation, Arsenal wished to conserve energy for the many tests still to come. On those terms, everyone got precisely what they wanted with Arteta able to give both Bukayo Saka and Oleksandr Zinchenko a bit of time off before an away-crowd-pleasing late cameo for Gabriel Jesus.
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