A second half hat-trick from Gabriel Jesus shot Arsenal into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup this evening.
A bad mistake from Jakub Kiwior saw Palace take an early lead, and in the first half the Gunners failed to really threaten. Mikel Arteta made a couple of half-time changes which really made a difference, and the Brazilian’s finishes were deft, emphatic (although offside), and even more emphatic to put us 3-1 up.
The returning Eddie Nketiah produced a superb header to make the final stages a little spicy, but we held on and and won our place in the semis.
Here’s how the players rated this evening.
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I hope Kiwior doesn’t get absolutely hammered for that mistake. I always think that he is reasonably solid for our 4th/5th choice centre half if everyone is fit. Even Gabriel and Saliba have had brain farts at times. A bad mistake, but not enough to write off an Arsenal career for me.
It does seem like one big mistake per 90. But fair enough on being 4th or 6th choice.
that hardly seems fair, has he had two, maybe three all season? I think he’s made 14 or 15 appearances so far
Maybe so – I’m just never super confident with him in the back line.
And he has assists too.
Utter rubbish – look at his stats and you’ll see (if you open the other eye!) that he’s made no more than both Big Gabi and Saliba!
He’s going to be fine. Mistakes happen, we won, all good.
And he didn’t compound the mistake by panicking and making more errors. He settled down and played well the rest of the way.
I’d rather see the minutes go to someone from the academy. He’s not at the level of the team.
Err… no. He’s not that bad. There’s no need for hyperbole.
Every team needs an invincible like Pascal Cygan
If you compare him to Gabriel and Saliba he comes up short, but when you compare him to who he replaced in the squad he looks on a different level
He’s general level is not at Saliba and Big Gabi, true – but those two have actually made as many key brain-fart errors as Kiwior this season.
Saliba standing and watching Eddie (a striker he should know better than most!) jump unopposed for that header was just crap!
I mean Saliba had the mistake for the 2nd goal so he’s not the only one
Something about Jesus born at Christmas etc etc.
Pretty scrappy game tbh – looked like everyone struggled to control the ball.
But enjoyed the lack of VAR!
How about a bonus rating for Eddie?:)
You just knew he’d score when he came on. Every ex striker of ours scores against us.
Hopefully he got it out of his system now and won’t score this weekend.
Yeah – with his XG, it’ll be at least a month now.
He has kind of grown physically. Look fast and strong.
He’s been shocking for palace. Can’t get in starting 11
Proud to say I never lost faith in Jesus. I always knew he’d come good. Ahem…
*Amen
Ahem is probably what he means… Plenty people gaging down spoons of humble pie right now!
Definitely meant Ahem.
Born again at Christmas time, but surely we’ll see full resurrection in the Spring?
Bonus rating – 10/10 to Eddie for scoring from an incredible header on his return, also playing a stunning Odegaard-ish throughball which his teammmate fluffed, and overall having as perfect an appearance as a sub that he could have against his old club, and thankfully, mercifully it not being enough.
thankyou
That’s alright
Seems 3-2 was the score line of the night!
It was a real surprise to me to see that with a striker playing at GJ’s today level Saka and Odegaard seems to be even more impressive and dangerous.
If somehow we could build something similar on the other side of the pitch – our team would be a real joy to wach playing.
Not to mention a TP, Rice, Calafiori, White, BigGabi, Saliba kinda defensive block.
Lethal.
Interesting comment about out LH side – we defs looked more dangerous with KT bombing forward as in days of yore.
Henry did an excellent analysis on Sky of our over-reliance on Saka and general lack of runs/movement into the space ‘between the lines’ in opponents’ def midfield… Tierney makes a difference there by dragging players left…
I think he always has done, it’s just that MA wants his LB inverted. I think he serves Martinelli better as a traditional LB.
Definitely. Give Martinelli more freedom to go in or out if Tierney is keeping the opposing full back on his toes.
First half Nwaneri was in the RWB position and then Odegaard took over that spot. I know we like to overload the right hand side but I’d really prefer it if our most creative players weren’t stuck out there. So many times in this game and recent games we have a huge hole in the centre of the attacking third and it’s surely can’t be a good thing?
That’s where u need a proper no 9 to hold up play and get team upfield. Full credit to Jesus but it’s LF or RF but not no9 for me. Kaisers hold up and brining other players into play aswell as theam forward is only missed when he’s not there .
We need a new LFcan jesus be that guy I dunno but not as a 9
And on the 33rd game he rose again, in accordance with the scriptures. He is Lord.
Well still a ways to go before we get the old jesus back but still. Great to see.
As Jesus said
I am the resurrection and the life.
He certainly resurrected his scoring and came to life tonight
How do we get rid of the stadium announcer? It’s unbearable. Even away fans are taking the p!ss. Anyone got a petition or something?
I put this on another page too, don’t mean to spam but feel pretty strongly about it – geezer has to chill out or go!
It will obviously be a directive from the club, calling for people to be sacked for doing their job isn’t right..
Need to fix the ratings in the app.
Jesus comes good in time for Christmas 🎄
Ps. Blogs, I’m worried about the arseblog app. Keeps on crashing, player ratings don’t work, and it’s no longer in the Play store so can’t reinstall or update? Help! Don’t want to lose arseblog!!
I’ve always enjoyed Arseblog through the browser more than the app.
Martin Ødegaard. He’s the one. Certainly the best footballer at our club if not the league. Worth the admission on his own almost every time. What a pleasure to watch.
Harsh on Partey, soft on Timber (for the first half) and Nwaneri. Nwaneri obviously has extraordinary quality, and his first instinct is to go forward, which is great. But–not surprising for a teenager–he is often unable to figure out what should come next. It’s unfair to compare him to a player like Ødegaard who is one of the best in the world at finding the next move, but tonight showed how dependent we still are on our captain.
Agreed
Let’s give Kiwor a break here, up against an in form striker and yes it was a bad mistake but he didn’t do much wrong after that and certainly didn’t hide. If you think back a few years ago and it wa Rob Holding who had made that mistake so early in the game I have no doubts we would have been down to 10 men before long. I would say he is a good squad player to have.
not just good but excellent squad player, don’t forget passing is a key component of being an Arsenal centre back and he might be our best passer in that position. And he’s much younger than Gabriel and probably still improving. If he leaves in January or in the summer, as I think he will, we’d be lucky to find someone as good to replace him for anything approaching a reasonable sum for a backup defender.
I don’t disagree, though that’s kind of harsh on Holding. From what I can tell, he only had one red card (double yellow) in his entire Arsenal career. It’s just that it was a tough one to forget.
Gabriel Jesus has now only scored 3 goals in his last one game!
Yeah better than Anthony who is 3 goals away to have a hattrick in every game.
I’d like to see a midfield of Odegaard & Nwaneri + Rice, rather than Odegaard + Rice & Merino or Partey.
Think you’re being a bit hard on Sterling. He wasn’t spectacular, but one of our better performers in the first half I thought.
I think this too. He did more in that game than Martinelli has done in a lot of them.
I feel like unless Sterling scored 15 goals and had 10 assists this season, he’s just stuck with criticism. He’s rarely played and when he does, he’s in the b-team which, if you look at the first half, is gash. The chance he missed in the second half was a good save and then just unlucky, but good reactions.
So based on tonight we surely start Teirney, Saliba , Magalheals, Timber, easy peassey wakey wakey.
Jesus starts instead of Havartzs easy easy peasy peasy, Martinelli one side Saka the other side.
oh ya Partey, Rice and Odagaard keep it simple for now and get our season back on track.
yes there are a couple of injured that could come in but if this side was coached properly which I feel they are not this side would be top of this years league.
Interesting look at a very different team selection, especially KT finally on the pitch again… Kiwior – bad mistake on that header and then just too weak. But we’ve seen both Big Gabi and Big Willy do exactly the same this season so can’t be too harsh on him, especially with that very solid 2nd half; Saliba – he knows Eddie better than most opposition strikers, which is why him just standing and watching him jump for the header was inexcusable; Partey – puts in a decent shift at RB but it is not his best position and this was… Read more »
Partey is not a RB and to be given a poor score for not performing as a right back and blamed for the performance of Ethan is not logical. Merino was given a higher score than Partey playing in the position he is specialised to play in. Moving on from the TP5 rating, Kiwior clearly suffers against physical strikers as that goal reminds me of the Lisbon game where no game came as a result. Arteta has a big part to play in these deficiencies that we see on the field e.g. Rice and Merino to dictate play, Kiwior against… Read more »