Odegaard penalty provides 10-man Arsenal 1-0 win at Palace

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Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard’s penalty secured a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace after the guests completed with 10 males following Takehiro Tomiyasu’s sending off for 2 yellow playing cards of their Premier League conflict at Selhurst Park on Monday.

Both sides had a lot of respectable possibilities within the first half-hour with the very best of them falling to Arsenal’s Eddie Nketiah, who hit the submit within the twenty ninth minute after some good urgent by the midfield noticed the Gunners win the ball excessive up the pitch.

Nketiah wasted one other nice probability within the thirty sixth after he was performed in behind the defence by Declan Rice as he fluffed his tried chip which flew harmlessly over the crossbar.

The striker was within the thick of issues once more early within the second half as he was felled within the field by keeper Sam Johnstone when operating onto a fast free kick by Gabriel Martinelli.

Referee David Coote pointed to the spot and Odegaard despatched Johnstone the unsuitable method, rolling the ball in on the foot of the keeper’s right-hand submit.

Arsenal regarded set to cruise to victory however Tomiyasu was proven his first yellow card on the hour mark for time-wasting at a throw-in and was despatched off within the 67th minute when he collected his second reserving for a foul on Jordan Ayew.

Arteta rapidly made a lot of defensive substitutions that induced issues for Palace and the closest the house aspect got here to an equaliser was a stoppage-time snap-shot by fullback Tyrick Mitchell that flew vast.

The win lifted Arsenal to 3rd on six factors behind Brighton & Hove Albion and Manchester City on objective distinction. Palace have three factors from their opening two video games.

“If you want to win the Premier League, if you want to be up there at the end of the season, these are the stadiums you’ve got to come to show character,” Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice advised Sky Sports.

Palace defender Joel Ward was disenchanted with the defensive lapse that noticed his aspect endure defeat after an opening-day win at Sheffield United.

“I think we definitely deserved something out of the game, the way we played as a unit today. We went toe to toe with them and it was one moment that maybe caught us off guard,” he stated.

“It is one of those – sometimes you get them and sometimes you don’t and this time it went against us,” he added.