EMIRATES STADIUM — Nervous energy coursed around the Emirates after Jean-Philippe Mateta‘s stunning chip brought Crystal Palace level for a second time on Wednesday night.
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Palace deserved their point, but their hosts graciously helped them get it.
It was a poor pass that was brilliantly punished. Mateta easily rolled Odegaard before clipping a superb chip in off the underside of the crossbar from well outside the box.
Saliba has been practically faultless since establishing himself as an Arsenal regular.
With a Champions League semi-final double-header with PSG looming, now is it not the time for the Parisian’s standards to slide.
“We had periods of that but we started to give sloppy balls away and we dropped the standards in certain defensive habits as well.
“When you are not at your best but winning 2-1 you obviously can’t give the ball away in the manner that we did. It’s part of football and it cost us two points.”
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But it does leave him vulnerable if something goes wrong, as Mateta’s opportunistic strike showed. A goalkeeper isn’t much use if they are unable to guard their net.
“As soon as Saliba has another player to play with, the goalkeeper doesn’t need to be there.”
The Gunners were collectively lax for Palace’s first goal, failing to spot Eberechi Eze loitering with intent on the edge of their penalty box.
He punished them emphatically, zipping a first-time volley in off the post after being perfectly picked out by Adam Wharton’s driven corner.
The Arsenal set-piece machine roars again!
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The Pole, who has excelled while deputising for the injured Gabriel Magalhaes, bumped Eddie Nketiah out of the way and met Odegaard’s free-kick with a thunderous header from the penalty spot that flew past Dean Henderson.
Kiwior also made a superb last-ditch block to prevent Nketiah from netting against his former club, moments after Eze’s equaliser, and is arguably (and improbably) Arsenal’s most in-form defender right now.
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Myles Lewis-Skelly had some bright moments and is learning all the time in what is still a relatively new position.
Perhaps when the game state and competition stakes are more finely poised, concentration levels will be dialled up accordingly. The two glaring gifts that Arsenal have given out have come when they were 4-0 up on aggregate and in a match with little riding on it.
Time will tell whether this drop in sharpness was merely a blip or the start of something more serious.
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