On April 5, Beijing time, the 31st round of the Premier League continued, and Arsenal, which has recently achieved a hot record, suddenly braked and lost 0-3 to Crystal Palace away from home. Recently, Crystal Palace has become the premier league's top dark horse, the record is more crazy than Arsenal, after winning this battle, in the Premier League and FA Cup 2 line wild, unbeaten in 7 consecutive games, FA Cup 2 wins to reach the semi-finals, The Premier League 3 wins and 2 draws, rose to 9th place in the Premier League table, got 37 league points.
Arsenal is a veteran of the Premier League, has won the English top league 13 times, in February and March 7 games 6 wins and 1 loss, only lost to Liverpool such a strong, but this round against the big dark horse Crystal Palace, the whole team exposed the lack of stamina shortcomings, attacking and defending the two ends of the rapid avalanche, thus being killed by the dark horse. Arsenal boss Arteta has unveiled a starting line-up worth up to 340 million, led by Lacazette, Erdegaard, Saka and Sronaldo, and Crystal Palace starters with a value of 164 million euros, led by Zaha and Jordan Ayew.
In the 16th minute of the game, Crystal Palace used set-pieces to break the deadlock, and opened a free kick from the left side of the front, Anderson's header was crossed, the ball was pushed in front of the goal, Mattta wrapped the header to break the goal, and Crystal Palace took a 1-0 lead at home.
In the 24th minute of the game, Crystal Palace's long pass counter-attacked, and Anderson directly assisted Jordan Ayo in the backfield, who directly exploded the world wave at the top of the arc of the penalty area to give Crystal Palace a 2-0 lead.
In the 73rd minute of the match, Zaha showed excellent personal dribbling ability, directly in the penalty area 1V2, the defender put it down, the referee awarded a penalty, Zaha took the penalty shot, Crystal Palace led 3-0, and fixed the score.
Statistics, Crystal Palace won the 13th crown of the English top league Arsenal is not lucky, they played a classic steady counterattack, the whole game possession rate is only 30%, 6 shots on goal, 5 shots on target, and finally scored 3 goals, the attack is very efficient, Arsenal 9 shots on goal 3 shots 0 goals. Defender Anderson, who won the game best to give two assists, scored 7.9 points in the game, and Zaha also scored 7.9 points.
Arsenal suddenly braked, making the situation of the scramble for the fourth more chaotic glue, Manchester United good news, did not continue to pull apart the point difference, Spurs are more dreamy, directly counterattack into the top four of the table. Currently, Arsenal are fifth in the table with a goal difference deficit of 54 points, and Tottenham Hotspur is fourth in the table with a goal difference advantage, but Arsenal still have the initiative to compete for four, one less match between Tottenham and Manchester United, and Manchester United 51 points. It can be seen that the Premier League competition for four is very cruel, and each game in the final stage may directly determine the final ranking.