The game is over and the final score is Arsenal 1-1 Brentford. Here is the match report.
2024/2025 Premier League
1-1
- Parey (61 ')
- Yoane Wissa (74 ')
Match report
From really great to really rather average.
It was very a case after the show of the Lord Mayor, because Arsenal paid the prize for a non-Helmaaldo information after their memorable Champions League win in Real Madrid.
The home fans thought the weather was to hand out when Thomas gave them a lead of the second half.
It seemed that he was enough to decide the game, especially when Mikel Arteta sent some of the big guns he had delivered for Wednesday's second stage.
Instead, the Brentford replacement Michael Kayode, who had a big impact at both ends, played his role in the move that Yoane Wissa set up for his 16th competition goal of the season and then prevented Bukayo Saka to restore the lead team.
You could claim that it was completely reasonable for Arteta and his players to consider the English title to disappear and concentrate on the successive real as kings of Europe.
But the intensity is difficult to switch on and off.
Arsenal should have had enough to go to Madrid and to turn a 3-0 lead into a place in the last four in Europe's Blue Riband competition.
But if the real score first and relatively early, the Gunners may still regret that they do not go into the game with a different victory under their belt.
Krediet also to Brentford for not folding after having done a goal.
With less discouraging luminaires than this come, they can still dream of playing in Europe itself next season.
Arteta made five changes from the real victory, but Hero Declan Rice, a man who makes the Duracell Bunny look like a weaker, was not one of them.
When the name of Vrije Kick King Rice was read before he started, it naturally got the biggest cheers.
The sun was out, the mood was festive.
But during the first 20 minutes the football was forgetting.
It seemed like a pre-season friendly.
Arsenal has investigated a bit, with Gabriel Martinelli who forced goalkeeper Mark Flekt in a block and Kristoffer Ajer completely back in a well -timed challenge.
Yet the first right chance fell to the visitors in the 22nd minute and they should have scored.
Bryan Mbeumo collected the Crossfield Pass from Mikkel Damsgaard and rolled it on the path of Ajer.
But the big man could not find a big finish and David Raya saved more comfortably than he could have hoped.
Arsenal stabbed in action, thought they were paramount a few minutes later after a series of corners.
Kieran Tierney went on his way to the cross of Ethan Nwaneri for what his first goal since December 2021 would have been, only for the VAR to rule him offside.
The frustration of the home fans grew when Christian Norgaard was only booked for an error on Martinelli. Flekken saved Van Oleksander Zinchenko, who played in a midfield role, and Ajer made an excellent block on a Martinelli effort.
Rice drew a salvation from Flekken, then a directly from the resulting angle, before the busy beekeeper also denied Leandro Trossard, because the Gunners ended up very much at the top.
The home fans were not exactly fascinated. Thousands of those on the chic seats were not in place to rattle their jewelry for some time after the action for the second half was resumed. .
For a while “action” was a generous word, please note.
All players only went to do enough to prove that they were trying, but few, apart from Nwaneri, really went that extra miles to make something happen.
When Rice finally stood over a free kick in a dangerous position, in the 58th minute, he ignored cries of “Shoot!” From the home fans, it briefly took it and then shot the return pass directly into the Brentford wall.
But just as Arteta Patience lost, like every neutral watching on television, and prepared to send Martin Odegaard, Rice created the opening goal.
From their own angle, Brentford suddenly found himself at the wrong end of a break of three feathers.
Rice loaded forward and time is just to Pardeny perfect. But Flekken will be disappointed that they have been beaten in his nearby post, no matter how powerful the shot.
If the bees were deflated by the goal, they could hardly have been encouraged to see Arteta send on the cavalry, in the form of Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Myles Lews-Skelly.
But after another silence in the game, it was a replacement for Brentford who made the difference.
After a first corner, Kayode crossed to the distant pole, Nathan Collins returned the ball to the six-year box and Wissa hooked him impressively.
Kayode immediately made a crucial contribution to the other end.
Flekken tried to be smart and was robbed by Saka. But while the winger went to an empty net, Kayode made up enough soil to place the ball behind a corner.
It was all arsenal for the rest of the game, but they could not find a winner, with Saka widely shot wide in the last six minutes.
Match -Events
0 'The game is about to start!
9 'Ewaneri's shot stopped by defender
10 'Big Pas van Trosaard, but Martinelli does not finish it
17 'Martinelli misses the chance again!
22 'Huge storage by Raya!
23 'Martinelli's shot stopped by defender
27 'Buitenplay, no goal for Arsenal!
29 'Does this have to be a red card?
33 'Zincenko's shot stored by goalkeeper
36 'What a pass from Saliba
41 'Declan Rice's corner delivery is threatening
44 'Trossard fires with left, good Save Flekken
54 'Ewaneris Pas the teammate could not find
61 'goal! Pedey insists a thunderous shot past Flekken! Arsenal 1-0 Brentford
63 'Saka is coming!
70 'Thomas Off, Timber On
74 'goal! Yoane Wissa Equelises with 17 minutes to play! Arsenal 1-1 Brentford
86 'Jorginho is running away. Looks in severe pain, hopefully he will be fine
Line-ups
Arsenal XI: Trossard, Jorginho, Partey, Zinchenko, Tierney, David Raya, Rice, Martinelli, Saliba, Kiwior, Nwaneri
Subs: Neto, Sterling, Ødegaard, Merino, Saka, Timber, N. Butler-Oyedeji, Jack Henry-Francis, Lewis-skelly
Brentford XI: Christian Nørgaard, Mark Flekken, Yoane Wissa, Kristoffer Ajer, Janelt, Mikkel Damsgaard, Van den Berg, Bryan Mbeumo, Keane Lewis-Potter, Nathan Collins, Kevin Damage
Subs: Mee, Rico Henry, Mathias Jensen, Ethan Pinnock, Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson, Yegor Yarmolyuk, Michael Kayode, Yunus Emre Konak, Gustavo Nunes
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