2024-10-22
He Arsenalwithout any luster or shine, won the Shakhtar Donetsk with an own goal from goalkeeper Riznyk (1-0) and consolidates itself at the top of the group stage of this Champions League.
Mikel Arteta‘s men, against a clearly inferior opponent, played a gloomy and gray game, but in which an own goal, caused by a good shot from Martinelli, was enough to fulfill their duties.
After three matchdays, the ‘Gunners’ have seven points and have practically sealed qualification to at least the round of 32. It is what is important for a team that had just crashed in the Premier League after losing to Bournemouth.
Without Bukayo Saka, still injured, Arteta put together a strange team, with Gabriel Jesús on one wing, Leandro Trossard on the inside and Martinelli on the left.
The Brazilian, who alternates the role of starter and substitute, was in charge of scoring the first goal, twice feinting at Konoplya and creating a shot at the near post that hit the wood, the goalkeeper’s ass and slipped through. meekly in the goal.
Bad luck fell on the Ukrainians and everything pointed to a defeat like the one they received against Atalanta on the last day.
This could well have been supported by Gabriel Jesús, who enjoyed juicy opportunities to do so in front of Riznyk. However, the Ukrainian goalkeeper took revenge for the own goal and made the Brazilian’s night sour, as he cannot lift his head.
He has yet to score this season and has only scored one goal in all of 2024. It was on January 30, nine months ago.
Given the inability of Arsenal to kill the game, which also missed a penalty by Leandro Trossard, the Ukrainians came out on top in the last minutes and forced David Raya to take a spectacular goal in stoppage time that would have caused a good fight at the Emirates Stadium , where people, faced with the poor performance of their team, began to file through the exits even before the referee showed the added time sign.
They received the seven extra minutes with boos and breathed a sigh of relief when the French referee signaled the end of a procedure in which the worst news was the injury of Riccardo Calafiori, who had to leave with an apparent muscle problem in the second half.
Los ‘Gunners‘, in this new format, they are fourth with seven points, the same as Monaco and Sporting de Portugal and only behind Aston Villa, which counts its three games by victories.
He Shakhtarwith one point, is out of the 24 teams that would opt to be in the round of 16.
The match sheet
1 – Arsenal: Raya; White (Merino, m.46), Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori (Lewis-Skelly, m.72); Partey, Rice, Martinelli, Trossard (Jorginho, m.87); Gabriel Jesús (Sterling, m.68) and Havertz.
0 – Shakhtar Donetsk: Riznyk; Konoplya, Bondar, Matviienko, Pedrinho; Kryskiv, Zubkov (Pedrinho, m.64), Bondarenko (Marlon Gomes, m.87), Sudakov, Eguinaldo (Traoré, m.84); y Sican (Kevin, m.64).
Goals: 1-0. Riznyk, pp, m.29.
Referee: Benoit Bastien (France) cautioned White (m.34) and Martinelli on behalf of Arsenal and Pedrinho (m.96).
Incidents: Match corresponding to the third day of the Champions League played at the Emirates Stadium (London).
