Arsenal vs Brentford

Di Gunners go face Brentford today for di Emirates Stadium for dia Premier League match. Arsenal players Gabriel Jesus and Mohamed Elneny still dey injured. Di ...

4 mins' Xhaka commit di first foul of di game after being too physical with Ajer as dem both try to win di header from Nketiah cross. Arsenal dey attack down di wide areas while Brentford look to play very direct. 7 mins' Brentford dey look to play very direct for dis match. E cross di ball along di six-yard box and Henry get to am ahead of everyone else. Jensen lay di ball off for Toney, and di striker effort no work. Di midfielder shoot with im weaker right foot and di ball go straight at Raya, wey make a good stop. Toney gets on di scoresheet to equalise for Brentford! Saka and Odegaard play one-two before di winger put in a low cross along di six-yard box. 70 mins' Trossard dey isolated as Arsenal counter forward so e try shoot from a difficult position. 3 mins' Arsenal no dey show no signs of a hangover from dia loss to Everton as dem play out from di back with confidence against a good Brentford press. 80 mins' Brentford dey sit deep for di half but trying to press Arsenal wen dem fit. Arsenal wey dey ontop of di Premier League table dey hope to extend di lead on top of di table.

Arsenal looked curiously flat against Brentford, and now they are winless in their last three as they lose ground in the Premier League.

Arsenal: The Gunners stay home for a huge top-of-the-table clash on Wednesday against Man City, who sit in second and have been nipping at Arsenal's heels in the Premier League race. Arteta on the need to rotate players: "You always think about that and with a few players especially when you lose. However, at the same time there have been signs of late that the team needs freshening up, having lost at Everton and now drawing against [Brentford](/soccer/team?id=337) -- an issue underlined by a substitute scoring the home side's only goal. The team had a really strong performance again today but we didn't get the three points." It was even more impressive the way we came back." The dip after such a fine start to his season continues. They moved six points clear of [Manchester City](/soccer/team?id=382) at the top but Pep Guardiola's side can cut the deficit in half with victory over [Aston Villa](/soccer/team?id=362) on Sunday -- setting up Wednesday's clash when Arsenal and Man City face each other in north London. [Arsenal](/soccer/team?id=359) got away with it last weekend, and have to pray they will do so again now. Or we did, but we apply certain principles in defending because they apply certain rules but surely they didn't apply those rules." Mikel Arteta has named the same starting line-up in every Premier League match since the World Cup. He missed two excellent chances, one in each half, before converting from close range to give Brentford the point their performance deserved, writing another chapter into a duel with more than a little edge. [Best/worst performers](#bestworst)

Saturday's surprise loss to Everton gave opponents a sense of how the league leaders might be slowed down.

"Losing brings a lot of opportunities to look at other things and the reaction of the team," he said in his pre-match press conference. There may be ways to make life harder for Arteta's side but it is not a given that just because Everton and Newcastle successfully gummed up the flanks any other team will be able to do so, nor that Saka won't simply beat two defenders a few times a game instead of one. In Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa he has two wingers who are prepared to do their share of off ball work and who have the pace to burst into the spaces that Arsenal's full backs leave. Everton's win and Newcastle's draw might have given opponents an indication of what can stop Arsenal but it has done the same for Arteta. "The goal that I scored against Forest – I was wide, I got the ball, I played to Bukayo, he went to the wing and I went inside the box. In guiding his side to a 1-0 win at Goodison Park, Sean Dyche picked up and ran with an approach that had brought Newcastle a point at the Emirates Stadium at the turn of the year. No team in the Premier League attempts a higher proportion of long passes than Brentford, no wonder when they are aiming for the likes of Ivan Toney. But that npxG figure points to the tactical adjustments that Arteta has made since Nketiah has come into the side. Gabriel Martinelli continues to flicker with menace but he is not the raging fire of the early season. Iwobi is across to aid Vitaliy Mykolenko and Saka has little choice but to push the ball back into the congested middle. However, recent games have brought with them the first sign that managers are grasping what needs to be done to slow the relentless tide of the league leaders. This time, the Gunners are on a two game losing skid but even that comes with the caveat that in the FA Cup they rotated significantly and their opponents Manchester City did not.

How the Gunners got on individually in their Premier League clash with Brentford at the Emirates Stadium.

Fabio Vieira: The Portuguese midfielder needs to do more with these cameos off the bench to help decide games. Leandro Trossard: Exactly the impact you'd want from the bench in terms of the goal. Gabriel Martinelli: Not particularly bad but a long way off his scintillating best. Eddie Nketiah: Looked good in some moments in transition but his influence was limited. Bukayo Saka: A little quiet in the first half but you can forgive that when he produces moments of individual quality like that cross for Trossard's goal. Martin Odegaard: Probably Arsenal's most influential player on the day, conducting the crowd and trying to raise the tempo. However, that part of his game faded and it wasn't a surprise to see him sacrificed for a more offensive option this time. Could have done a little more to set the tempo a bit higher for the Gunners though maybe. A few pot shots from distance as well when things were getting a bit more desperate towards the end. Sluggish to react for the goal though as Arsenal failed to clear their lines. Poor in the air for the goal. Contributed more to the attack.

Arsenal named an unchanged side for the visit of Brentford as they looked to extend their five-point lead at the top of the table. Mikel Arteta may have ...

Arteta's side got their breakthrough in the 66th minute as Trossard scored his first goal for the club following a good cross from Saka. Brentford extend their unbeaten run to 10 games, with only Newcastle on a better streak. Arsenal vs Brentford

Arsenal looks to get back to winning ways against a Brentford side that rarely loses when Gunners and Bees meet at the Emirates Stadium.

The ex-Burnley man is chipping in at both ends to boot. Arsenal looks to bounce back from being kept off the scoreboard for just the second time this season, though it was also the second time in a month (Newcastle held Arsenal at home before Everton beat the Gunners on Feb. Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka are among the most consistent threats in red and will surely favor themselves to get back on the scoreboard. “It is insane Brentford is 10 games unbeaten in the Premier League and against some decent sides. “I just said to the boys, wow! They took the game to that rollercoaster game they want to take you to.

Trossard's first Arsenal goal was not enough to earn all three points as Brentford hit back to claim a draw at the Emirates.

We failed to deal with a free kick into the box, and after the ball pinged around, it fell to Toney, who couldn’t miss. The goal was eventually given after a lengthy VAR check, despite an apparent offside in the build up. A vital breakthrough and the crowd erupted. A cross from the right fell to Rico Henry who had got forward well. It was a let off after we afforded the Bees top scorer too much space inside the box. The first chance fell to the visitors, and it was a golden opportunity in truth.

Arsenal felt hard done by on Saturday after they failed to beat Brentford in a highly-entertaining clash at the Emirates Stadium.

He hasn’t spotted that, and he certainly hasn’t spotted the big error which was the second header from where the goal came from. Gunners boss Mikel Arteta was far from impressed by the officiating, claiming that the Bees' goal was incorrectly awarded, something that former Tottenham Hotspur star Gary Lineker agreed with. The away side set up in a 3-5-2 deep block to stifle the Gunners' creative threat to good effect for the first hour. [Arsenal player ratings vs Brentford as Alex Zinchenko poor but Leandro Trossard makes impact](https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/fixtures-results/arsenal-brentford-ratings-zinchenko-trossard-26216367) [New Declan Rice transfer price revealed as Arsenal and Chelsea offered Rio Ferdinand advice](https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/arsenal-chelsea-declan-rice-transfer-26215020) [Gabriel Jesus' next step after Arsenal return revealed as Mikel Arteta issues timeline warning](https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/arteta-gabriel-jesus-arsenal-timeline-26205758) [Arsenal player ratings vs Brentford as Alex Zinchenko poor but Leandro Trossard makes impact](https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/fixtures-results/arsenal-brentford-ratings-zinchenko-trossard-26216367) [Arsenal news and transfers LIVE: All the latest news, rumours and gossip from the Emirates Stadium](https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-news-transfers-live-balogun-26213604) “Lee Mason, in VAR, he has panicked", Shearer admitted. "He is thinking he has used too much time on that thing looking at it.