Arsenal v. Southampton | PREMIER LEAGUE HIGHLIGHTS | 4/21/2023 | NBC Sports

Tempering expectations for some of those fans of Arsenal. They would love a bigger cushion when that game against City comes up They're Kia starting lineup today Tim Yeah, I mean color today makes two changes to his Arsenal teams in checko comes in for tyranny at left back He'll play as that Inverted fullback stepping into the midfield to partner with partay and then probably over the air a big shoes to fill Just on our left side of midfield He comes in for shocker who misses his first Premier League game this season due to illness up top They're absolutely sensational Martinelli club by 14 goals Jaysus four goals in the last three games and soccer the only player in the Premier League this season With ten or more goals and assists so on the other touchline you got a club who has been in the relegation zone for about six months now the Starting 11 for Southampton Tim. Well, it's interesting. So let's sticks with his straight-up 442 He wants his team to be aggressive in possession and aggressive against the ball. That's a dangerous proposition He's gonna have to press the ball at the right times They're too open and too strong on that press they will get picked apart But when you look at the middle LNU she comes in for Suleymane at the left hand side Adam Armstrong up top comes in for Ariba and Alcaraz he poses the biggest threat to our son today. He can go by himself. He has a bag of tricks For recent points have gone missing their margin for error has vanished tonight is a non-negotiable So yet one more moment to seize one more nettle to grasp Who is brave enough to be a champion from Southampton's perspective Graham who has the guts to survive? They're excited from an Arsenal perspective, you know, it's Friday night full house great atmosphere floodlights on lovely pitch They've got a play and an error from Ramsdale Alcaraz scores stun silence That is staggering! Horrendous moment in time for Aaron Ramsdale. And 30 seconds in, the bottom leads the top. Oh, it's just giving them the big build-up as well. Expecting them to put in a solid performance, and this is an absolutely terrible, sloppy pass by Aaron Ramsdale. He's got no space to play that ball. It's telegraphed so easily by Alfa-Rads. Delightful finish. It's his first two touches of the game. The young Salampton player, and it's a delightful finish. Back across Ramsdale, who gets a slight hand to it, but good pace on it. That's a terrible start for the Arsenal goalkeeper. takes for us Martinelli who redistributes, Odegaard again and Partey and Odegaard on the dash for netting from the outside again really good intricate link-up play here Odegaard, Partey following his run once again, Southampton players just doing enough getting in good position to block the cross, Martinelli skipping around his man Martinelli's cross beaten out by Buzunu Zinchenko high Good work down this left-hand side. It's Theo Walcott who gets done for pace down the outside. Martinelli again, tricky customer. Shows him the ball and just almost makes it disappear. And very difficult that for Zinchenko. Saka, Partey, taken back by Ilyanussi, taken on by Alcaraz. Rolled up here for Theo Walcott too! Once loved, Theo Walcott jams at the heart of Arsenal. The would-be champions are in pieces here. Well, credit to Southampton once again. Their game plan in this opening 15 minutes has been absolutely spot on. Arsenal having a huddle, trying to re-motivate themselves, which shows how desperate they are because they need to just do better on the ball. They need to work Southampton out and retain the ball better. I've not seen them give the ball away as often as I have in the first 15 minutes of this game. There's a huge inquiry going on, but let's see the replay. It's fantastic work by Southampton. Once again, pressure on the ball, stepping in to this situation. It's poor, but then Elianussi, who's in a disciplined position, finds out Kourazou's free. That is a fantastic ball for the run of Theo Walcott. In behind Gabriel, terrifically timed. He's well onside, gets behind the Arsenal centre-back and, calm as you like, slides it past Ramsdale. And a quarter of an hour in at the Emirates Stadium, you cannot tell the bottom from the top. Zinchenko, Urdegaard, Saka. Saka's pulled back, Martinelli! started They've not come this far to fade away. Arsenal retorts. And boy, they needed to retort. Yeah, well, there's Dinschenko finding that little bit of space to turn. Frees up Odegaard, lovely ball, as you'd expect from Odegaard. And then as hard as Armstrong works to get back, Saka sees that, uses the outside. It gets a yard on Perrot and it's been coming in terms of cutbacks. Zlatan have dealt with them really well to this point, but that ball's brilliant. Martinelli just peels off back away from the goal. Great balance for the finish. Makes it look simple in the end, but he catches it well, beating Basuna in the Southampton goal, and should settle Arsenal down. It's not settled. Mikhail Arteta down. He is bouncing about like a madman. What an accomplished young player he's looking. Perrot, Perrot's deep cross and Ramsdale scoops it out. Alcaraz has another go and Ramsdale instinctively threw up a hand. More terrific football by Southampton. Picked out Lavia, what a young, talented player he is, starting the move and Elianussi heading it into a really difficult area for Ramsey who had a real mess of that and then reacts spectacularly. Martinelli, out of guard! More space than perhaps he knew. by Bella Kochak well reached by Gabriel, pushed back in instinctively by Walcott has got it hard on the bed Narek the hole has stayed down and sitting up albeit looking a little dazed He's groggy, no question he's groggy and he would be. He went a long way up to come a long way back down again. Martinelli is laudably apologetic and sympathetic. Now they need to be absolutely sure that he is properly in his right mind to carry on. Martinelli, Odegaard, Vieira, Gabriel up but couldn't get it down again it's that man Martinelli causing all sorts of problems him and Saka were proving the threat from an Arsenal perspective set back crossed by Vieira to the far post Rob Holding who maybe gets something on that in the end forcing Perrault back, Saka, Martinelli! Jesus again Martinelli Inviting chenco Herdegaard can't steal halftime Saka driving perot in retreats Saka The dangerous little touch from the anchor was just sufficient Brilliant play by Saka again soon as he gets 1v1 against perot So that's only in trouble but again the benefit of that back three is you've got one center back at the near post one in the middle of the goal one of the far post Lianco they're doing his job well and Where of what was behind him nice little touch just to clear the danger herdegaard Sinelli, Siencienko, Fabio Vieira Pizunu clutches it with Perrot and Elianussi White, Odegaard, it's so intricate It's Pakaio Saka, it's Saka Ingo Sessus, out comes Pizunu That was really alert there, the Southampton goalkeeper ricocheting around, Odegaard trying the nutmeg on Armstrong, Paul bouncing off James Ward-Prouse, his heart would have been in his mouth for a second or so. They'll be delighted with that, I hope that continues. Loftally forward by Odegaard, welcomed in again by Martinelli, the on-walker Peters, set back for Sakai! ball have gone out. wouldn't have counted. Again Martinelli how many times has he done this the pace to get away quite clearly out there well spotted and the assistant on the far side but take nothing away from that first touch by Saka Oh, Kraus without swing. Stead of the back post by Chaleta! Sarr! Saints have back there two goal cushion. And Arsenal are floored again. Is this the day it got away? Southampton have barely impacted since half-time, but one big moment, one big goal, and they're within 25 minutes of a result which could be worth salvation. Arsenal don't know where to look. Ward-Prouse with the corner, it's terrific. Belicoccia, who gets away from holding at that near post, flicks it to the far post. Shaleta-Sarr loses his marker, it's a mismatch at the far post between him and Zinchenko, but he just drifts in at that far post. Everyone else is ball-watching from an Arsenal perspective. He reacts, simple header, what a scoreline. To reclaim their position of prominence in this race, Martinelli, Jesus! They've got a score soon. What a ball this is by Martinelli. On this Arsenal side, they have got so much personality in terms of the creative side, the players taking responsibility. It's an absolute peach into the path of Gabriel Jesus, and he's just falling away from the ball as he strikes it. It's a hard effort to execute, but he'd be disappointed he didn't hit the target. A fantastic, creative play by Gabriel Martinelli. And White. Gabriel Jesus, brilliant. Trossar, Urdegaard, Partey, again Thomas Partey, Gabriel. Ben White, Martinelli, Saka into the crowd, it is a stubborn row of Southampton frames. Hurtegaard. Saka, Jesus! Mistimed his leap. Well he did, but I think that's because Lianco completely missed the ball. We're seeing the replay, the Southampton centre-back drops deep, plays everyone onside by dropping deep. No discipline there and then just completely misjudges that ball and does just enough to put Jesus off. Hurtegaard, White, Martinelli! Hurtegaard smashing two and a half to save themselves, two and a half to keep it alive. There's a captain leading. It's a brilliant finish. Impatient play, but always looking to go forwards. Lovely link-up play between him and Ben White. Southampton just switching off a little bit. Tired legs, you can see. Nose in blue shirts and that's a beautiful finish by Odegaard. Such great composure and focus. Head down all the way, doesn't look up until the ball's left his foot. Given Buzuma no chance whatsoever in the Southampton goal. And as you rightly say, Peter, there's a bit of hope now. Little bit of hope. Rhys Nelson. Odegaard driving on. And catch here. swept away. Trosa, Jesus, Nelson, Sakai! Stop! What a goal this is by Saka. This ball by Trossard, look at this into the path of Jezus, sets it up, Nelson the sub, Pizuna can only parry it back into the path. Saka who gets away from his marker. By his standards it's a comfortable finish. Pizuna does well to get the first one. Belicoccia can't react. El Anousi's just a yard short and Saka believed. And the Efts screams for it, yearns for it. Leandro Trossard wriggling. Trossard! Rattle the crossbar. 8 minutes is going to seem like a lifetime for Sadamson. They're absolutely out on their feet. Trossard's made a big difference since he came on, particularly since they got that second goal. Everybody's lifted, everybody suddenly believes in a positive again. That's a tremendous strike. Saka, Trossard, Saka hasn't stopped. It's come down for Jesus. It's broken for Saka, Trossard. Nelson! It's a corner. I don't think Jesus needs to go to ground here. Let's have a look at the replay. But he really looked to me like he was looking for something there. And again, look at all those bodies. Sadamson's shirt's in the way, throwing everything they've got at stopping this going in. It's Ward-Prouse, I think, with the final deflection and that goes agonisingly close. Partey, Nelson, Trossard, White, Jesus went up! Have a look, Viet to check on going. 99 and a half minutes. Jesus peels himself off the turf. There is a suggestion of handball as well as the challenge, but the check is complete. The end. The end. Make sense of that. Where on earth are we now? A night of dismay. A night of hope lost and restored. A night of salvation. A night of despair and elation. A night of such raw emotion. And at the end of it all, curiously, we are where we started. A goal in the very first minute. So nearly a winning goal in the 100th minute. At times, Arsenal seemed broken. At times, the Saints seemed utterly alive. And now they are both suspended amid disbelief at sheer raw drama. Bree each, Ahmed. 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