Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 3 January 2018
Result
Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea
Premier League · Wednesday 3 January 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea: match report
Arsenal drew with Chelsea 2-2 in the Premier League on Wednesday 3 January 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.
J. Wilshere opened the scoring in the 63rd minute. Arsenal's goals came from J. Wilshere (63') and Héctor Bellerín (90+2'). Chelsea scored through Eden Hazard (67', penalty) and Marcos Alonso (84').
Discipline: Arsenal received 3 yellow cards; Chelsea received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Arsenal were 6th on 38 points from 21 and Chelsea 3rd on 45 points from 21. Arsenal went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Chelsea 5th with 70.
Arsenal lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Chelsea in a 3-5-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Eden Hazard of Chelsea (8.5), ahead of Cesc Fàbregas (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Arsenal win, 3 draws and 6 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Arsenal's last five read D-W-D-W-D and Chelsea's W-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · J. Wilshere
- 43'Yellow card · Cesc Fàbregas
- 53'Yellow card · R. Holding
- 63'Goal · J. Wilshere
- 67'Penalty goal · Eden Hazard
- 67'Yellow card · M. Özil
- 84'Goal · Marcos Alonso
- 89'Yellow card · Thibaut Courtois
- 90+2'Goal · Héctor Bellerín
Head-to-head
Team news
Arsenal line-up (3-4-2-1)
Petr Čech, Calum Chambers, Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Héctor Bellerín, Granit Xhaka, J. Wilshere, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Mesut Özil, Alexis Sánchez, Alexandre Lacazette
Chelsea line-up (3-5-1-1)
Thibaut Courtois, César Azpilicueta, Andreas Christensen, Gary Cahill, Victor Moses, Tiemoué Bakayoko, N'Golo Kanté, Cesc Fàbregas, Marcos Alonso, Eden Hazard, Álvaro Morata