Fulham 2-1 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Monday 2 January 2012
Result
Fulham 2-1 Arsenal
Premier League · Monday 2 January 2012, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Fulham 2-1 Arsenal: match report
Fulham beat Arsenal 2-1 in the Premier League on Monday 2 January 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.
Laurent Koscielny opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Fulham's goals came from Steve Sidwell (85') and Bobby Zamora (90+2'). Arsenal scored through Laurent Koscielny (21').
Discipline: Fulham received no yellow cards; Arsenal received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Fulham were 15th on 20 points from 19 and Arsenal 5th on 36 points from 19. Fulham went on to finish that season 9th with 52 points, and Arsenal 3rd with 70.
Fulham lined up in a 4-3-3 and Arsenal in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Fulham win, 3 draws and 6 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Fulham's last five read D-D-L-W-L and Arsenal's W-D-W-L-W.
Key events
- 21'Goal · Laurent Koscielny
- 63'Yellow card · Johan Djourou
- 78'Second yellow · Johan Djourou
- 85'Goal · Steve Sidwell
- 90+2'Goal · Bobby Zamora
Head-to-head
Team news
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Fulham line-up (4-3-3)
David Adam Stockdale, Stephen Kelly, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Brede Hangeland, Philippe Senderos, Steve Sidwell, Danny Murphy, Mousa Dembélé, Clint Dempsey, Bobby Zamora, Bryan Ruiz
Arsenal expected line-up (4-3-3)
Wojciech Szczesny, Bacary Sagna, Laurent Koscielny, Alex Song, Aaron Ramsey, Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott, Andrey Arshavin, Thomas Vermaelen, J. Wilshere