Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice as Freddie Ljungberg’s first game in charge of Arsenal ended in a 2-2 draw at Carrow Road
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Some Norwich reaction. “I think naturally it’s a good point at home against a strong team but we had chances to get something more,” says Todd Cantwell. “I’ve been working on the composure to try and take the chances you get in this team.” As for Tim Krul, he seems to have mellowed since that first-half penalty. “For me the job is to get into the striker’s head and make him doubt himself,” he says. “It was frustrating it had to be retaken.”
Eight games without victory for Arsenal, their longest winless run in 25 years. It is 38 days since their last win, a last-gasp 3-2 victory against Vitoria at the Emirates and, by the time they entertain Brighton on Thursday, it will be 60 days since their last Premier League win. Leno was outstanding for Arsenal, while Aubameyang and Guendouzi were probably the best of the rest. For Norwich, plenty of encouragement to take into Wednesday’s trip to Southampton. Max Aarons, Ben Godfrey, Todd Cantwell, Onel Hernández and Teemu Pukki all shone.
Full-time: Norwich 2-2 Arsenal
That’s yer lot! A thoroughly entertaining encounter. Ljungberg puffs his cheeks in disappointment as the whistle blows but Norwich deserved at least a point. If anything, Bernd Leno prevented Daniel Farke’s side from taking all three with Arsenal’s defence repeatedly found wanting. Elsewhere, it finished 1-1 at Molineux between Wolves and Sheffield United.
90+4 min: A crucial block by Amadou prevents Torreira’s shot from troubling Krul. Norwich then scamper upfield. What an end-to-end finish!
90+4 min: Into the final minute ...
90+3 min: Zimmerman clears. With his head, not his hands.
90+2 min: Leno smothers after Pukki eludes Mustafi! Leno has kept Arsenal in this game. The visitors, though, now win a corner ...
90+1 min: Leno makes a superb two-handed save to deny Norwich! It is a brilliant stop after Aarons’ shot horribly deflected off Torreira. Aarons did brilliantly to burst forward into the box. There will be four minutes of added time.
90 min: Martinelli replaces Mesut Özil in Ljungberg’s final throw of the dice. Norwich are still pursuing a winner. Can they?
89 min: Norwich almost walk the ball into the net but Trybull is caught a yard offside. Emi Buendía is the catalyst; he’s been lively since coming on. Buendía was magnificent in the Championship last season.
88 min: Another Norwich corner. Aarons – again – does brilliantly ...
87 min: Norwich win a corner. There is a bit of handbags between McLean and Kolasinac after the latter gets up in the Norwich midfielder’s grill at desperately appealing for handball – it wasn’t. The VAR checks it, and then checks for a red card. Nothing doing.
86 min: Emi Buendía and Onel Hernández probe down the left, with Norwich, too, confident of finding a winner. Aubameyang, of all people, is back at right-wing back hoovering up.
84 min: Arsenal are trying to fashion a winner but Norwich are hounding them and making life difficult. Up in the stands food for thought for Edu, the Arsenal technical director. Arsenal have not been disastrous but it has hardly been a convincing performance.
83 min: Cantwell, who has had a stormer for Norwich, is replaced by Emi Buendía. Less than seven minutes of normal time to play.
82 min: Norwich are readying a change of their own ...
79 min: Amadou giftwraps Arsenal a chance but Krul rushes from one end of his goal the other, ultimately proving Norwich’s saviour! It was a careless, aimless pass by Amadou into no man’s land and Aubameyang was lurking. But Krul did well to intervene.
78 min: Saka replaces Guendouzi.
76 min: Bukayo Saka is stripped and ready for action. The 18-year-old is very much a Ljungberg player having worked with him in the academy. Nicolas Pépé, too, has been warming up.
72 min: Cantwell almost bustles his way through and finds a third for Norwich! The midfielder plays a one-two with McLean on the edge of the box and everybody in an Arsenal shirt seems to stop. But not Cantwell, who piles into the box before David Luiz wakes to intervene. Elsewhere, it remains 1-1 at Molineux.
70 min: Lucas Torreira replaces Willock.
69 min: Leno makes a decent save from the resulting free-kick. It was flashed towards the back post but it’s no real trouble for Arsenal, who earn a slice of much-needed respite. Changes are coming ...
68 min: Norwich win a free-kick 20 yards from goal. Hernández did brilliantly again, skirting away from Xhaka before playing in Teemu Pukki, who was hauled down by Chambers. The Arsenal defender needs to be careful. He was booked just seconds ago.
66 min: Chambers is booked for a clumsy foul on Hernández. Joe Willock seems to be in pain but is soon back up and running.
65 min: How long have Arsenal been incapable in defence? Norwich are carving them open time and again. Elsewhere, at Molineux Matt Doherty has equalised for Nuno’s Wolves at home to Sheffield United. Like at Carrow Road, there is 25 minutes to play there.
63 min: Leno denies Pukki with his legs! Another huge stop by the Arsenal goalkeeper. Pukki latches on to a wondrous Cantwell through ball and promptly wrings Mustafi inside out, totally embarrassing the Arsenal defender. In doing so Pukki creates ample room to take aim – the end result seems inevitable – but Leno works wonders to keep it out.
62 min: Cantwell drags narrowly wide!! Aarons raids inside off the right flank – he has been brilliant in both boxes – and Cantwell has to take it first time and does. His left-foot shot has the beating of Leno but it drops the wrong side of the Arsenal goalkeeper’s left post. Mustafi, David Luiz and co – again – were all over the shop. This Arsenal defence is dire.
59 min: Bernd Leno with a humongous save!! Arsenal switch off – Mustafi and David Luiz go missing, again – and Kenny McLean bares down on the arsenal goal. But he cannot beat the German goalkeeper, who gets a strong left hand to McLean’s strike. As McLean surged through on goal, he seemed to lack belief, and then conviction. That was a massive, massive chance.
GOAL! Norwich 2-2 Arsenal (Aubameyang, 57)
Right on cue, the Arsenal captain comes up trumps. Aubameyang blasts home after Mustafi’s shot from Mesut Özil’s corner was blocked by Byram. That’s Aubameyang’s 12th goal of the season. It was a sloppy goal from a Norwich perspective. Aubameyang was unmarked six or seven yards from Tim Krul’s goal.
55 min: Cantwell is penalised on the edge of the Arsenal box for a foul on Willock and Arsenal earn a chance to rebuild. Gabriel Martinelli was doing an intensive warmup at half-time. Ljungberg must be tempted to throw him on shortly. Arsenal’s attacking intent has undoubtedly faded.
52 min: Mesut Özil tries to pull the ball back into the box but it’s blocked by Zimmerman and Arsenal have to settle for a corner, which ultimately comes to nothing. Arsenal protest for another penalty because Özil’s cross zooms off Zimmerman’s hand, but it would have been extremely harsh.
50 min: Godfrey shows a brilliant turn of pace to coolly usher the ball away from Aubameyang and play it back to Krul. For a moment Norwich seemed to be under the cosh, with Willock sliding a pass into the channel for the Arsenal skipper to gallop on to but Godfrey did magnificently to hoover things up with minimal fuss.
47 min: Onel Hernández makes a crunching – but fair – challenge on Aubameyang. Moments later Xhaka and McLean collide and the Norwich midfielder comes off worse. It was pretty innocuous. But McLean appears to be in plenty of pain.
46 min: Pukki gets the second half started.
Half-time reading:
Half-time: Norwich 2-1 Arsenal
Freddie Ljungberg’s side trail at the break, with Arsenal guilty of twice being caught cold on the counterattack. For Norwich, that hoo-ha over the re-taken penalty feels a long time ago. Over at Molineux, Sheffield United lead Wolves 1-0 at the interval. Lys Mousset struck with just two minutes on the clock. Wolves have been a little lethargic, while it has been more of the same from Chris Wilder’s unrelenting side.
GOAL! Norwich 2-1 Arsenal (Cantwell, 45+2)
Todd Cantwell strikes for Norwich! It is a beautiful, weighted finish by the 21-year-old academy graduate. It stems from Kenny McLean driving into space before spreading play to Onel Hernández, who raided into a huge hole vacated by Chambers, who had gone walkabout. Hernández showed composure to slide the ball across for Cantwell, who curled a wonderful strike into the corner. Placement, not power. An effortless finish. His celebration is a cracker, too; a Peter Crouch robot of sorts.
45 min: There will be three added minutes at the end of a richly entertaining half. Guendouzi limps off but Per Mertesacker signals to the substitutes’ bench that the midfielder is going to be fine.
44 min: Kenny McLean is booked for a rash challenge on Guendouzi. That was a poor tackle by the Norwich midfielder. He caught the Arsenal midfielder high on his ankle. Guendouzi requires medical attention and seems to be struggling. He’s going nowhere fast.
43 min: Godfrey plays a poor pass on halfway but it goes unpunished as Xhaka then does likewise. Lacazette, who Xhaka failed to find with his pass, huffs and puffs. It’s not quite happening. They were playing much more freely before Pukki opened the scoring with that deflected strike.
41 min: Guendouzi tries to slide the ball into the channel for the overlapping Kolasinac, but there is Max Aarons once again. The Norwich teenager has impressed at full-back, more so defensively this afternoon.
39 min: A frustrated Lacazette makes a crude challenge on Amadou but Tierney gives a free-kick and tells Norwich to get on with it. Onel Hernández is then played in, with Xhaka for company and the Arsenal midfielder does well to crowd the winger out. Norwich win a corner, which drops for Amadou, who wellies a harmless shot wide.
37 min: A lapse by Cantwell allows Xhaka to steal in and seize possession 20 yards from goal. Xhaka does brilliantly to pickpocket the Norwich midfielder but he fails to execute the pass. Instead of rolling in Lacazette, he plays a poor pass behind the Frenchman. Just like that, the move breaks down. And Norwich get a chance to build themselves.
37 min: Paul Tierney has a stern word with Todd Cantwell for a poor challenge on Guendouzi. The Norwich midfielder is fortunate to come away from that telling off without a booking. It wasn’t a great tackle.
35 min: Amadou plays Norwich into trouble, with a sloppy pass fired into Aarons, who had no chance of controlling the ball. Arsenal then break but Zimmerman, who foolishly gave away the penalty, buys a foul out of Lacazette. A little respite for Norwich, who have struggled to put a foot on the ball and control proceedings. Arsenal remain in the box seat.
34 min: Guendouzi plays a high ball in for Lacazette, but Ben Godfrey gets in front of the Frenchman to hoover up.
33 min: Norwich clear their lines but Hernández cannot pick out McLean with Arsenal at sea in defence. This is a wildly open game.
31 min: Arsenal are probing in search of a second, with Guendouzi playing a wonderful give-and-go with Lacazette. Guendouzi surges into the box and Max Aarons does brilliantly to nick the ball away from the Arsenal midfielder. Aarons is fuming with Pukki for allowing Guendouzi to fly into the box unmarked. The visitors have to settle for a corner ...
30 min: As Patrice Evra says, I love this game.
GOAL! Norwich 1-1 Arsenal (Aubameyang, 29 pen)
At the second time of asking, Aubameyang levels for Arsenal. The Arsenal skipper makes no mistake this time, sending Krul the wrong way before holding his index finger to his mouth, a little shushing gesture to the Dutchman. Needless to say Tim Krul, who has already been booked, is absolutely livid.
28 min: Aubameyang will re-take it ...
27 min: The penalty will be re-taken! Norwich are penalised for encroachment, with four yellow shirts in the box before Aubameyang made contact with the ball. A chance for a reprieve ...
26 min: Krul saves Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s penalty! The Norwich goalkeeper is booked for a few mind games before the spot-kick and Krul dives to his right to keep it out. Aarons then clears to prevent any Arsenal shirt jumping on to the rebound ...