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Both sides missed excellent chances in an entertaining match that leaves Burnley 11th in the league and Arsenal 10th

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Sun 2 Feb 2020 11.06 ESTFirst published on Sun 2 Feb 2020 08.01 EST
Burnley’s Jay Rodriguez somehow fails to score past Arsenal’s Bernd Leno.
Burnley’s Jay Rodriguez somehow fails to score past Arsenal’s Bernd Leno. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters
Burnley’s Jay Rodriguez somehow fails to score past Arsenal’s Bernd Leno. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters

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Burnley, on the other hand, were excellent. McNeil gives them a really good balance in midfield, and their centre-backs a solidity that allows them to play two strikers. They could finish in mid-table.

That game showed Mikel Arteta how much work he has to do – if he didn’t already know – and might, perhaps, have made his mind up on one or two players. Lacazette and Ozil are worth having for the squad if they don’t mind that being their role, but neither are taking Arsenal into the top four, never mind towards a title challenge. It really is that simple.

Rodriguez thinks Burnley should’ve won but doesn’t specify why, while McNeil says the gameplan was to get after Arsenal. Rodriguez then takes responsibility for his miss, saying he hoped it’d gone in off the bar, but the bar oughtn’t to have been a factor.

Full-time: Burnley 0-0 Arsenal

The most entertaining goalless draw I’ve seen for ages. Arsenal ought to have scored in the first half, but Burnley were very good in the second and Jay Rodriguez missed the game’s best chance. Burnley move up to 11th, while Arsenal move up to 10th.

Mikel Arteta applauds fans after the goalless draw with Burnley. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
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90+3 min Andy Hinchcliffe give McNeil man of the match. I like him a lot, but he’s not had as much influence as others.

90+1 min I think Lowton was just given man of the match by whoever decides in the ground, but he struggled in the first half; I’d go for Tarkowski.

90 min Cork lopes a clever ball from centre to left, finding Rodriguez. He crosses for Wood, but again, Mustafi - who’s had another acceptable afternoon – does enough.

89 min And here he is, replacing Lacazette – who’s endured another poor afternoon and is now nine games without a goal.

88 min Nketiah will shortly be with us. I’m not sure why, if he’s worth bringing on now, he wasn’t worth bringing on 10 minutes ago.

86 min Bellerin, now getting forward, skirts around Taylor and dinks an excellent cross into the middle that’s fractionally high for Aubameyang; Lowton can’t take any chances at the back post, so turns the ball behind. The corner comes to nothing.

85 min Hendrick crosses from the right yet again and McNeil arrives onto the ball, leaping to cushion a side-footed volley which flies over the bar – but not by much.

McNeil volleys over. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters
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83 min Aubameyang drifts left and crosses well, Torreira leaping to lay off for Lacazette, who turns ... and looks to have conjured a shooting lane, only for Tarkowski to close it, his block sending the ball looping back to Pope. He’s just a really good player.

82 min Tarkowski runs right through Willock, introducing studs to instep f0r extra artistic merit. He’s booked.

78 min WHAT A MISS! Hendrick slings over from the right and McNeil nods back across, perfectly into the path of Rodriguez! Running off the back of Luiz – heads or tails situation there – he meets it with the full meat of his boot, five yards out, but can only cart against the bar and onto the line! Dearie me.

Rodriguez shoots against the crossbar. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters
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77 min Arsenal have 80 percent possession in the last 10 minutes. I think Aubameyang is playing through the middle now.

76 min Xhaka again marauds forward and finds Lacazette outside him, who comes inside and measures a tasty cross directly onto Aubameyang’s prodigious spam. He should score – again – but heads wide of the near post.

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75 min Burnley might just’ve blown themselves out, and Bellerin does really well to take the ball from Aubameyang, cut inside Taylor and open the angle for a shot. But he can only curl wide.

73 min Pope punches the corner clear and gets some of Luiz in the process; actually, Luiz heads his other elbow. He’s fine.

Pope punches clear. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters
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72 min The corner yields another, Mustafi jumping into Tarkowski, which allows Guendouzi to shoot wide, off Tarkowski.

71 min But here comes Xhaka, advancing down the left and curling over a fine ball, which Mee does brilliantly to reach ahead of Lacazette, heading behind.

69 min Arsenal were excellent at Bournemouth on Monday night, but that was against a team missing its best players and not really putting it in. Arteta has made some impact, but has a big job to do; Unai Emery wasn’t the only barrier to Arsenal being good at football.

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66 min In commentary they reckon that Burnley should get Aaron Lennon on to have a run at Xhaka – on a card, remember – and it’s hard to argue with that.

65 min Lacazette rubs his head after being outjumped by Mee. He is enjoying this-1.

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64 min Burnley know they can win this, and Wood pulls wide as McNeil crosses, Rodriguez arriving onto the ball ... but he can’t quite sort his feet out and drags a shot wide.

Rodriguez shoots wide. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters
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63 min Here comes that Arsenal change: Willock replaces Ozil who, it appears, is not very good away from home. If only we’d seen years’ worth of football to apprise us of this precise fact.

61 min Arsenal pile forward and suddenly Ozil is in the box, but his cut-back hits Mee. The resultant corner comes to nothing.

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