60 min: Double substitution for Chelsea<\/a> Pep Chavarria and Malo Gusto replace Jorrel Hato and a visibly frustrated Romeo Lavia. Chelsea\u2019s central midfielders are now Gusto and Reece James.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.53 EDT<\/p>\n 59 min Oh go on then.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 58 min Chelsea are having a decent spell of possession, perhaps their best of the match. A promising move ends when Acheampong\u2019s cross is well claimed on the stretch by David Raya.<\/p>\n Arsenal break and Lacroix is booked for a foul on Tzolis. In fact, Tzolis has also been booked for waving an imaginary card.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56 min Palmer releases Rogers on the left. His heavy touch invites Konsa to make the kind of full-pelt lunging challenge that defenders love. He gets it spot on and the home crowd cheer lustily.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.50 EDT<\/p>\n 54 min There\u2019s another simple reason for Arsenal\u2019s improved attacking play this season: after a couple of quiet seasons, Martin Odegaard is close to his bewildering best.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 52 min That was pretty similar to Odegaard\u2019s goal against Manchester City in the Community Shield. He didn\u2019t walk it in this time, though; he just belted it nonchalantly over Martinez.<\/p>\n It\u2019s probably too early to hail Arsenal<\/a> 2.0 \u2013 but their attacking player is sharper this season and right now they look miles better than the rest of the league.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Tzolis angled a crisp pass into Havertz on the edge of the area. He ignored the ball so that it could run onto Odegaard, who surged into the gap and pinged the ball past Martinez. Havertz won\u2019t get an assist but his dummy was a joy \u2013 and crucially it distracted Fofana just enough for the ball to reach Odegaard.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.48 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea (Odegaard 50)<\/p>\n Martin Odegaard gives Arsenal<\/a> the lead with a brilliant goal!<\/p>\n Martin Odegaard of Arsenal scores his team\u2019s second goal. Photograph: Justin Setterfield\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.51 EDT<\/p>\n 49 min It\u2019s been a quieter start to the second half than the first. Saka plays a give-and-go with Havertz and hammers a shot from distance that is blocked by Lacroix. <\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 min Peep peep! Martin Odegaard has the first kick of the second half; both XIs are unchanged.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIf things carry on this way,\u201d begins Charles Antaki, \u201cthen I\u2019ll be tempted to pine for the old days, when Arsenal<\/a> were one ahead and it was a matter of unbearable suffering and anxiety as they played screw-down football till the end of time. This new entertaining stuff is all very well, but they are not actually winning, which is maybe significant.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a> Half-time reading<\/p>\n It would be putting it mildly to say Everton\u2019s exhaustive search for a new right-back met an underwhelming response when it concluded with the signing of Ainsley Maitland-Niles on Monday. But there was an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the \u00a34.3m recruit\u2019s Everton debut as his stunning 25-yard strike rescued a point with virtually the final kick of the game against Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n Michael Carrick wiped his face in sheer disbelief after the former Arsenal player, 19 minutes into his first appearance for David Moyes\u2019s side, found Senne Lammens\u2019 top corner to send Hill Dickinson Stadium into raptures at the end of a troubled week. United were on the verge of victory following Benjamin Sesko\u2019s 88th-minute header beyond Jordan Pickford but Everton<\/a>, indignant and defiant after the shambles of transfer deadline day, twice fought back to preserve their unbeaten start to the season. A slow-burning contest erupted into a wildly entertaining second half.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.25 EDT<\/p>\n Half time: Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea<\/p>\n Lively stuff at the Emirates. Morgan Rogers volleyed Chelsea<\/a> ahead after 77 seconds; Riccardo Calafiori has a goal disallowed before Kai Havertz sneaked a low shot past Emi Martinez. Arsenal dominated much of the half but Chelsea came closest to taking the lead when Pedro Neto hit a post in injury time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>45+3 min: Pedro Neto hits the post!<\/p>\n Joao Pedro plays a sensational long pass on the turn to release Pedro Neto. He cuts into the area from the right, shifts the ball away from Gabriel and shapes a seductive low shot that hits the far post and bounces away. Raya might have saved it but I wouldn\u2019t put the farm on it.<\/p>\n Neto has been an excellent outball for Chelsea<\/a> throughout the first half.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45+1 min Ben White and Romeo Lavia have a bit of a row near the byline. White is an angry young chap, isn\u2019t he. It started because Lavia thought White had dived.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min Four minutes of added time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min Cole Palmer is booked for a cynical foul on Havertz. Arsenal were breaking from a Chelsea<\/a> free-kick and he decided to take one for the team.<\/p>\n Palmer could have been booked earlier for a foul on Lewis-Skelly. Had that happened, he wouldn\u2019t have fouled Havertz just now, so there\u2019s no great controversy. It\u2019s just a detail and you deserve to know it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 42 min This is the quietest spell of a pulsating first half. Arsenal are still on top but they know Chelsea<\/a> can hurt them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 39 min \u201cMick Jagger is clearly a Spurs fan,\u201d writes Simon McMahon. \u201cHow else can you explain 19th Nervous Breakdown, (I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction and You Can\u2019t Always Get What You Want?\u201d<\/p>\n Also \u2013 and not a lot of people know this, mainly because it\u2019s completely made up \u2013 I Think I\u2019m Going Mad was written after watching Ossie Ardiles\u2019s 4-1-5 formation in the autumn of 1994.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.14 EDT<\/p>\n 36 min Joao Pedro has a pop from 40 yards, with Raya well off his line, but he chokes the shot and it fades well wide.<\/p>\n Cracking game, this.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 36 min A good piece of analysis on Sky Sports shows that, for both goals, Raya and Martinez had their weight on the wrong foot. That\u2019s why they couldn\u2019t get across to shots they would save more often than not.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 35 min \u201cI\u2019ve been slow to work this out,\u201d writes Colum Farrelly, \u201cbut have concluded that Cole Palmer and Phil Foden were not chosen for the World Cup because of their woeful haircuts.\u201d<\/p>\n Too soon, Colum: it\u2019s only 20 years since I started going bald.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 34 min Tzolis finds Lewis-Skelly, who thrashes a shot from the edge of the area. It takes a deflection, not seen by the referee, and flies over the bar.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32 min Havertz\u2019s chipped cross is headed away bravely at the far post by Lavia, who was under serious pressure from behind.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 31 min Rogers receives the ball on the left of the area, uses Konsa as a screen and whips a shot a few yards wide of the far post. For a player of his abundant class, that was a chance.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 29 min Joao Pedro was booked for kicking the ball away,\u201d writes* my colleague Jacob Steinberg at the Emirates. \u201cIt might be Chelsea\u2019s first silly yellow of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n * Well, he wrote it 10 minutes ago but there\u2019s been so much going on that I\u2019ve only just had chance to look at my inbox.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 28 min I\u2019m not sure Chelsea<\/a> are ready for a game of basketball with a team as good as Arsenal. They need to establish a degree of control or it\u2019ll just get nasty.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 27 min \u201cNot really the best look,\u201d begins Paul Marshall, \u201cfor those Arsenal<\/a> fans to march to the stadium dressed all in black with balaclavas, this weekend of all times \u2013 especially given the club\u2019s proud history of inclusion and diverse fanbase.\u201d<\/p>\n At first I wondered whether that picture might be AI slop; then I remembered it\u2019s the year 2026.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Havertz received Rice\u2019s quick pass on the right wing, marched infield with intent and drove a precise low shot from 18 yards that sneaked past Martinez at the near post. It was an admirably precise shot \u2013 but on reflection Martinez should have saved it. I think he got a slight touch and helped it into the corner of the net.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.59 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea (Havertz 25)<\/p>\n Kai Havertz scores a fabulous equaliser against his old club.<\/p>\n Kai Havertz of Arsenal scores his team\u2019s first goal. Photograph: Ryan Pierse\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.01 EDT<\/p>\n 24 min This is becoming a basketball game. Calafiori marches infield, exchanges passes with Lewis-Skelly and belts a right-foot shot from 15 yards that is well blocked.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 23 min A stinging long-range shot from James is pushed up in the air by Raya. Arsenal break and Odegaard\u2019s shot on the run is crucially blocked 12 yards from goal. Chelsea<\/a> counter the counter, with a cross from the right just evading Joao Pedro.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t keep up with this. Anyone fancy doing to the second quarter?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 21 min Chelsea<\/a> leave three or four up and threaten to break from the Arsenal corner. The counter-attack is slowed down well by Arsenal. Eventually Palmer curls a shot from 25 yards that bounces awkwardly in front of Raya, who holds on as he falls to his right. He needed to because Joao Pedro was sniffing round like prime Ian Rush.<\/p>\n![\"Andy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788713668_985_Andy_Hunter.png\")
Andy Hunter<\/p>\n