Official Site of Arsenal · Apr 21, 2019
Arsenal 2-3 Crystal Palace: How it happened
WHAT HAPPENED
We spurned the chance to move into third place after costly mistakes led to a rare home defeat to Crystal Palace.
In truth we were chasing the game all afternoon. Palace took the lead in the opening 20 minutes, and it was a goal they deserved for their bright start. Luka Milivojevic whipped in a dangerous free-kick and Christian Benteke was all alone in the area to plant a header past Bernd Leno.
We toiled to find a breakthrough after that, with the Eagles’ defence looking very solid, and frustrating our attacking efforts.
Alexandre Lacazette and Dinos Mavropanos both tried speculative efforts, but Vicente Guaita was barely troubled in the first 45 minutes.