It was Carlos Alcaraz
's night
: goal before 30 seconds, masterful assist for the second, he took it out on the line to avoid discount and was close to scoring at least one other goal.
However, officially
Arsenal
recovered from a 1-3 that seemed definitive and rescued a point... against the bottom of the table.
The task of the former Racing could not make
Southampton
shine , but he ended up giving a hand to
Manchester City
, who with two games less is five behind the leader Arsenal, who he will also have to face on Wednesday.
The start to date 32 of the
Premier League
championship was surprising.
After taking out of the middle, losing the ball and recovering it in an unusual way, Southampton opened the scoring just 26 seconds after the opening whistle.
The prepared start from the central circle failed and 10 seconds into the game Arsenal took the ball and decided to play from the goal.
With his feet and the panorama open, Aaron Ramsdale tried a long pass to the middle and did not realize that behind Thomas Partey,
Carlos Alcaraz seemed to be hiding
, who guessed the movement and went out to cross.
The former Racing intercepted the ball, settled in and thanks to the goalkeeper's position -far from the three sticks-, he took a shot that Ramsdale was unable to deflect.
Surprisingly, the match began with a vertigo that activated the game.
Far from shrinking, Southampton went for more.
A minute before the quarter hour was over, Alcaraz was once again fundamental for the second goal: he scored a huge assist for Theo Walcott to make it 2-0, which he did not shout because of his past at Arsenal.
The start was so unexpected that Oleksandr Zinchenko called his teammates to order the positions before returning to serve from the middle.
The talk paid off, because at 20,
Gabriel Martinelli got the discount
.
The Brazilian defined from a turn after a cross from the right by Bukayo Saka and accommodated the goals at the Emirates Stadium.
Before the end of the first half, the two teams added situations so that the second half began with the same intensity.
So much so that in the discount Alcaraz himself avoided a goal by taking the ball out, with his head, before it got in
Was it Alcaraz's party?
It was Alcaraz's game, who, however, did not come out to play the second half.
The Spanish coach Rubén Sellés replaced him with Kamaldeen Sulemana and the match continued with the same trend as in the first half.
Southampton hit another slap that was an illusion:
Duja Caleta-Car scored the third
and seemed to sentence the leader of the Premier League.
With 10 minutes remaining, many Arsenal fans were leaving the stadium.
They missed the comeback:
Martin Odegaard scored a great goal
from outside the area, which put things 3 to 2, with 120 seconds remaining in the match.
On time served,
Bukayo Saka tied
with after a shot inside the area, where only the goalkeeper was missing.
And he was close to putting the title in his pocket: a shot from Trossard hit the crossbar and a shot from Nelson passed the post.
But they did not enter and the comeback fell short.