00:00It is a fabulous sight and for this excitable Arsenal crowd yet one more nervous night on the
00:14edge of something special. Arsenal a goal up at home and overdue a Wembley day out but Chelsea
00:21have stared down a couple of deficits this last week and they fancy it. This is beautifully set.
00:30Timba.
00:37And Blakey wants to take on Kukorea and he's squeezed a corner out of him.
00:48Yeah, and he won't mind that and neither with Arsenal.
00:50The Chelsea manager in his interview before the game alluded to set pieces as
00:56every manager does when they play here.
01:00That's it.
01:01Chelsea have left three forward here.
01:07To alter the dynamic around this corner.
01:09So that's what's happened.
01:10Yeah, Chelsea have just run out with three players and Arsenal all of a sudden have had to react.
01:14I don't quite like that.
01:17Like an ambush.
01:22Some fascinating variety around an Arsenal corner, not of their own making.
01:28They don't half look like they've not got a lot of defenders in there though.
01:32They take.
01:32They're squeezed off and over for MincapiƩ.
01:37Yeah, those three are getting back pretty sharpish.
01:42It just looked bad, didn't it?
01:44And you think Arsenal gonna score here?
01:45Fafan has got his arm up high.
01:49And it hits that arm.
01:51Oh, this is a gripping game with cat and mouse.
02:01Madweke to the near post.
02:08Retrieved by Eze.
02:09He got it back from Madweke.
02:11And now IncapiƩ, Sanchez got across.
02:16And it bounced off Gabriel and behind.
02:19Oh, Gabriel just couldn't react in time.
02:22He's on his heels.
02:23He wasn't expecting it.
02:24Yeah, cat and mouse at these corners and IncapiƩ hits a good one.
02:29It's a strong hand from Sanchez, but he doesn't push it wide.
02:32He goes right back into the path of Gabriel.
02:35He just can't work his feet out.
02:37Martinelli could be in here.
02:48Goal side of Gusto.
02:50Martinelli spinning and Gusto getting back.
02:57I was just thinking there's just not any urgency at all from Arsenal.
03:00But all of a sudden, he makes a run Martinelli.
03:04Just dips inside Gusto and then you think,
03:06can he get his shot off of his right?
03:07He swivels back onto his left and Gusto just has the opportunity
03:11through that delay just to readjust.
03:25Cucurea.
03:27Enzo Fernandes!
03:28Good save, Kepa.
03:31Gusto.
03:31Gusto.
03:48Gusto.
03:49Oh, slags up.
03:50Well, we saw a Sanchez save at the other end 20-odd minutes ago,
04:00which was something similar.
04:02Good hit for him, Enzo Fernandes.
04:04Well, Pedro's shot is just skewed away and Kepa couldn't keep it from going behind for a very prompt second-half corner.
04:23And so Fernandes and Kepa wasn't sure and it's squirted wide for a goal kick.
04:34And it's a VAR penalty query.
04:42Well, Saliba and JoĆ£o Pedro have been battling the whole way through that first half.
04:49If you just look at them there, they're having a grab of each other, I just don't think VAR will be able to make too much of that.
04:58Checked and cleared, considered by the VAR mutual holding.
05:02I'd be interested to see whether Liam Rossini changes the back five in the shape
05:07or whether he just goes for the straight swaps.
05:10Probably put Enzo Fernandes back in midfield, take Santos off and take the lap off on this side.
05:16Saliba has travelled a fair way, Madweke outside of him, Kukureya jockeying.
05:24Madweke into the arms of Sanchez.
05:30Yeah, there's a bit of space there for him to come inside, wasn't it?
05:33Enzo Fernandes just didn't close that gap and get back in with him.
05:39Tufana.
05:41Tufana.
05:47Cousteau running at Incafier who switches it behind.
05:57In making those substitutions, Chelsea have lost a little bit of height.
06:01De Lapp and Hato off.
06:03In by Enzo Fernandes, it's come all the way out to Mark Kukureya.
06:14They fancied it.
06:21Yeah, I think it's fair to say that this game's been a struggle when it comes to attacking moments,
06:31but it's going to change now, you can see it already.
06:35Now here's the boy, Esteval.
06:39Teasing Saliba.
06:41Enzo Fernandes hard.
06:47A couple of moments in that area, one for Kukureya and one for Enzo Fernandes.
06:51That's a quite fan scene from there.
07:07The other way, he thought it was fouled by JoĆ£o Pedro, nothing doing.
07:11Caicedo Pedro...
07:13No.
07:14...making a run off the shoulder of Gabriel who's asking him to get up.
07:16Definitely not.
07:18Definitely not.
07:20He just feels that hand on him and he goes down very easily, JoĆ£o Pedro.
07:25You just said about Arsenal keeping that sheet clean,
07:27and there's no doubt they're a team that are fantastic defensively,
07:31but my gut feeling here is that I don't know what Mikel Arteta's thinking,
07:34he's talking to Gabriel Hines, I'll be thinking, go and get a goal.
07:37Havertz and Capier, Havertz, Eze.
07:49Forced out by Chalibur, he's got a free kick.
07:52Arsenal doing okay, they're controlling a bit of the ball.
08:00Chelsea not getting any momentum.
08:03Rice for Trossard to Worry Gusto.
08:07He was decidedly unworried, but Rice has claimed it back,
08:12and that's Zubimendi!
08:14Timbers header!
08:16What a chance.
08:24Gusto's challenge on Trossard.
08:26I mean, it's a block by Kukurea.
08:30Whether he knows anything about it or not, I'm not sure,
08:33but he adjusts his position well, to be fair, the left-back.
08:35He just gets in front of it.
08:38Gabriel can't believe that that's not ended up in the back of the net.
08:43Paul Palmer kept it from Declan Rice.
08:49JoĆ£o Pedro turned expertly out of pressure.
08:53Esteval kept it in play.
08:56Paul Palmer ran into Ebertri Eze,
08:59and Eze is on the drive here.
09:01And he's found Martinelli, and Martinelli's gone over.
09:05And the referee waves it away.
09:08I think he gets the ball initially,
09:11but it was just a follow-through, looked a little bit ugly.
09:14He's lunging out, and you can definitely from where we were,
09:19see he gets the ball.
09:20It's just that follow, yeah, it's that left foot there.
09:23It's the follow-through that he takes a risk on.
09:25The VAR is saying it is checked and cleared,
09:29and in the words of James Bell,
09:32there is natural contact after he plays the ball.
09:47Still no whistle.
09:48Or have they?
09:49Kukurea.
09:53Out by Nkappie.
09:55On by Trusser.
09:57He's in on the other side.
09:59Rice to play it across.
10:02And Kai Havertz,
10:04to send Arsenal to Wembley!
10:09Oh, it's a pitch invasion,
10:11by the players.
10:20The ultimate climax.
10:22They clung on, they clung on, and they pounced at the end.
10:34And a one-time Chelsea Blue has cracked it for the Gunners.
10:39And Liam Rosinia's master plan, which had legs for so long, is now dust.
10:52Arsenal are Wembley bound.
10:55Mikel Arteta has his way.
10:58Liam Rosinia asked questions.
11:00It was a fascinating second leg in so many ways.
11:04It might have worked for Chelsea,
11:08but Arsenal were robust enough,
11:11and when eventually the only goal did come,
11:14in the final seconds,
11:16the dying embers of a dank, dank evening in North London.
11:20It came Arsenal's way for Kai Havertz.
11:24Arsenal 1-0 on the night,
11:26and 4-2 on aggregate.
11:28realtors have to take over a go.
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