On a wild, storm-wracked afternoon at the Emirates Stadium Arsenal and Fulham played out a frantic 2-2 draw that felt by the end like three games in one. Not to mention at least two different, and largely opposed, tactical versions of this Arsenal team.
This was a messy and chastening afternoon for Mikel Arteta, and a hugely encouraging one for a neat, sparky Fulham team, who took the lead with the first attack of the game and equalised with two minutes to play and 10 players left on the pitch. In between Fulham exposed for long periods the self-induced weaknesses in Arteta’s attempts to reconfigure his team in these early days of the league season.
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