BPL: Arsenal beat C’Palace 2-1 at Selhurst Park

Henry also suggested the victory for his former club was engineered in unconventional fashion for Arsene Wenger’s side, as he hinted they swapped style for substance as they bounced back from a defeat against West Ham on the opening weekend of the season.

“It is a pleasure to watch the quality of his passing and the intelligence of his passing”, Wenger said. Yohan Cabaye and his midfielders saw plenty of the ball but could’t manage enough to create many clear-cut opportunities and hence they couldn’t steal a point.

McCarthy said: “I’ve been getting tweets from people saying to bring my earplugs to the game and I could see why as the atmosphere was unbelievable”.

Palace started off quickly but it was Arsenal who forced the first few chances in the game.

Arsenal bench: Ospina, Gibbs, Gabriel, Debuchy, Arteta, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain. Everyone knew in the stadium Francis Coquelin should have gone.

Last week Arsenal looked sluggish in attack and Sanchez injected some much needed pace. All that talk came crashing down as another London rival, West Ham United pulled off a spectacular 2-0 win at the Emirates on the first day of the season.

Key to Arsenal’s hopes of a first title since 2004 is the form of Alexis Sanchez.

But the full-back atoned with the kind of equaliser that belied his previous tally of a single Palace goal, fizzing a 20-yard shot past Petr Cech from James McArthur’s lay-off.

The Eagles will be aggrieved to have not got something from this London derby as they hit post and Arsenal were fortunate to have 11 men on the field. The latter then volleyed the ball into the bottom corner of the net.

Well-known Bundesliga pundit Jan Aage Fjortoft has taken to social networking site Twitter to give his reaction to Per Mertesacker’s performance for Arsenal against Crystal Palace away from home on Sunday afternoon.

“[Olivier] Giroud scored the goal and he was important because he had to kick a lot of long balls”.

Crystal Palace stay in sixth place while Arsenal move up to eleventh place after the result. The score was now tied at 1 apiece, per Harris. Delaney doubled their lead in early minutes of second half by sweeping home Pape Ndiaye Souare’s header. Wilfried Zaha sent a cross to Connor Wickham.