Arsenal have taken the higher hand in Wednesday’s EFL Cup semi-final with Chelsea and their scorer couldn’t have timed his higher second any higher.
Ben White put the Premier League leaders forward within the eighth minute at Stamford Bridge by capitalising on a Declan Rice nook to beat Robert Sánchez comfortably.
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The defender ended a 43-game run since final scoring by breaking the impasse towards the Gunners’ London rivals, with whom he already had one thing of a historical past.
White’s final purpose for Mikel Arteta’s facet got here as a part of a brace throughout their 5-0 thrashing of the Blues within the Premier League on house soil again in April 2024.
Perhaps it was meant to be?
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