It was only in stoppage time at the end of this anxious yet intriguing tie that Arsenal could truly breathe easy. Alexandre Lacazette, thrown on to ease the tension just as the home side’s authority was being eroded, leapt to nod a ball over Brentford’s back-line before sprinting clear and finishing crisply into the corner to secure progress into the fourth round. It said much about their opponents’ display that the celebrations which followed were tinged with relief. Brentford, upwardly mobile in the Championship and hugely impressive once they had shed the anxiety which had inhibited their first-half display, had provided a real test. They had pressed for an equaliser and left...
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