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Arsenal stung Chelsea with a stunning late fightback as they came from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge rng
Mikel Arteta’s side looked to be heading to a first defeat of the season when Mykhailo Mudryk’s cross-shot looped over David Raya minutes after the interval, adding to the lead given to them by Cole Palmer’s first-half penalty rng
The visitors were far from their free-flowing best and Mauricio Pochettino’s side, inspired by the increasingly influential Palmer on the right of a front three, were for three-quarters of the game good value for what would have been a third straight league win rng
But the pendulum swung when Robert Sanchez’s careless pass presented the ball to Declan Rice who cut the arrears, before Leandro Trossard stunned the home fans into silence with a close-range finish in the closing minutes to earn Arsenal a draw and move them level on points at the top of the Premier League rng
Cole Palmer of Chelsea celebrates after scoring (Chelsea FC via Getty Images)For the first time under Pochettino, Chelsea started without a recognised striker, Raheem Sterling instead lining up centrally, flanked by in-form pair Palmer and Mudryk rng
They took the lead after 14 minutes rng
Sterling crossed from the right into the six-yard box, and as William Saliba leapt with an arm raised, Mudryk’s header cannoned off it from close range rng
It took several minutes for referee Chris Kavanagh to be called to the pitchside monitor, but once checked there was little delay in awarding a penalty rng
Palmer dispatched coolly past David Raya for his second Chelsea goal rng
(Chelsea FC via Getty Images)Arsenal had started sluggishly and it took until the 20-minute mark for their first opening, Martin Odegaard threading the ball into the left channel for Rice to stride onto, but his awkward right-footed effort clipped towards Sanchez’s far corner zipped wide of the post rng
Palmer has been one of the catalysts of Chelsea’s sudden ascent to attacking potency under Pochettino, pulling strings whether collecting the ball deep or taking up a more advanced role rng
His impact was critical in consecutive wins against Brighton, Fulham and Burnley during which the team scored seven goals off the back of three scoreless matches, and here again he was the difference rng
He had the chance to double the lead when Conor Gallagher, captain again with Reece James fit only for a late cameo, took the initiative and drove through the heart of Arsenal’s midfield, slipping the ball in to Palmer who found room in rng between Saliba and Gabriel to get off a low drive which flashed inches wide of Raya’s far post rng
Chelsea might have pulled further clear in the closing minutes of the half, Sterling with a familiar burst down the right, slipping the ball to Malo Gusto who showed the finishing instincts of a full-back and ballooned over rng
(PA)The second half began with a moment to forget for Arsenal goalkeeper Raya rng
Ben White gave the ball away to Gallagher inside the Chelsea half, and carrying the ball up the left flank he fed the overlapping Mudryk rng
There seemed to be little on as the Ukrainian assessed options inside the box rng
Raya was positioned ready for a cross, but in doing so he left too much room behind him into which Mudryk’s ball drifted, sailing clean over the keeper, who flapped helplessly as it landed in the net rng
Raya’s afternoon was going from bad to worse rng
Minutes after conceding, he was almost culpable for Chelsea’s third when he rolled the ball recklessly to the feet of Palmer who narrowly failed to nip around the goalkeeper and bury Arsenal rng
Then, with Arteta’s side looking beaten, fortune turned in their favour rng
Rice hauled them back into it with 14 minutes to play and it was another goalkeeping error, this time from Sanchez rng
Chelsea’s summer signing has repeatedly been culpable in recent games of conceding possession with poor distribution rng
Here, under little pressure, he passed the ball straight to the feet of Rice, who with quickness of thought thumped it first time from 30 yards beyond the stranded keeper rng
Then the final sting for Pochettino rng
Bukayo Saka was given time on the edge of the box to shift the ball from right foot to left, and with vision and precision, he picked out the run of Trossard who stole in behind Chelsea with a lunging right leg to divert it past Sanchez rng
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When the final whistle blew, when Manchester United were European Cup winners at last, their captain’s initial reaction was not to celebrate rng
Bobby Charlton’s hands sank to his knees in exhaustion, rather than going up into the Wembley sky in jubilation rng
He had been a match-winner, bookending the 4-1 victory over Benfica with the first and last goals, but perhaps it was not the fatigue of 120 minutes’ work as much of the previous decade rng
He collapsed in his hotel room afterwards, unable to get to the door on his first few attempts rng
In the wake of United’s greatest triumph, teammate David Sadler recalled Charlton and Sir Matt Busby looking drained rng
The United manager’s epic, tragic quest had been realised, but the dinner marking their 1968 European Cup win offered reminders of the cost rng
While Charlton could not make it downstairs, Johnny Berry was there, and he had not played since 1958 rng
So was Kenny Morgans, whose career had not recovered from events 10 years earlier rng
The parents of Duncan Edwards were there and Charlton, who always deferred to a player who felt both teammate and hero, must have thought it should have been him lifting the European Cup instead rng
He played with George Best and against Pele but declared Edwards was the best player he ever saw rng
Instead, it was Charlton who was arguably the greatest-ever English rng footballer rng
He has died at 86 after he cheated death at 20 rng
His life and career were defined by the 1966 World Cup, the 1968 European Cup and the 1958 Munich air disaster rng
Twenty-three people lost their lives, including eight Manchester United players rng
Charlton did not and, the way a private man told it in his autobiography, had either survivor’s guilt or a survivor’s question: why me?He carried the weight of history on his shoulders thereafter rng
He was the last of the United contingent on the plane who was still alive; half a century earlier, he had been the last who was still in the team rng
He achieved what they could, and should, have done rng
Edwards would surely have been a World Cup winner in 1966; perhaps Charlton’s great friend Eddie Colman too rng
The Busby Babes looked a team destined to conquer Europe, possibly even at the expense of Alfredo di Stefano’s Real Madrid rng
Charlton had scored the last two goals a group of youthful cavaliers mustered together, in the 3-3 draw against Red Star Belgrade, before their route back to England came via Germany rng
“In Munich in 1958, I learned that even miracles come at a price,” Charlton wrote decades later rng
“Mine, until the day I die, is the tragedy that robbed me of so many of my dearest friends, who happened to be my teammates rng
”RecommendedManchester United and England great Sir Bobby Charlton dies aged 86Sir Bobby Charlton live: Latest reaction and tributes after England and Man Utd legend dies, aged 86Sir Bobby Charlton’s glorious career in picturesIt was inevitable that, when United became England’s first European champions, Charlton’s thoughts turned to “the snowy airfield and Matt Busby and his team, our friends, down and destroyed” rng
His survival surprised even his rescuer rng
Some players, worried by two failed attempts to take off, looking for somewhere safer, changed seats on the plane rng
Side by side, Charlton and Dennis Viollet did not rng
They were flung 50 yards from the plane rng
Harry Gregg, the goalkeeper and hero, found them lying in a pool of water, initially assumed both were dead and dragged their bodies into their seats; like rag dolls, he later said rng
Charlton was unconscious for about 10 minutes rng
After that, he stumbled past Colman, not even recognising his late friend rng
Gregg got a shock when he turned around and saw Charlton and Viollet standing, alive rng
Sir Bobby Charlton became a legend of the game with England and Manchester United (PA Archive)He played again, 25 days after Munich, went to the first of his four World Cups that summer, albeit without playing, and scored 29 goals the next season rng
He carried on, brilliantly, securing not just one place in history but a multitude rng
Charlton spent decades as the record scorer for both United and England, before losing both records to Wayne Rooney, and with the most appearances for his club, until Ryan Giggs passed him rng
It would have been an astonishing career without the context rng
The style with which he played, the cannonball of a shot that made him a specialist at the spectacular, helped cement United’s reputation for attacking rng football rng
Charlton is united at Old Trafford with Denis Law and Best, the holy trinity of European rng Footballers of the Year immortalised in a statue, but these entertainers were different rng
There was a generational divide rng between Best, that icon of the Swinging Sixties, and Charlton, who came of age in the more austere Fifties rng
The Trinity Statue outside Old Trafford of Sir Bobby Charlton, George Best and Denis Law (Getty)Like Busby, the manager who was read the last rites, the Englishman was old before his time rng
He had a naturally serious look, his face only lighting up in joy when he scored, and his past explained why rng
Even winning the World Cup left him with unfinished business rng
United, their golden generation broken, took years to return to the European Cup rng
When they did, the 1966 semi-final defeat to Partizan Belgrade left Busby distraught rng
“We will never win the European Cup now,” he said rng
But two years later, they were back in a semi-final rng
Only three Munich survivors remained: Charlton, Busby and Bill Foulkes, who had captained them in their first game afterwards, returning to the pitch 13 days later rng
A decade on, the 36-year-old centre-back, who had spent the semi-final second leg against Real urging Nobby Stiles to stay back, took it upon himself to gallop into the box at the Bernabeu rng
“Unquestionably the last man any of us wanted to see on the end of a George Best cross,” as Charlton recalled, swept in his last goal as a rng footballer to book United’s place in the final rng
Sir Bobby (second right) scored 49 goals for England (PA Archive)There was a different kind of improbability then rng
Charlton opened the scoring against Benfica with that rarity, a header rng
A great left-footer scored his second goal with his right, a near-post finish rng
For Charlton and Busby, it was the end of something, an achievement dedicated to others, required because of their memories of those who were not around to see it rng
They had the potential for greatness and it was wrenched from them amid the flames of a plane crash rng
And, from the ashes of tragedy, Bobby Charlton turned his talents into the two trophies that mattered most and meant something more to him rng
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