Merry Christmas to you all 🎄 Wishing all Arsenal fans three points.

If anybody isn't able to make the Aston Villa game next week because they're away or through illness and has a couple of tickets, I'd be delighted to take them off your hands.

Arsenal have contested nine penalty shoot outs in the League Cup, winning six and losing three. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace have only won three of 32 away games against Arsenal. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace have won none of the last nine visits to the Emirates Stadium, but they have secured five draws in that run. #ARSCRY

Arsenal mustered 25 shots in this match - the most in any game in any competition this season. #ARSCRY

Arsenal have played Chelsea six times before in the League Cup, progressing on two occasions and losing four. The two sides have met twice in the semi-finals with Chelsea progressing in 1998 and Arsenal going through in 2018, both ties over two legs.

Arsenal have accrued 5.89 Expected Goals over the last three matches but have only scored a penalty and benefited from three own goals. #ARSCRY

No midweek breaks until Feb: December 20 Eve A PL 23 C Pal H CC 27 Brighton H PL 30 Villa H PL January 3 Bou'mouth A PL 8 L'pool H PL 11 Pompey FA 14 Chelsea CC 17 Forest A PL 20 Inter A CL 25 Man U H PL 28 Kairat H CL 31 Leeds A PL February 3 Chelsea CC 7 Feb Sun H PL 11 Feb Bre A PL 14 Feb FA 4R?

Arsenal's first four penalties in the shootout were all taken by substitutes. #ARSCRY

Arsenal's first four penalties in the shootout were all taken by substitutes. #ARSCRY

Arsenal have scored 47 of their last 51 attempts in penalty shootouts. 92% conversion rate. 👌

Tonight was Arsenal’s 27th penalty shootout First 10: W4 L6 (40%) Last 17: W13 L4 (76%)

No midweek breaks until Feb: December 20 Eve A PL 23 C Pal H CC 27 Brighton H PL 30 Villa H PL January 3 Bou'mouth A PL 8 L'pool H PL 11 Pompey FA 14 Chelsea CC 17 Forest A PL 20 Inter A CL 25 Man U H PL 28 Kairat H CL 31 Leeds A PL February 3 Chelsea CC 7 Feb Sun H PL 11 Feb Bre A PL 14 Feb FA 4R?

Arsenal have accrued 5.89 Expected Goals over the last three matches but have only scored a penalty and benefited from three own goals. #ARSCRY

Arsenal have played Chelsea six times before in the League Cup, progressing on two occasions and losing four. The two sides have met twice in the semi-finals with Chelsea progressing in 1998 and Arsenal going through in 2018, both ties over two legs.

Arsenal mustered 25 shots in this match - the most in any game in any competition this season. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace have won none of the last nine visits to the Emirates Stadium, but they have secured five draws in that run. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace have only won three of 32 away games against Arsenal. #ARSCRY

Arsenal have contested nine penalty shoot outs in the League Cup, winning six and losing three. #ARSCRY

Arsenal have had eight previous penalty shoot outs in the League Cup, winning five and losing three. #ARSCRY

This goalkeeper has had one of those miracle nights where everything has hit him and that doesn't bode well for the shootout.

I do not like this habit of conceding goals in injury time.

I wonder if Own Goals can take a penalty?

Not sure how Jefferson Lerma hasn't been booked tonight. Careering around like a bumper car.

Arsenal's last three goals at the Emirates have all been own goals. #ARSCRY

William Saliba (55) completed more passes in that first half than Crystal Palace (51). #ARSCRY

Arsenal racked up 1.6 xG in that first half. They have only managed more in the opening 45 minutes this season on three occasions: 2.27 Burnley 1.75 West Ham 1.69 Olympiakos 1.60 Crystal Palace #ARSCRY

Gabriel Martinelli has created five chances for team-mates in this first half. Only Bakayo Saka v Fulham and Martin Zubimendi v Brugge (6 each) have created more in a single whole match this season for the Gunners. #ARSCRY

This will be Gabriel Jesus' 100th appearance for Arsenal in all competitions. 72 Premier League 14 Champions League 7 League Cup 6 Europa League 1 FA Cup #ARSCRY

Since Eddie Nketiah’s League Cup debut in October 2017, no player has scored more goals in the competition than the Crystal Palace forward (13). #ARSCRY

The Eagles are unbeaten in their last eight domestic cup ties since losing 2-3 to Arsenal in last season’s Carabao Cup quarter final, keeping six clean sheets and conceding just twice in that run. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace haven’t gone past the quarter-final stage of the League Cup since 2011-12. #ARSCRY

Arsenal’s last four League Cup matches have all ended with a 2-0 scoreline. #ARSCRY

Gabriel Jesus has scored five goals in his last two appearances against Crystal Palace. #ARSCRY

Leandro Trossard has two goals and one assist in four Premier League games against Crystal Palace at the Emirates Stadium. #ARSCRY

Gabriel Martinelli has scored six Premier League goals against Crystal Palace, more than he has netted against any other opponent in the competition. #ARSCRY

Eberechi Eze scored the winner in the Premier League fixture between these two sides earlier this season in a 1-0 victory. He’s actually scored in the last two meetings between the two sides at the Emirates as he also netted in a 2-2 Premier League draw last April. #ARSCRY

The Gunners have drawn Crystal Palace three times in the League Cup, losing 0-2 on aggregate in 1970-71 4th Round, beating the Eagles over a two-legged semi-final in 1992-93 and winning 3-2 via a Gabriel Jesus hat-trick in last season’s quarter final. #ARSCRY

Arsenal team to play Palace: Kepa, Timber, Saliba, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Norgaard, Merino, Eze, Martinelli, Madueke, Jesus. Subs: Raya, Salmon, Zubimendi, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Trossard, Saka, Gyokeres.

Crystal Palace have only won three of 31 away games against Arsenal. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace have won none of the last eight visits to the Emirates Stadium, but they have secured four draws in that run. #ARSCRY

Arsenal have won seven and lost none of the last eight meetings in all competitions with Crystal Palace. #ARSCRY

The Eagles are unbeaten in their last eight domestic cup ties since losing 2-3 to Arsenal in last season’s Carabao Cup quarter final, keeping six clean sheets and conceding just twice in that run. #ARSCRY

Crystal Palace haven’t gone past the quarter-final stage of the League Cup since 2011-12. #ARSCRY

Arsenal’s last four League Cup matches have all ended with a 2-0 scoreline. #ARSCRY

They won't be satisfied until they've bought ALL the players.

Gabriel Jesus has scored five goals in his last two appearances against Crystal Palace. #ARSCRY

Gabriel Martinelli has scored six Premier League goals against Crystal Palace, more than he has netted against any other opponent in the competition. #ARSCRY

Leandro Trossard has two goals and one assist in four Premier League games against Crystal Palace at the Emirates Stadium. #ARSCRY