Arsenal Lengthen Premier League Lead, Leeds Climb Out Of Backside Three

Arsenal opened up a five-point lead on the high of the Premier League because of a 1-0 win at Leicester on Saturday as Leeds beat Southampton 1-0 to offer new boss Javi Gracia a profitable begin. The Gunners snapped a four-game winless streak with two late objectives at Aston Villa final week to take again management of the title race after briefly being usurped on the high of the desk by Manchester City.

Mikel Arteta‘s males wanted no such drama on the King Power and will have run out much more convincing winners.

“For the amount of time we dominated ball possession, territory and the amount of situations we had in the final third, we should have created much more and scored more goals,” mentioned Arteta.

“When you don’t, you have to be exceptional in your defensive work and we conceded one shot. Defensively we were outstanding.”

Arteta’s determination to begin each Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard within the entrance three on the expense of Eddie Nketiah paid dividends. Trossard had an excellent first half strike into the highest nook controversially dominated out by a VAR evaluate for a foul by Ben White on Leicester goalkeeper Danny Ward.

But Martinelli was to not be denied one minute into the second interval when he coolly slotted dwelling from Trossard’s cross. Bukayo Saka had a second objective dominated out for offside as Arsenal failed to show their domination right into a extra convincing scoreline.

However, they did sufficient to pile the stress on second-placed City forward of their journey to Bournemouth in a while Saturday.

Leeds finish lengthy await win

Leeds had not gained a league recreation since earlier than the World Cup break, a run which noticed Jesse Marsch sacked. But they snapped that streak in a conflict between the underside two earlier than kick-off at Elland Road.

Junior Firpo scored the one objective 13 minutes from time to raise Leeds out of the relegation zone. “The club needed it after 10 games without a win,” mentioned Gracia after his first match in cost.

“I’m very happy for everyone who works for the club, the fans and especially the players because they were working without rewards.”

West Ham have been the opposite massive winners of the day within the battle to beat the drop as 4 objectives within the remaining 20 minutes probably saved David Moyes’ job in a 4-0 win over Nottingham Forest.

According to stories this week, the previous Manchester United supervisor confronted the sack if the Hammers misplaced. Two objectives in three minutes from Danny Ings remodeled the temper across the London Stadium earlier than Declan Rice and Michail Antonio sealed West Ham’s second league win since October.

Everton slipped again into the underside three after shedding 2-0 at dwelling to Aston Villa.

Ollie Watkins’ penalty and Emi Buendia’s strike condemned Sean Dyche to a primary dwelling defeat since taking cost of the Toffees.

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