Arsenal confirmed the way to struggle again on Boxing Day, historically a busy time in English soccer, by beating West Ham 3-1 to stretch its lead on the prime of the Premier League to seven factors.
Newcastle moved second with a 3-0 win at Leicester on Monday, pushing defending champion Manchester Metropolis down to 3rd.
Mentioned Benrahma’s Twenty seventh-minute penalty kick gave David Moyes’ West Ham a 1-0 lead at halftime after the Gunners had a spot kick disallowed by VAR on the stroke of the interval.
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However Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta noticed his workforce transfer up by way of the gears after the break with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli scoring with high quality finishes in the beginning of the second interval.
Eddie Nketiah sealed the victory in entrance of former Arsenal supervisor Arsene Wenger by ending off a slick transfer to fill the void of the injured Gabriel Jesus and earn Arsenal a tenth straight dwelling win within the Premier League.
Harry Kane scores
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Harry Kane, who returned to the Premier League after lacking a penalty in England’s World Cup quarterfinal loss to France two weeks in the past, scored a aim to assist fourth-place Tottenham come again from a two-goal deficit in a 2-2 draw with Brentford.
Kane shrugged off chants of “You let your nation down” from a bit of the Brentford followers. He headed in a cross from Clement Lenglet within the sixty fifth. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg equalized six minutes later for Tottenham.
Vitaly Janelt and Ivan Toney scored for Brentford.
Liverpool beat Aston Villa 3-1
Liverpool beat Aston Villa 3-1 for its third straight league win and stayed sixth, some extent behind Manchester United. Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk struck within the first half at Villa Park earlier than Stefan Bajcetic scored close to the top of the second.
Liverpool’s third straight victory moved the membership 5 factors adrift of the Champions League spots.
“We now have to be the ache within the bottom for everybody,” Liverpool supervisor Juergen Klopp stated. “We’re not in the most effective place, there may be distance between us and different groups, we all know that. The primary two or three are possibly too far-off. In the event that they win all their video games we’ve got no likelihood.”
HALF-TIME Aston Villa 0-2 Liverpool
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In different video games, Wolverhampton supervisor Julen Lopetegui marked his Premier League debut with a dramatic stoppage-time 2-1 win at Everton. The defeat ramped up the strain on Everton coach Frank Lampard. Substitute Rayan Ait-Nouri scored on the counterattack within the fifth minute of added time. Wolves moved off the underside of the desk and inside some extent of Seventeenth-place Everton.
Brighton beat struggling Southampton 3-1 at St. Mary’s and trails Liverpool by one level. Southampton misplaced its fourth straight league recreation and dropped to final place.
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