Arsenal confirmed how you can combat 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 City down to 3rd.
Said 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.
But Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta noticed his staff transfer up by means of the gears after the break with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli scoring with tremendous finishes initially 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.
Chris Wood’s penalty and a chic strike by Miguel Almiron put Newcastle 2-0 up towards Leicester after solely seven minutes, with Joelinton including a 3rd simply after the half-hour mark for the Magpies’ sixth straight league win.
Man City, which visits Leeds on Wednesday, trails Newcastle by one level however has performed two fewer video games.
The seven video games Monday had been the primary within the Premier League in additional than a month due to the lengthy break for the World Cup in Qatar.
KANE SCORES
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 objective 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 country 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 WINS AGAIN
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 have to be the pain in the backside for everyone,” Liverpool supervisor Juergen Klopp stated. “We are not in the best position, there is distance between us and other teams, we know that. The first two or three are maybe too far away. If they win all their games we have no chance.”
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 stress 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.
Fulham received a Premier League derby within the capital for under the second time in 29 makes an attempt with a 3-0 victory at nine-man Crystal Palace. Bobby Decordova-Reid, Tim Ream and Aleksandar Mitrovic scored for the guests whereas Tyrick Mitchell and James Tomkins had been despatched off for the hosts.
Fulham supervisor Marco Silva devoted the win to George Cohen, the membership’s 1966 World Cup-winning England proper again who died on Friday.
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Manchester United performs Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on Tuesday, with ninth-place Chelsea internet hosting Bournemouth.
