Rampant Arsenal remained scorching on the heels of the highest two within the title battle with an emphatic 4-1 victory over a struggling Newcastle United facet within the Premier League on Saturday at a rocking Emirates Stadium.
An personal objective by Sven Botman and a easy Kai Havertz end put the house facet 2-0 up on the break following a siege on the Newcastle objective earlier than Bukayo Saka and Jakub Kiwior struck within the second half to comfortably wrap up the factors.
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Arsenal’s sixth successive Premier League victory this yr took Mikel Arteta’s third-placed facet to 58 factors after 26 video games, two behind leaders Liverpool and some extent adrift of Manchester City, who earlier gained 1-0 at Bournemouth.
“It is essential to win video games and we now have to place strain on [Liverpool and Manchester City] and that’s what we are going to do,” goalscorer Havertz advised TNT Sports activities. “The followers give us a lot power that is so vital for us — it offers us a giant enhance.”
Arsenal opened the scoring after 18 minutes when the ball bounced off Newcastle defender Botman’s knee into his personal objective following a goalmouth scramble after goalkeeper Loris Karius made a fantastic save from a Gabriel header at a nook.
Six minutes later it was 2-0 when Havertz tucked the ball dwelling from the sting of the six-yard field following a cutback by Gabriel Martinelli on the best byline after a intelligent chipped go from Jorginho left the Newcastle defence uncovered once more.
Arsenal’s domination was mirrored of their 64% first-half possession with 12 objective makes an attempt, together with 4 on the right track, whereas Newcastle did not register a shot within the opening interval of a Premier League sport for the primary time since March 2014.
Saka put the sport past the guests with Arsenal’s third within the sixty fifth, his thirteenth within the league this season, when he ran down the best and minimize inside earlier than firing into the far nook earlier than Kiwior headed dwelling a Declan Rice nook to make it 4-0.
Former Arsenal ahead Willock acquired Newcastle on the scoresheet with a fantastic looping header into the far nook after 84 minutes following a pinpoint Dan Burn cross however by then it was all far to late for Eddie Howe’s floundering group.
Arsenal have scored 15 objectives of their final three Premier League video games and the win over Newcastle was the proper tonic following their late 1-0 loss at Porto in a disappointing Champions League round-of-16 first-leg show in midweek.
“I feel it was crucial [to win] it was a troublesome sport on Wednesday [in Portugal] and we wished to win at the moment — we did effectively at the moment,” added Havertz.
The defeat leaves Newcastle in eighth place on 37 factors.
“Arsenal had been superb, we weren’t and we acquired punished,” mentioned Howe. “We had been off in most elements of our video games, we did not do the fundamentals proper.”