LONDON, May 4 ― Arsenal moved four points clear on the prime of the Premier League as Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard impressed a 3-0 win in opposition to Bournemouth in the present day.
The Gunners’ fourth successive victory ensured second positioned Manchester City won’t be able to knock them out of pole place this weekend even when they beat Wolves in in the present day’s late sport.
Saka’s penalty put Mikel Arteta’s aspect forward on the stroke of half-time on the Emirates Stadium.
Trossard and Declan Rice struck in the closing phases to safe a significant three points.
Chasing their first title since 2004, the Gunners will pray for a shock City stumble in opposition to Wolves on the Etihad Stadium.
Pep Guardiola’s crew, who’ve two video games in hand on Arsenal, can clinch an unprecedented fourth successive English title in the event that they win their final four matches.
Arsenal’s twenty sixth Premier League victory this season equalled the membership’s top-flight file for a single marketing campaign.
Arteta’s males gifted the title to City final season after a blowing an eight-point lead in the closing weeks.
But the north Londoners have realized from that meltdown, profitable 14 of their 16 league video games in 2024 to keep firmly in the hunt.
Arsenal journey to Manchester United in their penultimate sport subsequent weekend earlier than internet hosting Everton in what they hope can be a possible title clincher on May 19.
Arteta was a childhood pal of Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola again house in Spain, however there was no room for sentimentality with the title on the road.
Bournemouth keeper Mark Travers was destined for a busy afternoon and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than he made his first save to deny Kai Havertz from a good angle.
Arsenal’s Belgian midfielder #19 Leandro Trossard celebrates scoring the crew’s second aim in the course of the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Bournemouth on the Emirates Stadium, in London, on May 4, 2024. ― eNM pic
Trossard delivers
Even Arsenal defender William Saliba was keen to rumble ahead, cleverly chopping again to discover house for a shot that Travers saved at his close to put up.
Travers repelled a stinging strike from Saka, with Takehiro Tomiyasu’s effort cleared off the road from the ensuing nook.
Unmarked 10 yards from aim, Declan Rice lashed narrowly huge from Havertz’s knock down, a miss that left nervousness and frustration etched throughout Arteta’s face.
Arteta might lastly loosen up in the forty fifth minute when Havertz left his leg dangling to guarantee he was tripped by the slightest contact from Travers because the German skipped round him.
Saka stepped up to calmly slot the penalty down the center for his twentieth aim in all competitions this season.
Saka ought to have doubled Arsenal’s lead quickly after half-time, however his scuffed close-range shot from Havertz’s go was straight at Travers.
Arsenal couldn’t relaxation on their laurels with a one-goal lead and Dominic Solanke almost caught them out because the Bournemouth striker compelled David Raya to save.
Havertz’s low drive was stopped at full stretch by the over-worked Travers, however Bournemouth’s Justin Kluivert went shut with a shot that dipped simply over.
Trossard lastly delivered the knockout blow in the seventieth minute, operating onto Rice’s go and slotting a medical end previous Travers from 12 yards.
Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo had a aim harshly disallowed for a tender problem by Solanke on Raya.
But Rice blasted house from close-range deep into stoppage-time as Arsenal cruised to a victory that saved their title desires alive. ― eNM
