The Arsenal led by the Spaniard Mikel Arteta he extended his good line, accommodated in the Champions League zone, after beating Argentine Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds (1-4) at Ellan Road, in free fall and increasingly close to relegation.
In one of the few matches of the eighteenth day of England that was saved from the influence of COVID-19 and that could be played, Arsenal extended their streak. Sum the triumph against Leeds to those achieved against Southampton and West Ham.
In Ellan Road he made the most of the mistakes of his rival, a team in depression with a dynamic contrary to that of Arteta who opened the account at a quarter of an hour, when the Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli took advantage of a loose ball in the bid between the Franks Alexander Lacazette and defender Adam Forshaw to beat Illian Meslier.
In the 28th came the second visitor goal, gestated by a robbery of the ball in his own field by the Swiss Granit Xhaka who made a long pass, in depth, to Gabriel Martinelli, who was left alone before the local goal and did not fail. It was on the brink of halftime when he sentenced the game in a new mess in the area that Lacazette took advantage of to send the ball to Bukayo Saka, who threw, deflected a defender, and scored.
Could make up the defeat of Bielsa’s outfit in the second half when a foul inside Ben White’s area was penalized with a penalty that transformed Raphinha, although six minutes from the end, Emile Smith Rowe rounded off the away win, who took advantage of the many casualties of Leeds (James, Struijk , Rodrigo Moreno, Junior, Phillips, Cooper …).
The triumph places Arsenal in fourth place with one game and four points more than West Ham. Leeds, who suffered their third defeat in a row and their fourth game without a win, is sixteenth, five behind Burnley’s relegation with three games to play.
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