Arsenal Hammers West Ham 6-0 And Man United Ignites Champions League Hopes With 2-1 Win At Villa – News18

A report win for Arsenal. An completely vital one for Manchester United.

After Arsenal hammered West Ham 6-0 for its greatest ever Premier League away victory, United beat Aston Villa 2-1 in an enormous outcome within the race for Champions League qualification.

Arsenal may be in its finest kind this season. Last weekend, Mikel Arteta’s staff was handing league chief Liverpool solely its second loss to tighten up the title race and right here it was working amok contained in the Olympic Stadium, which quickly emptied after West Ham fell 4-0 behind simply earlier than halftime.

Bukayo Saka scored twice and Declan Rice — a former West Ham favourite — added the sixth objective nearly apologetically.

Arsenal joined Manchester City simply two factors behind Liverpool. All three of the large title contenders received this weekend.

United’s aspirations are merely to complete within the high 4 — or 5 — to get into the Champions League and that will have been a protracted shot had the guests misplaced at Villa Park.

Instead, there’s solely 5 factors — slightly than 11 — between United in sixth and Villa in fifth after Scott McTominay headed in an 86th-minute winner to earn his staff a 3rd straight league victory. Rasmus Hojlund opened the scoring for United and has now netted in 5 straight league matches.

RICE’S RETURN

Disgruntled West Ham’s followers streamed out of their floor of their a whole bunch previous to the halftime whistle, nicely earlier than their former star participant condemned the staff to its joint-heaviest lack of all time.

It simply needed to be Rice working onto the ball and curling a protracted-vary strike into the highest nook to place the seal on an nearly embarrassingly straightforward win for Arsenal.

Rice was once West Ham’s finest participant, along with his relentless power, lung-busting runs and masking tackles. Now right here he was, taking part in an enormous half in a clinic by Arsenal, with the house supporters’ booing of his each contact perhaps spurring him on.

Rice’s set-piece deliveries arrange first-half objectives for William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes, with Saka and Leandro Trossard additionally scoring earlier than the break. After Saka’s second, Rice scored and didn’t even have a good time, holding up each of his arms apologetically as an alternative. He was even applauded by some residence supporters when he was substituted moments later.

Signed in July for 105 million kilos (then $138 million), it’s trying like cash nicely spent by Arsenal.

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