Declan Rice Returns To Haunt West Ham As Arsenal Powers To 6-0 Win. Saka Gains Some Redemption – News18

LONDON: Declan Rice marked his return to former membership West Ham by scoring a superb lengthy-vary strike and establishing two first-half objectives in Arsenal’s 6-0 win within the Premier League that noticed Bukayo Saka acquire some redemption on Sunday.

Rice was jeered relentlessly by many West Ham followers clearly nonetheless sad that he selected to maneuver to Arsenal for a reported 105 million kilos (then $138 million) in July. By the time he was substituted within the 67th minute, the England midfielder had helped to sentence his first membership to its joint-heaviest league loss at house and to assist Arsenal declare its joint-largest league victory away — and its greatest within the Premier League, in accordance with stats firm Opta.

West Ham conceded 4 instances in a ten-minute spell earlier than halftime, with Rice’s set-piece deliveries aiding headed objectives by Arsenal heart backs William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes. Home followers have been seen leaving the Olympic Stadium within the tons of earlier than the halftime whistle.

“We smelled blood today,” Saka stated, “and went for the kill.”

Saka had been one other of the primary-half scorers, together with Leandro Trossard, and the England winger added the fifth within the 63rd.

His final look at West Ham noticed him miss a penalty, when Arsenal was main 2-1, in a pricey 2-2 draw that sparked the workforce’s finish-of-season implosion and led to Manchester City retaining the league title. He obtained dreadful racist abuse after that spot-kick failure, too.

Rice delivered the ultimate blow by curling in a shot from 25 yards (meters), to which he responded by holding up his arms in a sign that he wasn’t celebrating the objective. He was nearly instantly substituted — and even received some applause from the West Ham followers nonetheless within the floor.

The resounding win for Arsenal got here a day after victories for title rivals Liverpool and Man City, and massively improved the objective distinction of Mikel Arteta’s workforce.

Arsenal is in third place, behind second-place City solely on objectives scored and two factors adrift of Liverpool.

“Brilliant performance. From start to end we dominated and controlled everything,” Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard stated.

“We are focusing on ourselves. We don’t care too much about the other teams. We keep working hard.”

West Ham stayed in eighth place after what supervisor David Moyes stated was one in all his most disappointing days on the membership.

“I’ll take a bit of time and look at it and see if I can fix it,” Moyes stated. “I take the responsibility, I pick the team but the players have to take responsibility (too).

“We were playing one of the top teams in the country who we took three points off earlier in the season so I have to say the club is in a really good place. We’ve had setbacks through the season and we’ll try and come back from this one the best we can.”

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