Soccer-Arsenal Move Top Of Premier League With 2-0 Win Over Brighton

LONDON:Arsenal beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 at house on Sunday with second-half objectives from Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, because the north London aspect provisionally moved again to the highest of the Premier League standings.

Victory moved Arsenal some extent away from Aston Villa, who moved as much as second on 38 factors. Third-placed Liverpool are some extent additional behind forward of their sport in opposition to rivals Manchester United in a while Sunday.

Brighton had received on their final three journeys to The Emirates Stadium in all competitions, however the majority of motion was of their field as Arsenal turned the primary workforce to maintain a clear sheet in opposition to Roberto De Zerbi’s workforce this season.

The Seagulls, who dropped to ninth, didn’t have a single shot within the first half as they weathered wave after wave of Arsenal assaults, with keeper Bart Verbruggen standing agency.

“It’s a great team, they play very nice football. It’s tough to play against them. We knew we’re strong at our house here. Today it went quite well,” Havertz mentioned.

Arsenal had been additionally responsible of not taking their probabilities, with Gabriel Martinelli coming closest with a shot that went simply over as the 2 groups went into the break at 0-0.

But Brighton’s resistance ended eight minutes into the second half when defender Jan Paul van Hecke by accident flicked a nook kick into the trail of the unmarked Jesus on the far submit, and the Brazilian striker headed house.

Arsenal weren’t content material to sit down on a one-goal lead and continued to pepper the Brighton objective with pictures. Skipper Martin Odegaard, taking part in on his twenty fifth birthday, had a shot palmed away whereas Havertz noticed his header fly over.

Brighton had appeared passive all sport however they did have a golden likelihood to equalise within the 82nd minute when Kaoru Mitoma slipped previous his marker and crossed the ball into the field, just for Pascal Gross to shoot large.

The Gunners sealed the three factors with a counterattack within the 87th minute when substitute Eddie Nketiah put Havertz by way of on objective and the German ahead rifled into the underside nook.

After a tough begin to his Arsenal profession when objectives had been briefly provide, Havertz has now netted 4 in his final seven video games.

“I’m happy as an offensive player, it’s always nice to score or assist,” he added. “The first one or two months were difficult but I tried to get the best out of myself every day.”

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