Soccer-Arteta Had Gut Feeling Arsenal Would Punish West Ham – News18

LONDON: Arsenal’s demolition of West Ham United didn’t shock supervisor Mikel Arteta who stated he had a intestine feeling his gamers would proper latest mistaken towards their London rivals.

The Gunners romped to a 6-0 victory on Sunday — their largest away win within the Premier League — as they reminded Liverpool and Manchester City that they intend to play a giant position within the title race.

It was candy revenge for the two-0 residence defeat by West Ham in December and a League Cup loss to David Moyes’s workforce in November.

“Time to beat West Ham; we all knew it,” Arteta stated when requested in regards to the temper within the squad earlier than the sport.

“We all had it in our tummies and we knew it would be a tough match and we had to do certain things better in both boxes than we had in the previous match. We certainly did today.”

Last week’s defeat of leaders Liverpool put Arsenal again within the thick of the title race however a visit to West Ham appeared awkward on paper given latest experiences.

But Arsenal have been sensational, with Bukayo Saka scoring twice and Declan Rice scoring and having two assists towards his previous membership because the north London facet moved again to inside two factors of Liverpool and degree on factors with champions City.

Saka missed a penalty final season towards West Ham as Arsenal have been held to a 2-2 draw, having led 2-0. It was considered one of a collection of outcomes that scuppered Arsenal’s title hopes.

This time, Saka transformed from the spot to place his workforce 2-0 forward after being taken down by West Ham keeper Alphonse Areola.

It was the 22-yr-previous’s fiftieth aim for Arsenal, making him the youngest participant to achieve that landmark for the membership since 1978.

“He’s proving everybody wrong that he can do it. I had doubts whether he was going to take the penalty or not because of what happened but it shows you as well how mature he is and how determined he is to go to the next level,” Arteta stated.

“And today what he’s done with the penalty as well shows that he wants to learn from a situation and make it right and that shows a lot of personality.”

Saka stated his workforce mates had “smelt blood” at West Ham and had gone for the kill.

Arteta added: “What I smell is a team that wants to be better and better. The way they trained this week they are totally focused after Liverpool, saying now it’s a big test and now we have to go to another level to beat West Ham.”

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