Premier League Roundup: Arsenal regains five-point lead with win over Fulham
LONDON (AP) — Arsenal reclaimed its five-point lead within the Premier League by outclassing Fulham in a 3-0 win on Sunday.
Gabriel Magalhães, Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard scored first-half objectives at Craven Cottage to safe a fifth straight victory within the league for Arsenal.
Leandro Trossard supplied the help for all three objectives.
Second-place Manchester City had utilized strain on Mikel Arteta’s crew by successful 1-0 at Crystal Palace on Saturday, briefly lowering the hole to 2 factors.
Arsenal and City have 11 video games left.
There was additional good news for Arsenal, with Brazil striker Gabriel Jesus coming off the bench within the 77th for his first look since present process surgical procedure on Dec. 6 on a medial collateral ligament damage sustained throughout the World Cup.
Arsenal had already had a objective disallowed for offside following a video overview by the point Gabriel headed in a left-wing nook from Trossard within the twenty first minute.
The Belgium midfielder arrange the second objective 5 minutes later, too, digging out a cross from the left that Martinelli nodded in after beating Fulham defender Antonee Robinson to the ball.
Trossard accomplished his hat trick of assists within the second minute of first-half stoppage time however the objective owed extra to the technical ability of Odegaard, who introduced down the cross into the realm, reduce inside and smashed a shot previous Bernd Leno — Fulham’s former Arsenal goalkeeper.
Tosin Adarabioyo headed the ball towards the crossbar off a nook as Fulham got here into the match extra within the second half.
MANCHESTER UNITED 0, SOUTHAMPTON 0
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United held agency after Casemiro’s second crimson card in his final three Premier League video games to safe a 0-0 draw with last-place Southampton on Sunday.
The Brazil midfielder was despatched off within the thirty fourth minute for a studs-up problem on Carlos Alcaraz that originally earned him a yellow card. The referee modified it to a crimson after the VAR suggested him to take a look at the incident once more on the pitchside monitor.
Casemiro should now serve a four-match ban, given it was his second sending-off of the season. His different was at Crystal Palace on Feb. 4.
Southampton had the higher of the probabilities in Casemiro’s absence, twice hitting the objective body by means of James Ward-Prowse — off a trademark curling free kick — and Kyle Walker-Peters and seeing United defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka clear the ball of the road.
At the opposite finish, Bruno Fernandes had a long-range shot tipped onto the put up by Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu.
Third-place United moved two factors away from fourth-place Tottenham and has a recreation in hand.
Southampton stayed in final place, with the underside 9 within the league — as much as Twelfth-place Crystal Palace — separated by simply 5 factors.
WEST HAM 1, ASTON VILLA 1
LONDON (AP) — Said Benrahma’s penalty earned West Ham a 1-1 draw with Aston Villa and lifted his crew again out of the Premier League’s relegation zone on Sunday.
The Hammers fell behind to Ollie Watkins’ header however Benrahma replied from the spot after Lucas Paqueta was fouled.
West Ham began the day within the backside three after Bournemouth’s beautiful win over Liverpool on Saturday. A victory would have lifted the crew into 14th place in a congested backside half of the standings, however West Ham was unable to discover a winner with striker Danny Ings drawing a clean towards his outdated membership.
Nonetheless, a draw moved West Ham as much as seventeenth, forward of Bournemouth on objective distinction, and stretched its unbeaten streak towards midtable Villa to 10 matches going again to 2015.
The Hammers are the one crew within the prime flight but to attain within the opening quarter-hour of a match this season, and that pattern continued with Nayef Aguerd steering Declan Rice’s free kick large and Benrahma volleying Jarrod Bowen’s cross excessive.
Instead, towards the run of play, Villa took the lead within the seventeenth minute with its first try, with Watkins heading in Alex Moreno’s cross. The objective made Watkins the primary Villa participant to attain in 4 consecutive away matches within the Premier League since Dwight Yorke in 1998.
West Ham hit again within the twenty sixth after Paqueta’s shot was headed off the road by Watkins. The Brazil midfielder went to retrieve the free ball and was clumsily introduced down by Leon Bailey, with Benrahma confidently changing the penalty excessive into the online previous World Cup winner Emiliano Martinez.
Villa ought to have gone in at halftime forward after one other penetrating run by Moreno, whose cross discovered Jacob Ramsey within the field. Ramsey squared the ball to Watkins, 4 meters out, however West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola unfold himself and in some way stored the shot out.
Just 20 seconds after the restart, Paqueta’s cross discovered Benrahma on the far put up however his volley was straight at Martinez. Benrahma was within the temper for extra objectives and he skipped previous Matty Cash and Ezri Konsa on the sting of the realm earlier than hitting a fierce drive that Martinez tipped over.
Rice survived a VAR examine for a problem within the space on Emi Buendia which prompted a bout of pushing and shoving, with West Ham’s frustration at Villa’s incessant timewasting starting to indicate.
Both groups may have gained it late on. Benrahma’s volley on the far put up deflected large off Villa substitute Ashley Young and Jhon Duran’s close-range shot was clutched by Areola.
