Two rounds from the end of the championship, the gunners are four points clear of two-time champions Manchester City, who shortly before had won with the same result at Everton’s stadium and was one more game late, precisely with Brighton, sensational sixth place.
After a ‘zero’ at half-time, the visitors opened the scoring in the 51st minute, through Paraguayan Júlio Enciso, making the result more dramatic in the closing stages of the game, with goals from Germany’s Deniz Undav, in the 86th minute , and Ecuadorian Pervis Estupinan, at 90+6.
Once holding a comfortable lead at the top of the Premier League, Arsenal looked poised to take a title they have eluded since 2004, but they have won just two of their last seven games.allowing Manchester City to catch up, which now seems irreversible.
Londoners were under pressure from the triumph achieved today by Manchester City, who kept the lead safe from the potential threat from Arsenal, winning 3-0 at the stadium of ‘ailing’ Evertonwhose resistance was broken at the break, conceding two goals in as many minutes.
German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan opened the scoring in the 37th minute, with an acrobatic deflection, and closed the scoring in the 51st, in the no less artistic mark of a direct free kick, ‘double’ in the Championship for the second consecutive time and make a decisive contribution to Manchester City’s 11th consecutive league win.
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland also ‘scored’, in the 39th minute, his 36th Premier League goal this season – of which he is by far the top scorer – allowing the two-time champions to watch the showdown between Arsenal and Brighton.
Portuguese defender Rúben Dias was in the starting line-up, on the day he turned 26, and compatriot Bernardo Silva replaced Gündogan in the 78th minute, in a match that came in the middle of an important Champions League semi-final. with Real Madrid (1-1 draw first leg, in Spain).
Everton remained in 17th place, first above the relegation zone, into which they could fall if Leicester beat Liverpool on Monday, fifth and still ‘dreaming’ of entry into the ‘Champions’, in the final game of the day.
In the other game played today, Brentford recaptured ninth place, having been ousted on Saturday by Fulham, coached by Portugal’s Marco Silva, by pushing 2-0 against West Ham (15th), with goals from the Cameroonian Bryan Mbeumo, in the 20th minute, and Congolese Yoane Wissa, in the 43rd minute.
Source: DN
