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Arsenal ensured it volition extremity the twelvemonth apical of the Premier League aft beating Aston Villa 4-1 astatine location successful a almighty connection triumph with each goals scored successful the 2nd half.
The 4th goal, scored by substitute Gabriel Jesus 1 infinitesimal aft coming on, highlighted the extent of Arsenal's seat this play and manager Mikel Arteta jubilantly high-fived his assistants astatine the last whistle.
Victory moved Arsenal 5 points up of Manchester City, which plays astatine Sunderland connected New Year's Day, and six points wide of third-place Villa.
“It is simply a beauteous evening. That was a precise pugnacious match, arsenic we knew it would be, due to the fact that they are a apical hostile to play against,” Arteta told broadcaster Sky Sports. “The mode we started the 2nd fractional was amazing, we truly turned things up and were businesslike successful everything that we did.” Arsenal has not won the Premier League since 2004 and the unit is connected Arteta to deliver.
“In 2026, we cognize what we want,” Arteta said.
Villa manager Unai Emery aboriginal defended his determination not to shingle Arteta's manus astatine the extremity of the crippled by saying it was “cold” astatine the Emirates.
“Always my regular is spell to the absorption coach, shingle hands and spell inside,” the erstwhile Arsenal manager told Sky Sports. “If helium is not doing the aforesaid rule, I can't hold ... it was cold.” Elsewhere, Chelsea drew 2-2 astatine location to Bournemouth; Newcastle won 3-1 astatine lowly Burnley; and Manchester United was held 1-1 astatine location to rock-bottom Wolverhampton.
Struggling West Ham drew 2-2 with visiting Brighton, and Everton won 2-0 astatine Nottingham Forest.
Sharing the goals
No Arsenal subordinate is adjacent the apical of the scorers' charts this season, yet sharing the goals astir mightiness conscionable beryllium the team's strength.
Defender Gabriel Magalhães headed location aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional pursuing a country for set-piece specializer Arsenal, and midfielder Martín Zubimendi netted successful the 52nd minute.
Winger Leandro Trossard curled successful a good 3rd from the borderline of the punishment country successful the 69th and was progressive successful the 4th goal, curled into the aforesaid country from astir the aforesaid spot successful the 78th infinitesimal by Jesus aft Arsenal had launched a superb counterattack from deep.
The triumph was adjacent much awesome considering Arsenal was missing cardinal midfielder Declan Rice with a genu wounded and Villa was playing connected the backmost of 11 consecutive victories successful each competitions.
Gabriel nodded successful from adjacent scope and was deemed not to person impeded Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez with his elbow.
Zubimendi finished confidently aft skipper Martin Ødegaard expertly won the shot successful midfield and precocious earlier threading a cleanable shot down Villa's defense.
Ollie Watkins grabbed an injury-time consolation for Villa.
Poor defending costs Chelsea
Bournemouth's David Brooks netted aboriginal from adjacent scope aft Chelsea failed to woody with a throw-in from the right.
Cole Palmer equalized successful the 15th with a punishment awarded aft a video reappraisal ruled that Antoine Semenyo's genu had gone into the backmost of guardant Estevão's leg.
Midfielder Enzo Fernández gave Chelsea the pb midway done the archetypal half, but Chelsea talented Bournemouth an equalizer erstwhile a defender headed connected a throw-in from the near and Justin Kluivert scored astatine the backmost station for 2-2.
Chelsea is 5th and level connected 30 points with United successful sixth.
United held by Wolves ============== Manchester United led done Joshua Zirkzee's deflected onslaught successful the 27th but Ladislav Krejcí equalized adjacent to halftime for Wolves with a almighty downward header.
It was Wolves manager Rob Edwards' archetypal constituent since taking complaint successful November.
Patrick Dorgu's injury-time extremity for United was ruled retired for offside by VAR.
Boos astatine the last whistle by United fans contrasted with Wolves supporters' chants of “We've won a point.”
Wissa scores for Newcastle
Yoane Wissa grabbed his archetypal league extremity since joining from Brentford arsenic Newcastle moved into 10th spot.
Newcastle was 2-0 up wrong 7 minutes with Joelinton being acceptable up from the near helping by Anthony Gordon and Wissa bundling successful from adjacent scope pursuing a goalmouth scramble.
Josh Laurent pulled a extremity backmost for Burnley midway done the archetypal half. Newcastle survived nervy moments earlier Bruno Guimarães sealed the triumph with an adept lob successful stoppage time.
Next-to-last Burnley is 2 points down West Ham successful 18th.
Garner and Paquetá radiance
Everton netted successful the 19th erstwhile James Garner drilled successful a debased decorativeness aft being acceptable up down the close by Dwight McNeil.
Garner past turned neatly successful midfield earlier feeding Thierno Barry with a defense-splitting walk to marque it 2-0 against Forest successful the 79th.
West Ham took an aboriginal pb against Brighton erstwhile striker Jarrod Bowen latched onto Lucas Paquetá's exquisite done shot from halfway and struck a debased changeable into the bottommost corner.
Veteran guardant Danny Welbeck equalized for Brighton from the punishment spot for his eighth extremity of the season, and past deed the crossbar with a Panenka-style chipped punishment aboriginal successful the archetypal half.
Paquetá converted his spot footwear with a staggered run-up successful first-half wounded time, but Joël Veltman equalized for Brighton successful the 61st pursuing a corner.
Defending champion Liverpool hosts Leeds connected Thursday.
