Arsenal Beat Leeds: Ending Winless Streak | Match Report

Arsenal ended a three-game winless streak in the Premier League English by defeating Leeds United 4-0 as a visitor this Saturday in a meeting corresponding to the 24th date of the contest. In this way, the London team established itself as the leader of the tournament.

Two draws, against Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, and a hard fall, against Manchester United Last week, they had allowed the leader’s pursuers to close the gap. But this Saturday the team led by Mikel Arteta He recovered his best version and reflected it in the result at Elland Road.

Noni Madueke, who was part of the starting lineup due to Bukayo Saka’s injury during the warm-up, excelled in the first period: he launched a precise cross from the right so that the Basque Martín Zubimendiwith a header, scored the first goal and also dispatched a very tight corner that forced the second goal, scored, against, by Welsh goalkeeper Karl Darlow.

In the complement, the Swedish Viktor Gyökereswho had gone six Premier League games without scoring, took off his mufa and scored the third for his team thanks to an advance on the edge of the six-yard box. Five minutes before the close of the duel, the Brazilian Gabriel Jesús It sealed the final 4 to 0.

With this victory, Arsenal reached 53 points and is seven ahead of its two closest pursuerswho will play on Sunday: Manchester City, who will visit Cristian Romero’s Tottenham, and Emiliano Martínez and Emiliano Buendía’s Aston Villa, who will host Brentford. Meanwhile, Leeds United occupies 16th place with 26 points, just six away from the relegation places.

Almost without rest, Arsenal will take the field again on Tuesday at 5 p.m., when they will host Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium in the rematch of one of the semifinals of the English League Cup. In the first leg, Arteta’s team won 3-2.

The Premier League and the League Cup are not the only competitions Arsenal are bidding for this season. In the Champions League, they finished first, with a perfect score, in the league phase, advancing directly to the round of 16, while in the FA Cup they will face Wigan on February 15 in a clash corresponding to the fourth round.