Arsenal sink Bournemouth to move four points clear in title race

Arsenal moved 4 points wide astatine the apical of the Premier League arsenic Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard inspired a 3-0 triumph against Bournemouth connected Saturday.

The Gunners’ 4th successive triumph ensured 2nd placed Manchester City volition not beryllium capable to sound them retired of rod presumption this play adjacent if they bushed Wolves successful Saturday’s precocious game.

Saka’s punishment enactment Mikel Arteta’s broadside up connected the changeable of half-time astatine the Emirates Stadium.

Trossard and Declan Rice struck successful the closing stages to unafraid a captious 3 points.

Chasing their archetypal rubric since 2004, the Gunners volition commune for a daze City stumble against Wolves astatine the Etihad Stadium.

Pep Guardiola’s team, who person 2 games successful manus connected Arsenal, tin clinch an unprecedented 4th successive English rubric if they triumph their past 4 matches.

Arsenal’s 26th Premier League triumph this play equalled the club’s top-flight grounds for a azygous campaign.

Arteta’s men talented the rubric to City past play aft a blowing an eight-point pb successful the closing weeks.

But the northbound Londoners person learned from that meltdown, winning 14 of their 16 league games successful 2024 to enactment firmly successful the hunt.

Arsenal question to Manchester United successful their penultimate crippled adjacent play earlier hosting Everton successful what they anticipation volition beryllium a imaginable rubric clincher connected May 19.

Arteta was a puerility person of Bournemouth brag Andoni Iraola backmost location successful Spain, but determination was nary country for sentimentality with the rubric connected the line.

Bournemouth keeper Mark Travers was destined for a engaged day and it wasn’t agelong earlier helium made his archetypal prevention to contradict Kai Havertz from a choky angle.

– Trossard delivers –

Even Arsenal defender William Saliba was consenting to rumble forward, cleverly cutting backmost to find abstraction for a changeable that Travers saved astatine his adjacent post.

Travers repelled a stinging onslaught from Saka, with Takehiro Tomiyasu’s effort cleared disconnected the enactment from the resulting corner.

Unmarked 10 yards from goal, Declan Rice lashed narrowly wide from Havertz’s sound down, a miss that near anxiousness and vexation etched each implicit Arteta’s face.

Arteta could yet unbend successful the 45th infinitesimal erstwhile Havertz near his limb dangling to guarantee helium was tripped by the slightest interaction from Travers arsenic the German skipped astir him.

Saka stepped up to calmly slot the punishment down the mediate for his 20th extremity successful each competitions this season.

Saka should person doubled Arsenal’s pb soon aft half-time, but his scuffed close-range changeable from Havertz’s walk was consecutive astatine Travers.

Arsenal couldn’t remainder connected their laurels with a one-goal pb and Dominic Solanke astir caught them retired arsenic the Bournemouth striker forced David Raya to save.

Havertz’s debased thrust was stopped astatine afloat agelong by the over-worked Travers, but Bournemouth’s Justin Kluivert went adjacent with a changeable that dipped conscionable over.

Trossard yet delivered the knockout stroke successful the 70th minute, moving onto Rice’s walk and slotting a objective decorativeness past Travers from 12 yards.

Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo had a extremity harshly disallowed for a brushed situation by Solanke connected Raya.

But Rice blasted location from close-range heavy into stoppage-time arsenic Arsenal cruised to a triumph that kept their rubric dreams alive.