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Premier League Title Race Blown Open, Arsenal Fumbles Big Time vs Southampton

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Premier League Title Race Blown Open, Arsenal Fumbles Big Time vs Southampton

Southampton had been on the cusp of a well-known win on the Emirates in opposition to Arsenal, however the Premier League leaders fought again to grab some extent in an enthralling six-goal thriller on Friday night time.

Although an thrilling sport for the neutrals, it leaves Arsenal in grave trepidation because the title race has, seemingly, been blown huge open.

 

Mikel Arteta’s males lead second positioned Manchester Metropolis with 5 factors, however have performed two video games extra.

The present Champions have a greater targets differential and are in such good kind within the Prem, they’ve gained every of their final six video games.

What looks like a sample with Arsenal and their now unreliable defence turned evident as they collapsed in opposition to the joint lowest scoring aspect within the Prem.

Prior the match, Southampton had scored solely 24 targets, identical as Everton and Nottingham Forest, the previous who’re only one place above relegation, whereas the latter are 18th on the log.

It was dangerous sufficient for Arsenal that the Southampton objective scorers had been on a rut, Carlos Alcaraz had not seen the again of the online in seven video games is prior, relationship again to March in opposition to Leicester Metropolis.

He received an early objective – contained in the opening minute – and in addition laid one for a former Gunners, Theo Walcott , who was in a four-game objective drought.

Previous to his objective in opposition to Tottenham, the final time he scored in a aggressive sport was in 2021 in opposition to Fulham.

The guests early two targets got here in minutes 1 and 14, however Gabriel Martinellli halved the deficit within the twentieth minute, arrange by Bukayo Saka.

Duje Caleta-Automobile restored the two-goal lead along with his objective within the 66th minute, however Arsenal left their response late and with two fast targets, two minutes aside, the hosts lower the lead and levelled by means of Martin Ødegaard (88′) and Bukayo Saka (90′).

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