Arsenal (opens in new tab) stay within the driving seat within the Premier League title race, after a Gabriel Jesus brace helped them comfortably beat Leeds (opens in new tab) 4-1 on the Emirates Stadium.
Earlier within the day, Manchester Metropolis (opens in new tab) had closed the hole to 5 factors with a formidable 4-1 victory over Liverpool (opens in new tab) – however an expert second-half displaying from the Gunners ensured the pendulum swung again their method.
With 9 matches remaining, Mikel Arteta’s facet maintain an eight-point lead over Metropolis – who they face on the Emirates in simply over three weeks’ time – though the reigning champions do nonetheless have a sport in hand.
In an evenly balanced first half wherein Arsenal had been effectively under their greatest, a slipshod Luke Ayling foul gave the hosts the possibility to go in entrance from the spot simply after the half-hour mark.
Jesus duly dispatched the ensuing penalty, which proved sufficient to ship the Gunners in forward on the break.
And no matter Arteta stated to his gamers at half-time appeared to work, as Arsenal pushed on and in the end made gentle work of the struggling guests.
Ben White made it 2-0 simply two minutes into the second half, earlier than Jesus bagged his second objective of the afternoon eight minutes later.
Rasmus Kristensen pulled one again with just below a quarter-of-an-hour to go to provide Leeds a faint glimmer of hope – however Granit Xhaka’s header made completely positive of the factors for Arsenal six minutes from time.
Subsequent up for the Gunners is a visit to Liverpool subsequent Sunday; Leeds – who keep seventeenth and solely exterior the relegation zone on objective distinction – entertain Nottingham Forest (opens in new tab) on Tuesday evening.
