Arsenal beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 at residence on Sunday to provisionally transfer again to the highest of the Premier League standings. Second-half objectives from Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz handed the north London facet the victory.
The consequence moved Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal a degree away from Aston Villa, who moved as much as second on 38 factors. Third-placed Liverpool are a degree additional behind forward of their recreation towards rivals Manchester United afterward Sunday.
Brighton had received on their final three journeys to Emirates Stadium in all competitions, however all of the first-half motion was of their field as Arsenal pressed ahead with waves of assaults. The Seagulls didn’t have a single shot within the first half as they weathered the storm, with keeper Bart Verbruggen standing robust.
Arsenal have been additionally responsible of not taking their probabilities, with Gabriel Martinelli coming closest with a shot that went simply over as the 2 groups went into the break at 0-0. However Brighton’s resistance ended eight minutes into the second half when defender Jan Paul van Hecke by accident flicked a nook kick into the trail of the unmarked Jesus on the far publish, and the Brazilian striker headed residence.
Arsenal weren’t content material to sit down on a one-goal lead and continued to pepper the Brighton objective with photographs. Skipper Martin Odegaard, taking part in on his twenty fifth birthday, had a shot palmed away whereas Havertz noticed his header fly over.
Brighton had seemed passive all recreation however they did have a golden likelihood to equalise within the 82nd minute when Kaoru Mitoma slipped previous his marker and crossed the ball into the field, just for Pascal Gross to shoot huge.
The Gunners sealed the three factors with a counterattack within the 87th minute when substitute Eddie Nketiah put Havertz via on objective and the German ahead rifled into the underside nook.
