Image Source : AP Arsenal’s Nicolas Pepe, second left, scores his facet’s third purpose throughout the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Arsenal on the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, Sunday, Feb. 28
Arsenal circled its current poor kind to beat Leicester 3-1 on Sunday as the house facet was left to cope with an harm which can preserve influential midfielder Harvey Barnes out till April.
Arsenal began the day in eleventh and returned to the highest half with the win, whereas Leicester missed an opportunity to problem Manchester United for second.
“We have to impose ourselves, it doesn’t matter who we play against, we have to have courage. I’m proud about winning but obviously the way we’ve done it,” Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta stated. “The way we are playing looks much closer to what we want. The way the team is evolving, we have some consistency in recent months.”
Youri Tielemans gave Leicester the lead within the sixth minute when the Belgian midfielder surged down the precise flank as Arsenal failed to shut him down, after which shot low previous Bernd Leno.
David Luiz leveled for Arsenal together with his first league purpose since October 2019, heading in Willian’s free kick when he was left unmarked.
Pepe had earlier been denied a penalty when a video assessment confirmed he was tripped simply exterior the world by Wilfred Ndidi, however was key to successful a spot-kick simply earlier than half time when he struck a shot that hit Ndidi’s arm because the Nigerian midfielder tried to dam together with his leg. Alexandre Lacazette stepped as much as energy the penalty in.
Pepe made it 3-1 within the 52nd when he began a transfer down the precise flank after which ran by way of the Leicester protection to use a easy end off Willian’s low cross.
Barnes was carried off early within the second half with an obvious knee harm, and defender Jonny Evans was additionally harm later within the sport. Leicester was already with out attacking midfielder James Maddison, who has a hip harm.
“It’s not good news, it looks like he needs to go for an operation so he will probably be a minimum of six weeks,” Leicester supervisor Brendan Rodgers stated of Barnes’ harm. “He has had niggles with it, which is why we rested him on Thursday (for a Europa League sport), however sadly it’s a foul one for him and an enormous blow for us.”
