Eddie Nketiah stored Arsenal’s Premier League title problem on monitor with two targets because the Gunners beat Manchester United 3-2 in a pulsating recreation on the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Nketiah netted the winner in harm time with a back-heeled flick-on after a shot from Martin Odegaard to safe a vital victory that retains Arsenal 5 factors forward of Manchester City with a recreation in hand.
United is the one workforce to have crushed Arsenal within the league this season and regarded set to deal Mikel Arteta’s workforce one other blow when Lisandro Martinez equalized within the 59th minute.
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But Arsenal was lastly rewarded for a interval of relentless stress over the past 10 minutes, with David De Gea having already denied Nketiah as soon as from shut vary.
Marcus Rashford had put United forward with a long-range strike within the seventeenth minute, however Nketiah responded seven minutes later when he headed in a cross from Granit Xhaka on the far publish.
Bukayo Saka gave Arsenal the lead for the primary time within the 53rd when he collected the ball on the left flank, drove previous Christian Eriksen after which curled in a strike from 25 yards that beat De Gea on the far publish.
But goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale then made a uncommon mistake as he collided together with his personal defender when attempting to gather a nook, spilling the ball to Martinez — who reacted shortly to move within the equalizer.
