Gabriel Jesus scored his first targets for six months as Arsenal maintained management of the Premier League title race with a 4-1 defeat of relegation-threatened Leeds United on Saturday.
Jesus, beginning his first league recreation since getting back from a knee damage final month, transformed a Thirty fifth-minute penalty after being caught within the field by Luke Ayling.
Ben White doubled Arsenal’s benefit from Gabriel Martinelli’s go earlier than Brazilian Jesus, signed from Manchester City final summer season, struck once more from shut vary within the fifty fifth minute from Leandro Trossard’s help.
FULL-TIME Arsenal 4-1 Leeds
Seven #PL wins in a row for Arsenal as Gabriel Jesus conjures up them to victory#ARSLEE pic.twitter.com/2sx4Puo342
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Leeds had troubled Arsenal within the opening interval however as soon as Jesus put the hosts forward it was comparatively plain crusing as they restored their eight-point lead over champions Man City.
The guests did increase just a few jitters within the dwelling crowd when Rasmus Kristensen’s deflected shot gave the guests a 76th-minute lifeline however Granit Xhaka’s header secured one other three factors in Arsenal’s quest for a primary title since 2004.
City had earlier ramped up the stress on Mikel Arteta’s aspect with a 4-1 thrashing of Liverpool.
Arsenal’s seventh successive league win moved them to 72 factors from 29 video games with City, who nonetheless need to play the London membership at dwelling, on 64 having performed one recreation much less.
Podence leveller earns Wolves some extent at Forest
Nottingham Forest had been denied a vital win of their bid to remain away from the Premier League relegation zone as Daniel Podence struck a late equaliser for Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 1-1 draw on the City Ground on Saturday.
Forest appeared set for a primary league win in seven video games as Brennan Johnson gave them a deserved Thirty eighth-minute lead.
FULL-TIME Nott’m Forest 1-1 Wolves
Daniel Podence’s late purpose claims an necessary level for the guests#NFOWOL pic.twitter.com/2HAvbpAMH6
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The hosts had been left to rue not placing away a number of possibilities that may have made the sport secure as Wolves replied late on when second-half substitute Podence curled a shot previous Keylor Navas after Pedro Neto’s blocked shot fell into his path.
Wolves would have been happier with the draw because it stored them above Forest in thirteenth place with 28 factors from 29 video games.
Forest have 27 factors however have a recreation in hand in contrast with Wolves.
Hodgson’s second spell at Palace begins with first win of 2023
Roy Hodgson’s second stint as Crystal Palace supervisor started with a 2-1 Premier League win over Leicester City on Saturday, because the London aspect registered their first victory in 2023 because of a late winner from Jean-Philippe Mateta.
Palace, who had scored the fewest targets within the league this season, appeared like a special workforce from the one which struggled underneath Patrick Vieira firing in 20 pictures in opposition to Leicester — probably the most any Premier League aspect has managed in the identical period of time since 2015.
FULL-TIME Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester
A final gasp Crystal Palace winner claims all three factors for the house aspect#CRYLEI pic.twitter.com/EjxqvJoSDP
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The change in model going ahead gave the house followers cause to cheer however Palace couldn’t discover a manner by a dogged Leicester defence, whereas Ivorian winger and Palace’s prime scorer this season Wilfried Zaha was pressured to limp off with a groin damage.
It was Leicester who struck first by Ricardo Pereira, who obtained the ball on the fringe of the field earlier than blasting a shot into the highest nook previous the despairing dive of Vicente Guaita.
Palace levelled from a free kick three minutes later when Eberechi Eze cleared the wall, noticed his shot come off the crossbar and go in off goalkeeper Daniel Iversen for an personal purpose.
In added time within the second half, Jordan Ayew made a solo run into Leicester’s half and fed Mateta with a through-ball because the French striker completed with aplomb to carry the Twelfth-placed workforce as much as 30 factors. Leicester in the meantime dropped to 18th within the desk.
Bournemouth out of relegation zone with 2-1 win over Fulham
Marcus Tavernier and Dominick Solanke had been each heading in the right direction as Bournemouth earned an important 2-1 win over high-flying Fulham on Saturday to breathe life into the south-coast membership’s struggle for Premier League survival.
Solanke bundled dwelling within the 79th minute to seal a exceptional comeback that lifted Bournemouth out of the relegation zone and dealt a blow to Fulham’s hopes of taking part in in Europe subsequent season.
Andreas Pereira gave Fulham the lead within the sixteenth minute after working on to Harrison Reed’s layoff, however the guests did not construct on that early momentum.
Tavernier, thrown on by supervisor Gary O’Neil as a halftime substitute after a dire opening 45 minutes for the house aspect, equalised with a curling left-footed shot from distance within the fiftieth minute following a nook.
Bournemouth struggled within the opening interval, with Solanke solely registering their first shot heading in the right direction within the forty second minute, and O’Neil rolled the cube at halftime, bringing on Ryan Christie in addition to Tavernier.
The modifications had a right away impact, with Bournemouth carving out their equaliser after a spell of sustained stress earlier than Solanke sealed the three factors together with his first dwelling Premier League purpose of the season.
The victory lifted Bournemouth from second-bottom of the desk to fifteenth place on 27 factors, whereas Fulham stayed ninth.
