Arsenal, with four games left, has 77 points, 74 for Liverpool and 73 for City.
With four games left, the Arsenal is more alive than ever in the fight for Premier League. The ‘Gunners’, after losing against Aston Villa and be expelled from the Champions League by Bayernhave risen in the best possible way: victory at the weekend against the Wolverhampton Wanderers and beaten Chelsea (5-0) to become leaders of the competition and increase the pressure on Liverpool y Manchester City.
Those of Mikel Arteta They look with a four-point lead at City, with two more games, and three units ahead of Liverpool, who have to play this Wednesday at Goodison Park against Everton. Last week’s mental blow has been responded to with an exercise in experience that did not occur, for example, last season. When things went wrong given the previous season, Arsenal dissolved like a sugar cube and handed the league title on a plate to City.
Kai Havertz celebrates at Arsenal vs. Chelsea Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images
This time they have chosen to fight. And the Chelseasin Cole Palmeris a good punching bag for it.
Without their star, sick, those of Mauricio Pochettino They were a troupe and left the Emirates sheared, more than they would have liked so as not to declare that they have Palmerdependence.
The rout began when the Chelsea retreated at the first advance of Declan Rice. They let the pivot advance to the front, with youth player Gilchrist chasing him without knowing where to look. In the first mistake, Rice gave it to Trossard and the Belgian’s shot, which Petrovic was not expecting, went under the Serbian.
With 1-0, the Chelsea He had a chance to tie and it seemed like he could really hurt the team. Arsenal. Jackson had a cross that bounced off Gabriel and hit the post and Enzo made it 1-1 with a shot from the penalty spot.
He Chelsea he wasted his opportunities and in the second half the Arsenal He did not forgive the terrible defense of Pochettino’s men.
On a short corner, the Chelsea It allowed Saka all the time in the world to find an unmarked Odegaard on the front line. The Norwegian’s shot bounced off Partey and the rebound was sent into the net by Ben White.
Odegaard then began a show that could have easily given him three or four assists, but that “only” turned into two. He made it 3-0 to Havertz in depth, the German broke free from Cucurella and scored against Petrovic, and made it 5-0 to White, with a pass over the defense that White tried to center at the far post, with the fortune of nailing it into the square.
Between goal and goal, Havertz, with one of the best ‘nine’ movements that can be remembered, made it 4-0 next to the post.
The defeat is one of the toughest of the Pochettino era in the Chelsea and it represents a hard blow to the ‘Blues’ aspirations to reach a sixth place that can give them access to Europe. They are seven points behind Newcastle United, with one game left.
He Arsenalwith four games to be played, has 77 points, for 74 of the Liverpool and 73 of the City. The goal difference, the tie-breaking criterion, is also theirs, with a +56, compared to Liverpool’s +43 and City’s +44.