Arsenal was abandoned midway in the attempt to come back against him Fulham in the Derby (1-1) and came away with one point from Craven Cottage,loot insufficient to revive their hopes of making an outright bid for the 2024/25 Premier league title.
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The Gunner team was able to achieve complete happiness, scoring what woudl be 1-2 in the 90th minute, through Bukayo Saka, but a VAR review invalidated the goal due to offside by Gabriel Martinelli the author of the pass .
Mikel Arteta’s team missed a good chance to see themselves near the top of the table that liverpool had. A goal from William Saliba managed to avoid defeatbut not in the line of the ‘reds’,who did not play the local game face to face with Everton in Goodison Park this weekend due to the threat of storms.
When the visit to the Fulham pitch is complete, Arsenal are in second place, six points behind Liverpoolwhich has one less meeting. A win at four would add to the extra pressure it puts on the competition leaders. Moreover, Arteta’s squad may lose second place to Chelsea.
He accepts this fifteenth date as an obstacle because now Arsenal just have to win every game if they wont to be considered as a competitor, as a competitor for Liverpool.
And he stayed halfway as he failed to turn around a game that went uphill after eleven minutes, in a quick transition at Fulham, he started with a long pass, into the space to Raúl Jiménez, who crossed the ball, out of reach of the Spaniard David Raya.
He no longer had the ‘cottage’ group, which emphasized his conservative way of resisting effort. Arsenal went close shortly before the half-hour mark with Declan Rice’s effort, narrowly missing, or another by Saka, near the interval, which goalkeeper Bernd Leno stopped.
The second part was all arsenal go back because tie in the 52nd minute, notable error by the local team. It was a corner kick by Declan Rice at the far post who collected Havertz’s header, all by himself, and left the ball at the feet of William Saliba, who only had to push it into the net.
It was a boost for the visitors, who emphasized their dominance despite not having clear scoring opportunities. If anything, one from thomas Partey, with a header, was grazing Leno’s left post and the goal was disallowed for Saka, due to the offside, which was detected by the VAR, which did not go up on the scoreboard.
Arsenal, who host monaco on Wednesday in the champions League, left with just one point. At Craven Cottage he ended his successful streak of three consecutive victories. They are in second place, six behind Liverpool and just one ahead of Chelsea.