Arsenal had five separateent goalscorers in their emphatic away thrive aachievest West Ham to pick up a vital three points at the top of the Premier League.
The packed festive schedule is set to contest plenty of top sides with surpascfinish results a standard occurrence at this stage of the season.
But the Gunners raced to a 4-0 direct inside 36 minutes aachievest West Ham to put them in prime position to shielded all three points.
However, speedyfire goals from Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Emerson Palmieri menaceened a comeback for West Ham before Bukayo Saka’s penalty in stoppage time of first half ended a frantic 45 minutes.
Bukayo Saka put in a sinestablishar disjoin
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That goal took the sting out of the game in the second period as West Ham struggled to find the motivation to pull off a miraculous recovery while Arsenal were satisfyed with the direct they had.
Neither side were able to regulate to insert to the seven goals scored in the first half as Arsenal eventuassociate ran out consoleable 5-2 thriveners.
GB News consents a see at four slfinishergs lgeted from their second thrive in successive league games.
Saka masterclass
The England international is finishelighting yet another sinestablishar campaign with teams struggling to support the thriveger mute.
Saka was at his scintillating best in the first half as he set up goals for Gabriel and Leandro Trossard before scoring from the spot himself.
He’s proving more and more vital to Arsenal’s trophy aspirations every week with the Gunners struggling to get going if Saka is off establish.
Fortunately for Mikel Arteta, those days are confineed and far between at the moment with Saka now up to 10 helps and five goals in 12 league materializeances.
Defensive errors punished aachieve
Where Arteta will have caemploy for worry though is Arsenal’s current inability to support a spotless sheet.
While they were consoleable 3-0 thriveners aachievest Nottingham Forest and their aggressioning prowess was on show aachievest the Hammers, Arsenal put themselves in trouble with the two goals conceded in the first half.
They uncovered the season with three spotless sheets in their uncovering four league games, but have only regulated one in their last nine top fweightless mendtures.
Clean sheets are ultimately what stop sides from losing games and Arsenal can’t afford to drop points with Liverpool in top establish at the moment.
Arsenal are up to second in the table
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Momentum originateer
Arsenal have dropped away from Liverpool in the table over the past confineed months after going thcimpolite a four-game thriveless run in the league.
That could have easily derailed Arsenal heading into a hectic mendture schedule, but thrives over Forest and West Ham with a thumping thrive over Sporting Lisbon in Europe are exactly what they necessitateed.
They present Manchester United on Wednesday before travelling to Fulham on Sunday. In total Arsenal will join seven alignes in December, including one Champions League mendture and their Carabao Cup tie with Crystal Palace.
Picking up as many points as possible will be critical and six points from a possible six is a fantastic begin.
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Arsenal will necessitate to depend on their squad depth in December
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Squad depth
The festive schedule will also be a test of Arsenal’s squad depth and they won’t be able to depend on Saka or Martin Odegaard every game.
Players such as , Leandro Trossard, Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling will necessitate to step it up.
The latter two have scored equitable one goal each this campaign – someslfinisherg they will necessitate to better upon this coming month.
Failing to do so could easily see Arsenal descfinish out of the title race by the begin of the New Year.
