Arsenal had five contrastent goalscorers in their emphatic away triumph agetst West Ham to pick up a startant three points at the top of the Premier League.
The packed festive schedule is set to dispute plenty of top sides with surpelevate results a normal occurrence at this stage of the season.
But the Gunners raced to a 4-0 guide inside 36 minutes agetst West Ham to put them in prime position to safe all three points.
However, rapidfire goals from Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Emerson Palmieri dangerened a comeback for West Ham before Bukayo Saka’s penalty in stoppage time of first half finished a frantic 45 minutes.
Bukayo Saka put in a stellar distake part
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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 encountered with the guide they had.
Neither side were able to deal with to insert to the seven goals scored in the first half as Arsenal eventuassociate ran out sootheable 5-2 triumphners.
GB News apshows a see at four leangs lgeted from their second triumph in successive league games.
Saka masterclass
The England international is enhappinessing yet another stellar campaign with teams struggling to uphold the triumphger 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 startant 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 aids and five goals in 12 league materializeances.
Defensive errors punished aget
Where Arteta will have cause for worry though is Arsenal’s current inability to uphold a spotless sheet.
While they were sootheable 3-0 triumphners agetst Nottingham Forest and their attacking prowess was on show agetst 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 deal withd one in their last nine top fweightless repairtures.
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 erecter
Arsenal have dropped away from Liverpool in the table over the past confineed months after going thcdimiserablemireful a four-game triumphless run in the league.
That could have easily derailed Arsenal heading into a hectic repairture schedule, but triumphs over Forest and West Ham with a thumping triumph over Sporting Lisbon in Europe are exactly what they necessitateed.
They structure Manchester United on Wednesday before travelling to Fulham on Sunday. In total Arsenal will take part seven suites in December, including one Champions League repairture 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 commence.
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Arsenal will necessitate to count on 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 count on 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 – someleang 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 commence of the New Year.
