Arsenal crushed Brighton, without Mac Allister, and established themselves at the top of the Premier League

The Arsenal of Mikel Arteta defeated 4-2 the Brighton – which did not count among those summoned with Alexis MacAllister– and she definitely wore the candidate’s dress for it Premier League. Infallible, with authority and conviction, the London team took advantage of Manchester City’s 1-1 draw against Everton and finished the year with 43 points.

The distance between Arsenal, first, and Manchester City, second, thus rises from five to seven points and the Gunners they will start 2023 in a very good position in pursuit of what would be their first English champion title since 2004.

Arsenal’s goals at the Falmer Stadium, in their last Premier League match in 2022, were scored by Bukayo Saka2 minutes into the first half, from the Norwegian Martin Odegaardat 38, for Eddie Nketiahto 2 of the complement and completed the Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli who scored the fourth with nearly 20 minutes left in the game.

The two goals by Brightonwho occupy eighth position in the Premier League, was signed by Kaoru Mitoma, at 19 minutes, and by Evan Ferguson at 32. With one minute remaining, VAR disallowed another Mitoma goal. However, the local annotations only served to color the result.

It is Arsenal’s fifth consecutive Premier League winwhere they will play a very challenging match to start 2023 on Tuesday, against third-placed Newcastle.

The other results of the Premier

Before Arsenal’s win, the Manchester Cityhis closest pursuer, had stumbled in a 1-1 draw at home against Everton, in a game in which Joseph Guardiola He had chosen to almost completely repeat the starting lineup that won 3-1 at Leeds on Wednesday.

Manchester City opened the scoring this time in the 24th minute from their usual scorer, the Norwegian Erling Haaland, after a good collective sequence accompanied by a good job by Riyad Mahrez, author of the assist.

It is Haaland’s 27th goal of the season at City, taking into account all competitions, and in the Premier League he is even further away from the top scorer, now at 21, eight more than the second, Harry Kane (Tottenham, 13 goals).

Everton’s draw, just sixteenth in the table, was achieved at 64 Demarai Gray.

Newcastle (3rd), who drew 0-0 at home against Leeds (14th) and are still two points behind Manchester City, could not take advantage of this to move closer to second place. In the citizens was applauded and the world champion entered at the end Giuliano Alvarez.

Even the Manchester Utd beat visiting Wolverhampton 1-0, without Lisandro Martínez among those invited. The goal was scored by Marcus Rashford, entered the second half for the Argentine Alexander Garnacho.

Bournemouth, with Marco Siena As a starter, they lost to Crystal Palace 2-0 with goals from Eberechi Eze and Jordan Ayew.

Meanwhile, Fulham beat Southampton, who had Willy Caballero on the bench, 2-1 with goals from João Palhinha and Ward-Prowse against.