Premier League: Eddie Nketiah scores last-minute winner to information Arsenal to 3-2 win in opposition to Manchester United

Eddie Nketiah scored a last-minute winner as Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-2 to increase their result in the highest of the Premier League desk. With this win, the Gunners moved 5 factors away from Manchester City in second place with a recreation in hand.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 23, 2023 00:39 IST

Arsenal beat Manchester United on the Emirates (AP)

By Rounaq Sehrawat: Eddie Nketiah scored a last-minute winner as Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-2 to increase their result in the highest of the Premier League desk. With this win, the Gunners moved 5 factors away from Manchester City in second place with a recreation in hand.

Manchester United took the lead by way of in-form Marcus Rashford within the seventeenth minute. The English ahead obtained previous Arsenal midfielder Thomas Party earlier than firing a vicious shot from outdoors the field, that creeped inside Aaron Ramsdale’s close to submit, who couldn’t react in time to maintain the ball out of the online.

Nketiah, who turned out to be the star of the night time, levelled the scoring simply six minutes later with a towering header on the again submit off Granit Xhaka’s cross.

The league leaders began the second half on the entrance foot and have been rewarded early on with Bukayo Saka discovering the again of the online by way of an exquisite long-range strike. The 21-year-old reduce in from the fitting flank and fired a roller previous David de Gea in purpose from outdoors the field to place Arsenal in entrance.

Summer signing and newly topped world champion, Lisandro Martinez, scored his first purpose for Manchester United to degree proceedings on the Emirates. Ramsdale made a multitude of Christian Eriksen’s nook, parrying it proper at Martinez, who headed the ball in to make it 2-2.

With the match trying to finish in a stalemate, Nketiah confirmed wonderful presence of thoughts to faucet in Martin Odegaard’s scuffed shot on the again submit within the ninetieth minute.

With this win, Arsenal prolonged their result in the highest of the Premier League desk to 5 factors. The Gunners have picked up 50 factors from 19 matches, profitable 16, drawing two and shedding only one recreation all season within the Premier League. They will now shift their focus to the FA Cup, the place they face Manchester City on January 28.

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Rounaq Sehrawat

Published On:

Jan 23, 2023