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<\/p>\nArsenal confirmed their Premier League title bona fides with a 4-1 thumping of North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur this morning AEDT despite missing defender Gabriel. <\/p>\n
Eberechi Eze scored a hat-trick for the Gunners, earning player of the match honours in what was easily his best performance since signing from Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n
Spurs were blown away in a 15-minute period either side of half-time, with Leandro Trossard and Eze scoring shortly before the break, and Eze making it 3-0 a minute into the second half. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat is crazy. Special day, man. Special day for me, my family,\u201d Eze told BBC Match of the Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I could have ever dreamed of it. This is more special than that. I can only thank God.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were prepared for whatever set-up they were coming with because of the diligence of our staff. Huge credit to them, and of course the players in our team \u2013 the ability, the talent. From whatever angle, we\u2019re threatening to score goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI probably should have scored four. I\u2019m always trying to score, always trying to take my chances. It\u2019s important to be relentless.\u201d<\/p>\n
His boss Mikel Arteta said: \u201cThat\u2019s him. He had two days off after the England camp and after day one he wanted to train. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to come back and improve and ask questions. When you have such a talent and such intelligence and then you add that willingness to be better and practise, these things happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I spoke to Thomas Tuchel [about Eze] I said \u2018how good is he?\u2019 He said to me \u2018one of the best I have seen\u2019. I rate him one of the best in terms of talent. If we add in now his work-rate, willingness to play for this team and the joy I sense when he is in the building we have a special player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Premier League legend Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports that Eze\u2019s arrival at the Emirates this season could be the catalyst for the Gunners ending their title drought. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Eze came in, I thought, okay, maybe it\u2019s not a game changer,\u201d he mused on Sky Sports\u2019 coverage in the UK. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Les [Ferdinand] knows him a lot better than me. He still said earlier on the show, there\u2019s still more to come. But then we still seen some of his highlights this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere were still a few great goals in there, and then he goes and scores a hat-trick. So apologies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly undervalued the importance of that signing because he looks like he could make the real difference for Arsenal this season and going on to win the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd apart from the sort of skill he\u2019s scoring the goals and his overall contribution to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tottenham pulled one back through Richarlison 10 minutes later, but that was a false dawn as Eze put the icing on the cake in the 76th minute, taking Arsenal to a six-point lead at the top of the Premier League ladder.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoyed every minute of it \u2013 the preparation since they came back from the international break, the energy that I felt, the hunger to play the game, the enthusiasm, the joy,\u201d Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when you play in the manner we played and to win with the goals we scored against our rivals always makes it a special day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to impose ourselves in every department, but it start with the intensity, with the duels, being very precise because the space is limited, there\u2019s a lot of aggression. They\u2019re a really good team and we have to earn it.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the beginning, we were really strong, really intense and we had to be patient. But we looked dominant, and scored two goals in the first half.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the second half, we maintained the consistency and even though there are things to improve, overall it was a great performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Arsenal travel to Stamford Bridge next weekend to play second placed Chelsea. After years of near misses, Arsenal icon Thierry Henry said on Sky Sports that it is time to embrace the favouritism.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point, you have to embrace it. People are talking about the process,\u201d Henry said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not believing in the process anymore. It\u2019s happening. You have to be honest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe put ourselves in the situation where we believe we have the best squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDid we mention the players that were not playing? Look at how we played. You\u2019re not complaining anymore about one or two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you need to make sure that you can win the league. I\u2019m not saying they are going to win it but you need to act like you are the favourite.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEmbrace it. It\u2019s not me trying to put pressure. If I were coming back in the summer, I would have said, \u2018It\u2019s time to stop messing around\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe now need a performance this year where people are scared of us. It\u2019s not being cocky.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Tottenham, it was a chastening evening. Their expected goals of 0.07 was the lowest in the league this season, while Thomas Frank\u2019s decision to move to a back three also backfired.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s extremely painful \u2013 I won\u2019t walk away from that,\u201d Frank told Sky Sports. \u201cWe can only apologise to the fans for that performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a bad performance. I\u2019ve seen a lot of character and fight in this team, but we didn\u2019t win enough duels.\u201d<\/p>\n
In this morning\u2019s other game, Morgan Rogers scored a double to help Aston Villa beat Leeds 2-1, taking Villa up to fourth place on the ladder, a pretty remarkable effort given they were winless after five games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal confirmed their Premier League title bona fides with a 4-1 thumping of North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[185975,748,393,4884,257,113807,1368,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-590129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-arsenak","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-north-london-derby","14":"tag-tottenham","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115602937603184326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}