{"id":11078,"date":"2021-12-16T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=173193"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T04:01:26","slug":"arsenal-win-against-west-ham-break-into-top-4-of-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/arsenal-win-against-west-ham-break-into-top-4-of-the-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal win against West Ham, break into top 4 of the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal is now in the top 4 of the Premier League table after defeating David Moyes\u2019 West Ham by 2-0 on Wednesday night. \u2018The Hammers\u2019 were in a great run this season before they went to Emirates to face Mikel Arteta\u2019s Arsenal FC. David Moyes\u2019 had been successful in defeating Thomas Tuchel\u2019s Chelsea FC and Jurgen Klopp\u2019s Liverpool this season, but couldn\u2019t find anything against Arsenal as they conceded two goals without any reply.<\/p>\n<p>A few days back, news came where Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who was the club captain of Gunners was removed from his position by the club following a disciplinary breach. So, he wasn\u2019t in the starting 11 against West Ham, neither did he make it into the 9-men substitution. Mikel Arteta included Alexandre Lacazette in the 9 number position and he was also given the captain\u2019s armband. It was a pretty decent first half for the Gunners. They were really unlucky in the first 45 mins as they created some great chances but couldn\u2019t find the net.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude0d Winning Wednesdays <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARSWHU?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ARSWHU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1471237198292955139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The second half started and it started with a bang for Gunners as their midfielder with number 35 on his back, Gabriel Martinelli opened the scoring in the 48th minute with an exotic finish in the bottom right corner. West Ham created some chances in the second half but none of them were converted into a goal. Arsenal FC was also been awarded a penalty in the 66th minute after West Ham\u2019s right-back Vladimir Coufal fouled on Lacazette. Coufal was been shown a yellow card for this challenge and it was his second of the game, so he has no option but to leave the field. Arsenal\u2019s captain took the penalty and missed it. Later, in the 87th minute, Emile Smith Rowe doubled the lead for Gunners with an amazing counter-attacking play after West Ham\u2019s midfielder Benrahma lost the ball. The goal from Smith Rowe sealed the victory for the Gunners and it was their 9th win of the season in 17 games which helped them break into the top 4 of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfb6 Here we gooooooo\u2026 \ud83c\udfb6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARSWHU?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ARSWHU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGPI1C052F\">pic.twitter.com\/DGPI1C052F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1471241263823347714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mikel Arteta\u2019s men were absolutely class against in form West Ham. Youngsters named Martinelli and Smith Rowe were on the scoresheet for Arsenal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":33554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2764,2541,1897,1751,330,702,2332,2447],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-alexander-lacazette","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-david-moyes","tag-emile-smith-rowe","tag-gunners","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-pierre-emerick-aubameyang","tag-west-ham"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}