Arsenal ends three-game losing streak with 5-0 win over Crystal Palace

Central defender Gabriel Magalhaes helped Arsenal clear up its scoring issues because the Gunners ended a three-game losing streak in all competitions with a 5-0 win over Crystal Palace within the Premier League on Saturday.

Having seen the crew’s forwards waste a slew of possibilities throughout its latest skid, Gabriel took issues into his personal palms within the first half at Emirates Stadium. The Brazil worldwide first headed in a nook within the eleventh minute after which pressured an personal purpose by Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson from one other set piece supply within the thirty seventh.

Leandro Trossard added the third after a fast counterattack within the 59th and substitute Gabriel Martinelli completed off the rout with two near-identical targets in stoppage time as Arsenal climbed above Aston Villa into third within the Premier League standings. Mikel Arteta’s crew minimize the hole to Liverpool to 2 factors forward of the chief’s recreation at Bournemouth on Sunday.

Arsenal’s incapacity to show its dominance into targets had value it dearly in latest losses to West Ham and Fulham within the league, and Liverpool within the FA Cup.

So it got here as a reduction to the house crowd when Gabriel climbed above Chris Richards to fulfill a superbly delivered nook from Declan Rice with a well-taken header within the eleventh minute.

The heart again thought he had scored a double when he popped up on the far submit to nod in one other supply from Bukayo Saka from shut vary, however it was dominated an personal purpose after the ball bounced off the pinnacle of Henderson and into the online.

“We work a lot on set pieces because we know the quality we have,” Gabriel stated. “Today I scored two so we keep that going.”

Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya had a quiet recreation because the hosts managed proceedings however needed to make a two-handed save at full stretch to disclaim Jefferson Lerma’s long-range strike within the thirty third — though that was solely as a result of his personal poor clearance had despatched the ball straight to his opponent.

Arsenal’s third purpose additionally got here from a nook — however a Palace one this time. Raya collected the supply into the field and rapidly launched Gabriel Jesus on the counter. The Brazilian striker squared the ball to Trossard, who minimize inside a defender and unleashed a fierce strike into the nook from close to the penalty spot.

Martinelli added some gloss to the scoreline within the fourth minute of stoppage time after operating onto a cross from Eddie Nketiah and rolling a low end contained in the far submit. Just a minute later, he replicated that with the same end after being teed up by Jorginho.

That would possibly finish the speak about Arsenal’s scoring woes, a minimum of for some time.

“We knew we needed a game like that where we had a clean sheet and scored five goals,” Martinelli stated.

Palace stayed in 14th place, 5 factors above the relegation zone. And hypothesis about supervisor Roy Hodgson’s future would possibly decide following the large defeat, particularly with former Chelsea and Brighton coach Graham Potter watching the sport from the stands.

Reporting by The Associated Press.